alcohol evaporation rate
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rkymtnman
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yep. and if you have a small fan blowing across the tops of the bottles, that will speed it up even more.
Home Grow Hype-Girl
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Yep. You can also put the bottle with lid off, in some warm water which will increase the evap rate.
Merlin1147
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Or dump the bottle into a glass baking dish.
Home Grow Hype-Girl
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Different solvents pull different compounds. Alcohol pulls a lot of chlorophyll which is what you're seeing. For some, chlorophyll can be good and others are sensitive to it.
99.9% ISO and sometimes 190 proof Everclear (Everclear is very hard to find in my area since the pandemic, and same with ISO. I had to buy a case of four 1 gallon jugs from an industrial chemical company for ISO, because everyone is completely sold out).
Thundercat
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You don’t want to use ISO for a tincture. Tincture is usually for oral consumption.
ISO works great for making extracts that get fully evaporated, but you should not ingest it in a tincture.
For tincture you want to use ethanol (like everclear) or you can also make glycerin tinctures which don’t have any alcohol.
You're absolutely right. Brain fart moment. For some reason my mind wandered from tincture to extraction.
Thundercat
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If you can get really high proof vodka that can also work. Like 150 proof plus I believe is ideal for efficiency of extraction and so that it can be easily evaped to reduce volume.
That being said I have infused cannabis into 90proof alcohol before. I soaked a quart jar full of trim in Makers Mark bourbon a few years ago. Left it for a couple weeks and then strained out the trim. It was a delicious summer drink poured over some ice and topped with lemonade. When you poured it on the ice it went from being clear liquid to being milky as the dissolved oils hit the water in the ice.
So you could really use any decently high proof alcohol, it just won’t extract the cannabinoids as effectively. I also personally wouldn’t try it with any flavored alcohols if you plan to reduce the volume and concentrate the tincture. It would also intensify the flavoring or even alter it poorly and ruin the tincture.
Is Absinthe legal where you are? My buddy used to bring me back a bottle of that stuff every year from his trip home to Italy. It works well too.
Thundercat
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the source turbo looks like an awesome unit. I've wanted to get one. But the main thing it would let you do is reclaim the alcohol the evaps off.
Are you starting with trim material? Buds? Hash/keif?
ISO is not safe for consumption. That was my mistake which was pointed out earlier. ISO is good for extraction, but you need to evaporate it all the way. For tinctures, food grade alcohol is required.
I do apologize for my mix up there. For some reason my mind was focused on extraction.