@SthrnMixer lol… very aware, not sure if that is good or bad, but I am still around when I can be. I picked up a new hobby and love it! It’s giving me a good break and a time to regroup.
It’s easy to get caught up in that omg I must use more… but like FLV peppermint, some flavors do grow and end up way too much… just a small amount of flavor in a large enough bottle for testing say for a month and make a ton of notes… Personally I think most folks are just in a rush to get out recipes, and once on a shake and vape, if it passes happy taste buds, they fling it out. they dont care about much because they have a mind set of I said it is good… You really can not tell until you tinker with solos over time while fighting changing taste buds. Its a process of getting close to what you like, while flavor manufactures tinker with ingredients of flavors over time… Between it all, even after as long as I have set out to make good juice, I still learn new things every day.
I feel some chocolates and coffee tobaccos coming out soon… just have that itching taste for some good ones
I went thru so many rants and raves… then I learned it was not worth getting ticked at how recipes have turned out, or looking thru and seeing what others had done. Once you know your flavor threshold, looking at someone else’s can make you laugh like crazy and sit back thinking really now?
The issue I see (not that I can replicate, I just do not do standard flavors, I don’t have any at all!) is that you have two possible happenings… one will mute out the flv or it will mute out the standards. Always test as solo flavors and you will have your answer for this. Ultras are wacky like this…
The other issue (for ultras) is as you flavor push a flavor… going from ultra faint, barely can taste; then on to tasting it a bit better; then finding your magic solo spot… after this… once it is pushed, then it mutates. It is still the same flavor… but notes might fall off from: top, bottom, middle or sides of that particular flavor. Then if you keep pushing it… it will mute automatically… or it might mute in 3 days, 3 weeks or complete fade in 3 months.
This is why I have always stressed, do your solo testing before any recipe creation. How can one tell which flavor has warped, if you do not know what a solo flavor in your recipe can do?
Champagne Wishes: Well tomorrow we say goodbye to another year and hello to a new one, and the glass we raise to mark the occasion will most likely be filled with champagne or a champagne cocktail. I wanted to mix up a favorite cocktail but I don’t have a favorite, so I mixed up more than one. I really want to know what you guys think of them and how you might tweak them. I’ve never published one of my recipes before, or for that matter posted much on the forum, so sorry if I’m doing something wrong. I left some interesting background info on these cocktails in the notes. I hope you go read them.
Based on Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Death in the Afternoon’ cocktail:
OK there you have it my first published recipes, now I know how one of my friend felt at her coming out party. BTW, Thanks for all you have taught me over the years folks.
