I've developed my own STB extraction technique - all fairly obvious stuff with a few twists - and I nearly always end up with about 1.25% yield of fluffy white crystals. I've just gone to a batch of MHRB that I'd previously got a good yield from and done an extraction only to find that the overall yield was down to about 0.75%. The MHRB has been kept in a sealed plastic bag at a temperature of around 20 degrees centigrade for the last 8 or 9 months.
Would anyone expect it to lose potency in this time? I can't see that my extraction technique was any different to a dozen times before.
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