The high alcohol content is incredibly strong and makes it a great medium for cannabis infusion. a. I gave my willing test subject some GD under his tongue and he nearly screamed. Great Stuff.. I use an Ardent FX to decarboxylate my cannabis because it effectively transforms over 98% of the THCA to THC without any THC loss. I usually use a 35 mm glass dropper bottle and use about 1/2 a dropper full. First off, decarb the flower (I don’t grind it first, the MBM does that) at 240 for 45-50 minutes then let it cool in the same container you decarbed it in. per oz. No science necessary, though I too would love a solubilty chart of THC in ethanol. Strain it and bottle it. Corrine, thank you for your wonderful posts and recipes! Let me know at [email protected] if you have more questions . [ya, I know, nuff said] – it was just hard to throw out as there was a day that weed was hard to come by where I live in Canada – not any more!!! Hi Don, Also did 1.5 cups of triple sec ( didnt have any brandy) to make up the difference I was short in vodka as I processed 3.5 oz of trim/bud. It seems, you have researched a lot before posting the blog. Hopefully all that makes sense. Great question! Plus after you remove the tincture and let the remainder evaporate, you can dab the solids. Should I I dilute it down with more alcohol? Or is the temp just too high? I love your recipes! I decarbed 16 grams of my homemade kief and put that into 2 cups of Everclear. When I originally wrote this post, I shared a method for heating your tincture for a quicker result. Benda, you should get out of your tinctures, whatever cannabinoids you put into it, so it will extract both THC and CBD cannabinoids. Just head over to the Wake + Bake Dosage Calculator and plug in your percentages and the amount of alcohol or MCT oil you use. 6. Will comment again on this article when it finishes later this week. Store in glass Amber or blue jar. In short, it just means that you administer the tincture under your tongue and hold it there as it absorbs into the membrane beneath the tongue. When the infusion is done, I ran the mixture through a fine mesh wire strainer a few times. The tincture I am making is THC focused. Hi Corrine. In 2013, researchers found that when smokers who wished to stop smoking used a CBD inhaler whenever they had the urge to smoke, reduced the number of cigarettes they smoked by 40%. Next time I would use much less VG and PG for a more concentrated product and use an e-Nail exclusively. 11. While you can make sweet tinctures (honey) with the Levo, their site states they don’t recommend alcohol-based tinctures. Do that once an hour for three hours. I’m wondering if a brandy freezer tincture would be good…. (just don’t let it go above 212). I love this! Trim I feel like I need to do both just to see the difference between the plant matter tincture and the trichome effect but I’m trying to figure out amounts of each to add to my tincture liquid. WELL…it was WAY too strong for me. 5. I think I will like the alcohol tincture better in that regard and will likely try the ever clear method next. Everyone’s body is different, could be a liver/ metabolism/ tolerance issue. I found the end product exponentially stronger than what I was getting from the dispensary. Its way too thick to go through a coffee filter and the filter that came with my MBM is literally doing nothing. No More Leaking and Spitting: How to Fix Your Vape, Nicotine Strengths: How to Choose What's Right for You. It is one of these recipes that taking out (or substituting) even one ingredient will drastically alter the results, so we would advise following it to the letter. Like all things cannabis, tinctures can deliver so much more than just THC and the benefits of other cannabinoids are definitely worth exploring. I’m making tincture with CBD, 20/.8 ratio for a friend needing pain/anxiety relief. Maddie here (Corinne’s assistant). I marinade for about 2 weeks. Your pictures look like it’s not ground for the tinctures. I was using for a while….then went off weed for some time due to not wanting to smoke it. I haven’t run into that one yet, I will bring it to Corinne at our weekly meeting! My first attempt at vaping came back in 2009 on some of the first cigalikes to ever reach Europe. Let sit for 10 minutes to allow the unflavored gelatine to soften. Disclaimer: This is not intended as medical advice. just break both ingredients in half or quarter whatever amount you can do. If you want to raise the stakes, check out the recipe that got ID10-T his World Mixing Championship title. A couple of attempts -- and vaping tech generations later -- I managed to quit smoking in 2016, and have since then developed somewhat of an obsession with all things vaping. Filter it repeatedly, after running a full 8 hour cycle at 170 degrees. Not that I won’t keep it steeping, but it’s easy to siphon a bit off the top when I want a hit and it’s definitely already quite dark green and potent. Have been making great tincture for me and my friends…wonderful for pain. This will give you the closest thing to a potent MCT oil tincture. I gave everything a good soak overnight. My stove is gas (so I can’t avoid having an open flame at least once or twice a day while cooking food) and my house has poor ventilation, not to mention it’s summer so no way I’m opening up my window for my AC to be wasted. These are brand new never been used jars. You never mention decarboxylation. UPDATE 2020: The folks at ardent did some testing and found that Vegetable Glycerine does not effectively extract cannabinoids, so I've updated this post with the non alcoholic “tincture” recipe that I use now. Can anyone offer a solution to this fowl tasting oil. A few hours later I managed to find some lecithin and what do I do? Vegetable glycerin. Thanks a lot for sharing. Everclear that is in a pint Mason jar which has also been in the freezer 24hrs. In other words, money paid to state to use food-grade on label. Or can you use weed with both CBD and THC or just THC? You are chemically striping the compounds with the strongest solvent that a human can ingest. But it might be great as a sleep aid! First, create a base in a Magical Butter Machine. Or is it going to burn regardless of how much you evaporate down if you don’t mix with something else? I ran 2 long cycles of 8 hours each. I have seen some pretty unhappy dogs who accidentally ate their human’s goodies. The package says 50 servings and 11.5 mg of CBD per serving. Place in a dark cupboard or in a paper bag on a shelf. Surprisingly, it is one of the smoothest and kindest batches of RSO I have ever made, with an incredibly pleasant and relaxed effect, reduction in pain, and the ability to maintain alertness throughout the day. I do however mix my tincure with a bit of honey. You want to get out as much of the plant material as possible. I’ve only done this with a CBD strain (Sour Tsunami) and had it tested by a lab: it tested at 72mg. I’m really excited to do all three tinctures and here is where I need some guidance… Kief vs. Up until recently, this definition of an all-day-vape was the best-rated recipe at ELR. You’ll be left with a dark, STICKY liquid. I wrote a review about using the Levo and will update these old posts as time allows I hope you have a great day! As long as the resulting slurry has no material above the ethanol, I put it back in the freezer to sit for 30 minutes. Otherwise I’ll return it and order the Mountain Rose one instead. Good luck. Clearly I am new to this so let me know what your process is when using the Lift re: grinding/not grinding. ✌?❤️. I seem to feel the burn for days. Shook twice a day for 21 days. I want to go the Everclear route, but gave up booze a bunch of years ago. Much ❤️ — Side note it is not recommended to do the grain alcohol tincture on the stove top (specifically gas stove) because the high alcohol content may cause fire. The only thing I would worry about is making it in a plastic bag. How do they compare from a potency perspective? I do the same to a coffee filter, metal coffee dripper, and new jar. I have a question: I just got the Aura Cacia organic vegetable glycerin you linked on here. So I was making the VG tincture in my slow cooker and the coconut oil on my stove at the same time. Otherwise, I’ll try to get a hold of them and see what they say. 8. Question re making tincture with vodka… can I use flavored vodka? I have been infusing tinctures for the past few years with freshly harvested raw cannabis leaf and bud. -pour in dropper bottle and your good to go. Probably way too late but just for INFO. Put into a glass baking dish and evaporate by half. -grind/chop bud/trim -decarb (somewhere read 220-240f for about an hour) -cool, then put in glass jar w/lid. A dispensary should not be doing that either. Infused Olive Oil was cleanest with only carcinogens inherent to Olive Oil. The recipes have been incredibly helpful. When THC sits on the surface of the plant, there is no need to dissolve cell walls, because that’s not where the good stuff is. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. For this reason, taking cannabis in the form of tinctures makes it easier to dose than cannabis coconut oil or cannabutter based edibles that are high in THC. And do you have any tcheck discount codes floating around? Do you have any idea how strong this is? The second back tastes much better, although I prepared them exactly the same. After letting the coffee filter drain as cold as possible (door closed again), I remove the jar and pour the tincture into a shallow wide pyrex dish on the counter. https://sacredsmokeherbals.com, For THC tinctures, we recommend making your own or purchasing from a dispensary . Wax doesn’t have the same consistency (or water solubility) of nicotine. I took a large aluminum pot filled about almost to the top and brought it to a boil. One way is to re-infuse your existing tincture with more cannabis for a longer infusion time. What is a tincture? When these items are effectively chilled and the hour of contact time is up, I put on a layer of nitrile gloves, followed by thin cheap winter gloves, followed by another layer of nitrile gloves. It worked well for vaping but I ended up with a slightly diluted product. (If you’re going to vape the end product, you’ll want it as pure as possible so it vapes cleanly, doesn’t clog, and doesn’t have that telltale SMELL. It’s helps sleep, it’s good in tea. oral, smoking, sublingual, injection, etc). Strain, strain, strain. Just mix the oil with vodka and let it sit? Will let you know if it works better than VG/PG mixture. Here’s a link to a blog from Levo which I would recommend reading for some pointers. I used 24G of 27% THC cannabis in 2 cups of food grade Vegetable Glycerin (which taste quite bland itself). I’m also wondering about the possible inclusion of the roots as many herbal combinations are best when using the whole plant (echinacea is a popular example). Great question. It’s taking forever but I’m hoping it’s worth it in the end. I am not sure how much to use for a dose. Love your article. thanks rs. Keep us posted on how your experimenting goes! Did I mention it’s super sticky? I kept the mix on the stove in the double boiler for a while longer to help them mix. So if you consider one half teaspoon of your oil a serving size, then that would be 24 servings. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. the food grade indicates that it’s been processed and packaged in a clean, sterile, inspected environment regulated and approved by the state. Strain out plant material. I've mentioned the term “sublingual” a few times during this post and I feel like I should probably cover wtf that means. Thanks again for your help. Remember that everything that doesn't get extracted is still in your leftover plant material. My mom is a bit afraid to use her machine to do it, and she was going to use the everclaear method for her gummies. I would like to use my Levo to make tincture. I trust the universe, I trust god. I also would like more info about the proper ratio of cannabis to alcohol. Can I just include that already infused tincture in my grain alcohol when I infuse a new batch? After 5 minutes it will even be strong. Usually, they’re unpalatable and need to be diluted in order to take the tincture sublingually. I cannot figure out what is going on. What amount of Kief would you suggest I use per 2.3 cups liquid? But with no ill effects I am unsure what the actual difference is. Decarboxylation has nothing to do with the “dryness” of the material. I figure more surface area=quicker extraction. Have you utilized your Levo to make tincture? Unfortunately, the only other alternative is plastic lids (hopefully one day they’ll make these out of hemp plastics). However, if you have someone that is a recovered alcoholic that won’t use it due to the process is there a way to remove the alcohol from the tincture without destroying all of the other benefits? By the way I also decided to take your advice and buy the Magical Butter Machine using your discount code thanks for that, can’t wait for it to arrive in a few days and I’ll try making a few more tinctures then. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of your dosage and you have the flexibility of changing your recipe. You’ll wind up with a very concentrated product and you need to start slow and slowly increase the dosages until you find something that works for you. This is the best way to reach a high quality product with a high final concentration, though it may take many hours longer than applying heat with a double boiler etc. It's an infused MCT oil, so it's not technically a tincture, but it's perfect for putting in dropper bottles and using it sublingually. Can I simply evaporate longer (or over low heat/in Nova) to get the alcohol content down to a safe level. If I use honey, as suggested in the post, how much? When I’ve used high THC bud, 1/2 a dropper full was enough to kick me in the butt…. It’s almost like super glue, if it gets on your hands or surfaces, you will need to SCRUB to get it off. The glue that holds plant/wood fibers together. I am not sure what methods you’ve used but you could try putting the tincture in an open bowl and put a small fan by it to help evaporate more quickly. Check out this one , wantred to leave a not about the : Tincture vs Smoking debate you postulate that since you are not burning the compounds, the more volatile compounds are not destroyed and you get more of those com[pounds into your body and therefore you end up with a better ‘bang for your buck’ You mentioned that tinctures are “less stoney” and this may be because of the different Bio-Availability (BA=the percentage of the compound ingested that actually ends up in your bloodstream and produces effects) for different Routes of Administration (ie. Post Updated 05/12/2020 – In the 3+ years since this post was originally published, we've learned a lot about tinctures and how to make them safely while still getting the effects you're looking for. Cheers. I left it in the freezer for about 10 days and then strained it into a jar, put cheese cloth to cover and put it in the garage so some of the alcohol could evaporate. After final shake remove lid, stick a shrimp skewer through bag so you can suspend across the top of jar and let drain. Move your infused liquid into a Pyrex bowl slightly larger than the top of your pot. Not tasty but effective in a pinch. Many shops will offer rebottled editions of some of the brands listed here, which is a nice way to save even more money. i am really overwhelmed. I’ve seen 6gms herb to 1oz alcohol. I don’t know if you will actually get the as it is over 2 years after the original post, but I was wondering if you would be willing to send me your recipe for tincture for vaping. Hi there, i read that using 190 proof everclear could damage the MFHI, is this true? I have a friend, and his girlfriend as well, who feels the medicinal effects while very little of the psychoactive. I’m about to harvest my first crop (yay!). 8. If you do this and spit out the tincture when you're done, compounds like THC wont be broken down by the liver. I would agree with you, Danny. Hi, thanks so much for writing this! Do I need to decarb already vaped bud before making tincture? The Magical Butter Machine is another option. (some people have said only for a few hours, some say for a few weeks or months. Thank you so much. Voila! Want a relaxing anti-anxiety cannabis tincture, add some lavender and chamomile. I’m not sure what they use to flavor it, so you may want to look into that as well. I have peripheral neuropathy in my feet. There is no need to keep longer than 6 min in cold 190 proof alcohol. Since your just getting in the game of Cannabis extraction then you should know that a study down by Italian researchers showed that 90% or higher food grade Ethanol is among the best solvents to use for Total Cannibidoil extraction from Cannabis flower. I’m using one once of CBD “chopped” in a blender, into a quart Mason jar, just covered with 80% organic vodka. Thanks for this great website and for all the informative comments. I usually add 50 ml. Thanks Seeemoanahhh! Shake and put in freezer for 6 min. Its is a chemical reaction that is absolutely imperative if you want the effects of thc. Did you find your all day vape in this list? I love this article. The one that is linked is to a skin care product which is why it says for external use only. I haven’t had any issues with my other tincture bottles corroding so far, but if you have issues with it, I’d love to know so we can make a note in the post. What’s a better way to get into DIYing vape juice than a list of popular vape juice recipes to work with? You can read more about the benefits of making your own tinctures as part of our ingestion method series: Green Dragon tinctures are made with Everclear, aka PGA or pure grain alcohol. Learn What Vaping is and How to Inhale Properly, 9 Pros and Cons of Vaping You Need to Know, The Different Types of Vapes You Need to Know, 11 Battery Safety Tips to Keep You More Protected, TPA: The Perfumer’s Apprentice – can also be found online as TFA (The Flavor Apprentice). What are the pg/VG ratios for these recipes? I’ll also add a warning about Booze + Heat = Fire <3. Although you do not have the effects of THC, there will be THCa, which is an anti-inflamitory, and a full range of terpenes, so it can still help with pain control. Leche De Coco (Coconut Milk) by hashslingingslashur. I use the same method and love it. Flavorings that contain diketones will have a warning next to the flavor name on the recipe table. And I haven’t bee decarboxylating my cannabis prior to use, but have just ordered the Nova, and will be ordering the MBM, as well. Anyone knows the recipe of the Mint To Be e-liquid? I’m also not a lawyer and can’t defend you if you get busted trying to make this recipe in a state that still considers possession or cultivation of cannabis a criminal act. Do you have something really technical and informative to share with other tincture enthusiasts? Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly before adding your VG tinchure. We can't get respond to everyone in the comments (especially about your infusion's dosage, alternative ingredients or different techniques), but – as long as you're kind and not a robot – we'll post it for you so another reader can dive in.