With oils extracted in alcohol, you should be able to evaporate the alcohol (maybe over a low heat to speed the process up) and leave only the oils behind.
You can mix the oil with vegetable glycerin (I forget the ratios, but can find out) and spray the mixture on tobacco to mentholate it. That rehydrates dried out tobacco, too, and makes it spongy again for rolling. Spray it. let it dry, spray it again, let it dry again, and you should be good to go. Handy knowledge considering they are planning on banning menthol cigarettes, and around 40% of smokers smoke menthol. I see a business opportunity there.
I've known tinctures to be made in alcohol concentrations as low as 35% (70 proof), but stronger is usually better. The most concentrated I can get here is about 75% (151 proof) without taking a trip to Tennessee, where I can get Everclear at 95% (190 proof). I used to drink Everclear straight out of the bottle. I dunno how I'm even still alive. I used 95% pure isoporopyl alcohol to clean ink out of screens for screen printing on plastic bottles, and that shit will eat the skin off your hands (dries it out and flakes it off) if you do it regular without rubber gloves. I can only imagine what 95% ethanol did to my innards.
I stopped drinking Everclear straight like that one night long ago when it damn near killed me. Then I mixed it half and half with Mountain Dew, but spilled some on a floor one night and it ate the wax off the floor, so I stopped drinking it altogether.
Oh - and to get the alcohol out of a stout mix, you should be able to freeze it and pour it through a strainer to catch the water ice crystals since alcohol has a lower freezing point than water. When it's frozen "slushy", that should be about right to strain it.
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You can mix the oil with vegetable glycerin (I forget the ratios, but can find out) and spray the mixture on tobacco to mentholate it. That rehydrates dried out tobacco, too, and makes it spongy again for rolling. Spray it. let it dry, spray it again, let it dry again, and you should be good to go. Handy knowledge considering they are planning on banning menthol cigarettes, and around 40% of smokers smoke menthol. I see a business opportunity there.
I've known tinctures to be made in alcohol concentrations as low as 35% (70 proof), but stronger is usually better. The most concentrated I can get here is about 75% (151 proof) without taking a trip to Tennessee, where I can get Everclear at 95% (190 proof). I used to drink Everclear straight out of the bottle. I dunno how I'm even still alive. I used 95% pure isoporopyl alcohol to clean ink out of screens for screen printing on plastic bottles, and that shit will eat the skin off your hands (dries it out and flakes it off) if you do it regular without rubber gloves. I can only imagine what 95% ethanol did to my innards.
I stopped drinking Everclear straight like that one night long ago when it damn near killed me. Then I mixed it half and half with Mountain Dew, but spilled some on a floor one night and it ate the wax off the floor, so I stopped drinking it altogether.
Oh - and to get the alcohol out of a stout mix, you should be able to freeze it and pour it through a strainer to catch the water ice crystals since alcohol has a lower freezing point than water. When it's frozen "slushy", that should be about right to strain it.
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