Other people with more experiece in stb will probably be better suited to help you, but I can already tell you that you will need to give some details;
A) How much bark?
B) MHRB or ACRB or something more exotic?
C) How much water did you add?
D) Did you happen to measure pH at any stage?
Most likelly you are following Noman's tek, but is still important to at least state that.
A very importarnt point is for the pH of the solution to be significantly higher than the pKa of DMT of 8.68. Using NaOH you are probably there, but is hard to know without any number.
Water is relAvant but I believe there is a very large margin of acceptable range.
Your extraction is the most likelly point where things went wrong asuming your source was legit.
Wait for a more experienced response but in the meanwhile try to recall aproximatelly what you did, what order and ammounts used, that will make troubleshooting much easier.