BREWING HELP

[donjuan3705]

Instead of asking in open forum can someone with experience on brewing PM for some schooling.

[bigcowboy]

This is home brewing made EASY! I found this info somewhere a while back...cant remember where though

Gather all of the supplies for your conversion. You will need:
POWDER of your choice
(BA) BENZYL ALCOHOL
(BB) BENZYL BENZOATE
OIL - I use cottonseed oil
VIAL
18g NEEDLE
23g NEEDLE
10cc SYRINGE
ALCOHOL SWABS
BEAKER - jars or vials work fine
SCALE - accurate to at least .01

NOTE: This particular conversion I did with 10g powder at 2% (BA) Benzyl Alcohol and 20% (BB) Benzyl Benzoate. I have found these ratios to be ideal for most substances that you would convert using this process.

Add your powder to your beaker

Add your (BA) Benzyl Alcohol to the beaker containing the powder

Add your (BB) Benzyl Benzoate to the beaker containing the powder

Now that you have your powder, (BA) benzyl alcohol, and (BB) benzyl benzoate in the beaker you will want to apply some heat to help get the powder dissolved in the solution. If you have a hot plate with magnetic stirrer this will be much easier but I will show it to you the ghetto way. You can either use the open flame of a gas stove or, (if you have an electric stove), you can boil water and swirl the beaker in the water. The goal here is to heat the mixture while gently swirling until mixed.

Now add the oil. Be sure to leave 2cc's behind as you will be using this later to purge the syringe filter. You'll have to excuse my shitty picture.

With the oil added you will now want to get the solution nice and mixed. Go ahead and swirl over heat once again.

You will want to let it cool a little bit but not much. Have the solution warm makes it easier to run through the syringe filter. Put a 23g needle into one of your empty vials to release the pressure as you put the solution into it. Now put the syringe filter on a clean 18g needle and insert in the vial. Use a DIFFERENT 18g needle to draw up the solution from the beaker. DO NOT DRAW UP THROUGH THE FILTER. Now remove the needle used to draw up the solution and attach the syringe to the filter and needle that are already in the sterile vial. Go ahead and push down on the plunger to run the solution through the filter into the vial. Pay attention to how much you are putting in there and make a note of the total volume you ended up with. After you have ran all of your solution through the filter draw up the 2 cc's of oil you left behind earlier and run it through the filter to purge everything out of the filter.