A deliciously cool coconut lime ice cream just in time for always, which is just around the corner.
This recipe blew me away enough that I had to create a new Reddit account only yesterday in order to share it here (my previous Reddit account was canned several years ago when I impulsively deleted my linked email account, lol).
Anyway, Xool has a full flavor on both the inhale and exhale, with a particularly nice exhale via the nose. It has a quite thick and creamy mouth feel thanks to TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and TFA Caramel, while simultaneously managing to retain a delicate tartness from the two fruits. The TFA Koolada adds a pronounced dimension of crispness that I feel works well here; and that's from someone who once hated anything slightly menthol!
I've previously had trouble using both the TFA Coconut Extra and FLV Sweet Coconut flavors due to the fine line between them either tasting like coconut or tasting like some dank chemical cleaning fluid; but here, in relatively small measure, they are just magic... well, I think so anyway.
Do let me know what any of you think, and I welcome all criticism.
Note: I always mix 100 ml batches and scale up or down using percentages - I find this to be the simplest method. For measures below about 0.25 ml I measure drop-wise using either, clear plastic disposable pipettes for the flavors that my vendor ships in screw-lid bottles, or I simply drip from the flavor squeeze bottles. By my calculations there are approximately 40 drops/ml for the pipette, and about 36 drops/ml from the squeeze bottles; I just call it an even 40d/ml for both as it's easy to scale. 'd' denotes 'drops'.
- TFA Caramel 1.5%
- TFA Coconut Extra 0.5%
- TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 4%
- INW Lime 5d (= 0.125%)
- FLV Sweet Coconut 0.5%
- TFA Dragon Fruit 4d (= 0.1%)
- TFA Koolada 1%
dang, I don't have sweet coconut but this sounds pretty tasty, and I freaking hate coconut. lmao
Yeah, I don't hate coconut but for what it's worth I'm not a massive coconut fan - at least not in the sense of confectionery. Put it this way, I don't really like Bounty or Cherry Ripe chocolate bars though I do love fresh coconut - especially in Asian dishes; curries, deserts and the like.
Since first trying Grack Juice I have made a concerted effort to try and mix differing flavors to serve as complementary components of the overall flavor profile that I have in mind, as opposed to simply allowing one flavor or another to dictate or dominate, and since doing this my mixes have been much better quality and far more interesting - they rarely end up down the sink!
It's worth trying Xool as there is only a vague hint of coconut plus it gives a strangely pleasant feeling of creaminess on the lips that I can't quite explain. Cheers.
I like grack juice, but I get a weird alcohol fume/cologne ethyl note off of it. I'm assuming it's from the 4% INW Grape. Am I the only one getting this or am I doing something wrong? I know the concentrates are all correct. It would be fantastic if I could get rid of that sensation. I mixed it a month ago and it's almost gone so it isn't the lack of steep