Hello, folks, Paul here once again and it’s time for another experiment.
This time the experiment involves this.
Yeah, this is two ounces of pure food grade menthol in here, jangling around in there.
We are going to dissolve some of this into a concentrate that we are going to use to
make the mintiest mint you can possibly imagine.
So yeah, I’m gonna try a few different methods but the first one is a simple alcohol solution.
So let’s turn on my scale here and, because these are just big crystals, I’m just gonna
pour a little bit and hit it up to just about five grams right there.
All right, I hope you can see that, that’s five grams of menthol crystals in a little
kind of Mason jar and now I’m gonna pour on just some normal vodka.
I do know that pure grain alcohol will dissolve this better but I wanna start with something
that most of us can get pretty easily.
So I’m gonna go with a two-to-one ratio of vodka to menthol.
So I’ll take this up just to about, well, I over-shopped by a little bit, hit 16 grams,
but that would be two-to-one.
And now I’m going to put the cap on, I’m going to shake it and let it dissolve for
a while.
Okay, we are back and from what you can hear and from what we can see, the alcohol has
completely dissolved the menthol crystals, leaving behind this kind of milky liquid that
has a serious punch in the nose if you smell it.
There’s a slight kind of oily texture to it that’s pretty interesting and now we’re
going to make this more usable in hookah.
So the way we’re going to do that is we are gonna cut this 50/50 with vegetable glycerin.
So 15 grams right there.
You know what?
Just because I wanna see if I can dissolve a little more into this, let’s go ahead
and add one more gram of menthol crystals.
This is funny to me.
This is gonna hurt when I eventually smoke it.
There you go.
16 because the last measurement that I got at the end of the last video was 16 grams,
so you know what?
Let’s go ahead and call this 16 grams.
And yeah, I’m gonna shake the hell out of this and let it dissolve overnight and then
see what the viscosity looks like and I’ll give it a try mixed into some of my hookah
tobacco.
That actually seems, I don’t know, maybe a little thin.
Yeah, you know what?
Like I said, this is an experiment, so let’s up this again, just to 20.
20 it is.
All right.
Seal it up.
And now I’m gonna be shaking the hell out of this for a while.
I’m gonna let it sit.
Hopefully no crystals will come out a solution and you will see the end results.
And we are back with our menthol crystal solution.
As you can see, it has a, I don’t know, slightly oily kind of almost icy look to it.
It’s, well, it looks like it’s going to taste, which is very intense.
I’ll admit I love a really, really intense mint, so I actually ended up adding another
like five grams of menthol crystals to this and letting it sit for 24 hours to dissolve,
shaking it once in a while.
But the original ratios that I suggested should give you a menthol extraction, or a menthol
solution more accurately, that should treat you quite well.
Now I’m gonna take this and add it to some of my favorite mint, which is Social Smoke
Mint.
This is just their basic mint; it is not the Absolute Zero or anything like that.
So this full, fresh container and I’m gonna pack up my old Tangiers small phunnel.
No special packing techniques, just sprinkling it in there, making sure it’s nice and loose
for lots of heat exchange, I guess heat penetration is also more accurate.
It’s really in the morning.
This is going to be one of my wakeup smokes, so yeah, words are still hard.
All right, that’s good.
Let’s see.
Now I’m going to take one of these little cheap plastic pipettes, these do the job very
nicely, going to take just about-- You know what?
We’ll go real minty on this.
We’re gonna take a full mill of this and we’re going to drip it over the top.
Glup, glup.
If you’d like to have a more normalized smoke, I do suggest mixing this the night
before, allowing it to steep into the tobacco and soak in but I’m just gonna sprinkle
this over the top.
You know what?
I know how strong this stuff is.
I’m gonna stop right about there.
So I’ve used about a half a mill, just about a half a mill.
That is going to be plenty for this smoke, I promise you.
Wow!
That is intensely, intensely mentholated.
It’s actually a little bit uncomfortable to draw from this hookah right now with the
ratios that I’ve finished with, which is why I suggest sticking to the initial ratios
that I described in this video, unless you’re a serious menthol addict, unless you are a
menthol maniac.
But there you go.
That’s it.
This is how you really kick up the menthol intensity of really any tobacco and I suggest
you try this.
It’s worth it if you like that intense icy kick, it’s surprisingly affordable and surprisingly
easy.
So let us know what you think, go down below give us a comment if you’ve tried this or
if you are looking for any advice.
I’m more than happy to give any insight that I might have and, yeah, I’ll see you
guys next time.
Thanks very much for joining us and happy smoking.