tincture question

I was considering making some tincture. I was wondering if I could use flavoured alcohol like a strawberry moonshine or any type of flavour alcohol with a 40 proof or higher grade.
I hope this makes since, and please help.
happy toke'n!

You could mix 40 proof with cannabis concentrate to make an elixir, but it has too much water in it to extract with, unless you are striving for a greeeeeeeeeeen flavor.

So if I mixed in some fruit with some everclear it wouldn't work out.
I just dont want to waste a couple ounces.

Was it kinda like mixing oil and water?

Yes you can make a tincture using a flavored alcohol - google green dragon. But you said 40 proof which would be only 20% alcohol. You want to use the highest proof possible (like everclear). I have made some before using everclear and some Malibu and it seemed to work fine. Or maybe that's what you meant anyway

Hey my first time making green dragon or tincture. I can use decarb'd bho oil and 100 proof absolute to make it right?

And if I understand correctly I want to take 4 oz of absolute and 10 grams and mix them then apply heat until its boiled down to about 2 oz. Or do I do the heating first before I add the oil?

Anybody?

Also when I boil the alcohol off I'm supposed to use cooking oil instead of water?

Exactly what I ment. Using a high proof alcohol and add some flavor to it for a better taste.

GrowinDad said:

Yes you can make a tincture using a flavored alcohol - google green dragon. But you said 40 proof which would be only 20% alcohol. You want to use the highest proof possible (like everclear). I have made some before using everclear and some Malibu and it seemed to work fine. Or maybe that's what you meant anyway

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I'm interested as well in this method. I hope someone replies to this add well.

7mend07SweetnSticky said:

Hey my first time making green dragon or tincture. I can use decarb'd bho oil and 100 proof absolute to make it right?

And if I understand correctly I want to take 4 oz of absolute and 10 grams and mix them then apply heat until its boiled down to about 2 oz. Or do I do the heating first before I add the oil?

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7mend07SweetnSticky said:

Hey my first time making green dragon or tincture. I can use decarb'd bho oil and 100 proof absolute to make it right?

And if I understand correctly I want to take 4 oz of absolute and 10 grams and mix them then apply heat until its boiled down to about 2 oz. Or do I do the heating first before I add the oil?

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BHO and ethanol mix well warm and that is an easy way to make a tincture.

No need to add more than you need and boil back down. Warm you can mix them at any ratios.

If you haven't decarboxylated it yet to make it orally active, I suggest doing that first in a hot vegetable oil bath, and then simply adding the alcohol to the hot oil at the end.

I've used Loranne candy flavoring oils to add flavor to a tincture and cover up the cannabis aftertaste.

So you mix the vegetable oil with the bho oil and cook at 250f for how long? Then add the absolute

NO! You are putting the BHO into a glass vial or something and then putting that into the hot oil bath to purge out any remaining Butane.

I vac purge my bho with heat. There's no butane left in it. Also I cooked it for a long while last night to decarb it. The only step I skipped was cooking it in an oil bath. I cooked the oil in a silicone dish at about 200f for an hour or so. When I mixed the alcohol in I let boil again for about 2 hours. I boiled off 2 oz of alcohol but when I let it cool the oil and alcohol separate and its not a tincture.... It's more like I'm doing an alcohol wash..... Where am I going wrong guys?

Dude, I know nothing about BHO. I make ethanol extracts and turn them into vape juice for the most part. This is a concentrates section and a tincture to me might be better served in the cooking with cannabis section. A basic tincture would be Green Dragon which is bascally weed simmered in alcohol, for that I have used flavored stuff as stated but it is not my normal thing. But with it, you can simmer it down however much you like.

For edibles, I personally wouldn't use a concentrate. I'm not 100% sure what your end game is (meaning exact use). It almost sounds like you want to end up with a RSO that isn't fully boiled, made with ethanol.

Wish I could answer you. I made a few alcohol/concebtrate tinctures in the past and never had separation. Can you take a picture?

I will post a pic when I get off work today. But I boiled all the alcohol off on accident so I put 3 more shots into it let it heat and mixed it up for a bit. Turned off the heat and let it sit all night. Idk what I'll be coming home too

There it is after 13-14 hours off cooling and sitting

It has a kind of milky color to some of it