How to Adjust a Tincture Alcohol Level?

Tincture making is one of the most easy and effective herb extraction methods. By mixing herbs with alcohol functional phytochemicals including polyphenols, falvornoids, etc. can be extracted into alcohol. The alcohol extract then is mostly consumed internally. It can be either directly dropped onto tongue or added into drink such as tea.

The problem consuming tincture is its alcohol especially for those who can’t drink it. To lower the alcohol concentration can help improve the comfort of consuming the tincture. This becomes more important for high proof alcohol tincture.

One quick way to lower alcohol level is to dilute a dose into a warm tea. It is easy to reduce the taste but still most of alcohol goes into the digestion system except the portion vaporized in the warm tea.

Here introduced you a low temperature distillation process which can remove alcohol but preserve functional phytochemicals even including volatile compounds for example essential oil.

Distillation is a process to separate volatile compounds out of a solution. Alcohol, specifically ethanol alcohol, has lower boiling point, 78 degree Celsius, than water. By controlling temperature alcohol can be separated out preferentially. Volatile compounds together with other functional chemicals, such as polyphenols and flavonoids, are preserved with minimal loss.

Rather than putting distiller boiler directly onto a heater, it is submerged in a water bath so as to have good control of its temperature.

Tips of good alcohol distillation:

1, use water bath;

2, control temperature around 80 degree Celsius.

With condensation, the vaporized alcohol can be condensed back into liquid. This recycled alcohol has concentration of above 90%, and it can be reused for your next tincture making. This not only saves money but also is good for our environment.

Managing the amount of alcohol distilled out can control your tincture alcohol level. However, if you striped out all of your alcohol, you can still adjust your tincture level back to your targeted goal.

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