Looking for help with flavoring vendor choices

[samslice]

I've recently had an idea that resulted in me finding this recipe for a spiced cranberry juice beverage: Mulled Spiced Cranberry Juice | Ricardo. What I'm looking for is any tips the community might have about specific flavors from specific vendors that I might use in my recipe experimentation.

Cranberry will be the main note, of course, with secondary notes of orange and lemon. Accent notes will be cinnamon, clove, and star anise.

• I've got TFA Cranberry that I'll probably use, unless someone else can recommend a freakishly full-flavored but not over-the-top cranberry.
• I don't know anything about orange flavorings. I've not had an occasion to use them yet, so any tips on solid options would be greatly appreciated.
• For the lemon, I'm thinking CAP Juicy Lemon, though I'm certainly open to other suggestions.
• The only cinnamon I've used to date is CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl, so I'm looking for something else to use.
• I know nothing about clove or star anise flavorings, so if anybody's found ones that work really well, I'm all ears.

 

[glasseye]

The best cinnamon I've had is Flavorah Rich Cinnamon. It's very strong so I use it in drops and not percentages.
Hangsen Apple Mix has some spices in it already, a mix of apple, cranberry, cinnamon and spice. The cranberry isn't very forward but the spices are lovely.

 

[BrotherBob]

I've recently had an idea that resulted in me finding this recipe for a spiced cranberry juice beverage: Mulled Spiced Cranberry Juice | Ricardo. What I'm looking for is any tips the community might have about specific flavors from specific vendors that I might use in my recipe experimentation.

Cranberry will be the main note, of course, with secondary notes of orange and lemon. Accent notes will be cinnamon, clove, and star anise.

• I've got TFA Cranberry that I'll probably use, unless someone else can recommend a freakishly full-flavored but not over-the-top cranberry.
• I don't know anything about orange flavorings. I've not had an occasion to use them yet, so any tips on solid options would be greatly appreciated.
• For the lemon, I'm thinking CAP Juicy Lemon, though I'm certainly open to other suggestions.
• The only cinnamon I've used to date is CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl, so I'm looking for something else to use.
• I know nothing about clove or star anise flavorings, so if anybody's found ones that work really well, I'm all ears.

Could look at some of these:
TFA/FLV Clove
FA Orange (Arancia)
FLV Rich Cinnamon
FA Anise
FW Ginger
FA Lemon Sicily

 

[samslice]

FW Ginger

Any particular reason you recommended the Ginger? Do you think the Ginger would complement the rest of the flavor profile? I'm probably going to try it, just curious.

 

[BrotherBob]

Any particular reason you recommended the Ginger? Do you think the Ginger would complement the rest of the flavor profile? I'm probably going to try it, just curious.

Go for it, who knows, you might be surprised.