I am new on here and have already got a ton of help from all of your posts, and also some one-on-one help earlier today...so just wanted to throw my 2 cents worth in here by giving my feedback on the four VZ Concentrated flavors I got now that I am effectively mixing them:
I got Banana, Caramel, Ameretto, and Cherry. I made a 3ml sample batch of each and tried each over the last two days. The Banana I like a lot. The Cherry is not what I was hoping for and is too sour...I thought it would be more sweet like Bing cherries; that's what I wanted. Any ideas on why it's sour? I heard several people describe it as being perfectly sweet just like fresh Bing cherries and that's what made me order it. I am mixing at 24mg Nic (planning to drop to 18, then 12 weekly) Maybe too much Nic makes the Cherry taste sour??? My PG/VG is 60/40. I've been trying different ratios between 50/50 and 80/20.
The Ameretto was ordered by mistake...I was thinking of Anise when I ordered it and wanted Licorice flavor and of course it is not. It's OK and is kind of growing on me actually.
The Caramel is just weird. It is not the Kraft's candy kind of taste, like a gooey caramel Halloween taste. I dont know how to describe it but it's not like candy, that's for sure, and the smell is freakin unpleasant. It actually is more of a tobacco taste than caramel, and still that way even though I made a new sample at 1%. I just don't like it.
Lots of you are talking about steeping it, so I am following your lead and doing that. Anybody have input on technique: I heard one of you mention "giving it a warm bath" and leaving it open to air. Is that effective? If a juice should be steeped, how long is good...like how do you know when it has peaked.
And once it has reached it's full flavor, how do you preserve it...refrigerate it? Just curious for input, and I know there are tons of posts on this but I'm curious for those who are now using this VZ concentrate.
Thanks!