sleepy time recipe
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Teavana is cool, but extremely over-priced tea. I wanted to work there at one point and I extensively researched the company. However, if you have the money to burn of course.... by all means go for it.
http://www.faeriesfinest.com/teas-white.html#varieties this place has a TON of variety of loose leaf tea, at a range of prices from cheap to expensive. Oh ya, and not bad priced flavors too. Just have to be careful which flavors can actually be used for vaping. There is a thread around ECF somewhere about what flavors are safe, and which are not. Anything with essential oils best to avoid if I remember correctly.
http://www.faeriesfinest.com/teas-white.html#varieties this place has a TON of variety of loose leaf tea, at a range of prices from cheap to expensive. Oh ya, and not bad priced flavors too. Just have to be careful which flavors can actually be used for vaping. There is a thread around ECF somewhere about what flavors are safe, and which are not. Anything with essential oils best to avoid if I remember correctly.
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My favorite teas when I get in the mood are from republic of tea. Their Raspberry Quince is beyond belief. The slowcooking method looks promicing, but I did my NETS with just bottles, tobacco, nic/ VG/PG and patience. 1 month steep and the mixes are out of this world with no heat to muss up the fragile flavors of the tobacco. I have some slepytime, I should try it with teas.
I like their Tension Tamer tea, might try this myself. I did an extract with an Acid Earthiness cigar, PG and now heat. The results were awesome! It might have knocked w2v's Blondie out of my rotation.
I made an extraction with Sleepy tea (I posted about it in the coffee thread since that's where I learned about the simple PG extraction). Easy. And the taste really comes through. Do the sleepy effects come through? I have no idea! But it's a nice mild night time vape.
gonna have to try the slow cooker method. Years ago I did alcohol extractions of some black teas, bad idea. In most of them the only flavor that came through in the vapor was the from tannins. And if you ever thought that the smokiness of a good Lapsang Souchong would make a nice vape, think again.
nhaler makes the sleepy-time with all the herbal extracts, it is expensive, but amazing.
for a good tea purveyor, you may want to check out Upton Tea.
nhaler makes the sleepy-time with all the herbal extracts, it is expensive, but amazing.
for a good tea purveyor, you may want to check out Upton Tea.
I wish I had results like Adeline! My Sleepytime tincture vapes like the smell of wet hay. Yum.
I did have better results with a blueberry pomegranate white tea. It's quite nice.
When I was doing reading on this, it was recommended to NOT vape anything with orange peel. I forget who wrote it and what the deal was, I just remember orange peel = bad. I thought one of my peach teas would make a nice liquid but it had orange peel in it, so I'll just drink it.
I did have better results with a blueberry pomegranate white tea. It's quite nice.
When I was doing reading on this, it was recommended to NOT vape anything with orange peel. I forget who wrote it and what the deal was, I just remember orange peel = bad. I thought one of my peach teas would make a nice liquid but it had orange peel in it, so I'll just drink it.
You could double boil. I did two things:
One batch (in GLASS jar) I put in the microwave for like 10 seconds, then added more PG. Then I did hot water bath for a while. I let it steep a long time.
The second batch I put in a glass jar and stuck it in my ultrasonic cleaner (with heat) for about an hour.
Both came out great!
I use FA lavender as a nightie vape sometimes, though that is just taste (rather than herbal extract) as far as I know. It does work though... ok, something works: may be the lavender or the evan williams, or both. Ima go load that up now.
[edit]: oh, 'sleepy time' is a specific tea company... that explains a lot; I thought y'all was talking about nighty-night vapes, I was like 'why is this whole thread about tea and who is 'they''.
[edit]: oh, 'sleepy time' is a specific tea company... that explains a lot; I thought y'all was talking about nighty-night vapes, I was like 'why is this whole thread about tea and who is 'they''.
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There is a Sleepy Time tea by Celestials? and when you drink it it actually works. Taste pretty nice to me. Also Tzao makes one called Calm.. It's a little better.
Both seem to have chamomile but other stuff. They have worked for me drinking them super strong. I'd be interested in more ideas on this thread. It's great idea. Nic keeps me up sometimes. I'm going to go drink some! Have to get up super early for a change tomorrow. Nite all
Both seem to have chamomile but other stuff. They have worked for me drinking them super strong. I'd be interested in more ideas on this thread. It's great idea. Nic keeps me up sometimes. I'm going to go drink some! Have to get up super early for a change tomorrow. Nite all
The stuff I used was Yogi brand. Has chamomile but also valerian. I like it!
Well, I steeped two bags of CS Tension Tamer over night. Put equal parts tea and PG, no heat. Just filtered it out and made a small batch with 15% flavoring, 30% VG and made it 12mg nic strength. It's really tasty, the funny thing is on some of the hits it reminds me of a different "herb" I smoked back in the day. The mint is very faint, the citrus comes through nicely. The only thing sweetening it is the VG and that is plenty for me. I think the secret is not to use any heat. I,ve used same method on cigars with great results too. I need to get a more efficient filtering method going. The coffee filters absorb too much of the extract if making small batches. After the mesh and coffee filter I use a syringe filter that is .45 microns, it gets pretty much all of the solids that are left. The extract is crystal clear although green tinted. Should be atty friendly.
I dunno.. My batches were made with heat and I only need 2-3% flavoring ... and the 3% knocked me on my .... when I let it steep for about 3 days. No burnt taste. I ended up with a crap load of flavoring extract too.. ~60 mls
I might try some heat next time just to see what happens. Since this this is an herbal "tea" I don't thing there's too much to worry about.
Shouldn't be. And it doesn't need to be boiling water. Even just a hot water bath while you're extracting might help to get some extra flavoring goodness.
Something I want to try for next time is to take the tea and put it through a coffee grinder so it's finer.. maybe it'll be a little stronger, or more of the nuances will shine a little brighter.
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