The purpose of this thread 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 week, but looking for you to share your process as you develop a new juice using the flavor of the week.
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. 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 week'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!
This Week's Flavor is: Blueberry
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Well what a coincidence, I just left some tasting notes on FA Bilberry & FLV Blueberry Muffin over at the Cloud Collective Thread, I figure this would fit well here too.
FLV Blueberry Muffin: 2-4%
Although the name suggests a bakery, the main note you get from this one is a nice bright blueberry. Think of like the blueberries you'd taste in a Jiffy blueberry muffin -- it's kind of like that. It doesn't have much of a bready note, so it can be useful in a lot of situations, but it is there very subtly, so it's something to keep in mind. Use in mixes at 4% for a main note, or as low as 2% if it's just to boost a blueberry flavor or just a hint of blueberry. It is a bit throaty at 4% so that's something to keep in mind too.
FA Bilberry: .5-1%
This one is a dark, musty, blueberry tone. It is very all-encompasing bilberry, but you don't get much of the tartness or sweetness that you come to think of with the blueberries that we're used to. I think this one serves very well as an accent to give an authentic taste to your blueberry mix. .5% is enough to really round out your blueberry, and use up to 1% if you want to taste mainly this. It really coats the palate well, so be cautious with this one as it can easily overtake a mix.
I subbed some FLV BB Muffin for TFA Banana Creme in /u/skiddlzninja 's Bangin Bourbon Bread and it was pretty awesome.
FA Bilberry
aka arm-pit sweat
I love mixing with this flavor, but that's precisely how some of our lab techs describe the aroma.
INW Shisha Blueberry (Bilberry): 0.25 - 0.50%
This flavour is a dark, dried blood red concentrate, that requires shaking before use as there can be sediment at the bottom.
It smells more like a mixture of dark berries than of blueberry.
At 1% it will gunk coils within a single tank. At that concentration you will also need to lower your watts as otherwise it burns. However at a 1% concentration it does have a complex mixed berry flavour with strong hints of blackberry, but it will overwhelm weaker flavours.
Preferred concentration is between 0.25 - 0.50% as this doesn't gunk up coils so quickly and can be run at higher watts. At this concentration more of a blueberry flavour comes out, but it is like an unsweetened blueberry reduction not a fresh crisp blueberry.
At all concentrations there is a strong spice element that reminds me of mulled wine, and has a warming effect on your mouth and throat a lot like eating a pastry fresh out of the oven. For this reason it's best paired with bakery flavours, and might work in cinnamon roll recipes to highlight the mouthfeel without having to go too heavy on the cinnamon.
It needs a minimum of 2 weeks to steep, at which point it will have turned the liquid a wonderful golden colour.
Excellent notes on a concentrate I have no experience in. Where did you pick this up?
I've just started messing with FW Blueberry, It's cheap & pretty good. my current 2 flavor mix is:
BBC
FW Blueberry 4%
TFA Vanilla Custard 6%
My notes: Pretty good shake & vape
Next I'll try adding .25 FA Bilberry & adjusting to find my sweet spot.
MF Blueberry: 0.1-0.4%
This one is dark, thick and sweet. Just like I like 'em. It's potency is what I expected from MF and hadn't found in some of their other flavors (which need 1-2% to be up front in a mix). As with all of the MF fruits I've tried, it's realistic to a fault. I spent over a year looking for the most realistic strawberry and when I found it, I immediately reached for some CAP Sweet Strawberry to mix it with. MF BB is almost as realistic as the strawberry. Go up to 0.4% only if you have some other hard hitters in the mix or a high flavor total (15+%). MF BB gives a nice wide floor for other flavors to play on top of, but it's also a bully in the overall profile if it's 0.05% too high. I mixed a 20% PG dilution for easier tweaking and longer shelf life. It's by far the darkest "blueberry" flavor I have. Darker and sweeter than FA Bilberry, almost as dark as Forest Fruit. I'm sure it would be great at 0.1% paired with any of the bright blueberries like FW, FLV or CAP to fill out the middle and top notes.
It's not the one blueberry I'd take to a desert island but it's easily in my top 3.
what would be your top 3? I dig a fw blueberry+ fa bilberry combo.
FLV for fake and bright, MF for said reasons and at the moment #3 is a toss up between CAP and FW. Haven't used either a lot but they are both decent.
Natures Flavors Organic Blueberry. I first purchased this from ecx and didn't know which actual flavor it was from the natures flavors line. After a bit of research on the net this is the one used. This is my favorite blueberry. It is a bright realistic blueberry. The most impressive thing about this flavor is its flavor intensity. At 2% it will make your mix have a full body of flavor. It will make other mixes taste muted in comparison. I find after mixing having the cap off for 6 to 12 hours helps otherwise you will cough instantly when trying it. Here is a recipe that I used with this flavor that turned out surprisingly well somehow.
- NF Organic Blueberry 2%
- CAP Harvest Berry 4%
- FA Grapefruit 1%
Another blueberry mix I'm enjoying at the moment.
- FW Blueberry 6.8%
- FA White Peach 1.2%
- FA Bilberry 0.25%
First off I urge you all to head over to medicine flower and purchase some blueberry extract. It makes this the amazing flavor it is.
- 6.8% Vanilla Custard 1 CaP
- 1.7% Custard FA
- 1% Sweet Cream CaP
- .8% Whipped Cream FA
- 4.3% Blueberry FW
- 3% Strawberry TFA
- .7% Bilberry FA
- .5% Forest Mix FA
- .25-.3% Blueberry MF (I used .27 my last liter and it's perfect)