The New Hotness

I clearcut a stand of spearmint and turned it into three jars of what should become mint extract:

The left jar has 3 ounces of mint mostly covered with 80 proof vodka and the other two jars each have 5 ounces submerged in 180 proof grain alcohol.

Nine days later:

The vodka is now on the right and shows a weird layering caused by the leaves extending above the light yellow liquid; I’ve been inverting the jars every few days. The grain alcohol looks more like the previous iteration, with uniformly decolored leaves in dark green liquid.

A closer look:

What’s happening in the vodka jar does not look like a nominal outcome …