Solly, this ones for you.
Cold extraction inspired by our good brother Soliver using 1 cup of Everclear and 20 dry grams total of Falbino and Matias Romero. The dry fruits were used whole with no grinding or shredding.
Everything was placed into a quart widemouth Kerr canning jar with the lid gasket side up and left quite loose. The jar was left at room temp which has been quite high lately due to an unusual dry and hot summer. Only an occasional shaking was given during the 4-6 week period in which the extraction took place. Estimated total of alcohol left after evaporation is about 4 large shot glasses.
Once evaporated, the mixture was strained through a screen mesh about equal to a pipe screen. The soaked fruiting bodies were squeezed until virtually no fluid would bleed from them. Then the strained extract was strained again using a permanent coffee filter (gold screen type).
Then the lid was flipped gasket side down and the whole thing placed in the freezer.
The results look pretty equal to that of a hot extraction to me. Possibly less bluing too which I would take as a sign of less degredation.
The whole thing could be filtered one more time to get the rest of any debris left from the fruits but it's good enough for me.
Should be fun
Thanks Sol for stirring my curiosity.
