##Cast your votes now for the flavor for October. It was too close to call and your votes over the next four days will determine what next months flavor will be.
Come October first, I'll update this OP with the flavor for October! Your voting options are posted as comments below. New entries/suggestions will not be accepted at this time for October.
See previous month's threads here
Per a suggestion kicked off by /u/over9000 here is the October "Use This Flavor" Monthly Challenge. The purpose of this challenge is to gather the community to explore a flavor and it's many uses.
####We're not just looking for you to post recipes you have containing the flavor of the month, but looking for you to share your process as you develop a new juice using the flavor of the month.
This should help us all to better understand how certain flavors interact, and give us all a launching point to perhaps discovering new wonderful recipes.
This thread has been linked in the sidebar for easy access throughout the month. All previous months threads will be linked in the current month thread as well.
#####Please post suggestions for next month's flavor under my post below requesting it.
No restrictions, any flavor, any vendor for November!
###Please post new recipes created using this flavor as well as any and all tasting notes as main posts. Thought process is encouraged also.
While I definitely encourage you to branch out with this flavor and use some more rare flavors, I would encourage everyone to keep it in mind that others will not be able to try your recipe and comment or offer assistance if they do not have the flavors you are using. I would also encourage you to use this month's flavor as the "main" flavor in your recipe although this is not required.
You BETTER sample and offer tasting notes on your recipe.
Good luck to everyone!
##October's Flavor of the Month is: TFA Peanut Butter by popular demand.
I'll kick us off in a bit with a recipe I've been working on for awhile that I think you all will like! We'll see if I can't get it dialed in even better this month!
Alright, going to transition what I started over here for V0.7 to this thread.
Let's see where this thing takes us.
I didn't really have a particular flavor in mind when I started on this. I was just picking things out that could go well together. This was one of the less crazy of the 8 options I posted over there.
We're basically trying to make a super yummy Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie.
Here is my initial mix.
- 7% TFA Peanut Butter
- 3% CAP Chocolate Fudge Brownie
- 3% CAP Cake Batter
- 1.5% TFA Marshmallow
- 1% CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl
- 1% TFA Pie Crust
This is steeping right now. I will say that it's my first time working with CAP Chocolate Fudge Brownie and couldn't find much as far as recommendations go on it, however it smelled fairly strong to me. We'll see. I have also yet to be successful with CAP Cake Batter, I'm hoping to change that by the end of the weekend!
Alright, wanted to give this plenty of steep time as my experiences in the past with chocolate have not been very pleasant freshly mixed.
This actually tuned out pretty decent. I taste an inhale of light chocolate with hints of marshmallow, exhale is a bit muddled between the cinnamon danish swirl, chocolate, peanut butter and cake batter.
Going to try mix up two more variations of this now, throw them in a hot water bath, and update back here in a week.
Here are the next two variations:
- 7% TFA Peanut Butter
- 3% CAP Chocolate Fudge Brownie
- 1% TFA Pie Crust
- 0.7% INW Peanuts
This one basically just dumbs it down. Try to get these flavors just right first, I think the percentages are OK, to really get the peanut butter to pop though I need to eliminate some background flavors and add the INW Peanuts at a 1 to 10 ratio to TFA PB (the way I've done it in the past with some success). This should be a pretty simple chocolate inhale with an exhale of peanut butter, chocolate fudge and pie crust.
Next I'm going to try something a bit different, some of you may have seen this before, others may not. I've used pure lemon juice with some success in juices with peanut butter before (I'm guessing it has some sort of pH alteration going on, which helps the PB to stand out in PB chocolate recipes) Reference the TFA Recipe thread, Peanut Butter Cup recipe there. Made that recipe pretty early on in my DiY career and took note of the difference without the lemon as the first time I made it I tried it without it cause I thought it just looked weird. All of that being said, here is my other variation:
- 7% TFA Peanut Butter
- 3% CAP Chocolate Fudge Brownie
- 3% TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust
- 1% TFA Pie Crust
- 1% Lemon Juice
The cheesecake graham crust should help to give it that creamy pie goodness feel, hoping the lemon helps the peanut butter to stand out against the chocolate and if all goes well, you should get a clean taste of pie crust (usually more noticeable exhaling through the nose.
Will report back around the 21st of October.
I'm kind of bummed only botboy has a mix so far, I got TFA Peanut Butter and all stoked to take part in my first monthly contest. Alright botboy here we go, here's my first go around.
So when I get new flavors I like to open them up and take a whiff, then hold several of them under the old sniffer to see if they go well together by smell alone. The first thing that came to mind when I took a sniff of Peanut Butter was instantly Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! So the first thing I did was take out my pipettes and drop 1 drop of TFA Peanut Butter and one drop of TFA Double Chocolate on a fresh wick followed by 18 drops of unflavored base. Pretty good start but the peanut butter wasn't up there like I wanted it to be so I put another drop on there. Even closer but the chocolate was just a bit too rich, just by a tad. This drop method I know isn't precise and it's fresh flavors, but it'll get me in the ball park.
So I mixed up:
30PG/70VG
10% TFA Peanut Butter
4% TFA Double Chocolate
2% Distilled Water
After 24 hours - not bad but it's missing something... I'm going to let this sit for another 24 because I still taste some overly sweet note that either might be something that needs to steep out or the double chocolate to be brought down to 3%. I also want to add something for a bit more creaminess. Can't decide yet on Sweet Cream or Marshmallow. What I'll probably do is go back to the pipette drop method and drop 1 drop of sweet cream/marshmallow and 19 drops of what's mixed above, then try it again at 1:25 drops to try to hone in on the percentage. I'll report back in a few days.
I'm sad as well. Everyone all excited to pick flavors, hell at least 14 people voted for Peanut Butter and no one posting...
Try some TFA Graham Crust (clear) in there @ 1% imo, Marshmallow would be great also, TBH, I'do probably use 1% FA Marshmallow if you have it. It's a super deep complex flavor, a lot more flavor than TFA.
i didnt vote for Peanut Butter as i have capellas Peanut Butter and i find it very strong and sickly but i bought TFA Peanut Butter to take part in the challenge .. sadly i have been sick for 2 weeks and my taste buds are dead but im going to mix my entry tonight and see what happens :)
I bought some TFA Peanut Butter specifically for this challenge but my attempts have been so hilariously bad I'm too embarrassed to post anything. Quick question - does TFA Peanut Butter usually require a long steep time? The mixes I've attempted so far have all been very creamy and even bready but they're lacking in the nuts compartment.
I say go ahead and post it anyway since this seems to be an ongoing process of what you're doing and not a "this is it!!!" final thing.
First time using TFA Peanut Butter, in fact I got it specifically for this also. I've got the exact opposite problem, I'm tasting more nuts and just a little lacking in the creaminess. That's after 24 hours of sitting. Maybe /u/Botboy141 has some more experience with it?
#####Post suggestions and/or vote for November's flavor under this comment. Any flavor from any vendor will be accepted.
Ok so I think this thread is a great idea I would of contributed earlier but taste buds were on vacation for 2 weeks ... Will start of by saying I love peaut butter but have tryed a few mixes with capellas and if was very strong even at 3% and didn't really like it so will see how TPA/tfa compares... I have been mixing for close to a year but only recipes I have found on the web and I have bought over 100 flavours from mainly TPA/tfa but also a fair bit of Fa and capella but have not tryed any of them as standalone mixes so don't know what stuff tastes like on their own and I find that a huge problem having so many I really don't know where to begin and that has stopped me building a recipe from scratch .. But here goes I'm shooting for a banana and vinilla cupcake with a peanut butter icing.
Vanilla Cupcake (Capella) 8% Banana (Capella) 6% PEANUT BUTTER (TPA) 2% Banana Cream (TFA) 2%
The peanut butter is very low but I'm hoping its not to strong and I can increase it on v2 Will test tomorrow as its 2am here in the uk..
Any suggestions are welcome as I'm a noob at this
Tested it there on a 1ohm coil set at 20w I'm my igo l dripper with Japanese cotton .. I'm getting a cupcake frosting taste on the exhale with bananas but no peanut butter so I'm going to up the peanut butter to 5% in a new bottle and let them both steep properly will check back in a few days.
Has any1 any experience with cap vanilla cupcake? Is there a sponge/cake taste still to come through after a good steep?