Flavours Fading

[jay2]

Some flavours (and some mixes) do fade rapidly. I was discussing that on another forum when i had similar issues with mixing strawberries and cream. It's intersting that it depends on the size of the bottle in your case, though!

I'm thinking, if you'r 30ml bottles fade when you're partway through using them (did I understand that right?) it would likely be that you've got quite enough air trapped inside the bottle by then to do the damage, never mind what you do to stop more getting in,

I don't use plastic bottles, partly for the reasons discussed, and partly because I fail to see a good way of cleaning and sterilising them for re-use. Biological contamination can screw with your flavour too, besides being a health hazzard.

Why not invest in a few dozen glass bottles for your mixing? You can get dropper bottles pretty cheaply from specialist merchants, and some of them also sell matching "straight tipped" glass pipette closures for filling your tank. Just get a few of those, because you only want to use them when you're actually dispensing the juice. (the rubber bulb can let volatile flavours escape) . Get flat screw caps for steeping.

Glass bottles can be re-used almost forever. But iff you get the pipettes, be careful with those rubber bulbs, They're relatively perishable- and they don't like being boiled.

 

[Vaporz1]

As already covered, would check the bottles for air leaks and also make sure the bottle is pretty much full of liquid as opposed to half full, the only times I've had flavour drop( but only slightly) is when I've left half a bottle for a while, the air left in the bottle mellows down the flavour, only used the blueberry and inw raspberry out of those, but with quite a few other flavours so couldn't say about them, but if you have used them before and its all fine then it must be the bottle in my opinion