My first extracts..... yum yum

[Raslin]

So I bought some liquorice tea leaves over the festive season. The smell was to die for and tasted exactly like the smell. Light bulb moment. .. I want to vape this stuff.

So two teaspoons went into a glass bottle with some PG. While I was busy I decided to extract some coffee as well.

Today is my last day of leave to decided to see how the extracts came out.

Well t I my suprise, totally vapeable. the liquorice tastes just like the tea. I need to add some sweetner or a cream to round it off. But tastes very good on its own.

The coffee is just that,; a nice coffee flavour. Also needs sweetner or cream. But good all the same.

So proud of myself, I think I deserve a good vape

 

[WHITELABEL]

So I bought some liquorice tea leaves over the festive season. The smell was to die for and tasted exactly like the smell. Light bulb moment. .. I want to vape this stuff.

So two teaspoons went into a glass bottle with some PG. While I was busy I decided to extract some coffee as well.

Today is my last day of leave to decided to see how the extracts came out.

Well t I my suprise, totally vapeable. the liquorice tastes just like the tea. I need to add some sweetner or a cream to round it off. But tastes very good on its own.

The coffee is just that,; a nice coffee flavour. Also needs sweetner or cream. But good all the same.

So proud of myself, I think I deserve a good vape

Awesome man! I'd love to try your juices some time, maybe you could bring some samples to vapecon. I'm busy with some vanilla pod, nutmeg, cinnamon stick and coffee extracts. Gonna leave them for another week or two before I try them though.

 

[Raslin]

Only if you agree to a swop, gives me time to tweek it and hopefully have a great juice by then.
Any tips will be appreciated.

 

[WHITELABEL]

Only if you agree to a swop, gives me time to tweek it and hopefully have a great juice by then.
Any tips will be appreciated.

Deal! These are my first extracts so we'll have to exchange notes. I know @kimbo has an awesome tobacco extract, maybe we can convince him to give is some pointers .

 

[Arthster]

Sounds fantastic @Raslin, Wouldn't mind a toot on that myself

 

[Raslin]

@Gambit, I did not document quantities and measurements this time round. I wanted to see if it worked. Now that it has I will be documenting the measurements and time period's. Maybe we can blog the process and se where that goes.

 

[kimbo]

Deal! These are my first extracts so we'll have to exchange notes. I know @kimbo has an awesome tobacco extract, maybe we can convince him to give is some pointers .

@Gambit i just took some Rum & maple, Black & white and Boxer even mix. Took about two hands full in a can fruit bottle, cover that with some PG and left it for a month or longer, when i remember i just open the bottle stir it i bit and close the bottle. After that i strain it and make my juice
When you strain heat the mixture up in hot water, it makes it more runny so it flows better and faster

 

[WHITELABEL]

@Gambit i just took some Rum & maple, Black & white and Boxer even mix. Took about two hands full in a can fruit bottle, cover that with some PG and left it for a month or longer, when i remember i just open the bottle stir it i bit and close the bottle. After that i strain it and make my juice
When you strain heat the mixture up in hot water, it makes it more runny so it flows better and faster

Sounds easy enough. You mind telling us what percentage you use your extract in your final juice? Or is that a trade secret?

 

[kimbo]

Sounds easy enough. You mind telling us what percentage you use your extract in your final juice? Or is that a trade secret?

 

[kimbo]

if you dont use EM go for about 17% .. EM mutes the flavour but rounds everything nice

 

[WHITELABEL]

What a gent, thanks so much man! That will save a ton of time having a base to start off from.

 

[Imthiaz Khan]

Well done @Raslin, those extracts sound wonderful!

 

[gripen]

@Raslin sound's nice wouldn't mind trying it myself.im sure some cream will round it off nicely

 

[ESH]

Wow guys that sounds wonderful.

 

[Raslin]

Thanks, the liquorice is awesome. The coffee not so much. Working on it

 

[gripen]

@Raslin you'll get the coffee too be just as good.good job so far

 

[Rowan Francis]

i would like to see what sitting the bottle in a USC for 30 mins , would it speed up or assist the process ??

 

[Raslin]

It possibly would, don't have one unfortunately.

 

[Rowan Francis]

me thinks a handfull of coffee grounds might find a small bottle of vg/pg tonight and end up in the USC for a jacuzi !!

 

[gripen]

@Rowan Francis that sounds good a coffee vape and jacuzzi.good thinking

 

[Arthster]

When I extracted my coffee I used a pot on low heat added the PG to a vile and then the coffee ground. I then put the vile in the pot of water on the stove and swooshed it around for about 20 minutes. worked like a champ

 

[Rowan Francis]

Well i have 30ml vg in a bottle with a teaspoon of coffee grounds in my USC . Done 15min so far

 

[Gazzacpt]

Well i have 30ml vg in a bottle with a teaspoon of coffee grounds in my USC . Done 15min so far

I found PG works better for extracting flavour if you indend to use it as a concentrate. If you just infusing coffee into something you going to vape it should work just fine though.

 

[Ollie]

So i got this off reddit the other day and im keen to give it a shot!

Other extraction techniques:

Vanilla bean... two vanilla beans split down the middle leaving the ends intact in a test tube with 10ml - 20ml of PG, capped and left in a drawer (no light) for two weeks or more results in a very nice natural vanilla extract suitable for mixing in a e-juice. I have some that's been sitting for a couple of months, I mixed up a juice with it at 5% the other day and it completely overwelmed the other flavours... so next time I will go 1%.

Coffee is also easy. A heaping tablespoon of freshly ground coffee in 15ml - 25ml of PG mixed in a glass jar then heated in a simmering water bath for about 20 minutes, then filtered yields a very strong coffee extract. Mix about 2% - 10% in e-juice for a very fresh tasting coffee that doesn't taste burnt like many coffee flavourings.

Dry spices... I've done allspice, ginger, cloves, cinnamon (stick), nutmeg, corriander, cumin, cardamom, anise, tumeric. Take a look for my pumpkin pie recipe (and others) in the November recipe thread for my method on those.

I used some tamarind concentrate (the very dark stuff, with the consistency of bearing grease) mixed at 25% in PG for a tart fruity tamarind extract.

Lemon and lime juice (fresh sqeezed) can be used at 1% or more to make an e-juice sour or to enhance fruity flavours. Citric acid works too... dissolve 1/4 teaspoon in 10ml PG, use at 1% or more.

Tobacco is supposed to work too, but I haven't tried it yet.

VG or alcohol ought to be able to be used instead of PG in all of these methods. I read of a method one fellow had of extracting tobacco by steeping it in alcohol with a bit of heat and time (days or a week) and then evaporating the alcohol until all that was left was solids, which he then dissolved in PG. If you do tobacco, make sure to use good stuff (not cigarettes, use a good quality cigar or raw tobacco) and be careful with your extract it will contain nicotine.

 

[Cat]

Oliver, you mean all that text was a quote? After the sentence, "So i got this off reddit..."?

i want to know long they macerated the spices. Tobacco - cold maceration - is typically 3 to 4 weeks, but i think i need to do the spices for less time.