GrOwThMoNgeR
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Waiting 2 weeks pulls waxes and chlorophyll too. So if you want to have a less bitter tincture you can freeze the material and shake or stir for 30 seconds. It will strip the cannabinoids already if with pure alcohol.
Dialing in my tincture recipe
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Fadedawg
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Hee, hee, hee, time marches on and with it comes innovation and change. My current suggestion is to make a Brown Dragon extraction, decarboxylate the cannabinoids in situ in the alcohol solution, and then reduce the alcohol content by evaporation/distillation until it is the consistency and potency I desired.
I use QWET to produce the Brown Dragon extraction, and the following link details our process, but alas, unless the material is decarboxylated before extraction, it is still in carboxylic acid form, so doesn't readily pass the blood/brain barrier to reach our CB-1 receptors in our brains. Here's the link to our QWET process: https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/diy-cannamed-production/9-4-extraction/9-4-7-ethanol-extraction/9-4-7-1-qwet
Now here is the slick part, Ichiban Crafter found this way to decarboxylate the cannabinoids while still in alcohol solution, making the next part easy:
graywolfslair.com
Lastly, you can let the alcohol evaporate off naturally to condense it and increase its potency, or you can distill it off. Here are some still options to reduce your tincture volume while reclaiming the extra and expensive alcohol for another extraction:
graywolfslair.com
I use QWET to produce the Brown Dragon extraction, and the following link details our process, but alas, unless the material is decarboxylated before extraction, it is still in carboxylic acid form, so doesn't readily pass the blood/brain barrier to reach our CB-1 receptors in our brains. Here's the link to our QWET process: https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/diy-cannamed-production/9-4-extraction/9-4-7-ethanol-extraction/9-4-7-1-qwet
Now here is the slick part, Ichiban Crafter found this way to decarboxylate the cannabinoids while still in alcohol solution, making the next part easy:
10.1.3 Closed Wash Decarb by Ichiban Crafter
Lastly, you can let the alcohol evaporate off naturally to condense it and increase its potency, or you can distill it off. Here are some still options to reduce your tincture volume while reclaiming the extra and expensive alcohol for another extraction:
9.4.7.5 Recovery stills - GrayWolf's Lair
Ethanol extraction is one of our favorite methods, especially when run size gets beyond practical size limits for LPG extraction, and high monoterpene retention isn’t […]
graywolfslair.com
GrOwThMoNgeR
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We always decarb. I have been thinking alot about the still, as due to the pandemic, alcohol is super expensive.Hee, hee, hee, time marches on and with it comes innovation and change. My current suggestion is to make a Brown Dragon extraction, decarboxylate the cannabinoids in situ in the alcohol solution, and then reduce the alcohol content by evaporation/distillation until it is the consistency and potency I desired.
I use QWET to produce the Brown Dragon extraction, and the following link details our process, but alas, unless the material is decarboxylated before extraction, it is still in carboxylic acid form, so doesn't readily pass the blood/brain barrier to reach our CB-1 receptors in our brains. Here's the link to our QWET process: https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/diy-cannamed-production/9-4-extraction/9-4-7-ethanol-extraction/9-4-7-1-qwet
Now here is the slick part, Ichiban Crafter found this way to decarboxylate the cannabinoids while still in alcohol solution, making the next part easy:
10.1.3 Closed Wash Decarb by Ichiban Crafter
Lastly, you can let the alcohol evaporate off naturally to condense it and increase its potency, or you can distill it off. Here are some still options to reduce your tincture volume while reclaiming the extra and expensive alcohol for another extraction:
9.4.7.5 Recovery stills - GrayWolf's Lair
Ethanol extraction is one of our favorite methods, especially when run size gets beyond practical size limits for LPG extraction, and high monoterpene retention isn’t […]
printer
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I had my sister come back with a bottle of Everclear from the US as any grain alcohol is expensive. Was thinking of making a little still to recover the boiled of alcohol. I am guessing I have to get some copper tubing to condense the alcohol.
GrOwThMoNgeR
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Yea luckily here there are some tools for winemaking and I hope there will be something I can use.
Fadedawg
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190 proof is expensive here too due to taxes. Last time I did the math, it costs about $8.00/L to make from scratch and about $45.00L at the store.
It takes a refluxing still to achieve azeotropic 95.5% purity. A pot still will do about 60% on the first run and though you can bump it higher with multiple runs, it won't achieve an azeotropic mix.
Another way folks remove the water, is by adding a desiccant like Drierite to absorb the water and then filtering it out.
What I use mine for is to reclaim 190 proof that I've used for an extraction. Still expensive to buy, but it lasts longer.
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Fadedawg
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Check out my condenser design using a stainless salad bowl of ice water with a copper condensing coil in my above link to recovery stills. Cheap, easy, and works stellar.
Bagginski
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Also, any unopened trichomes will be among the debris...but as said, there’s nothing objectionable about any of it, no harm in using it. I’m compulsive about wasting nothing. Weedless stretches are too common and too long. No reason to waste a drop, or a grain.
Bagginski
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Funny. Around here, there’s half-dozen new 190-proof producers in addition to Golden Grain and Everclear, a high-quality liter going for $20
printer
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Had something like that in mind.
quirk
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Waste not, want not. If that makes me a miser, so be it.