Hash talk

[Gingerbeard]

That's why it's $90 a gallon, I'm sure.

[Ckbrew]

In this application it does not matter what the sugar source was to make the ethanol. In liquor, the ethanol is usually 40-50%. The remaining is water and other miscellaneous substances that impart the flavor. Whiskey vs tequila. The non ethanol portion is the difference. In high quality vodka or grain alcohol it is distilled to 95%, diluted with pure water, then re-distilled. This "washes" out the flavor leaving only water. To make 100% ethanol you need to make an alternate azeotrope, I believe benzene would accomplish this, or treat it with a molecular sieve, a clay like substance that has a higher affinity for water than the ethanol.

[Bluey]

Hygroscopic?

[Gingerbeard]

Ckbrew per azeotrope in #52.3. By name, no. By concept, yes.
I read something about no such thing as 100% pure alcohol because at some point, drying agents are added to remove extra %% moisture. Those drying agents are the first to separate. How fast it happens, I guess you just told me.
C₂H₆O is C₂H₆O, (+/- 0.03%) is my point. Does it matter where the alcohol came from? Another something I read about the "best" alcohol a particular industrial RSO maker used was from grape seed. Why is one better than another?

I've been dabbing Ultimate Jack today. I'm not usually into Sativa so I am really wanting to talk about the different alcohols. But I'm not going to because I'm surprisingly amped and do not want to make a Sativass out of myself.

[Ckbrew]

You know what an azeotrop is correct? As soon as it is opened it will start to dilute itself to 95%.

[Gingerbeard]

Hey Mr. F.
I don't know what it comes from. Isn't alcohol... alcohol when it is this pure?

[Mr.furley]

That’s a good price, especially if it’s from cane sugar.

[apacin0]

I was just thinking about bubble hash today. I want to make some. I also want to experiment with making RSO, but in time. I bought a gram of FECO in 2020 at a dispensary, where I worked briefly as a bud tender. I believe it was Romulan and was potent AF (said 70%). I never had another FECO gram syringe that packed that punch. Maybe I just need that strain again. Or maybe I'm chasing the green dragon...

Also need some Grandaddy Purple.....

[Gingerbeard]

Yeah. They don't sell a halal version.

[Going2fast]

And kosher at that.

[Gingerbeard]

I don't know if the availability of this product from this company is new or why I never saw it. But I found "Food & Lab Grade 200 Proof Ethanol - 99.97% - USP-NF, Kosher" without hardly trying. Shipping and tax come to change-less-than $90 for a gallon. I don't know if that is a good price. Whatever, anyway. I found it.
Next payday, the Buchner funnel and flask.

[o0644]

Can use 190 everclear instead of iso, but if you can get 99% ethanol even better. I did qwiso and didn't get tons of yield, similarly with dry ice although the result is way different. If you heat up/decarb the qwiso oil afterwards, no isopropyl should remain.

[Smallgrow]

Riot screen box will make a small amount of dry sift easily for a low cost and low effort.

[Gingerbeard]

Either/or, I'd say. I went ice water.
The point is cleaning up the otherwise 'low grade' hash for decent dabbing as well as having something real fine to light. Removing as much biomass and wax as I can.

[Bluey]

So the go would be either a bubble bag and ice and iced water or just a 220 micro sieve?