Hi Friends,

As promised I said I would follow-up on my most recent extraction using a decarboxylation temperature/time of 200F / 25min.

Unfortunately this seemed to give me a rather poor extraction. A standard dose in 6oz of beer came on slowly, was dull feeling, and fairly mild. This is in stark contrast to my prior successes with the same starting material that resulted in a strong, energetic high.

I think I will go back to the 325F / 5min decarboxylation. Although it is true that there will be some vaporization, this can be controlled with careful monitoring. In fact I stop the decarboxylation if I see a significant vapor, but I will allow some small amount of vaporization in order to get the full 5 minutes. Could it be possible that the optimal decarboxylation occurs at/near the vaporization temperature?

Note that this is preliminary however it feels like prior less-than-stellar extractions I've made. I think those poor extractions were almost always due to chickening out on the decarboxylation (due to seeing vapors) and removing weed too soon.

It would be great if someone wanted to do a side-by-side comparison extraction with a small amount of weed at the two different decarboxylation time/temps.

Cheers,
Master Wu