highsakite
Well-Known Member
wow, no effects at all...bummer...
i've never tried using Everclear for this. i have used both Ethanol (medical grade 97%) alcohol and Isopropyl (again 97%). i have made batches from good bud, bag shake and crappy seeded bud that was impossible to smoke, and the end product always gave a high.
one thing i never do is decarboxilate the smoke beforehand (i know, every thread says to do so, but i don't have an oven so we make do, and besides, you decarb it when you smoke it...) and i'm not so sure about leaving it for three days to soak in the alcohol. THC is pretty much the first substance to be taken up by the alcohol, leaving it for three days may draw out undesirable substances. i left one batch in the fridge in Iso for 24 hours and there was no difference in how effective the high was to a wash of 2-3 minutes of shaking the gear in Iso and straining it immediately...do you freeze everything for 24hrs beforehand? What do you mean when you say 'cooked it down'?
the fact that the bud got you high but the extract didn't, is very weird. i've never heard of this before. maybe the temperature of the decarboxilation was too high? or too long? have you tried making some without the decarbing?
i've never tried using Everclear for this. i have used both Ethanol (medical grade 97%) alcohol and Isopropyl (again 97%). i have made batches from good bud, bag shake and crappy seeded bud that was impossible to smoke, and the end product always gave a high.
one thing i never do is decarboxilate the smoke beforehand (i know, every thread says to do so, but i don't have an oven so we make do, and besides, you decarb it when you smoke it...) and i'm not so sure about leaving it for three days to soak in the alcohol. THC is pretty much the first substance to be taken up by the alcohol, leaving it for three days may draw out undesirable substances. i left one batch in the fridge in Iso for 24 hours and there was no difference in how effective the high was to a wash of 2-3 minutes of shaking the gear in Iso and straining it immediately...do you freeze everything for 24hrs beforehand? What do you mean when you say 'cooked it down'?
the fact that the bud got you high but the extract didn't, is very weird. i've never heard of this before. maybe the temperature of the decarboxilation was too high? or too long? have you tried making some without the decarbing?