At-Home Kratom Extraction

Kratom extracts are hugely popular, extra potent, and the preferred form of kratom for many experienced users. What many don’t realize is just how easy it is to learn how to make kratom extract at home! In this blog, we’ll walk you through how to make kratom extracts at home using two simple methods: a basic tea-style extract and the more advanced red bubble technique.

How Are Kratom Extracts Made?

If you’ve ever wondered how to make kratom extract, it starts with applying heat, a solvent, or both to separate key compounds from the plant material. Whether you’re using simple tea or advanced methods, the principle remains the same.

In fact, kratom extracts are a lot more common than many users realize — and you may even have made a kratom extract without knowing it! That’s because kratom tea is, in fact, a kratom extract. In making kratom tea, we use gentle heat and an edible acid such as lemon juice to pull kratom’s alkaloids away from the plant matter. Quite literally, making kratom tea extracts the desirable compounds from kratom, leaving them suspended in the liquid base we call kratom tea! Other methods for making kratom extracts may be a little more complex. Some may result in powdered kratom extracts rather than liquids. But at their core, they all involve this same basic process.

How to Make Kratom Extract: Simple Tea Method

If you’re just learning how to make kratom extract, this beginner-friendly tea method is the perfect place to start. With the right ingredients, you can DIY a kratom extract from the comfort of your kitchen. 

We’ve brewed up this ultra-simple recipe for making the simplest kratom extract you can, which is perfect for mixing with flavored tea bags or even enjoying on its own.

What You’ll Need for the Tea Kratom Extract:

• 2 or 3 cups of water
• ½ of a large, fresh lemon, or 2 – 2 ½ tablespoons lemon juice (you may use another acid, but lemon juice was chosen for flavor)
• Your preferred strain of kratom powder
• Something to strain the finished kratom extract, such as a tea strainer or a coffee filter

What To Do:

1. Add the water to a saucepan, bring it just to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
2. Squeeze the half lemon into the simmering water, or add the 2 – 2 ½ tablespoons lemon juice.
3. Ensure that the water is simmering and not boiling.
4. Then, add your intended dose of kratom powder.
5. Keep the mixture simmering for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring regularly.
6. Remove the saucepan from the heat source, then carefully strain the kratom extract liquid to remove the kratom sediment.
7. Allow the kratom extract liquid to cool.

How to Make Kratom Extracts: Red Bubble Freezer Method 

Want to try a more advanced approach? This red bubble method is a great next step in learning how to make kratom extracts with a thicker consistency, ideal for baking or infusions.

The ‘red bubble’ method of making kratom extract condenses the powerful plant alkaloids that occur naturally within the kratom plant. It’s perfect for adding kratom to pastries like brownies, cookies, or anything else you like to do to make kratom taste good.  

What You’ll Need for the Red Bubble Extract:

• A freezer-friendly glass bowl or other container
• Kratom powder
• Lemon juice or another edible solvent
• Distilled water

What To Do:

1. Place your measured Kratom into your freezer-friendly glass container.
2. Blend in lemon juice or your preferred edible solvent in roughly the same quantity as the Kratom. Mix thoroughly, gradually adding more liquid until it has approximately the same consistency as pancake batter.
3. Boil distilled water and let it cool slightly. Pour the hot water into the solvent/Kratom mixture, stirring, until the container is nearly full.
4. Place the mixture in the freezer for 6-8 hours until it freezes completely.

After that, you’ll find that the kratom extract and the plant matter have separated in the container. All that’s left to do is to separate the two!

To do so, you can either use a knife to cut the plant matter away, or you can wait for it to thaw and then use a coffee filter to strain the plant matter out. Simple as can be!

Make your Kratom Extract with High-Quality Ingredients 

No matter which method you use, learning how to make kratom extract successfully starts with high-quality ingredients. Low-grade kratom can compromise your extract’s potency, so be sure to buy from a reputable source like Kratom Spot.