Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.18 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: CAP Grapefruit @ 4%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 8 days.
Flavor Description: Bright. Medium sweet on the inhale with a faint grapefruit flesh taste. Exhale brings out some sourness and bitterness with a citrus rind sting. Well balanced if a bit simple grapefruit. Kind of tastes like the missing link between FW Blood Orange and FW Ruby Red Grapefruit. It could just be the sourness but I get a mild bit of effervescence here.
Off-flavors: None.
Throat Hit: 7/10. It's there, but not out of line for a citrus.
Uses: Accent flavor for fruit mixes. Volume for a citrus mix. Effervescence would lend itself to something like Grapefruit soda or a cocktail recipe.
Pairings: I'd stay away from bright harsh flavors like green apples and pears. Berries, Pineapple, Guava, Pomegranate. Creams. Too bright and harsh for bakeries, or spices. Cactus for juiciness.
Notes: This is pretty solid. I had a vial hidden in some older supplies from a Wizard Labs order and decided to give it a shot. Apparently the market is lousy with decent to good grapefruit concentrates. I still prefer FLV Pink Guava for an interesting grapefruit, and FW Ruby Red Grapefruit for a more robust sweet grapefruit juice. This has real potential though, especially is the carbonation holds up in a mix. It tastes more like a sweetened white grapefruit, instead of an inherently sweet ruby red grapefruit. All in all, a really pleasant surprise. 4% seems like a really solid single flavor percentage. The bitter notes are fairly subdued for a grapefruit, so at lower percentages it should add to a mix without being too distracting. Unobtrusive and tasty.
Second Opinions:
Reddit agrees CAP Grapefruit is... ok. Check the comments.
Not a super popular flavor. BCF just added it. WL has had it for a while. Used pretty sparingly on ATF and ELR. For what it's worth I agree with both the OP and the comments from that Reddit link. CAP grapefruit is a bit flat compared to competition. I'm excited to test the carbonation part of this, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
I've been wanting to make a good soda mix here for a while now, might pick a bit of this stuff up. Side question....how good is the recoil in terms of production/flavor?
I'm kind of in love. I was testing on Velocity 2 clones, but the flavor barrel has a nice smoother denser cloud with about the same amount of the air. It's helping me pick up some top notes a bit more clearly without making everything harsh and also seems to give a bit more volume to creams. I'm pretty sure it's black magic. The thicker barrel seems to retain some extra heat so it makes the entire vape more linear as it heats up.