The Best Cannabis Strains of 2019: Highlife Cup

This year the Highlife Cup is back, and we're more influential than ever before. With an extraordinary 12 cannabis categories, for our judges to review, and rate. If you are looking for the best cannabis strains of 2019, you have come to the right place. This year, the judging process began in April and has just come to an end. This 8-week process will eventually award the best hash, flowers, and extracts of Dutch coffeeshops and seed banks.

Best Cannabis Strain Categories

Each participating judge received a bag that holds the entries. All bags carry a print with a cryptogram, so the analysis is completely blind for each judge, preventing any prejudice. The 12 categories of this year's Highlife Cup are as followed: 1. Sativa 2. Indica 3. Medical varieties 4. Kush varieties 5. Skunk varieties 6. Hash 7. Hash extraction 8. Hydro weed 9. Bio weed 10. Auto flower 11. Haze on hydro 12. Haze on soil

How to Test for the Best Cannabis Strains?

On judgment day, each judge is given a score sheet, which presents a scoring system with four subcategories. These are: 1. Appearance 2. Odor 3. Flavor 4. Effect Judges have 8 to 10 weeks to test all samples. The reasoning for this is that each judge can have an unbiased opinion on each strain. Each sample gets rated with a score of 1 to 10 on each subcategory. The 15 man jury for the Highlife Cup is handpicked each year and contains only people who are proven growers and smokers with many years of cannabis experience under their belts. None of these jury members have any connection to any cannabis-related company.

Best Cannabis Strains, who will win?

So the big question is of course, who will win? Which strains will triumph as the winner in its category, and which strain will win the big Highlife Cup?! In the following headings, we will explain the ratings our experts gave each strain and how their opinion was formulated.

Category A - Common Weed cultured on hydro systems

1) A10 – Melon Express from coffeeshop Kosbor, Maastricht: 541 points 2) A5 – Night Terror OG from coffeeshop Greenhouse Secret Farmers, Den Haag: 538 points 3) A16 – Seven-Eleven from Kera Seeds: 534 points

Category B - Common Weed cultured on soil

1) B23 – El Patron from Royal Queen Seeds: 551,5 points 2) B13 – New York Diesel from coffeeshop Magic, Den Haag: 547,5 points 3) B5 – Wedding Cake from Gallery Colorado, Utrecht: 536 points

Category C – Autoflowers

1) C4 – Rainbow Candy Auto from Growers Choice: 521 points 2) C11 – Amnesia Auto from Zamnesia Seeds: 519 points 3) C6 – Super Amnesia Haze Auto from coffeeshop Magic, Den Haag: 516 points

Category D – Haze sorts cultured on hydro systems

1) D12 – S-5 from coffeeshop Relax, Amsterdam: 563 points 2) D8 – Amnesia Haze from coffeeshop ‘t Bunkertje, Apeldoorn: 559 points 3) D11 - White Amnesia from coffeeshop Dizzy Duck, Den Haag: 556,5 points

Category E – Haze sorts cultured on soil

1) E2 – Silver Haze from coffeeshop Zero Zero, Arnhem: 565 points 2) E17 – AMG from Kera Seeds: 557 points 3) E14 – Amnesia Haze from SuperStrains: 552,5 points

Category F – Kush soorten

1) F2 – 501st OG from coffeeshop MaryJane, Maastricht: 556 points 2) F9 – OG Kush from coffeeshop Cremers, Den Haag: 547 points 3) F16 – OG Kush from coffeeshop Genesis, Geleen: 539 points

Category G – Skunk sorts

1) G10 – Purple Shoreline from coffeeshop Dizzy Duck, Den Haag: 546 points 2) G4 – AK-47 Cherry from coffeeshop Greenhouse Secret Farmers, Den Haag: 541,5 points 3) G11 – Amsterdam Cheese from Kera Seeds: 525 points

Category H – Sativa (>70%)

1) H2 – Iggy Pott from coffeeshop Blue Sea, Amsterdam: 554 points 2) H4 – Super Orange Glue from coffeeshop High Society, Leiden: 536 points 3) H10 – Fruiti Neville from coffeeshop Kosbor, Maastricht: 531,5 points

Category I – Indica (>70%)

1) i1 – Blue Muffin from coffeeshop Mississippi, Maastricht: 546 points 2) i11 – Dizzy Gelato ’91 from coffeeshop Dizzy Duck, Den Haag: 540 points 3) i5 – Big Buddha Cheese from coffeeshop High Society, Leiden: 536,5 points

Category J – CBD Weed

1) J2 – Charlotte’s Angel CBD from Dutch Passion: 519,5 points 2) J3 – Cheese CBD from coffeeshop Dizzy Duck, Den Haag: 505 points 3) J1 – Harlequin from coffeeshop High Society, Leiden: 500,5 points

Category K – Hash

1) K14 – Kushberry Hasj from coffeeshop Papillon, Amsterdam: 556 points 2) K17 – Sensi #140 from coffeeshop Club Media, Amsterdam: 554 points 3) K8 – Temple Balls from Sensi Seeds: 552 punten

Category L – Extractions

1) L4 - Cheese Dawg from Greenhouse Secret Farmers, Den Haag: 572,5 points 2) L3 – Moon Rocks from coffeeshop Zero Zero, Arnhem: 570 points 3) L6 – Moon Rocks from coffeeshop ’t Bunkertje, Apeldoorn: 557 points

Highlife Cup overall winner in category hash and extractions:

L4 - Cheese Dawg from Greenhouse Secret Farmers, Den Haag: 572,5 points

Highlife Cup overall winner in category weed:

E2 – Silver Haze from coffeeshop Zero Zero, Arnhem: 565 points