To make Tincture
Cold Method (recommended)
Cold Method (recommended)
Here is the recipe for highest quality tincture. This method does not use
heat so keeps the integrity of the cannabinoids intact. FromWAMM
▪ Fill jar ¾ full of herb
▪ Fill rest of jar with alcohol; leave
some room at top, stir.
▪ Shake jar [vigorously] one or two times
a day for 2 weeks [or leave it until there is no green color left in the
plant matter]
▪ Strain through metal tea strainer or
silkscreen.
You can use whatever kind of clean glass, not plastic, jar you have with a
tight lid. One-quart mason jars are ideal. Grind the herb thoroughly in a
blender. It should be well ground but doesn’t have to be a powder. You can use
leaf, bud, shake, joint leftover, or stems. Too many stems will wreck your
blender and a weaker tincture. Leaf work fine but for higher potency use shake
or bud. Fill the jar ¾ full of herb; it does not have to be exact. You can use
anywhere from ½ to 2/3 part herb but ¾ will make a full strength tincture. Use
the highest proof alcohol you can, Everclear, which is 180 proof, but hard to
find. So just use the highest proof Vodka you can find. Pour alcohol over the
herb, filling the rest of the jar. Leave just enough space (an inch or so) at
the top so that you will be able to shake the jar. Stir the mixture; the herb
will absorb some of the alcohol so you may need to add more. Put the lid on
tightly; label the contents and the date you started. It takes two weeks for
the alcohol to extract all the active elements from the herb. Shake the jar
once or twice a day for 2 weeks. The alcohol will rise to the top and a deep
green/red color will develop. After 2 weeks of aging you can strain the
tincture through a metal tea strainer or a silk screen into a small tincture
bottle with a dropper. You can leave the rest in the jar if you want, it will
age and mellow in flavor and you can strain off as much as you want at a time.
Alcohol is a strong preservative it will hold for a long time, be careful when
handling the tincture, it satins and will turn everything it comes in contact
with green. Use Ultra Palmolive anti-bacterial dish soap, the orange kind, to
clean the glass, metal or other ceramic utensils, (do not use plastic) sinks
and counter tops works best at dissolving THC residue.
Dosage varies per individual but start with half a dropper dissolved in hot
tea or water. Hot tea will dissipate some of the alcohol and activate the THC a
bit. It can be taken straight but may burn the tongue and has a very strong
herbal taste. [If you cut it with equal parts water, you can hold the dosage
under the tongue without burning. Takes effect in seconds.]
