I just was doing some reading thinking of trying my hand at home brewing. I have read the sticky here and found this article aswell on the web
I am a big advocate of homebrewing as it is very, very cheap and extremely easy. The filtering process can be a bit tedious, but the savings makes it worth it. Just to give you an idea of how cheap it is: you can make 40 bottles of E for less than a new PS3.
Here is how easy it is:
What you'll need:
A clean beaker (500cc volume is plenty)
Oil (I use grapeseed and does NOT have to be filtered)
Benzy Alcohol
1 Whatman filter per 120-150cc of E that will be filtered
E powder
50cc syringe
Sterile vial with stopper already attached
For 250mg/mL
Per 10g powder/40cc
30.5mL oil
10g powder
2mL BA
Get a 5 qt pot and fill it halfway with water (you can use a smaller pot if brewing up a small amount) and place a beaker in the middle of it. Add the oil to the beaker and turn on the heat. Slowly increase and the most you'll need is medium heat. If you have a long thermometer, use it as it'll also act as a mixing rod. Once bubble start to form in the water, begin to add powder (I add 20-30g at a time) and stir until all clumps are gone and then repeat. As the powder fully goes into solution, the mixture will begin to resemble the same color as the oil and becomes less cloudy. I add half of the BA about halfway through adding the powder to help the dissolving of the powder into the oil and the other half once the heating is nearly complete. I don't add all of it at once because it will evaporate if added to early and I have an additional 1mL of BA to my recipe to accomodate for this. It may technically throw off the amount, but it will be so minuscule that it won't throw off the concentration and will just make it more sterile. Once the mixture is fully dissolved and the oil is clear, draw the 40cc into the syringe and attach the filter to the syringe and attach the needle to the filter.
Now that you're ready to filter, you'll need to clean off the top of the vial (just for sterility purposes), penetrate the seal with the needle and start pushing the oil through the filter. To make things a lot easier and to prevent backflow, penetrate the seal of the vial with a second needle at an angle. This will allow air to flow out and make filtering a little faster. Once all of the oil is pushed through the filter, take out the needle draw some air into the syringe and push the remaining oil in the filter into the vial. Once it looks bubbly, you're done.
There's no magic to this process. I know that this sounds too easy, but, the truth is, it is so damn easy to make test.
just wondering whats you folks take on this. Just trying to keep it simple.
I am a big advocate of homebrewing as it is very, very cheap and extremely easy. The filtering process can be a bit tedious, but the savings makes it worth it. Just to give you an idea of how cheap it is: you can make 40 bottles of E for less than a new PS3.
Here is how easy it is:
What you'll need:
A clean beaker (500cc volume is plenty)
Oil (I use grapeseed and does NOT have to be filtered)
Benzy Alcohol
1 Whatman filter per 120-150cc of E that will be filtered
E powder
50cc syringe
Sterile vial with stopper already attached
For 250mg/mL
Per 10g powder/40cc
30.5mL oil
10g powder
2mL BA
Get a 5 qt pot and fill it halfway with water (you can use a smaller pot if brewing up a small amount) and place a beaker in the middle of it. Add the oil to the beaker and turn on the heat. Slowly increase and the most you'll need is medium heat. If you have a long thermometer, use it as it'll also act as a mixing rod. Once bubble start to form in the water, begin to add powder (I add 20-30g at a time) and stir until all clumps are gone and then repeat. As the powder fully goes into solution, the mixture will begin to resemble the same color as the oil and becomes less cloudy. I add half of the BA about halfway through adding the powder to help the dissolving of the powder into the oil and the other half once the heating is nearly complete. I don't add all of it at once because it will evaporate if added to early and I have an additional 1mL of BA to my recipe to accomodate for this. It may technically throw off the amount, but it will be so minuscule that it won't throw off the concentration and will just make it more sterile. Once the mixture is fully dissolved and the oil is clear, draw the 40cc into the syringe and attach the filter to the syringe and attach the needle to the filter.
Now that you're ready to filter, you'll need to clean off the top of the vial (just for sterility purposes), penetrate the seal with the needle and start pushing the oil through the filter. To make things a lot easier and to prevent backflow, penetrate the seal of the vial with a second needle at an angle. This will allow air to flow out and make filtering a little faster. Once all of the oil is pushed through the filter, take out the needle draw some air into the syringe and push the remaining oil in the filter into the vial. Once it looks bubbly, you're done.
There's no magic to this process. I know that this sounds too easy, but, the truth is, it is so damn easy to make test.
just wondering whats you folks take on this. Just trying to keep it simple.
