Ok, here are the final results of my experiment with trying to isomerize my green dragon liqueur.

Yesterday I did the third and final veriosn of the experiment --- took a 1/2 ounce shot of the green dragon liqueur, without cooking it in any way, and added it to my morning coffee with cream and sugar and a shot of Irish Whiskey. Yes, Coelho, I drink at breakfast.

Within an hour, I had a decent high going, but it never got much stronger than the peak at one hour. After about two hours, I decided I wasn't quite high enough to enjoy my laundry and vacuming to their fullest potential, so I smoked a hit, and then everything was fine.

I concluded that the heating and heating with lemon juice do not make a very big difference in the strenght or quality of the high, but they do make some difference. Looking back on the notes I posted, I think the best result was from heating without the lemon juice. I think that high was the most energetic and enjoyable.

One of the problems I had with this experiemnt is that I was not able to do the comparisons close together, so it was hard to remember exactly what each experience was like from one time to the next, and I had to rely on the notes I posted here.

Another potential problem that I thought of just recently is that maybe the green dragon looses some potency over time, so by spreading the experiment out over months it does not give a fair comparison from the first time to the last. I'm not sure if that is a problem or not.

Anyway, for myself for this current batrch of Green Dragon liqueur that I have, I think what I am going to do is usually just take a full 1-ounce shot of the liqueur, because that is what I enjoyed the most. And maybe I will cook it for an hour if I have the time. I was using 1/2-ounce doses for the experiment so I wouldn't get so high I couldn't make comparisons, but now that the experiment is over I will just take a full shot and enjoy it. In fact, I'm going to take it right now! Is it after breakfast yet? Can I have a shot of whiskey with that?

One recommendation I would have for people who want to boost the potency of their green dragon would be to focus on the decarboxylization process. Master Wu posted results in his Definitive Green Dragon thread about using 325F for 5 mins vs using 200F for 20. He had fairly conclusive results that the 325F for 5 mins was better.

And for people who want to isomerize their green dragon, I would suggest trying Coelho's method of making Green Dragon tincture, instead of the liqueur I make, and then evaporating away the liquid so that you have hash oil, and then using his boiling technique to isomerize the hash oil, and then adding back alcohol to reconstitute the Green Dragon.

The next time I make green dragon I will probably decarboxylize at 325F for 5 mins as Master Wu suggested. I will lengthen the extraction boil to an hour or more as Alaricxi suggested, but otherwise skip any other isomerization process. And I will dilute with everclear, water and sugar to make the liqueur that I like.

Does anyone else have any more suggestions on this thread?