Hey Guys,
Looking for an ethanol extraction lab to do some tolling extraction here in Oregon. We’d also prefer organic ethanol to be used and would be willing to pay for that. Just hit me up if you have any suggestions.
Thanks!
Any reason it needs to be ethanol? It sounds like the organic part is just preferred and not required.
It does need to be ethanol, we have a well established RSO brand and our customers have come to expect the quality of ethanol extraction. We aren’t certified organic for obvious reasons, but our farm grows organically and we would prefer organic ethanol if possible.
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How much throughput are you looking for?
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which qualities in particular?
does it need to be black? what potency are you expecting?
have you previously made or purchased your “RSO”?
if you’ve made it, what temp did you extract?
are you a believer in the “moon to moon” soak for an “RSO”?
@Akoyeh and I spent a decent amount of time taking an old school “RSO” based product to one that was golden and tasted worlds better. “tastes like hate, feels like love” was the marketing slogan when we got to it. the medical users we provided it to had no complaints as we extracted colder to improve the color and taste.
why would BHO be inferior in your opinion?
@thesk8nmidget does have ethanol processing capabilities…or will again shortly (now we have all the bits to put the CUP-30 I broke back together)
@TwistedStill shared with me that he had a tolling customer throw his ethanol extraction back at him because it was too pretty. the customer expected WARM ethanol extract.
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Lol you’ll never understand some people.
I have a client getting a distillation system to process the rosin coming from his ice water system he is getting.
Told him to go Hydrocarbon and ETOH but 
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roughly 2,000 lbs. total, we’d like to start with a trial though.
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65-70%, we have done small batches extracting at -30C. I have no idea what a “moon to moon” soak is. I don’t know why someone would expect a warm extract, but I digress.
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~30 days…. 
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As far as why one would expect a warm soak, I don’t see how exploring that is a digression. You don’t. I don’t. But some do.
Given how poorly “RSO” is defined, making sure you’re on the same page as the folks you hire to extract for you is a mission critical piece of the puzzle.
It depends what your customers are after? An inexpensive high? Or, as Rick Simpson intended his Oil, as a cancer cure?
There are a bunch of other things in cannabis besides cannabinoids. Some evidence of anti-cancer activity in some of those.
Helpful guidance. Thanks.
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why would you distill rosin…
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Cause it’s really all about what you can sell this week.
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Religious reasons? (Just like moon to moon)
Technically you can get to distillate sans solvent via that route.
@Beaker took that route for fun once upon a time.
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Solventless distillate is the reason why
I do what my client says, even if I advise them against it.
So long as I don’t endanger anyone’s lives or safety/health.
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is there a noticeable difference in the quality of the distillate going that route?
To the acolytes…
…and yes, without winterization it is probably lower quality. Although distillate itself seems silly these days…
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If you were smoking my moon to moon rosin distillate you’d understand.
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agreed, distillate does seem silly these days.
don’t know what YOUR definition of “organic” is, but you might ponder this one for a moment if your definition includes “made by a living organism”…
if your search here has not yielded a processor willing to work with you on this, there is also the more direct approach…look at who is actually licensed to process in this state
The idea is that THC is liquid and works better in cartridges vs thca plus you can “clean up” some other undesirables.
I totally 
get why you’d want to only use ethanol and Especially organic ethanol. This is the safest way and one of the most honorable ways to treat the plant other than solvent-less.
Ethanol is food grade and humans are good at metabolizing it, which is not true for butane, pentane, heptane and other solvents people are using to make extracts. These solvents are great for isolating cannabinoids but that shouldn’t be necessary if the plant is grown organically (without pesticides and synthetics)
Warm soaks increase the chlorophyll and lipids in the extract. Most cannabinoids will come off in a short cold rinse (under 5 mins) , and then you can follow up with a soak to get the rest if you so desire. If done correctly you can achieve a yellow-brown extract with the first cold rinse and the second would be green-black
Also, an ethanol facility has much less regulations and concerns than a hydrocarbon facility or one that uses industrial solvents