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[scrumpox]

The coffee espresso is superb, outstanding, but don't go heavy on it ... 3-5% is enough depending on your taste.
The only one that comes close is Decadent Vapour's Doppio Espresso, which is very nice at 10%, somewhat nuttier. You must also warm the concentrate before shaking as it separates out.

Mixed together the two are just wonderful.

Inawera's Kawa (coffee) tastes more like a black, instant coffee, not an espresso at all.

 

[yolina]

The coffee espresso is superb, outstanding, but don't go heavy on it ... 3-5% is enough depending on your taste.
The only one that comes close is Decadent Vapour's Doppio Espresso, which is very nice at 10%, somewhat nuttier. You must also warm the concentrate before shaking as it separates out.

Mixed together the two are just wonderful.

Inawera's Kawa (coffee) tastes more like a black, instant coffee, not an espresso at all.

I have some of DV's doppio espresso found it a bit sweet (I drink my tea & coffee black no sugar, and I'm a tad fussy about my coffee TBH) and although it is very nice, the nuttiness isn't necessarily something I'd want all the time. The Inawera works for me to just add a hint of coffee to something but I wouldn't use it as a main flavour.

I'll see how I fare with the FA espresso when it arrives

 

[schlinky]

The coffee espresso is superb, outstanding, but don't go heavy on it ... 3-5% is enough depending on your taste.
The only one that comes close is Decadent Vapour's Doppio Espresso, which is very nice at 10%, somewhat nuttier. You must also warm the concentrate before shaking as it separates out.

Mixed together the two are just wonderful.

Inawera's Kawa (coffee) tastes more like a black, instant coffee, not an espresso at all.

Thanks for this, I've done a 2% mix based on what I'd read but it seems a bit light now all the other flavours are in so 3-5% sounds about right to me, I can always add a few drops to this tester

Something I'm also doing is keeping the freshly mixed juices in an inside pocket for constant gentle heat and using a coffee whisk to blitz it all together and oxidize the nicotine. The heat definitely helps the mixing, I had a custard go quite a few shades darker in 24hrs, maybe a week's worth of steeping in a cool box.

So many experiments to try

 

[BD1]

Never been a fan of FlavourArt, weak and expensive, but at those prices i'd say it's about right for the amount of flavour you'll need to use.

YMMV of course, on the rare occasion some of their flavours are quite strong, like Hazelnut.

 

[StuPot]

Never been a fan of FlavourArt, weak and expensive, but at those prices i'd say it's about right for the amount of flavour you'll need to use.

YMMV of course, on the rare occasion some of their flavours are quite strong, like Hazelnut.

I guess you haven't tried many of their flavours then.. Or maybe they recently got stronger. A load of them are seriously strong.. Not as strong as Inawera but way stronger than Capella and TFA.

Anise
Licorice
Coconut
I'd go as far to say most of the flavours..

 

[schlinky]

When I first tried CV caramel cappuccino I thought 'wow', the espresso has that same quality for me, haven't really tried the others yet as I'm waiting on a few more flavours to mix with them

 

[steffijade]

I used to buy a lot of my flavourings in bulk from flavourart in Italy, but first they stopped selling in bulk quantities and then iirc, they were part of the group that wrote to MEPs supporting the original draft of the Tobacco Products Directive.

Haven't bought FA flavourings for a long time.

 

[yolina]

The stuff's arrived I think the reason it was on sale is that the best before date is quite short - as in March or April 2015 - whilst the bottles I have from FlavourArt directly are all way into 2016. Granted, the stuff isn't going to just go off overnight but we might need to use a bit more than what we normally do once it's over the BB date and possibly starts losing flavour.

 

[StuPot]

The stuff's arrived I think the reason it was on sale is that the best before date is quite short - as in March or April 2015 - whilst the bottles I have from FlavourArt directly are all way into 2016. Granted, the stuff isn't going to just go off overnight but we might need to use a bit more than what we normally do once it's over the BB date and possibly starts losing flavour.

The guy from FlavourArt UK (John) mentioned on a Facebook diy group that he used some that were 3 year old and they tasted as good as new ones.

 

[yolina]

The guy from FlavourArt UK (John) mentioned on a Facebook diy group that he used some that were 3 year old and they tasted as good as new ones.

Brilliant if they don't lose their flavour then

Some of the food flavourings I use when baking are waaaaaaaaaaaay past their BB date and haven't lost flavour at all, which is why I said "might" Though I think I may get a new bottle of violet because the one I have is now more than 7 years out of its BB date and that might be pushing it a bit?!