I have a failsafe method I've been using since last year.
Old Hippie Method Tincture.....
1. take a mason jar, 1 quart. get sugar shake with very little trash leaf, OR hash, OR smallbuds... I prefer small buds left over from my outdoor harvest.
2. finger grind the bud, or shake (preferrably because you can wash the resin off your fingers with the 151 proof everlear (or higher)), lightly stuff the powder into the mason jar until it is nearly filled up. you do not want it compacted, but you don't want it loose either. you want the volume of the powder to be about equivalent to the liquid you're going to put into it. there should be about 1 inch of the mason jar not filled up.
3. pour aquired 151 proof everclear, bicardi, or higher, into the mason jar until the liquid just completely covers the powder. place cap on mason jar.
4. put in warm dark place for 3-5 weeks. preferrably temps from 78-85 degrees F are good, I usually keep it a few feet above a light space heater.... shake daily or every other day. the lower the temperature the longer the wait... the slow heat slowly decarboxylates the thc and other cannabinoids, as well in aiding in extraction.
5. after the 3-5 weeks, strain tincture with cheese cloth into another glass container , this is what I call the rough strain.
6. get your original bottle you likely emptied, or whatever bottle you'd prefer to have your tincture stored in. get a funnel, preferrably a new one, do what you can . place coffee filter in the funnel, slowly pour the strained tincture into the funnel, it will slowly drip into the bottle and be relatively sediment free, this makes it a LOT nicer on your stomach.
you may also poke a hole in the coffee filter to speed up filtration, it will allow more sediment in, but if you have a more tolerant stomach and don't feel like waiting I recommend it. those who feel like waiting will be rewarded with a very sediment free tincture.
the resulting tincture will often vary in color, mine turns out dark looking, when I shine a LED flashlight on it it appears maroon red, when I dilute it in water it turns green. very cool stuff.
to take... I don't fuck around with droppers, I think that shit is for low tolerance people who don't smoke weed. I start at a 1 oz shot diluted into 1 cup of juice with ice, chug it down right away, wait.
I've made tinctures so strong that even with a high tolerance 1.5 oz got me high like a serious heavy cookie high but different.
I believe the water content in the 151 everclear allows more terpenoids and flavanoids to be extracted, thus causing a more unique and interesting high.
this method is truly the greatest in extracting the /essence/ of a weed....(atleast when you're using small buds.)
hope this is of help to you and many others.
