Have you tried "Castle Long Clone V2" by EWS?

[tazzle]

Curious if anyone's tried this, and tweaks they've made, if any. I'm just tasting it after a week of steeping, and it seems like it's going to be really close! It seems a wee bit high on the bourbon and the Acetyl Pyrazine right now to me, but we'll see what another week or two brings. (for ELR recipe, ask google about "Castle Long Clone V2" by EWS, and you should find it. The comments are interesting.) I'll copy the ingredients here:

2% Acetyl Pyrazine 5% (TPA)
2% Bourbon (Vanilla Bourbon) (FA)
2.5% Brown Sugar (TPA)
3% Coconut Extra (TPA)
6% Kentucky Bourbon (TPA)
2.5% Oak Wood (FA)
3% Toasted Almond (TPA)
2% Vanillin 10% (TPA)

 

[jambi]

One of my first DIY ventures was Castle Long. Somewhat overly ambitious for a noob I reckon! Tried it, tweeked it, couldn't settle into it. The standard recipe as you gave above had way too much Oak Wood for me, and the Bourbon was offputtingly strong. The tweek I liked most lowered the Oak Wood to 1%(or did I sub TFA Red Oak?) halved the Kentucky bourbon and made up the difference with FA Jamacian Rum, and used a different FA Vanilla (Tahity?). The version I made with TFA Vanilla Bourbon wasn't memorable. I think I lowered the Coconut Extra as well.

Unfortunately, at the time I was playing with this I was using a very lame online calc and didn't take notes. Now I wish I had.

Also, it's been a long time, and I only had 30 mls of the stuff, but the highlight of the Castle Long Reserve I vaped was the caramel-esque note it had. I don't know if it was caramel or something else, but all the clones I tried lacked that note. The brown sugar is part of it, but there's something else that's missing. I tried various caramels, the best of them being TFA Caramel Original, but caramel seemed to take it in another direction, good but not Castle Long.

There is a juice vendor in Mexico that got their clone very close ("King's Castle"). It wasn't Long, but it was nice stuff. They also have a really interesting Queenside clone ("Sweet Queen). I've tried, and have yet to be able to even clone their clone (never had the pleasure of real Queenside). If I still lived there I'd ask... and if 30 dollars for shipping to USA wasn't too rich for my blood, I'd get my hands on some more.

 

[man00ver]

Curious if anyone's tried this, and tweaks they've made, if any.

It looks very close to the one I use, @tazzle (credit to Pascal P @ Les DIY pour les Nuls):

CLONE five pawns Castle Long
1.5% Acetyl Pyrazine 5% (TPA)
1% Brown Sugar (TPA)
1.5% Coconut (INAWERA) <-- my swap, Pascal uses TFA Coconut Extra
2.5% Kentucky Bourbon (TPA)
1.5% Toasted Almond (TPA)
1% Vanilla Bourbon (INAWERA) <-- my swap, Pascal uses TFA Vanilla Bourbon
1% Vanillin 10% (TPA)
Flavor total: 10%

Well, close in components, anyway, but using less than half the flavoring. If I wanted a "Reserve" version, I'd throw in the FA Oakwood...but using 0.5%.