Making Tincture with Medshed

I decided to make a batch of tincture from the Afghan Kush dry ice hash I made the other day. While I was at it, I documented the process to show here.

Ingredients:
3 grams hash
Just under .5 Oz vodka
Just under 1 Oz Glycerine

First off, I weighed the hash
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Then I measured the vodka
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Then I poured the two together in a 4 ounce Mason jar
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I then sealed the jar and put it in a water bath, in a miniature crock pot, put the lid on the pot and let it cook for about 2 hours. I had measured the temperature of the water in this crock pot once before and it read 170 degrees. I'm now thinking that must have been with the lid off the crock pot off. This time, I noticed that the water was simmering when I opened the lid to take out the pot. I'm guessing the temp was closer to 200 or so.
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I let the mixture cool off overnight, and added the glycerin the next morning.
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I then shook it up real well, took the lid off and put it back in the crock pot (with the lid on the crock pot) to cook for about 2.5 hours longer while I went for a nice South Boulder mountain bike ride. When I got back, there was a good layer of goop on top (which I forgot to photograph). I took it out of the pot, put the lid on the jar, shook it up real good and filtered it into a 1 ounce dropper bottle.
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Now we have a nice little bottle of herbal ambien to get me through the sleepless nights. I've still got enough hash left to make rice creepers which I'll save to take with me when I travel for work. Hotel beds never feel better than when you are nicely medicated on a quality indica.
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The dosage on this should be between 2 and 6 drops, depending on the strain, your body size, and the effect you are going for.


Medshed

Great post, very well done! +rep I spy some dry ice kief in that first picture, me thinks.

If you get a chance look at my other post on the guy from Australia who makes low THC tinctures.

Now I know what I am doing with my dry ice hash Great job on the tutorial!

Thanks guys.

MacGuyver - I did check out that thread. Amazing stuff he's doing. Too bad his government is as f'd up as ours.

I just think Medshed's tincture recipe needed to be bumped. I'd even be stoked to see it as a Colorado Forum Sticky. The medicine produced by this recipe is amazing and I have seen it help loved ones recover from some extreme medical problems.

Your the man Med!

Agreed! I will bump it tomorrow then! (since you *just* did)

crap! It isn't tomorrow yet and I just bumped it saying I would, tomorrow!

Wow... These brownies are *S T R O N G* !

Thanks bshdctr and MacGuyver! Looks like I'm doing the Saturday bump now...

Here's to making a 'sticky' out of this slicky!

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Medshed again."

What!? Grumble...&*!@?! Oh well it IS a great thread and Medshed deserves it!

Thanks Macguyver. I sent a note to one of the mods for the Colorado forum about what it would take to make a sticky but haven't heard back. Maybe we don't really have a mod for our forum. We really are in the Wild West!

I thought I gave this update last night but after 5 drops of JTR, 4 drops of AK, and a glass of wine with dinner I either didn't update the right thread or I screwed up in some other way.

Anyhoo, what I've learned after testing this batch of tincture is that the dosage is more like 4 - 10 drops rather than 2 to 6. I think the difference is in the purity of hash filtered through the 73 micron bag I use for ice water extraction vs the 160 micron bag I used for dry ice extraction. I shook the trim for a few minutes to ensure I got all the trichomes off, which probably also broke up a lot of plant material.

This is more an FYI update. You could either add more hash to compensate or take more drops for your dose. As always, your mileage may vary...

Medshed

i finally transfered my alcohol infusion into glycerin and did the boil off yesterday. later today or tomorrow the wife said she would be my guinea pig

Best of luck EC. Let us know how it goes...

Just found this thread. Looks simple enough. What is glycerin and is it easy to get a hold of (looking it up now)? I say this should be sticky there isn't a tincture sticky yet that I have seen.

georgyboy said:

Just found this thread. Looks simple enough. What is glycerin and is it easy to get a hold of (looking it up now)? I say this should be sticky there isn't a tincture sticky yet that I have seen.

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http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-vegetable-glycerin.htm
Here is a link to explain what Vegetable Glycerin is.
You can find it in most good health food stores.
Medshed's tincture recipe is great

Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid. I grew up around canning all my life. Things do happen and on a few occasions I've known people who had a lid blow, a jar crack, etc. It goes everywhere what ever your making. I understand its a crock pot and your goal is 200° or so. But alcohol heated in a sealed container even this small amount could cause quite and explosion. Do not do this on a gas stove, with open flame even very low it would be more than a fast spreading fire it would explode. It sounds like everyone doing this has had no problems but this could be very dangerous.
Alcohol has a much lower vaporization point and is flammable at a much lower temperature than water. And if this happened with the glycerin it would stick like napalm. And heat, pressure, alcohol and glycerin sounds like a boom to me.
Be careful out there.
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." Red Green (Since this sounds like the kind of thing Red would do). Sorry no insult intended.

Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid. I grew up around canning all my life. Things do happen and on a few occasions I've known people who had a lid blow, a jar crack, etc. It goes everywhere what ever your making. I understand its a crock pot and your goal is 200° or so. But alcohol heated in a sealed container even this small amount could cause quite and explosion. Do not do this on a gas stove, with open flame even very low it would be more than a fast spreading fire it would explode. It sounds like everyone doing this has had no problems but this could be very dangerous.
Alcohol has a much lower vaporization point and is flammable at a much lower temperature than water. And if this happened with the glycerin it would stick like napalm. And heat, pressure, alcohol and glycerin sounds like a boom to me.
Be careful out there.
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." Red Green (Since this sounds like the kind of thing Red would do). Sorry no insult intended.

snew said:

Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid. I grew up around canning all my life. Things do happen and on a few occasions I've known people who had a lid blow, a jar crack, etc. It goes everywhere what ever your making. I understand its a crock pot and your goal is 200° or so. But alcohol heated in a sealed container even this small amount could cause quite and explosion. Do not do this on a gas stove, with open flame even very low it would be more than a fast spreading fire it would explode. It sounds like everyone doing this has had no problems but this could be very dangerous.
Alcohol has a much lower vaporization point and is flammable at a much lower temperature than water. And if this happened with the glycerin it would stick like napalm. And heat, pressure, alcohol and glycerin sounds like a boom to me.
Be careful out there.
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." Red Green (Since this sounds like the kind of thing Red would do). Sorry no insult intended.

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Good advice snew. Safety first, always. I've done this exact recipe a number of times with no problem, but I see your point about the potential for danger.

lol, i haven thought about snew ina long time....
my mother used to call snow -> snew and when someone would say "whats snew?" she would respond "not much whats snew with you"

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What kind of filter are you using there? Reusable coffee filter? Also, if using dry ice hash, do you still think 3 grams is good, or maybe more to reduce the number drops per dose down? Maybe that would make it taste too bad? The reason I ask is because I am doing this method soon Subcool's method looks easier, but it takes much longer, is less concentrated, and sounds like it tastes a lot worse.

Also about the explosion, I don't think 0.5 oz of alcohol will do much in terms of volume expansion to cause an explosion. Plus if it exploded somehow, I don't think the concentration of alcohol in the air would stay long enough to cause a fire hazard. If one were to do a larger batch, you could probably poke a hole in the jar, or take the lid off and make sure to keep a good eye on the amount of alcohol. What are you thoughts on doing batches larger than 1 oz.? Do you know how long the dropper bottles last?