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THC Tea?????

Discussion in 'Weed Edibles' started by Errly Bird, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. #1 Errly Bird, Oct 2, 2011
    I was curious, so i decided to create an experiment. I wanted to know if I could just brew ground cannabis product (stems, leaves, buds, etc) and make a viable tea without too much added effort.

    Result: I can indeed. With 10 cups of water, and 1 ounce of ground stems, I brewed a delicious batch of THC Tea. My roommate thought it would have no benefits to it and that I would have wasted my time.

    Here were my steps:

    Ground the stems with a coffee grinder (mechanical/electrical) and did a double brew (brewed 10 cups once, poured back into resevoir and brewed again) before pouring all into a 2 liter bottle, adding 2 cups of sugar, shaking, filling with water, and putting in the freezer for 2 hours.

    The result:

    A nice, green tea-esque flavor with the sweet bite of southern Iced tea. I drank 2 coffee mugs full of the iced brew, and low and behold I found myself with a decent buzz about 30 minutes later.

    My next trial is going to be using different materials (e.g. leaves, buds, stems, or a mixture of the three or a few of the three). Has anyone else had success with this? Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to strengthen my brew?
     
  2. #2 TheAstroblaster, Oct 2, 2011
    I think your better of making edibles. THC needs fat to enter your blood stream and there is no fat in water.
     
  3. #3 Errly Bird, Oct 2, 2011
    Umm.... The sugar was used as the fat base...... The glycerin in the sugar, not to mention that of the ground stem was used to create a fatty base for the THC to latch on to. Same principal as THC Soda, and other edibles. Only, like the soda, this is liquid in form.
     
  4. #4 BadKittySmiles, Oct 2, 2011
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    It's good to see that you have an interest in edible cannabis [​IMG] This comes up all the time... three or four times in the last 24 hours, actually. :p


    But takes much longer than this to break down glandular material and promote bioavailability, in even a pure solvent or oil source. .... but when diluted with so much water, it's severely reducing the efficiency of your solvent, and makes it more like the butter-water methods of the old days, which take around 15 - 24 hours depending on the heat level to become effective, and after this point the earliest, more volatile cannabinoids to become active and available have degraded.


    This is why we go so far, as to use clarified butter, where the milk solids and water have been removed, rather than butter in it's more 'natural' state. To dilute it even further, is very counter productive. Keeping the material wrapped in a teabag, does not help when it comes to exposing the material to the oils, or distributing your potency, either. [​IMG]

    Try using the search feature and reading around a bit, there's a TON of great info here!


    This may help:



    " Originally Posted by mjmama25
    I know people who have made stem tea and thought it was worth it. What was even more worth while was the resin that built up in the tea pot over time. They scraped it and said it was like hash. "


    " This is because cannabis is not water soluble.. the best tea's, (cocoa) and 'bhang' (canna milk) are still made using a pure butter/oil source initially, and then that concentrated and infused oil, is incorporated into water, or reincorporated back into milk.

    Trying to make tea or canna milk, starting with both water and milk fat is (similar to the old fashioned butter-water methods) very ineffective, and the effectiveness is reduced further, the higher the water content, and the more impure and contaminated the 'edible solvent' or oil.

    When making watery oils, and especially when making watery tea, a large portion of tacky, sticky, remaining glandular material, will never have a chance to become bioavailable, even with continued processing, until long after it's degraded due to exposure to heat.

    The more pure the oil source, or edible solvent, the less damage the material needs to endure, before bioavailabilty occurs. The more impure the solvent, the more glandular material will remain to become degraded or entirely left behind, without ever achieving bioavailability.

    Hope this helps! [​IMG] " - BKS



    Long story short, you will still want to make either an oil, or a tincture, and add this to your hot chocolate (tea, or coffee, or coffee creamer [​IMG] ). Check the stickies, loads of good info there. [​IMG]
     
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  5. #5 BadKittySmiles, Oct 2, 2011
    Sugar is also not a fat base. :) They use actual glycerin or glycerol, not simple cane sugar, when making tinctures. And these tinctures take weeks to prepare and become fully bioavailable, even after heating, because glycerin is not an ideal solvent for cannabis glandular material.
     
  6. #6 Errly Bird, Oct 2, 2011
    Thank you for all the great information. It was my first time making any kind of drinkable solution. I'll definitely read up more and do my research. :) Also, thank you for taking the time to post such detailed specifics. I'm just now getting into edibles, and it's truly a learning experience. I was basing everything I did off of word-of-mouth, and I'm very glad I came here for more opinions and advice. Again, THANKS! :smoke: You'll see me around here more once I've learned the "proper" way of making edibles :wave:
     
  7. #7 Incendiax, Oct 3, 2011
    Put 1/4 cup of milk in & a slice of butter roughly the width of a pencil in.
    Adds some nice flavor while giving a concentrated fat for the thc to absorb.
     
  8. #8 Errly Bird, Oct 3, 2011
    Thanks incendiax, I may very well just try that :smoke: I'm willing to try anything once, and twice if I like it :) I think i saw someone on here with a sig similar to that....
     
  9. #9 flapflip, Oct 3, 2011
    Add butter to it, ittl add flavor and you won't really notice it. The reason is more fat for the the to bind to
     
  10. #10 Mulled, Oct 3, 2011
    Pretty good idea, did it taste amazing?
     
  11. #11 Errly Bird, Oct 3, 2011

    Thanks! I'll try that. :smoke:


    Actually, yes. lol. It tasted almost identical to green tea citrus, but had a slight aftertaste i wasnt too fond of. I had added the 2 cups of sugar, and that oversweetened it quite a bit. I think i'm going to try another method, and I'll be posting on here again when I've tried it. Doing some research :D :smoke:

    ~K
     

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