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Author: Bad Drip Farley's gnarly sauce — Eduard Varpetyan, mixologist of Dragon Liquid & Amber Stone / Dragon Vape Pub @ LDVM
Hello everyone! It's time for me to share my Bad Drip Farley's gnarly sauce clone recipe with you.
It's almost overly saturated, but still balanced.
My goal was to recreate the very first edition of Farley's Gnarly Sauce, that was before they changed it.
The idea of making a clone came to me after I smelled FW Kiwi.
This is it — that very kiwi. Lingering and slightly chemical, spot on for a kiwi gum. As you already know, Bad Drip changed the recipe because of FDA pressure and it's known police against our beloved diketones. I've read FW Kiwi formulation and it proved all my suspicions: FW Kiwi have diketones in it.
TFA Strawberry! I've looked for the right strawberry for a long time. So much strawberries on the market, and they all have common notes, and in Farley's you can't taste that exact note, which can help you to distinguish a strawberry you need. I settled on TPA strawberry because one of my employees HATES this aroma and he has like a detector for it, and when he tasted the real Farley's Gnarly Sauce he had that face... any doubts fell away.
LA Bubble Gum. As I found out, the hardest part was to find the right bubble gum. Slightly chemical, it goes so well with FW Kiwi. At the moment I had only colored version of this aroma, and that's why I didn't take it in a consideration. but I was wrong, it clearly is the one.
Alright, everything is mixed, steeped, but the taste... it just felt wrong.
Ethyl Malthol. In an insane amount (almost).
It's like a bonding, it removed all the noise from my guitar. Like a catalyst, it launched a reaction!
So, the recipe of the elixir:
- FW Kiwi @ 8%
- TFA Strawberry @ 7%
- LA Bubble Gum @ 5%
- TFA Ethyl Maltol @ 2%
Steep for at least a week.
And I don't even like Farley's Gnarly Sauce.
Following in botboys footsteps?
I got a bit too excited when I saw "persistence, molecules,...."
is LA Bubble Gum not bad because of the food coloring?
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That's a 22% flavour total which seems remarkably high to me. I normally aim for around 15% maximum flavour total and I know a lot of the peeps on here refuse to go over 10%
Sometimes rules are to be broken :D (I'm not sure if it works here, but you never know)
I agree, there is no real rule to what percentages you can use, it all comes down to personal preference. but from what I've read, and experienced first hand, is if you start overloading on flavours it can have an adverse affect, and end up muting some of the flavour profiles.
people are so different...i know a guy a vape shop supplies juice with 70% flavoring always. and a few of their recipes are 30% and a lot of people ask for extra flavoring always. you are mixing PG with PG and an unknown amount of flavoring molecules diluted which are all different by flavor and perceived differently by people.
Dinner Lady, a UK brand, uses close to 30% in several of it's juices.
Communities seem to have created this psychological 20% barrier, It wouldn't surprise me if half the battle cloners have is being afraid to go so high in flavouring.
I've read a juice maker post here saying that one of his juices has between 14 and 17 flavors in it, that sounds ludicrous to me but apparently it works.
Of course every recipe differs and many don't need so much.
> Dinner Lady, a UK brand, uses close to 30% in several of it's juices.
How do you know this?
You're certainly not wrong, but think about it like this: 10-15 pct seems to be the golden rule, BUT what if someone used 15 pct, all inawera vs all TPA/LA? Or god worse yet - REAL FLAVOURS (VG)?
I've mixed up some recipes on here (most recently a sherbert) with >20 pct flavour to great success. I found with a couple recipes I liked that were in that range if I kept the ratios the same but dropped the overall flavour percentage to 20 or lower it was also able to maintain most of its overall taste.
Different strokes for different... manufacturer folks?