Element pink lemonade recipe?

[japhia42]

Recommend 15-22 percent. I used the lemons @ 15 and it went from tasting like toothpaste...to mouthwash. Just very disgusting. There's a vendor, ecigexpress.com that has a lemon by FE that's supposed to be great. It's said you'd have to combine Lemon Sicily AND TFA Lemon to even come close to the potency of this lemon. We'll see. I suppose I could mix another batch of Nature's Flavors and just throw it in the back of my closet and forget about it for a month or two, lol.

 

[bigbluenose]

Sometimes the mix at the back of the cupboard comes good when rediscovered! lol
I would mix up one with the 20% flavour
And mix one up with an added lemon, mixed lemon from inawera is good!
And leave the both of them alone for 4 weeks and then try out?

 

[japhia42]

Worth a shot. I just placed a huge order from nicotine river. They have free shipping for our Memorial day holiday weekend. Still looking for a good grenadine flavor, did go on and order pomegranate

 

[bigbluenose]

Just had a look into the grenadine flavour profile.
It is primarily pomegranate and cherry juice.
Maybe a good pomegranate and cherry flavour is the way to go?
It is getting that bitter/ sweet balance right?
I will have to experiment a bit and see what I can come up with?

 

[japhia42]

That'll work @bigbluenose. Supposedly, Flavor Express? Lemon is the way to go as far as a good lemon. Had very close taste/flavor profile with the lemonade from Nature's Flavor's, however, I'm thinking like this...Lemonade(endless possibilities there), strawberry ripe TFA a nd pomegranate TFA and a tart cherry or maraschino? TFA or FW?

 

[japhia42]

I still stand 100 percent behind the original recipe I posted awhile back with the Nature's Flavors. 15% Lemonade, 3% Strawberry and 2% grenadine. It blew my mind at how spot on it was. I think if we find a Lemonade/Lemon that'll keep it's flavor and build the juice around that...we'll have a winner.

 

[chopper]

Has anyone thought of adding a touch of malic acid? TFA sour?

 

[scrumpox]

Just read through all 25 pages of this ... admire your tenacity fellas! I'd like to try a Pink Lemonade myself but am not focused at all on cloning 1:1

Couple of things to suggest as grist to the mill ...

Has anyone tried using Grenadine the liqueur instead of Grenadine flavour?
Have you tried pre-sweetening the VG by dissolving in some Stevia crystals? That'll remove the need to add PG based sweeteners.
Staging the flavouring mix before adding in the nic and diluents might help with the flavour fall off. It's also far more likely to be the manufacturer's process.
Citric acid might keep the lemon alive.

 

[Bstealth]

So I tried a pop at this... (First time diy)

TPA Lemon @ .7ml
TPA champagne @ .2ml
TPA sweetener @ .2ml
TPA sweet tangerine @ .5ml
CAP raspberry @ .4ml

The rest VG to make s total of 10ml

I tried some before steeping and something was there but nowhere near the sweetness of element. So I heated the bottle for 15 mins X 3 in boiling water and shook in between. It's been in the cupboard open for 4hrs so I smelt it again (no colour change) and added 4 drops of lemon and 3 drops sweetener. I also tried some element banana nut which was pretty much the same in the aspects of no change. Still in the cupboard...

 

[japhia42]

Well any and all options are definitely on the table as far as I'm concerned. @scrumpox Wonder if there's any real difference in the real grenadine as opposed to a "flavor'? I'd think the sugars would be off? If the flavor could extracted, that might be a different story. As I said, I'm at my wits end, so anybody's opinions are golden to me right now.