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I am trying out the lime tek with 100g of MHRB & 900ml ethanol. Will post an update with pics on the process once completed.

However, one 'weakness' of this tek is that ethanol is rather expensive [and preferable over vodka for easier evaporation and over IPA as well because a significantly more effective solvent in terms of getting DMT out of the bark, IME], so a way to recover the solvent would be good. If most of the solvent could be recovered, this would also make dilution to compensate for the large lime layer very feasible [will give more on a dilution step in a future post].

I've gathered that freeze precipitating DMT out of alcohol wouldn't work well. So that leaves the option of distilling the alcohol (except a small layer holding the DMT to then be evaporated, so that no DMT gets burned during the distillation process).

Anyway, since the goal is saving money I don't want to buy expensive distillation equipment. I'm thinking of attaching a tube like this to my Erlenmeyer flask, running it through an inverted plastic bottle filled with ice cold water and letting the hose drop in a jar to collect the distilled alcohol. Then heating the erlenmeyer in a hot water bath on the stove [with the bottle standing on a metal grid in a pot filled with water for continued heating]. More or less like what is done in this video.

Any educated guesses if that would work well enough? My main concern is the safety of the hose. The silicone hose I linked is supposed to be heat resistant and food grade. Does anyone know if I can trust that?

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I assume this tek would work with ACRB. If so, would the NMT in acacia also end up in the alcohol layer along with DMT freebase?

Thanks ahead.