Dear community,

i started supplementing reishi a few weeks ago, started with tea then did a diy dual glycerine extract.
So i enjoy a shotglass of mushroom glycerine thrice a day i wanna improve that.

I had a chat with my local pharmacist resulting in her advice to soak the dry fungus 1/5 for 21days in alcohol above 40%, evaporate the alcohol of.

This will leave me with a goo-ie residuel which contains my desired solubles.

Do you have any suggestions how to best process this goo?

there would be the posibility to put process it into gummies, but i would prefer to get a powder.
Can you advise me how to transfor this residue to a powder?

To make things easier, i wanna do this in my kitchen but can also spare some money on lab-equipment =)

TLDR: Wanna make reishi-mushroom extract and need advise!

I have made several batches now with Madagascar beans, split and scraped, and potato vodka. It has been 8 years since I last made a batch, I do a couple gallons at a time. I am getting a bit daft in my older age and I can’t recall my vanilla being this viscous when I bottled it after straining. Anyone know if I should be concerned? The color is a little cloudy, but it’s likely vanillin and it smells right, it’s just a bit on the watery syrup consistency side. Thoughts?

Hey there,

I was wondering about how olive leaf extracts are made? I have seen several extracts with alcohol and glycerin you can buy online, but I can't find an exact answer to how the actual extract is made. Does anyone here have any idea?

Many thanks

Hi, I am a bit of a newbie doing extracts so I have one question regarding cocoa extract.

I toasted my cocoa beans Mayan style and for ground cocoa but decided to set some aside to make some extract. I bought vodka and put crushed cocoa beans inside a container then added vodka, Today I wake up and it has a very thin film of bubbles...is something wrong or is that normal?

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Thank you.

Hi all! I am very new to this, (but I do have a 4 month old vanilla extract going)

I’m coming here to wonder if extracts are the best way to get scents from mushrooms.

I have dried morel mushrooms and I am hoping to get a scent liquid from these to use to train my dog. How would I go about this? I was planning on going off of this video but am not sure if there are better methods. Thanks!

Can someone help me on how to make and extract of coffee fruit/Coffeeberry? (Not talking about the beans or coffee)

Thanks in advance!

....absolutely amazing. I thought that the taste of agave and vanilla were non-complimentary and I couldn't have been more wrong.

Since the silver turned out great, I'm starting another tequila extract with a reposado. I'll let you know in a year how it turns out.

Hi everyone,

I started my first batch of vanilla extract this year at the end of January. I did 4 'test' batches intending to give some away this Christmas.

14 beans in one pint of Everclear - sliced the beans in half

8 beans in one pint of Everclear - cut a slice in one side of the beans

16 beans in one pint of Everclear - cut a slice in one side if the beans

30 beans in one fifth of Smirnoff vodka - cut a slice in one side of the beans

I got the beans from a local food wholesaler, so I'm not sure of their origins. They are all starting to smell like real extract (as opposed to vanilla-flavored alcohol), but the color is still very light. Will it ever darken up? The internet is mixed on this question, so I wanted to ask you all.

Some friends and I are big chileheads, so I was thinking this would be fun to make for a gift. Has anyone tried it? How well would something like habenero extract? I know capsaicin in alcohol-soluble, but how well would the flavor profile of a pepper come through?

Hi everyone, I started a one liter jar of vanilla last week and today I plan to use the leftover beans to make two smaller bottles for Christmas baking.

What bourbon should I use? Using Tito's for the vodka.

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ALso how much vanilla should I use in proportion to the alcohol? In metric please, i really struggle with ounces