You've got that right. Do you know if there will be more of this available later?
The VS WTA represents the achievement of all the goal Jerry and I set back in July. If you recall or if you missed it, the goals were simple: More WTA and WTA to rival my own. It's been a 6 month journey, but the train has arrived.
Nearly everything I know about making WTA is embodied in Jerry's VS WTA.
Back in July, I knew how to make great WTA but only a very few folks have been able to try my WTA since I'm not a commercial producer of the stuff. Those of you who have been following closely know that the availability of Aroma WTA was quite limited 6 months ago. It was a valid criticism to say, "The stuff is hardly ever available". This is no longer true and Aroma's 24 mg WTA has been available as often as not over the past several months. The perception still lingers among some WTA customers that Aroma's 24 mg unflavored WTA can't be had, and there is a challenge present to dispel this myth.
With the introduction of the VS WTA, the other half of the equation has been solved. That is making WTA on a commercial scale that is essentially as good as the WTA I produce in non-commercial amounts. Flashback to December 30th. I'd gotten back from a business trip to the SF Bay Area, and still had a couple hours of driving home from the airport. Boring. What to do? Call Jerry. We discussed the differences between Aroma's WTA and my own. While folks have generally found Jerry's WTA to be pretty good stuff, we agreed there was still room for improvement. While discussing this, we looked at each individual step in Jerry's WTA process. After an hour or so going around like this, a single process step remained that made both of us curious. In all the work required to adapt my WTA process to Jerry's commercial scale, we were now thinking that this might be the single thing we'd overlooked. I rattled off some test conditions that I wanted Jerry to look at, and Jerry got going with the required lab work.
It worked.
Aroma's Very Special (VS) WTA was born. This stuff sets the standard going forward and anybody producing WTA commercially is going to have to measure up against it. That, my friends, will be a tall order.
So what now? I want to see 24/7 availability and I'll be cattle-prodding working with Jerry to achieve this.