> We ran it back last week: it was good, it was great, and it was harder than expected to fit 6% into the mix! Who’s idea was that? This week will be the Trinity Mashup. Top level comments will be “Trinities” such as the most recent and top of the highlights Ice Cream Trinity or the ever popular Blueberry Trinity. If you don’t know, the idea of these trinities is to use 3 flavors to create a well rounded and full representation of one flavor profile. I’ll post all the ones I know of and anyone else is free to post a trinity as a top level comment (if it hasn’t been posted) after that you add the next layer to the recipe or another layer to one that’s already added and, as usual, we shower all our upvotes on the finest looking combinations. Coincidentally after I thought of this idea for the game, /u/ID10-T mixed a mashup on Fresh’s show called “Eyemake Tropical Vanilla Ice Cream” that makes for a good example of what this is all about.
#Highlights from Last Week
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/u/eyemakepizza once made a spreadsheet to keep track of your Flavor Inventory and if I had been using it, I would have known I’d run out of LB Vanilla Ice Cream and wouldn’t be stuck here waiting to mix up his hyped Ice Cream Trinity
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/u/ID10-T gave us his thoughts on practically every mango flavor that exists in the Mango Mega-Review and I wish I knew as much about… anything, as he does about mangoes.
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/u/PlasmaTune in a self-proclaimed “Semi Shit Post” talked briefly about the quality of three bottles of nic they had just opened and tested after six months in the freezer
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/u/RancerDS is going strong with the third installment of their Weekly Single-Flavor thread an idea that seems to be catching on and creating yet another avenue to talk about flavors.
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/u/isuamadog invited everyone to join our DIY Discord server for an impromptu AMA and group mixing sesh in our latest weekly(?) post Tutorial Tuesday
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/u/josefbud finally caught their White Whale and shared the results of trying to clone Vapewild’s ‘Murica
Throwback Highlight
Top 5 Recipes from The 2-4-6 Game
####Don’t Call The Fuzz Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- FA | White Peach | 2% FA | Royal Orange | 4% LA | Lemonade | 6%
####Tangerine Dream Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- Cap | Sweet Tangerine | 2% FW | Blood Orange | 4% LA | Lemonade | 6%
####An Idiot’s Love Child Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- TFA | Honeysuckle | 2% JF | Sweet Strawberry | 4% LB | Vanilla Ice Cream | 6%
####Guilt Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- HS | Australian Chocolate | 2% LB | Strawberry Cheesecake | 4% LB | Vanilla Ice Cream | 6%
####Better Than Fanta Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- FLV | Citrus Soda | 2% FW | Blood Orange | 4% VT | Blood Orange Champagne | 6%
#DIY Podcast Roundup This list will rotate through different podcasts either based on your recommendations or my discovery of new content last week. Only episodes released last week will be included. ###Here’s a playlist of all the episodes below
> According to /u/folkart2000 "We have assembled some of the most well-known and talented mixers from our community to bring you... DEVELOPED and DEVELOPED LIVE! DEVELOPED, released every Tuesday at 6:00pm EST, shows our recipe development process in action! It's a short 15 minute episode that's fast-paced, entertaining, and packed with information. DEVELOPED LIVE airs every Saturday at 6:00pm EST and allows the community to get involved in the conversation as we break down the recipe from Tuesday's episode." The show is also edited by our very own /u/AlfredPudding.
##Fresh03 > Fresh03 AKA Dustin Freshly is a prolific mixer and YouTube reviewer who not only appears on a variety of DIY shows but also hosts a couple notable and incredibly lengthy live shows with a large and almost all-inclusive cast of mixers you’ve probably heard of.
##Mixin Vixens > From Emily (/u/mlNikon) "Mixin Vixens is a diverse all female mixing panel on a YouTube weekly show that airs live Sunday’s at 6pm Eastern. Weekly we take pictures submitted by our viewers and each of us interprets the picture and converts it from a visual to a taste. After 4 rounds of mixing we allow the Man Team to critique our recipes and give us hell. Week after week we provide knowledge and entertainment. Month after month after we pick the recipe we want judged the judges come in knock us over the head and there is only one woman standing."
##Noted > The three hosts /u/mlNikon, /u/CheebaSteeba, and /u/ID10-T (and usually one guest) talk extensively about last week's Flavor of the Week. They each try a handful of flavors (or many more than that) and give their impressions while often sharing a few recipes that include those flavors.
##The Fog Vlog An ensemble cast of South African mixers who do live mixes, flavor reviews and mixer reviews where they review several recipes from one mixer.
#The Cheesecake Trinity Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- INW | Yes, We Cheesecake | 3% Cap | New York Cheesecake | 2% TFA | Cheesecake (Graham Crust) | 1%
Cheesecake Trinity +2.5% FA Raspberry
#The Mango Trinity Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- FLV | Mango | 1% WF | Island Mango | 2% VT | Sisha Mango | 3%
So nice to see my mango trinity in this huge compendium of trinities! Thank you so much ❤️
#The Blueberry Trinity Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- TFA | Blueberry Extra | 3% FW | Blueberry | 2% FA | Bilberry | 0.5%
You need a touch of some kind of lemon to make it pop.
And, I bet it would be better with 1% JF Blueberry instead of the FA Bilberry.
A little Late to the party but what would you suggest other than FE lemon for this that bull city carries? Also, Have you had a chance to try the original blueberry trinity or your suggested change up yet?
#The Strawberry Trinity Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- INW | Shisha Strawberry | 3% FA | Red Touch | 2% JF | Sweet Strawberry | 1.5%
I agree with /u/mlNikon that this is a terrific combination of strawberries, but depending on the situation you might want to seriously adjust those amounts. 3% is a ton of Shisha Strawberry and that's a hefty dose of Sweet Stb as well. Depending on what you're trying to mix, 2%, 1%, 0.5% might be plenty of strawberry, or you might want to adjust the ratio even more radically and bring a different aspect of the strawberries to the foreground.
I’m cheating.
Strawberry Trinity + Ice Cream Trinity
#The Ice Cream Trinity Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- LB | Vanilla Ice Cream | 5% TFA | Vanilla Swirl | 1.5% HS | French Vanilla Ice Cream | .75%
>Ice Cream Trinity
+ 3.5% TFA Pistachio
Ice Cream Trinity + 3.5% TFA Pistachio + 1% FLV Pistachio
#The Bourbon Trinity* Co. | Flavor | % ---|---|---- VT | Bourbon | 2% FLV | Bourbon | 1% TFA | Kentucky Bourbon | 2%
There is no set %s, it just depends on your goal and how well the other ingredients are working with it. The Bourbon Trifecta is
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TFA Kentucky Bourbon for that sweet sour mash.
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FLV Bourbon for that charred oak barrel.
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VT Bourbon for that real boozy top note.
A good starting place would be 2% TFA, 2% VT, 1% FLV - BUT don't be surprised if that turns out to be too much bourbon overall or too much of one particular aspect of the bourbon and not enough of another.
It varies based on application, but for cocktails...
3% VT Bourbon
2% FLV Bourbon
2% TFA Kentucky bourbon
Probably want a little wood spice or oakwood in there, maybe a touch of black fire... But for a basic bourbon it'll do.
I was actually hoping you'd come along with your own Trinity considering most of the ones I know of don't really fit your taste.
Well, blueberry does.
One day, I'll probably unleash the Hitchhiker's Guide to Cherry. (Just to let me have the option of four flavors.)
I gotta dig through some experiments, I had a nice orange trinity at one point... IIRC FA Bergamot, CAP Sweet Tangerine, and a blood orange... would go well to make a bourbon sour.
Strawberry Trinity that I used in a few recipes.
- 2.50% CAP Sweet Strawberry
- 1.50% TFA Strawberry (Ripe)
- 1.50% TFA Strawberry
Blackberry Trinity from /u/EdibleMalfunction and /u/AlfredPudding
0.5% TFA Blackberry
1.5% RF SC Blackberry
0.35% FLV Boysenberry
Blackberry Trinity + Ice Cream Trinity
Everyone do this.
u/AlfredPudding and I mixed it up the other night it’s killer. It fucks with your head in the greatest way possible.
The Red Apple Trinity
|Co.|Flavor|%| |:-|:-|:-| |FLV|Apple|.8%| |FLV|Red Apple|.8%| |WF|Thai Apple|1.5%|
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I came here to toot my own horn, because that's what mixing with diesel does to your body over time. Came across this trinity several months ago, and since then, if I wanted a well round red apple, this is what I mix. There is a hint of texture, like biting into the apple. You can taste the skin of the apple, but its not overwhelming. Its a nice sweet base, especially thanks to Thai Apple. The thai apple also fills out the FLV apple mixes here. They are very tasty, but seem to miss a deeper note that thai apple fits perfectly. This is the ratio I use for the most part. I'll make a stone/base/one shot, whatever you want to call it, and mix that % into the final mix depending on the strength I want the flavor to be.