Whats the optimal pH to extract from MHRB?

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Just how easy that is depends on what the lime was burnt from in the first place - chalk will be the easiest

This quicklime is probably not too good: one can tell it was burnt from limestone because there are still some small limestone chunks around...

I added more very slowly shaking a lot every time instead of just stirring it. This time it seems to have worked: as it settles down, I can already see a yellow layer forming. So the reason it didn't work well before was probably not enough using enough lime and adding it too fast.

The yellow layer is cloudy. Does this mean it has to settle more, that I still have to add more lime, or something else?

 

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The yellow layer is cloudy. Does this mean it has to settle more, that I still have to add more lime, or something else?

It has now become transparent after settling for a while.

 

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The yellow layer is cloudy. Does this mean it has to settle more, that I still have to add more lime, or something else?

Let it settle for a while longer, then decant through a cotton wool ball filter in a funnel neck. It should be free from turbidity.

 

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All done. I'm going to reduce it to around 3ml per original gram of mimosa and I'll try 9ml of it next Wednesday with 230mg harmalas. I wish I didn't need to reduce it so yuremamine could be preserved, but it has way too much alcohol.

 

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All done. I'm going to reduce it to around 3ml per original gram of mimosa and I'll try 9ml of it next Wednesday with 230mg harmalas. I wish I didn't need to reduce it so yuremamine could be preserved, but it has way too much alcohol.

Looking forward to the report. You may want to test out a lower dose first, as I maybe sensed a potential for convulsant action (but heating might abolish this?)

 

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You may want to test out a lower dose first, as I maybe sensed a potential for convulsant action (but heating might abolish this?)

Thanks for the heads up. What did you feel exactly? I didn't feel anything pointing to that from the CWE, but maybe ethanol is extracting some other substances. I'll do a first test with the equivalent to 1g then.

 

[Jamie01]

Would iso alcohol work for this in place of the ethanol? I want to try it but I could just as well buy some vodka.

 

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Would iso alcohol work for this in place of the ethanol? I want to try it but I could just as well buy some vodka.

Vodka appears to be the optimal % ABV for tannin precipitation. Translating that to aqueous IPA would require some experimentation, but it's likely to be in the same ballpark range.

 

[Sakkadelic]

I wish I didn't need to reduce it so yuremamine could be preserved, but it has way too much alcohol.

Put it in a wide dish with a fan blowing on it, it goes fast