The One Ingredient That Quietly Determines Whether Your Tincture Succeeds or Fails

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Most people who make their first tincture at home concentrate almost entirely on the plant material: which herb, which ratio, which preparation. Those decisions carry weight, but they all rest on one assumption already correct. The alcohol. If the alcohol is the wrong grade, the wrong proof, or drawn from the wrong source, no other decision fully compensates. The solvent is the extraction engine. Everything else is the cargo.