Okay, I'm going to try and be straightforwards about this so I get the answers I need and not rambling about how fucking stupid the idea is. I'm a teenager, and getting booze is a pain in the ass. Yes, I can buy from friends, yes, I can stand outside a liquor store and ask strangers to buy me alcohol, but its a pain in the ass. I've worked out the economics of this, and in this situation, its cheaper to get drunk on extract than real booze. I know this for a fact. And finally, I don't care about the taste. I've had moderate amounts of various extracts before and ultimately, none of them are bad enough that I'd rather stay sober.
All of that is irrelevant here. This is bluelight, a HARM REDUCTION forum. So what I'm curious about is if there are any dangerous adulterants in either mint or vanilla extracts? Just guessing at what could be in there, I suspect that the liquor used in the production of extracts is of dangerously low quality because extracts are designed to be consumed in small doses. Small doses = no need to remove the heads or tails in the distilling process. In addition, I know that mint extract contains a rather large quantity of menthol which is toxic in large doses. So this is my first question: What is the first chemical in these extracts that would kill you? What long term harmful effects would I see from consuming large quantities of extract?
Now my second question is a little more involved. How do I get rid of everything but the ethanol and water? I've read about people extracting alcohol from hybrid biofuels by mixing in a large quantity of water and letting it sit over night. I figured that this could be combined with either an increase or decrease in temperature to form clear separations between the actual mint and vanilla oil, which could then be skimmed off. Any thoughts on the viability of this? After the solution has been watered down from 98% abv to around 45% abv, I was thinking I would just run it through a brita filter about 5 times. Would this successfully filter hazardous adulterants, or does the brita filter trick only serve to remove very specific particles from cheap vodka?
Your input is much appreciated.
I'm probably just fucking retarded, but its worth a shot.
All of that is irrelevant here. This is bluelight, a HARM REDUCTION forum. So what I'm curious about is if there are any dangerous adulterants in either mint or vanilla extracts? Just guessing at what could be in there, I suspect that the liquor used in the production of extracts is of dangerously low quality because extracts are designed to be consumed in small doses. Small doses = no need to remove the heads or tails in the distilling process. In addition, I know that mint extract contains a rather large quantity of menthol which is toxic in large doses. So this is my first question: What is the first chemical in these extracts that would kill you? What long term harmful effects would I see from consuming large quantities of extract?
Now my second question is a little more involved. How do I get rid of everything but the ethanol and water? I've read about people extracting alcohol from hybrid biofuels by mixing in a large quantity of water and letting it sit over night. I figured that this could be combined with either an increase or decrease in temperature to form clear separations between the actual mint and vanilla oil, which could then be skimmed off. Any thoughts on the viability of this? After the solution has been watered down from 98% abv to around 45% abv, I was thinking I would just run it through a brita filter about 5 times. Would this successfully filter hazardous adulterants, or does the brita filter trick only serve to remove very specific particles from cheap vodka?
Your input is much appreciated.
I'm probably just fucking retarded, but its worth a shot.