QWET – Easy 3-minute Quick Wash Ethanol Extraction. Green dragon without the green! 2023

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  1. Chance

    Nice tutorial, thanks! I made my first batch yesterday and its amazing. I didnt recover the alcohol, maybe ill look into getting one of those recovery things soon.

    1. admin

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  2. Christian Gabriel Silvera
    Christian Gabriel Silvera

    Can I use 95° ethanol?

    1. admin

      You certainly can. I normally use 190 proof when making the strongest tinctures. Be advised that it does sting a bit under the tongue!

    2. MIKE G

      You can buy 100% ethanol on amazon. I buy that and use it for everything

      1. shortstoppirate

        be careful. 95% ethanol has 5% water but 100% used to have benzene added as a drying agent

      2. admin

        Good point, always know what you are buying!

  3. MIKE G

    This comes out fire if you water cure first. I make some snap and pull that will put you out. I get about 5grams from a oz of popcorn nugs.

    1. David Desorcy

      What is water cure? Thanks much. I recently got the Source Turbo and am learning. I just got my Buchner so I will use the vacuum port on the Source. My end result is very sticky, brownish but very strong. I get 4 gram of very thick sticky from oz of buds. 4 gram is not much but you do not need much for the effects. 1-2 hits and you are off and running.

      1. Allan

        Water curing is the process of removing the water solubles from the plant material before processing. There’s a tutorial here: http://mediblereview.com/water-curing-dried-cannabis/
        How are you liking the Source?

  4. Joey

    Can you use this to make edibles? Like can you evap the alcohol and use whats left in a recipe? Thanks, Joey

    1. Allan

      Yes you can use tinctures in edible recipes that call for alcohol or will at least allow for it. You can also evaporate the alcohol and use the remaining oil as well.

  5. Lil weedhead

    Ok I tried to make a tincture with this quickwash method but my friend told me it will be stronger if I grind my buds first and i dud it but it came out like mud i let it settle and poured off the top but that means I cant gef all the alcohol out. I still have the mud in a jar as well as my dirty tincture. Can i do something to clean it up i tried coffee filters but its still not very clean and has tons if sedimint. I learnt my lesson and won’t grind anymore but i want to save this it was a whole ounce please help! Ill be your best friend if you save this.

    1. Allan

      What I would recommend is to first filter with coffee filters and then filter the resulting liquid with a 20 micron syringe filter. This will clean it up nicely.

      You can find syringe filters here: https://amzn.to/2HMczN3

    2. dave

      Tell your friend he’s a dumbass

  6. Tom Skelter

    Is it possible to use this method with kief collected from a grinder? Reading some of the comments it seems logical that I could shake up the two and then strain it through a few coffee filters and then use one of those syringe filters to finish cleaning it? Have you ever done this before? I don’t mind experimenting but I don’t want to ruin anything. Thanks your site is very helpful!

    1. admin

      Yes, you can do this with kief and yes, I have done it before. Your process will work just fine

  7. Tom Skelter

    Another question how can I recover the alcohol from this process? I bought some pure ethanol from Amazon and it’s pretty expensive. I want to evaporate this into an oil but I don’t want to lose all that ethanol. I did look at the source machine but it’s bloody expensive, is there a cheaper alternative?

    By the way your links to the ethanol and to that Source machine are not working.

    1. admin

      Thanks for pointing out those broken links! I have repaired them.

      You can recover the alcohol using cheaper recovery stills like this kind: https://amzn.to/2xxa1Ma or this kind: https://amzn.to/2FSIhGI

      The Source Turbo (https://amzn.to/2XOnSg3) is a great device and will do a much better job with way less work – its does have a higher price tag, but if you make oils often, the Source is well worth the money!

    2. Jenfa

      I bought destiller, you can recover most of it

  8. Traci Fry

    I used everclear but 151 proof. Worried fantastic.

  9. Gabriella

    Can you do this with ISO alcohol? Its much cheaper than buying everclear. Thx!

  10. Leah

    This by far is the easiest to follow directions I have ever found! Two thumbs up!

    1. admin

      Thanks, glad you found it useful!

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