I'm pretty new to DIY'ing and trying to get away from the hassles associated with the Juul. I finally found a recipe that I love and works well in my Caliburn - u/inkedatty's Pillow Mint
It's making me crave the soft butter mint candies (like these). From searching the sidebar, I read about Purilum's Butter Mint, but the reviews don't sound like it will give me what I'm looking for.
Does anyone know of a way to modify Pillow Mint to give it a creamier, buttery flavor, or a different recipe entirely? I have a few cream flavors, and CAP Cool mint. I'm not sure where to go with this and hoping to leverage the experience from this sub.
I've never had the kind of mint you're talking about, and I've also never tried Pillow Mint (and I don't have the ingredients for it) but I do have a mint cream recipe, it just isn't a candy.
I use FA Spearmint which is inherently creamy already, FA Peppermint is also creamy and can be added to it. I'll add some FA Cream Fresh if I want it even creamier. I guess after that you could add things like OoO Milky Undertones or one of the diketone creams by CAP or FLV to get it even creamier. This'll be a mint cream though, without trying the original mints it's hard to say what you're looking for.
Thank you! Mint cream sounds delicious - would you mind sharing your recipe?
Just tried to find it, I don't have the original as it developed into a mint berry cream
Flavour | Percentage ---|--- FA Bilberry | 0.6% FA Cream Fresh | 0.8% FA Forrest Fruit | 3.2% FA Peppermint | 1% INW Raspberry | 0.2% FA Spearmint | 2.2% FA Strawberry (Red Touch) | 1.6% TFA Strawberry Ripe | 5% TFA Vanilla Swirl | 2.4% FA Vienna Cream | 1%
Looking back at this though, that's a LOT of flavouring, 18% total with all those FA flavours seems insane in hindsight. Maybe I'll mix up a batch of it and adjust it. Don't make a large amount of the recipe there, give it a try at like 10ml or something first, you might have to just drop all flavours by 10-20%.
For a starting point off the top of my head try this
Flavour | Percentage ---|--- FA Spearmint | 3% FA Cream Fresh | 1% (optional below) | OoO Creamy Undertones | 0.5% FLV Cream / CAP VC / ect | 1%
That should give a mint cream, I'm a HUGE fan of the FA mints. If you want a good double mint that's not just a menthol mess, then 60/40 FA spearmint : FA peppermint is my starting point. 70/30 or higher for a creamier result like you see with the recipe above.
18% doesn't sound like a lot to me, since I'm used to upping flavor percentages for my pod systems. I fear that many different flavor profiles would get lost with pods. I'm definitely going to put in an order to try that second recipe. How long would you steep it for?
Thanks again!
I'd start with CAP Buttercream, add some menthol and wintergreen, and I think it's close. Assuming I'm thinking of the same mints..
I'd be pretty happy with any buttery creamy mint. I've always stuck to fruit flavors, but am venturing out of my comfort zone. I made a chai blend this morning that has to steep for 17 days. How do y'all wait that long for deliciousness?
Thanks for the response!
Step 1. Mix juice.
Step 2. Label juice "open in September" (along with flavor/name/whatever)
Step 3. Toss it in steeping drawer and put it out of your mind. Look to see if there are any bottles labeled "open in July"
When I mix tobaccos other than FLV, I default to one month steep. You get used to waiting. Mixing enough SnV to last until the steepers are ready helps.