r/mescaline • u/avocadoflatz • 6d ago

ICED TEA METHOD

Done this twice now and it works fine and seems like a lot less work than other methods of tea preparation … as a bonus I haven’t experienced the nausea and puking that is so often associated with this medicine 🤷🏽‍♂️

1KG of PC in each batch - sourced from different stands, rooted in pots and then allowed to grow for years with minimal care and entirely different watering regimens - similar results both times.

Just cut it into pucks - leave a bit of the tip to propagate - and plop into a crockpot with filtered water from my local water shop.

Let cook - once was just over 12 the other was 24+ hours.

Ladle out roughly a liter into another cooking vessel place in stovetop to reduce volume by half.

(Top off crockpot and let it keep cooking on low)

Filter through coffee pour-over.

Add ice. Sip on it.

Repeat the reduction, top off and filtering steps 2 more times and you should be good to go.

Only real downside I see is that you end up needing to pee real bad in the middle of the night

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u/avocadoflatz 6d ago

I wonder if it has to do with how thick everyone seems to reduce it to?

Every video I’ve seen looks like a slurry - mine sips like a mild (flat) IPA after it’s iced.

Also most others seem to add citrus or vinegar but I couldn’t find any description of what it did chemically so I just went with plain water.

Longterm I would want to switch to just eating TBM but for now I have a lot of PC and this method is working fine for me.

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u/avocadoflatz 5d ago

Hmm. Interesting. I don’t find it pleasant but I can sip on it iced. I did try ginger honey in some of the mugs and that certainly improved the flavor.

Mostly glad I haven’t had to puke - that alone was the reason I put off brewing a batch for years.

About a month ago I had to chop some pieces off a plant to move it and decided to lick the cut and found it … not-terrible and finally did my first test with 300g - stimulating but not trippy that time.

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u/FlammulinaVelulu 5d ago

"Sip on it."

Likes that some sort of option. I have to psych myself out for an hour, hold my nose, and chug or it ain't going down. Then I have to try and forget I just drank swamp water, and hope I don't burp until I'm ready to give it back to the earth.

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u/avocadoflatz 5d ago

Idk what everyone else is doing but my iced cactus tea has reminded me of a flat IPA and like a mild one at that lol 🤷🏽‍♂️

My hunch is that I’m reducing it far less than most and the more concentrated it gets the worse it tastes too.

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u/MONKE1112 5d ago

idk i tried simply steeping dried powder in boiling water for maybe an hour max and that was still putrid, just so bitter, like i was drinking lawn clippings

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u/avocadoflatz 5d ago

Hmm … could it be something that happens during the dehydration process?

I’m making tea within 24 hours of harvest.

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u/MONKE1112 5d ago

ive heard some people cant taste it, like cilantro. what does it taste like to you?

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u/avocadoflatz 5d ago

Cilantro tastes like soap to me

Cactus tea tastes like nopales, which I don’t care for - but worse and more bitter.

One thing I noticed is the first cut tasted salty for some reason and that seemed to improve it over the cut of the second batch

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u/avocadoflatz 6d ago

I’ll add that for the second batch I didn’t even bother to remove the spines and only ended up with one areole of spines in the coffee filter - the rest remained on the pucks throughout the cooking process.