making juice from a plant

[Roach]

I'm Ojibwe from Wisconsin. We use a plant in our smoking mixtures for our pipes. It's the inner bark of the red osier dogwood. Sometimes called "Kinickinick."

It's rather tasty when smoked but I'm not sure it would translate well to an e-cig juice.

I'd like to try it but don't know how to distill the flavor. Could I just put the finely ground bark in with some unflavored e-juice and let it sit a number of days? Or perhaps water? everclear? of course it would need to be filtered after steeping.

Anyone else make a juice with plant materials? I can't seem to find any info on it. I suppose it is much easier to use bottled flavors but no one makes a kinickinick flavored extract.

 

[rainkeltoia]

well here's something I found while googling: Herbal Extracts - How to Make
it uses a root, but i would assume the technique is the same.

 

[Renzuli]

Willing to bet , that the extracted juice , will taste nothing like the dried inner bark , that you smoke , now maybe try to extract some flavor from the dried bark . If your willing to test some methods , for flavoring non-flavored E-juices with your bark . Go for it . The worst case is it doesn't work .

 

[Roach]

Willing to bet , that the extracted juice , will taste nothing like the dried inner bark , that you smoke , now maybe try to extract some flavor from the dried bark . If your willing to test some methods , for flavoring non-flavored E-juices with your bark . Go for it . The worst case is it doesn't work .

Yah, I kinda thought that might be the case. It might turn out to be burnt hair flavor. But I'll give it a try and report back.

 

[Renzuli]

Hey , if it turns out , I'd like to try it . just for chuckles .

 

[NicLiq]

Hi from Minnesota!

I hope it works, that would be really cool. You should write to Backwoods Brew and see if he's ever tried it: https://www.backwoodsbrew.net/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=12

 

[Roach]

Hey NicLiq

I sent a note to Backwoodsbrew, thanks.

I'll be in the twin cities this fall. Is there anyplace to buy juice etc in the area?

 

[NicLiq]

Sadly no. Some of the smoke shops have juice, but they charge at least three times as much as anywhere online. We bought some once and it was old and had lost nearly all its flavor.