Chocolate and Pineapple

**crazyhorse** · 10-25-2009, 03:31 AM

This is another fine and tasty blend. I settled on two parts of Chocolate with one part of Pineapple as ideal for me. The dark and complex cocoa flavor of the Chocolate is pleasantly modified and sweetened by the light and fruity essence of Pineapple. It's a taste with a high degree of interest and a nice level of harshness. This one is good at any time of the day or night and is something I could vape everyday with no sense of boredom. After playing around with a few different ratios, I mixed up 6 ml and found it hard to put down. But I must proceed on to another blend.

**crazyhorse** · 10-27-2009, 06:14 AM

Here I go with another two of my standalone favorites in a blend.

As with the Chocolate and Pineapple blend, my taste was piqued at two parts Chocolate and one part Orange. 60/40 may be a slight bit better but I was happy with the original choice. Again, the dark complexity of Chocolate blends wonderfully with the light fruitiness of pure Orange for a darkly potent but carefree sensasion. It is another excellent blend that I highly recommend.

In this case, however, I was working with 36mg raw materials so a healthy dilution with PG was in order. From an initial taste of the two potent liquids straight up, I can say putting a 50% PG cut on it didn't dilute the flavor at all and merely booted up the vapor production. No harm, no foul.

**GoG8trz** · 10-27-2009, 06:17 PM

Red Bull had been far and away my favorite non tobacco flavor. I am still waiting on my order from RMV, so as soon as that it in, I will be able to experiment a little further!

**crazyhorse** · 10-30-2009, 02:27 AM

My review of a Caramel/Pineapple blend didn't start well. I mixed up a batch of 60% Caramel and 40% Pineapple on Tuesday afternoon. It wasn't up to my expectation but I had just started using a new atomizer. I hate new atomizers. They never give me a proper taste so I resigned myself to slowly suffering through the break-in procedure with this blend knowing it would come around eventually.

That afternoon, my wife called me and told me she got a flu shot. Her first one ever. She said a nurse came to the office and offered everyone there a flu shot. She figured, "what the hey, it's free" and took the poke. About 8:30 PM (6 hours post-injection) she came rolling out of the bedroom to tell me she's afraid she's having a reaction to the shot. Yeah, no joke. Her entire face and neck are swollen up and her lower lip looked like Mike Tyson punched her. Her eyes are fire red and breathing is labored because her chest and throat are tightening. I get her back to bed, dose her with benedryl and start recording information. I take her vitals and find her heart rate is 30 points higher than it ought to be. Then the nausea and chills begin. She refuses to consider the ER so I pull our fastest car up to the back door and get ready for a 20 mile race to the nearest hospital. I begin considering how and where I'll arrange to meet an ambulance en route if she goes into full-fledged anaphylactic shock on me. This is always a concern since she's allergic to things like bee stings. I do a little reading and learn about oculo-respiratory syndrome, a rare side effect of the seasonal flu shot. She exhibits the classic symptoms. This slightly lowers my anxiety level knowing it may be something other than anaphylaxia. After watching her spend the night in writhing agony, she finally got over the hump about 3 AM and began resting a little more comfortably. By 8 AM the facial edema was down and she no longer looked like she'd bleed out through her eyeballs. She slept all day and by that evening, she was back to normal.

So anyway, being scared spitless and nervous as a whore in church, I vaped like a fiend all night long while never taking my eyes off her for more than a few minutes at the time. I set a personal record for most liquid vaporized in a 12-hour period. About three days worth. My atomizer was broken in early on and the Caramel/Pineapple was soon tasting pretty dang good. The multi-faceted character of the Caramel came in as expected and I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable blend. Smoky, rich and pleasantly sweet and fruity. It made a truly miserable night a lot more tolerable.

I suggest you give this blend a try but please, do it under calmer circumstances.

**crazyhorse** · 11-02-2009, 02:44 AM

50% Orange overpowered the Caramel. Still delicious but not what I was looking for. Bumping the Caramel to 60% was better. 65/35 is just about ideal for me.

**gjrhine** · 11-02-2009, 12:11 PM

I would like to see a blind test of anyone who says they can tell a 5% mixture difference. BS.

**crazyhorse** · 11-02-2009, 04:00 PM

You crack me up Gary. You're like a drive by shooter that pops off every month or so. I can understand your skepticism, however, I doubt you are capable of measuring or even calculating a 5% difference in a blend.

Edit: Hey dbs, let me offer a simple exercise to help someone like you begin to grasp the subtleties of mixing and tasting. I'll keep it simple so you can follow along.

Imagine you have a large platter of food in front of you. Looks great but doesn't taste good to you because it's not seasoned to your liking. So what do you do? Eat it and say ewww?

Or do you estimate that putting 10 shakes of salt or habañero pepper or tobasco sauce or whatever spice over it will set it right? You go for it and you taste it and dang it, it still isn't exactly the taste you want. It's better but just not right.

So what do you do next? Suffer with it? Get used to it? Or do you decide that five more shakes of the salt or the habañero or the tabasco or the whatever may do the trick. You go for it, you sample it and voila, perfection. When you tasted it you knew it was just about ideal for you.

I know that must be a rough concept for your simple mind to grasp so take your time and read it over a few times. It's okay if your lips move when you read. We won't tell.

See? Even an old troll like you can tell the difference when adding 10 and then adding 5 more. It really isn't that hard if you have a brain.

**crazyhorse** · 11-04-2009, 03:42 AM

I mixed a small batch 50/50 Vanilla/Pineapple blend and it was predictably good. A very pleasurable vapor.

Once I finished that off I decided to do it again but bump it with Coffee. I made a batch of the three in equal parts. This is definitely a winner. It's a complex blend offering a variety of taste sensations. This blend is very smoky with a lovely sweetness and a nice whack of the fruit. The Coffee makes it a real party in your mouth, nose and throat. A very worthwhile alternative to a $20 cigar.

**hyperdeficit** · 11-04-2009, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by crazyhorse

You crack me up Gary. You're like a drive by shooter that pops off every month or so. I can understand your skepticism, however, I doubt you are capable of measuring or even calculating a 5% difference in a blend.

Edit: Hey dbs, let me offer a simple exercise to help someone like you begin to grasp the subtleties of mixing and tasting. I'll keep it simple so you can follow along.

Imagine you have a large platter of food in front of you. Looks great but doesn't taste good to you because it's not seasoned to your liking. So what do you do? Eat it and say ewww?

Or do you estimate that putting 10 shakes of salt or habañero pepper or tobasco sauce or whatever spice over it will set it right? You go for it and you taste it and dang it, it still isn't exactly the taste you want. It's better but just not right.

So what do you do next? Suffer with it? Get used to it? Or do you decide that five more shakes of the salt or the habañero or the tabasco or the whatever may do the trick. You go for it, you sample it and voila, perfection. When you tasted it you knew it was just about ideal for you.

I know that must be a rough concept for your simple mind to grasp so take your time and read it over a few times. It's okay if your lips move when you read. We won't tell.

See? Even an old troll like you can tell the difference when adding 10 and then adding 5 more. It really isn't that hard if you have a brain.

wow i stopped paying attention to this thread about two months ago and it is still the same