And you don’t cook the shit out of your terpenes
I’ve had well polished crude oil come out with really lovely flavor profiles this way
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Reviving an old thread here…
If you’re using Delta’s FFE45, are you using a keg to collect the post-FFE miscella?
If you are, then you are probably aware how brutally hot those kegs get. And because ethanol, a solvent with a high heat capacity, is what’s causing it to heat up, it will stay hot for a while. It’s possible that some decarboxylation happens inside the FFE itself, but the residence time of THCA in those tubes is very small. The majority of the decarboxylation occurs in the keg, after the fact.
So, if you hold the extract in there, and keep that keg hot, yeah you could probably get full decarboxylation before all of your ethanol evaporates.