Extracting with 150 proof ever clear.

[Bushysbud]

Hi, trying to extract decarbed hash using 151 proof Everclear. I remember reading somewhere where he said it can be done but it doesn’t work as good. Is anybody got a way to make that work? That’s all it’s available to me here.

 

[Phyto]

It can be done, the issue is the 151 Everclear has more water in it than pure grain alcohol, so it takes longer to offgas and concentrate. And of course I'll give a public service announcement, do not heat Everclear indoors or by using an open flame, the fumes are very combustable!! Low heat and slow!

 

[User2]

It's called a tincture. Tincture of cannabis indica used to be common. Then came greed prohibition, and it was erased from the minds. Tincture is a great idea. Awesome full spectrum medicine. You can use glycerine (dont use plant based) instead of alcohol and avoid the negative aspects of using alcohol. Good luck.

 

[voltage]

What are you trying to accomplish?


190 proof everclear would work better

Freeze the everclear in a glass container with a lid. Add broken up decarbed bud (hash), shake it like its hot, strain right from the jar into another glass container with lid.
You can use a cheese cloth then coffee filter to strain. And i use a syringe to seperate the oil from alcohol.
You can evap the alcohol off with a fan. Try to do this in the coldest temps as possible.
People use other methods.
Remember alcohol is flammable. Do not use near any flame.
A second wash will produce very little if the first wash is done well.*with 190 proof everclear
DO NOT smoke the final product.
Cook with it or eat it.

 

[Bushysbud]

What are you trying to accomplish?


190 proof everclear would work better

Freeze the everclear in a glass container with a lid. Add broken up decarbed bud (hash), shake it like its hot, strain right from the jar into another glass container with lid.
You can use a cheese cloth then coffee filter to strain. And i use a syringe to seperate the oil from alcohol.
You can evap the alcohol off with a fan. Try to do this in the coldest temps as possible.
People use other methods.
Remember alcohol is flammable. Do not use near any flame.
A second wash will produce very little if the first wash is done well.*with 190 proof everclear
DO NOT smoke the final product.
Cook with it or eat it.

 

[Bushysbud]

I live where 190 proof is not available. Local or by mail

 

[mancorn]

I live where 190 proof is not available. Local or by mail

The point of voltage question was “what are you trying to accomplish?” Making hash? Easier ways to do that than 151.

 

[Bushysbud]

I have decarbed hash and looking to extract to make edibles. I was going to infuse with extract instead of flower. All I have is hash. Trying to make something a bit easier on the lungs. So why can’t you smoke it? Seems pretty clean.

 

[defective]

If you search threads for absolute shatter, you’ll come across an older thread where dude extracts with butane. He purges COMPLETELY before he then dissolves it in 190 everclear…he then filters the sediment out and purges again and is left with a really clean shatter, which he smokes….all that to say I’m not sure you can’t smoke it.

You can also use isopropyl alchohol (the higher % the better look for 99%) which evaporates cleanly leaving a smokable product…otherwise known as quick wash or iso hash or qwiso.

 

[Captspaulding]

you can just replace that every clear wash afterwards with a vacuum purge and really if you just let it sit out and do a slow Evap until all the alcohol just dips out on its own anyway, that’s generally the best way to deal with anything having to do with an alcohol dissipation you got the best taste that way too a really high viscosity as well. It just takes a little bit of patience.

 

[Bushysbud]

you can just replace that every clear wash afterwards with a vacuum purge and really if you just let it sit out and do a slow Evap until all the alcohol just dips out on its own anyway, that’s generally the best way to deal with anything having to do with an alcohol dissipation you got the best taste that way too a really high viscosity as well. It just takes a little bit of patience.

So how can you tell it’s done evaporating? Using the slow method? Is there a tell? Weeks or days?

 

[Captspaulding]

So how can you tell it’s done evaporating? Using the slow method? Is there a tell? Weeks or days?

Week. Usually.
If you use a normal 8x12 dish
For a bottle of ever clear around a week
But if you use an even larger dish or multiple dishes, faster, the thinner, the layer of alcohol with your THC in it the faster it will evaporate makes sense
All you Gotta do is smell it dude you’ll know when that Everclear is gone because it’s super thin and any of the THC extract it’s not liquid it’s gonna be stuck to the glass or whatever tray it is that you use. I suggest glass though anything else gonna be a pain in the ass, but the THE extract is super super tacky this way and you’ll have to remove with a razor blade, but the difference in viscosity between alcohol and THC extract in the tray is there’s no question you’ll know which ones which and you’ll know when the alcohol is gone.

 

[Captspaulding]

Week. Usually.
If you use a normal 8x12 dish
For a bottle of ever clear around a week
But if you use an even larger dish or multiple dishes, faster, the thinner, the layer of alcohol with your THC in it the faster it will evaporate makes sense
All you Gotta do is smell it dude you’ll know when that Everclear is gone because it’s super thin and any of the THC extract it’s not liquid it’s gonna be stuck to the glass or whatever tray it is that you use. I suggest glass though anything else gonna be a pain in the ass, but the THE extract is super super tacky this way and you’ll have to remove with a razor blade, but the difference in viscosity between alcohol and THC extract in the tray is there’s no question you’ll know which ones which and you’ll know when the alcohol is gone.

This is also the safest way to do it

 

[GNick55]

i want to see the “hash”

 

[Captspaulding]

i want to see the “hash”

I have a sneaking suspicion. We are actually speaking of kief.

 

[phxazcraig]

I used to use 190 proof Everclear as a solvent when I made Rick Simpson oil for my late wife. She suffered from pancreatic cancer.

I used a Magical Butter machine, followed by filtering, then letting the oil sit in a tall container to let solids sink to the bottom. The less green, the better.

Once I filtered as much as I could, I generally ended up with about a Mason jar full of tincture. Now it needed to be evaporated.

I did it the easy way, by using a rice cooker. Outside, or in my case, the garage, to control both smell and fire risk. I bought a rice cooker that had a 2-hour manual cycle, and all I needed to do was to periodically add some water, and restart it every two hours. The jar of tincture went in the middle, and water boiled around it at 212F. The alcohol boils at a lower temperature, so you could watch the Everclear boiling off over a period of 6-8 hours.

Once done, I was left with a black tarry substance that was really only fluid while quite hot. At this point I mixed in 50% vegetable oil to thin the RSO so it could be handled.

I then drew up the oil into a large syringe, then used the syringe to put drops of oil into gelatin capsules, which were used as edible medicine by my late wife. I would make up capsules with different amounts of oil, label and store. My late wife would combine capsules as needed to get a proper dose, which was slightly different strength each batch. Now you can just buy the stuff, and it's completely filtered.

I was getting about 1/7th by weight in oil for the weight of buds I put into the Magical Butter machine. And at the time (2015) the cost ended up about the same as what dispensaries charged once they began stocking it.

 

[Oldchucky]

I think I would just portion the hash out and eat it before going through all that trouble! use the ever clear to wash it down!

 

[amneziaHaze]

when i did normal buds dipped in alcohol what was left was a dark resin type of stuff sticky as fuck but it never really evaporated the alcohol completely.maybe because it was soo fat it got stuck in the middle i don't know... but a vacuum chamber would be perfect you should look at jj"s diary he does the alcohol and vacuum stuff.

 

[Captspaulding]

when i did normal buds dipped in alcohol what was left was a dark resin type of stuff sticky as fuck but it never really evaporated the alcohol completely.maybe because it was soo fat it got stuck in the middle i don't know... but a vacuum chamber would be perfect you should look at jj"s diary he does the alcohol and vacuum stuff.

That’s when you gotta introduce a fan man

 

[amneziaHaze]

That’s when you gotta introduce a fan man

yea probably a good idea.but it was in my attic and outside it was 40C soo i fought it would have dried on its own in a week. it still worked you would just feel the burn and the ugly taste of alchohol