I don’t believe I have ever had the thought that it was bitter. Up to interpretation though I guess.
Thanks so much for this information. You have given some inspiration and an awesome starting point for many here.
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What is the skim we need to pull off? 
From what I have gathered, it is from the honey being whipped by the emulsion blender.
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Pleasure! Let me know how you do and best of luck! #CannaDrip
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Impressive formula, well detailed. Almost fell in love!
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No. That’s just MCT oil. Why do people keep bringing this thing up lol
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Read your previous comments and I can let it go completely now lol
THC SYRUP/LEAN EXPLAINED
(when i say cannabis oil, i mean any cannabinoid concentrate, cbd/thc distillate, heated up thc slabs, shatter etc…)
please take note that yes, in simple form OIL AND WATER DO NOT MIX.
however you can achieve oil becoming water compatible and expressing water soluble properties in a variety of ways. cannabis oils ability to be soluble in water is particularly vital to the functionality of the Thc syrup/leans product for a variety of reasons.
however SuspendRx alone with no other additional ingredients and or no further processing will not achieve your oil expressing water soluble characteristics.
I think it is important to internalize the goal here being among other things, to have the cannabis oil take on hydrophilic properties so when mixed with water inside of the product it’s self, the active compounds (thc oil) will saturate evenly and remain stable throughout the products shelf life. and thus giving your product the ability to evenly saturate the cannabis oil into water based beverages.
what i mean is
if you were to mix just SuspendRx and a cannabis oil concentrate like thc distillate and then proceed to pour that mix into, something like a bottle of sprite, just like my man ESG is doing here in this picture and to be quite honest, what a lot of the customers purchasing these products would be doing
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you would get separation almost immediately. having all of the thc oil float to the top and equate to a solution unable to be enjoyed evenly. this would most likely have the unknowing customer drinking the full dose of thc in the first few sips and having little to no active thc compounds towards the end of the beverage. this being that sprite is comprised of nearly 89% water. and remember OIL AND WATER DO NOT MIX. most of the customers buying these products will be mixing them in sodas, juices, and sports drinks like powerade etc, all of which would suffer the same fate as the sprite example if no further ingredients or processing to accomplish water compatible oil was done. because pretty much all of the drinks customers are going to mix this syrup with are mostly made up of water. just because the SuspendRx and the cannabis oil mixture stays in a continuous phase in & of its self, one oil mixed into another oil, this does not mean you have achieved a water compatible end product, this mixture is still hydrophobic. you need water compatible oil to have a stable end product that will not separate while on the shelf waiting to be sold and consumed.
like @stoopkid has stated, this SuspendRx product makes a “mids” level tincture at best with run of the mill bioavailability even with the presence of their added LCT’s. this leads us to another reason why you need to make your cannabis oil water compatible… pertaining to oral ingestion, once you swallow this mixture, as it goes into your intestines, your small intestine possess an aqueous (water) inner lining. think about that for a second, if the lining of your gut is water based and you have a cannabis oil that you want your gut to absorb, this is a problem because remember OIL AND WATER DO NOT MIX. in order for your body to absorb oils it has a natural digestive/ enzymatic process that takes place at this point in which your body breaks down the large cannabis oil particles into smaller sizes by digesting available triglycerides creating free fatty acids. these free fatty acids along with biosalts and phospholipids will begin to attempt to break smaller cannabis oil parts away from the larger size oil collections and encapsulate them by their hydrophobic tails, acting as naturally occurring surfactants there for making the cannabis oil able to pass through the water lined intestine and on to eventually entering into the blood and on to the blood brain barrier. however this process takes time and the absence of available medium and long chain triglycerides slows this already slow process down even further. because of how long this process takes, when your body absorbs non water compatible cannabis oils, only fractions of the actual cannabis you ingested is able to be absorbed. a lot of the oil will pass through your intestinal track non metabolized wasting the cannabis. this is why even in the rec market different gummy brands of the same mg size will yield widely different intoxicating effects. so in a sense by making your cannabis oil water compatible, not only do you create an oil product that’s shelf stable in water, mixable in water, you also basically pre-metabolize the oil prior so your body does not have to do it on its own, making almost all of the cannabis in your product bioavailable.
there are a few different solutions to achieve water compatible cannabis oil such as
lysosomes and nanoemulsion, each have their challenges and benefits. nanoemulsions is something i’m familiar with. essentially you use an ultrasonic liquid processor along with a surfactant. the ultrasonic processor uses the mechanical energy from high intensity sound to disburse the cannabis oil to the desired nano particles sizes inside of a water cooled chamber and while these oils are in this desired tiny particle size surfactant blend is added to encapsulate the oil in this tiny nm size thus creating a nanoemulsion and also make it water compatible. if you want a truly stable thc syrup product i would start my research with this process. i know there are people out there that swear by using liposomes, and i’m not arguing that, i’m just more familiar with nanoemulsions. hopefully this helps.
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So you nano imulsified this. Is it truly water soluble or is it water comparable. Just making the molecule small enough it doesn’t refract any light does not mean it’s water soluble am I wrong.
Thank you for taking the time to contribute that
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Why not? Isn’t this a place to discuss cannabis related stuff.
You’re in the right place- he’s made himself somewhat of a persona non grata around here. To put it lightly.
I have figured it out on the forum people try to post products or processes they think are special when in reality it is easy to make. This is a forum to talk about it not hate when someone ask a question.
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Hi just want to say thank you so much for sharing. What timing are you getting from when you ingest the syrup to feeling an effect from it doing it this way.
I’m going with a lab scale unit from Glatt. What kind is @CATScientific making?
They do spray granulation and agglomerates and high shear. I used one from GEA before - it was pretty boss as well. I’m even finding them on the used market at this point. What size you going for? I’m looking for less than 100 liters if I can find it.
Did you try this way of doing it. What was the outcome?
Nah havnt tried yet