Hey everybody,
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From time to time I make lazy cold brew coffee (Medium-corse coffee grounds and water in a mason jar for 12 hours in the fridge before filtering out the grounds). This time I decided to try and add 6 drops of TPA hazelnut and 2 drops of TPA Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla — That shit was absolutely fucking delicious! I was making about 350ml coffee.
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I'm a coffee geek and will have to try out different mixtures from now on, but this got me thinking... Have any of you experimented with aromas in other drinks, foods etc? I'm thinking cocktails would be an obvious use case too.
Sometimes when I'm lazy I mix 96% pure alcohol, ice, water and some drops of R.Dainty's Mango Ice instead of going out to buy ingredients for a real cocktail.
It's not disappointing at all.
Holy Shit! You do you, I guess, but for everyone else reading please don’t do this! If it’s isopropyl alcohol, it is really dangerous to drink no matter how much you dilute it, sure way to risk alcohol poisoning. If it’s lab grade ethyl ethanol, the other 4% is very unlikely to be just water and will most likely contain other hydrocarbon compound additives specifically to prevent water entering into your intended chemical reactions. These are things you don’t want anywhere near your liver.
Everclear (pure grain alcohol) is around 95-96% and is perfectly safe to drink in small amounts and/or diluted in something non alcoholic. You can just buy it at the liquor store for like $10-20 a bottle depending on where you live. It's really good for making cannabis tinctures and stuff since it's highly pure and safe to consume. Not that I actually recommend drinking it unless severely diluted - the stuff is basically a bottled felony. It has a lot of potential to get you really fucking drunk in an alarmingly short amount of time and generally speaking nothing good ever happens when everclear is involved.
Sounds like op is flavoring it and then mixing it down with a lot of ice and water so that it lands around the same abv as normal liquors.
Edit: actually it looks like everclear is bottled at 120, 151, and 190 proof because the weapons grade shit is illegal in some states. The 190 I've always used for stuff is 95% pure alcohol though.
Yikes! Fair enough, A local 151 overproof rum is the most I've ever tampered with. The distillery only produces batches of 6 bottles at a time because of the fire risk. I stupidly used some for making bananas foster and almost near enough burned the kitchen down. This was at a kid's birthday party and at least they enjoyed the show. Never again.
Oh, hardly. It's okay to consume a little isopropyl alcohol. Like, I'm not gonna drink over 10mL of it, but a couple of mL won't hurt. It's metabolised to acetone, and you breathe it out (your breath smells a little sweet for 15 mins). Such a small amount won't hurt you. I know this for certain, having done so quite a few times.
That said, there's no need to. High concentration ethanol can be used for most of what you'd use IPA for.
I use juicy strawberry and tahitian vanilla in a keto cheesecake recipe in place of vanilla extract. I think it called for 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and I used 1 teaspoon of each fa flavor. It turned out flipping amazing!
I had similar results using flavor concentrates in a keto custard recipe (just mixing them in at the end to taste). Bavarian cream is probably my favorite. The strawberry flavors I've used (ripe and sweet) have needed a bit of tartness added in or the result tastes off in a very artificial way (I've used citric and/or malic acid for this, but a bit of lemon juice would probably work too).
Yes. And there is a metric ton of other posts about using them for other things. The Flavors were always food flavors before being used to make juice.
You can make your own DIY Nicotine Lozenges! They're great! If you're interested in how, reply to show interest!
I have replied to this before and got no answer lol
Someone posted a while ago making nicotine lozenges by putting a drop of nicotine (in PG) on peppermint mini altoids (I think they're called "altoids smalls") and just giving it time to be absorbed. I've tried it and it does work well, but adding your own flavors on top of what's already there probably wouldn't end well.
For fully DIY nicotine lozenges, a recipe like this one would probably work (adding the nicotine at step 4 with the other flavoring once the mixture has stopped boiling). I've made hard candies this way before (though without nicotine), and it's not particularly difficult or time-consuming, but it can get messy.