Flavor Reviews by ConcreteRiver – Root Beer, Blackberry Blossom, Morning Mimosa
ConcreteRiver provides some amazing flavor reviews – including notes and mixing suggestions – in his videos! This one is on a batch of some of our newest flavors – Root Beer, Blackberry Blossom, and Morning Mimosa. He is very thorough and explains his thoughts well. This video is short, sweet, and to-the-point, and therefore definitely worth listening in to the full thing to benefit from this great source of flavor information! Original YouTube video on ConcreteRiver’s channel here: Full Video on YouTube
Breakdown of ConcreteRiver’s “FLV Beta Testing 1: Root Beer, Blackberry Blossom, Morning Mimosa”
0:50 – New flavor FLV Root Beer – Initial tasting notes are that of a craft root beer, with more of a bite/spice to the flavor. Describes the mouth feel as lighter, almost like an effervescence with a creamy non-dairy vanilla finish, like the foam on root beer. He notes that it lacks a bit of base, and is a little top heavy. Prefers it on the higher end at around 4-5% as a solo vape. He recommends 1.5-2% as an accent in a recipe. Notes that the lack of base might work in it’s favor when trying to mix in recipes. It seems like it is just waiting for a good base to come and fill in that gap (i.e. ice cream = root beer float).
7:02 – New flavor FLV Blackberry Blossom – Initially was nervous about it being perfume-y, but says his experience was better than expected. He tested at 1% and describes it as more of a musk. A dark, juicy, realistic blackberry with a wildflower kind of musk. The blackberry is juicy without being jam-like, and sweet without crossing into candied. The musk note reminds him of our FLV Honey Bee with the same wildflower and not perfume-y florals. Also, he provides some great mixing suggestions – drink recipes in particular (tea, mixed alcoholic drinks, etc.), maybe with tobaccos, other fruits – darker fig and raisin notes. Additionally, he warns that the musk becomes overpowering at higher percentages, so keep this one on the lower side – 1-1.5% as a primary and .5-.75% as an accent.
14:00 – New flavor FLV Morning Mimosa – ConcreteRiver notes an aggressive, heavy champagne funk – a good champagne – with orange juice underneath. He also notes that the flavor starts a bit weird, but then grows on you. There’s a good effervescence and a pretty convincing champagne base. It might be a challenge to mix with. He suggests .75% for a solo vape and around .5-.75% as an accent. Keep it low to avoid the overripe orange flavors morphing into a carrot-skin note at high percentages. For mixing, he suggests using it to build citrus cocktails or punches. Add other orange flavors and maybe other champagne flavors – use this flavor to bring them all together and make it all work as a result.
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