Where To Buy High-Proof Alcohol For Tinctures

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1. Sorry for the ramble, but this is what I’ve learned in the last two years. Clear Springs makes better tasting tincture than Everclear, as it does if you dare to drink this effluent straight. The slow Green Dragon Method is also better tasting than using heat (and heat is dangerous even though I did it using a thermocouple on a temp reading multimeter. You can check the accuracy of the thermocouple by taking your temperature with it. The thermocouple is good for calibrating your oven for the decarboxylate, make sure to get the surface of your cookie sheet, I used a weight to hold the business end of the thermocouple down to the surface. In my oven, 200 degree F setting makes for 220 on the surface of the sheet. I’ve found that use of parchment paper is not necessary, but it is convenient and seems to do no harm. The thermocouple in often included with decent multimeters, and is also useful for setting the fridge and freezer (non related use). I preheat and go for 45 minutes, then turn the oven off. and wait for it to cool. I use non clear mason jars and tincture bottles as I’ve read, direct light destroys the mix. I strain though cut down coffee filters in funnels. It’s easy. I buy an ounce of the least expensive high THC hybrids (I’m in Oregon where it’s legal and get it for bout $60 an ounce, you can also use the tailings that end up in the bottom of the jars they store the leaf in at the stores), and make indica and sativa favored strains. These can be mixed, and sometimes I get something so neutral you feel normal, but you’re high, just turn on some good art to check (it always makes me appreciate by turning off my annoying inner critic, lol). I make about 4 ounces of tincture from an ounce of leaf, an inch over the dried ground leaf in the mason jar. I put it up in a cabinet with a taped to the jar note as to the name of the strain, the date of doing, and the THC for the leaf, and I reproduce these on the tincture bottles when done. I shake the jars a few times a week and leave it for a month or two, taking small samples along the way for fun, And the author is right about everything, including the economy, I figure a good high costs 50 cents. I take it under the tongue, but my wife dilutes it and takes it as a drinkable. If I assume the process is 50% efficient, I get about 40 mg of THC per gram starting with 30% thc leaf. I take a quarter to a full pipet, but I’ve forgotten how much one holds. Tincture is cool. You can’t buy Alcohol tincture legally in Oregon as liquor stores are not licensed to sell pot. The finished tincture It’s probably around 65 proof. I feel the high lasts longer than 4 hours, but I’m taking a healthy (yeah sure!) dose. I find taking it at least 7 hours before going to sleep good, though it does tend to make me sleep longer. Bon Appetite.

2. Thanks for sharing your experiences here with us, Richard!

3. I’m not really a drinker but would like to make a tincture. I live in New York. Is there high proof alcohol in liquor stores or is that something I need to look for online?

4. Hey Justin, I’m in NY, too, and I haven’t seen it in any of my local liquor stores. I ordered online from Caskers and they delivered right to the house 🙂

5. I’m in Hawaii and none of your sites for purchase send here, so what other ways are there to get grain alcohol to me?

6. Hi there, Janine! I’m sorry to hear none of these sites ships to Hawaii 🙁 I don’t know of any other place to look, but please do keep us updated if you find an option!

7. I’m thinking the tincture of cannabis roots to make a ointment; using that tincture instead of water in the ointment preparation. What can you say about this method?
   Thank you for your useful blog!

8. Thank you for your kind words, Virginia 🙂 I would hesitate swapping an alcohol-based tincture for water in a recipe because the alcohol will evaporate and may mess up the final consistency. What I would do instead would be to evaporate as much alcohol as possible and add that in addition to the water called for in the ointment preparation. I hope this helps!

9. I got difficulty in Canada (Ontario) finding these products! In the end, I found out that our liquor store, LCBO, sells it behind the curtains in some stores. If you, reader, has the same problem as I had, call LCBO or the liquor store in your city/province, and ask about the 94% grain alcohol and in which stores in your city you can find it (because just a few sell them).

   LCBO sells a spirit that contains 94% alcohol from a brand called Global, made in Quebec. But I paid 100 CAD a bottle of 1,2L! They don’t sell Everclear or other brands here. By the way, I’ve read that people in Quebec find it easily in the stores shelves without this bureaucracy, and it’s probably cheaper.

   Also, people in Ontario with US visa can always go to the NY state and buy it from there (Buffalo city for example), much cheaper, but having in mind that they’ll pay duties and taxes back at the Canadian border.

   Just letting this info out for the Canadians who end up in this post as I did before. 🙂

10. Thank you so much for sharing your experience, Vivian! I hope this helps our Canadian friends 😀