[Gray Wolf]

Originally Posted by Corvette Doc

It looks like i have a LOT of reading to do on extracts. I wanted to find a better tasting alcohol based extract. I just soak it in everclear for several days then low cook at about 150*F for 8 to 10 hours. Run through a 120u bag to clean it then proceed to to drink the filtered green booze with favorite mixer. This is the nastiest tasting thing in the world But the hard hit was what seemed to get me through the chemo. Is there an easy way to make this taste less horrid?

Oh yas! Brown Dragon instead of Greeeeeeeeeeeeen Dragon.

Do a QWET extraction and just reduce the alcohol down some to concentrate it, if necessary.

Winterize a BHO extraction with Everclear, and use the alcohol/oil mixture.

Use decarboxylated oil for maximum head effects.

[CimeTempestose]

Originally Posted by noreason

..... The trouble of funnel is that the heavier glands rapidly fall on the screen, obstructing the water flow. This mean it takes a lot of times to remove all the water, and this is not good. Less time the glands are in contact with water, more intense will be the smell.

So I drill a little hole at the end of the funnel, where I insert a little tube. This tube is linked to a little air-pump, so when I close the funnel from the bottom with my hand, the air flow coming from the pump, is obliged to go up, moving away the glads from the screen and let the water fall down rapidly.
Doing this repeatedly allow all the water fall down in few minutes.............

I think that solution is a very good one, I will surely try it.. cause I had the same problem ..

May be is a pity that a so good 3d was read only by a small circle of ppl... But .. maybe not..

..is not our fault if laziness and ignorance encourage new ppl to do not use the "search" button...

great job man !

[4tokin]

Leave your bottle of green booze in the sun until the green turns to brown.
The sun burns off the chlorophyll in 3/4 hours without any adverse effect to the tincture.
It changes the taste completely.

[Grey_Fox]

Tasty looking stuff dude. Got some inspiration going from this : D

[domacin]

Originally Posted by 4tokin

Leave your bottle of green booze in the sun until the green turns to brown.
The sun burns off the chlorophyll in 3/4 hours without any adverse effect to the tincture.
It changes the taste completely.

thats what i like to do with my EtOH extractions and refinements

so summer is the only time to do this properly where i live:
1 day sun purgin the alcohol, for a few hours - the longer the better - idealy the purgin plate is partly lifted towards the sun to have steeper angle of sunshine rays
when everything is purged, i give an additional day within the suns rays

this additional step, although not really needed, gives the extract a notch higher quality : the extract reeks compared to 24 hours before, seems like the terpens want to "break out"

i have no clue, but there is something happening inside on the molecular level (with the help of UV and IR part) that does more than heat alone ???

[Gray Wolf]

UV bleaching doesn't remove the chlorophyll, it just breaks it down, leaving the breakdown products, which add harshness.

I prefer to do a QWET extraction cold enough and for a short enough period of time to limit extraction of chlorophyll and other C-30 length molecules.

Here is a 3 minute frozen QWET extraction prior to reduction. You will note that there is no chlorophyll that requires bleaching.

The second is a 10 minute frozen QWET, demonstrating what the element of time does.

[noreason]

A lot of time passed but passion is still there. I will post pictures and infos in the next months.

Here a DIY vacuum chamber. It was pretty effective for small batches like 1 gram, however I don't recommend it. It's not tested for vacuum and it's pretty small, but for me worked out good.




Obviously I got to try 'em







Here a couple of grams of purged QWISO. It's from a 50 grams batch I got from outdoor low quality trim and small buds. It's a low quality QWISO, no much aroma but it's pretty smooth with a good knockout effect.

[noreason]

Got to say these small silicon pads are really useful when working with extracts. They are easily removed and the extract collected and stored.

[noreason]

Here purging some of that low quality QW-ISO








Purging a GreenPoison BHO on a PTFE sheet. Nice quality here, not the best however. PTFE sheets are great to avoid BHO loss and it's very useful to gain time, with less work to do.






Cheap vacuum gauge, however it seems to work good.

[noreason]

The first pull-out, the explosive one