My first contribution to the sub: Strawberry Guava (and a great way to use TFA Guava)

submitted over 8 years ago by no_advProud Sidebar Reader!

Hey guys, I have been mixing for about 3 months now and this wonderful subreddit has taught me almost everything I know about mixing and I've always wanted to share a good recipe but just haven't made one I am 100% satisfied with, until yesterday!!

This recipe was inspired by tbt127's Strawberry Guava recipe on ELR: http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/251383/Strawberry%20Guava

I wanted to add a subtle banana note and give the Guava a rounder, fuller taste. CAP Sweet Guava is a great sweet, candy-like guava that tastes lightly of real guava to me and more like guava candy. TFA Guava on the other hand, tastes like real guava, except it's so strong it makes eliquid taste very perfume-y, almost smells like straight piss sometimes too. I read a user's comment saying he mixed 10% TFA Guava-40%PG-50%VG, and this was the answer to my problem with TFA Guava (I forgot his name, I am really sorry, if you're reading this please comment so I can thank you). So heads up, TFA Guava 10% = 10% TFA Guava, 40% PG, 50% VG!

RECIPE

3% TFA DX Banana Cream

2% TFA Guava 10%

1.5% FA Marshmallow

4% CAP Sweet Guava

4% CAP Sweet Strawberry

mixed at 30PG/70VG @ 2mg nic

NOTES

TFA DX Banana Cream I got this because my vendor ran out of regular TFA Banana Cream and was surprised at how good this is compared to the original. It tastes almost the same to me with a little less of the artificial banana taste, which is great. I think I'm sticking with the DX version from now on.
TFA Guava 10% as stated above this is the Guava dilution. TFA Guava taste like real guava to me, has that earthy taste that real guava has. The only thing this flavor is missing is the sweetness of the guava, which is where Sweet Guava takes over.
FA Marshmallow for a creamy, airy mouthfeel without too much "cream" taste.
CAP Sweet Guava the sweet side of the Guava.
CAP Sweet Strawberry Strawberry and Guava just go so well together. I took out TFA Strawberry (ripe) from tbt127's recipe and upped the sweet strawberry a little. I got too much strawberry from his mix and wanted to bring out the Guava over the strawberry.

I get a nice Guava inhale with strawberry in the background and a light Banana exhale. hope at least one or two people on here mix this to tell me what they think. I am open to suggestions and would really appreciate feedback! Personally I'm very happy with this but that does not mean it cannot improve.

PS: this is my first post so I apologize if my formatting and/or notes are done incorrectly.

EDIT: formatting.

EDIT: now that it has steeped for 2 days the Banana is really coming out. A litttttle more than I wanted it to, so on the next match I am decreasing the DX Banana Cream by only 0.5%

Comments

7 points

by chewymidgetover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

When used low this isn't too bad of a flavor. But no matter what you do TFA Guava smells like cat piss. The actual vapor smells bad.

My girlfriend told me to get out of the house when I vaped it once. Makes the entire house stink.

3 points

by FeelFreeToExamineover 8 years ago

I once spent an hour walking around trying to figure out what the pee smell was, only to realize it was the juice I had. I have since stopped using guava.

1 points

by emenlover 8 years ago

Funny you say that as I use TFA Guava in one of my recipes. Can't vape that one in the house for the same exact reason! Bothers the hell out of my Gf, and she's a vaper as well.

2 points

by sensfan5555over 8 years ago

How's flv pink guava? It's on the way so hopefully it's good. FA guava is horrendous

3 points

by chewymidgetover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

It's great. It's more of a grapefruit than guava. It tastes awesome.

1 points

by Wayne0over 8 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Max I use is about .5% regular not diluted with about 2% Cap Sweet for my 'authentic taste'. I get exactly the same comments about piss, but it's so damn good.

3 points

by kr0nik0over 8 years ago

Thank you for posting the recipe. I've had nothing but bad luck with TFA Guava. I can still recall the flavor of candied fruit. At 4% it was way too high for me, but it does work decently for me in recipes using ~>2%. And, don't give FW Guava a shot. It's terrible.

2 points

by no_advover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

you're welcome, let me know what you think once you mix it! even at 1 or 2 percent it still takes over any other flavor in the juice. 1% of the Guava 10% dilution is equal to just 0.1% of the original stuff. I guess you could still just use TFA Guava at very low percentages but the problem with that is when you need to mix small amounts such as 10ml or 5 ml, the numbers just become way too small and one drop makes a big difference when we're talking about just 10 or 5 mls of juice. That's why this Guava 10% dilution is really useful!

2 points

by simpleone234over 8 years agoMixologist

The dilution idea is smart. Kudos.

2 points

by no_advover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

It wasn't actually my idea I saw someone's comment on a post (that I cannot find anymore) who said he used it like that so I took it from him. Maybe he'll see this and comment. I would've never used TFA Guava again if it wasn't for his idea. Tried too many times with it and failed.

2 points

by kr0nik0over 8 years ago

I appreciate the detailed reply.

I'll report back in a couple days as I have a pint of TFA Guava I've been trying to figure out how to use.

Thanks again.

2 points

by mlNikonover 8 years ago

Great idea, I make 10% dilutions of quite a few flavors, especially Flv. Makes it so much easier to work with.

2 points

by kr0nik0over 8 years ago

So, I gotta start off by saying WOW!

I was almost sure I was going to come out with another shit attempt at something resembling guava.

You've certainly proved me wrong, /u/no_adv . The addition of the CAP guava to the 10% TFA was exactly as you described. Filled in those missing, earthy notes.

I did speed steep one bottle with my ultrasonic cleaner, and one is freshly mixed. I just noticed that in your edit you said the banana flavor was coming out a bit much for your taste, but I quite enjoy it in the steeped version. Though, you may be right in reducing it to .5%.

I found this recipe to be extremely flavorful right off a fresh mix as well. A mildly difficult aspect to achieve when trying to achieve some creamy notes.

Overall, 10/10 brother. Than you again for posting and changing my mind on something I'd been stuck on for about 5 years. Cheers.

2 points

by no_advover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

No problem!! I'm really happy to have satisfied a mixing veteran lol

/ currently working on a guava cheesecake, if you have any suggestions for any other fruit that can fit in there shoot me a message! (i don't want to use strawberry again.. i get bored of it quick)

1 points

by BlazeDemBeatzover 8 years agoMentholatier

Instead of a dilution of if why wouldn't you just use TFA Guava at 1%, I mean it's really the same thing at that rate.

2 points

by Docarooover 8 years ago

He's using TFA Guava at 10% dilution at 2% in this recipe... using full strength TFA Guava you'd use 0.2% which is a really small and annoying amount to mix so the 10% dilution makes a lot of sense I think.

1 points

by no_advover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

It also makes it nearly impossible to get accurate mixes when you're mixing small batches such as 5 or 10 mls

-1 points

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