SHAKE- Baklava
Producer: Croatian
Packaging: 24ml aroma concentrate packed in a 120ml bottle.
Our Croatian friends (liquidhall) are showering us with all kinds of delicious baked goods. In this case, we get a good, hearty, sweet Baklava with a mix of stone fruits and lots of dough. The smell is mostly of nuts and pastry, very pleasantly similar to the smell of a cake. On the inhale, you get a mix of nuts, pistachios and maybe a little hazelnuts, which immediately after the exhale gets quite a bit of sweetness. And now, lots of point-scoring, as the honey sweetness is so overpowering that I think it's a bit much. Obviously baklava itself is a very sweet pastry, but here, unfortunately, we don't get that honey sweetness, but a very sweet-sweetened sweetness that, after steaming, almost grabs the throat of the vaper and lets him know "you're not going to be snacking on this all day, my friend". The pasta becomes indifferent over time, perhaps due to the increased sweetening. In my case, it was left to mature for two weeks, after which I suspect the intensity of the sweetening will not wane. Nevertheless, the subtle and characterful taste of stone fruit is not overpowered, as nuts, pistachios and perhaps hazelnuts /?/ dominate the flavours. I feel we get a fully consumable soup with quality flavours, and the fact that it's sweet as honey is haha.... this is a baklava that should be sweet.
Producer: Croatian
Packaging: 24ml aroma concentrate packed in a 120ml bottle.
Our Croatian friends (liquidhall) are showering us with all kinds of delicious baked goods. In this case, we get a good, hearty, sweet Baklava with a mix of stone fruits and lots of dough. The smell is mostly of nuts and pastry, very pleasantly similar to the smell of a cake. On the inhale, you get a mix of nuts, pistachios and maybe a little hazelnuts, which immediately after the exhale gets quite a bit of sweetness. And now, lots of point-scoring, as the honey sweetness is so overpowering that I think it's a bit much. Obviously baklava itself is a very sweet pastry, but here, unfortunately, we don't get that honey sweetness, but a very sweet-sweetened sweetness that, after steaming, almost grabs the throat of the vaper and lets him know "you're not going to be snacking on this all day, my friend". The pasta becomes indifferent over time, perhaps due to the increased sweetening. In my case, it was left to mature for two weeks, after which I suspect the intensity of the sweetening will not wane. Nevertheless, the subtle and characterful taste of stone fruit is not overpowered, as nuts, pistachios and perhaps hazelnuts /?/ dominate the flavours. I feel we get a fully consumable soup with quality flavours, and the fact that it's sweet as honey is haha.... this is a baklava that should be sweet.
