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Hash talk

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.....
 
You know what an azeotrop is correct? As soon as it is opened it will start to dilute itself to 95%.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
I have tried the alcohol extraction, now I want to try to do bubble hash. Looking at the original (5 gallon) system and wondering if anyone has the hole system, washer bags press screens and what they think of it. I have read about the knock off and how it leaks water, and some say the bags tear easily. Also for those that only got the bags and use a hand drill etc.. Whats your thoughts is it worth picking up the whole thing or just as good to only get the bags? What do you use to stir the water/ice/weed in them? Anything else I may have not thought of.
 
I've been making enquiries here with those that know and was told not to bother with that and just do RSO. It lasts and us a superior product, well thats what I've been told anyway.
 
I have tried it, dont like the mess, the alcohol is costly and dies fast (absorbs water), I have not tried to run it through my still to remove water (yet) also the batches are tiny. I need to do way more than a quart at a time. I would be making the hash to eat not mixed into sugars or fats. I am doing this now with kief, decarbed, from a trim bin and kept in 1 cup jars using measuring spoons "Smidgen Pinch and Dash". (mostly the Pinch)
 
Bag size depends on how much product you have to work with. I only do a couple ounces at a go and use the one gallon bags with a rice paddle to agitate.
I don't trust knock offs. Pay more for the security of a quality product with history and a warranty.
If you have the little measuring spoons (I have the same set and use the drop for dabbing) for hash Rwise , why bother the process of making RSO? I am real close to melting hash with alcohol and dewaxing for dabbing. See how that goes against washing whole plant. Hash won't be the same product as whole plant but it seems much easier to do.
 
I still have bud from 5 years ago, so I have plenty to run, last year 1 plant gave 38 quarts of bud which I have used 1 Quart of.
The knock off had so many reports of leaking, I wont be looking at them.
I have my reason for wanting it eatable coming from my Dr and a lung CT scan, shit!~
 
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