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I'm wondering how the two recipes compare to the Charlie one. I'm not a fan of a distinctive caramel taste and some reviews say that about Charlie. I can tolerate it as a distant background. Now i'm contemplating to buy some so to taste what it is like, but am a bit reluctant because of the (possible) caramel taste. The better option I think for me, is to do your two recipes, but I have to order the ingredients first. Only one I have is the RY4D. What is your opinion about your two, against the Charlie one?
To be clear, I have not tried to make the updated version which swaps brown sugar and caramel for sugar cookie and butterscotch ripple. As well, the pistachio goes from 7% to 2%, so I'm now curious. Are you contemplating buying CN Pistachio RY4 to try and are reading the reviews of that, or are you reading the reviews of the versions made by Wayne (or all of the above. lol.)? For the one I made, it was pistachio forward and not as sweet as I did not use as much VG and upped the nic. I did buy the butterscotch ripple to mix with Purilum Sweet Tobacco on the advice of a couple of members here because it sounded like it was in my wheelhouse; though, I didn't find it as fantastic as they did. As we all know, tastes vary. But, enough rambling.
At this point, I'd get the pistachio and mix it with the RY4D and go from there. Since the recipe I used had caramel at 1%, it just enhances the caramel note in the RY4D. I don't find TPA Caramel to be a sweet caramel anyway. If you use ELR, you will see there are about 6 pages of recipes for Pistachio Ry4. At worst, pistachio is great mixed with sugar cookie or biscuit. I'm by no means a mix master as I usually just take single flavors and mix them in my tank.
Though, I'm really stoked to nick into this
Goofy's Juice which is about done steeping.