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 Graham Cracker v1 @ 4%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 19 days.
Flavor Description: Moderately thick inhale with building sweet bakery cinnamon. Exhale brings out an almost marshmallow vanilla note shot through with cinnamon. Fluffy. Light, sweet, and slightly grainy exhale, especially on the tail end. Dryer than you'd think something this sweet and fully flavored would be. Nothing too rich here. Almost an astringent lingering taste from the cinnamon.
Off-flavors: Capellas bakery cinnamon notes taste a bit sour and metallic to me. I get the same thing with Cinnamon Danish Swirl. Something creamy will take care of it pretty quickly though. More heat also seems to help.
Throat Hit: 2/10. Pretty inoffensive, especially considering the cinnamon here.
Uses: Well, uhhh... things that use graham crackers. Your smores and cheesecakes, etc. Also used pretty heavily with custards to give an extra dimension of flavor. Lots of mentions of using this in commercial clones. Extra volume and cinnamon in bakeries. Try a little in pretty much any mix that the cinnamon won't throw off or that isn't going to be hurt by some dryness. Would work as a tobacco enhancer for the right blend.
Pairings: Anything? VBIC, Custards, Cheesecakes, Berries. I'd stay away from already dry mixes but other than that knock yourself out. I've seen talk about adding some butter to make this a bit richer. Maybe AP to boost the graininess.
Notes: S&V tastes pretty linear up to 6%. I think it would blend even at that level, but you'd be adding a ton of other concentrates to take the edge off of this one. I'd stick with an accent at 3% or under. That cinnamon note isn't great, and I wouldn't want it standing out front. The dryness would also be problematic. Blends really well at lower percentages though. I'm obviously being a little trite when I suggest "anything" as a pairing but you'd be hard pressed to find something where this flavor wouldn't work. The texture is the bigger issue, and so you want a thicker, sweet, creamy (dairy or not) base for this stuff to play off of.
Makes a room smell awesome, for what that's worth.
Second Opinions:
Positive, not particularly useful reviews on BCF and ECX
Fleeting positive mentions in another reddit thread about graham crackers
I could never do a flavor review.
flavor description: taste like Graham cracker
Off notes : taste like Graham cracker
Throat hit: it hits the throat
Ect Ect.
Your review style is not too bad. I don't want to read a page of mystery descriptions. I don't understand thick, thin, dry, fluffy, grainy or rich. I do understand strong and weak.
I do appreciate the effort put into all reviews.
Ehh. I can definitely respect the reviews these guys write on here. If it's a flavor that seems interesting or something I would purchase I always read what they write. They are well written. It's kind of like a foodie doing reviews for magazines. These guys have an amazing tongue for the detail of the flavors they review. Me on the other hand, I can't even taste strawberry these days let alone give any kind of accuracy to a flavor lol
Another awesome review!
> Also used pretty heavily with custards to give an extra dimension of flavor.
Yup. My favorite use of this ingredient to date (admittedly I haven't tried lots of them, my bottle of CAP Graham Cracker looks barely used): 1% in Ginger Sauce.
i just commented yesterday how people overflavor with cinnamon danish. they get an off taste at 5-6% that goes away when you use it around 1-2% but it will still have the same positive notes. maybe its the same kind of deal with the graham cracker
That would be my guess. I've got a tester of CDS @ 4% and just dipping into it I'm getting the same kind of vibes. I honestly think it might be that cinnamon they are using.
Is there anyone who's tasted both Graham Cracker V1 as well as V2 who can tell me how the two compare? (I know with some CAP flavours that V1 > V2, such as Vanilla Custard)
I've only tried CAP Graham Cracker (or "Graham's Crack" if ever you're feeling whimsical) V2 and its definitely somewhat similar to CAP Cinnamon Danish Swizzle-Swirl in terms of the role it plays within more complex recipes; it's rather potent and is best at around ~2% for a subtle cinnamon-esque hint to your chosen flavour recipe (without necessarily tasting like cinnamon, I can't think of the appropriate category-description for the flavours that fall on this part of the taste-spectrum).
Much more than 2% and it just tastes like the flavour-equivalent of a Pimp-My-Ride or NFS Underground 2 style car; it works best when used sparingly but is all-too-often easily allowed to get too cocky and show off by being used to excess at which point it just gets carried away and does more harm than good.
No?