how do you do it?

[nicotinelad]

Hi guys, im just interested to know how you mix your juice with different flavours.
lets suppose i have two new fruit flavours to play with blackcurrant and apple, i tend to mix two separate 10ml bottles at 10% one of blackcurrant and the other apple.
I then see if i like the individual flavours on there own and how strong they are.
Then i tend to mix a little bit of one with the other to get the blackcurrant and apple flavour i want.
I find this method when using two or three fruit flavours the best way for me as opposed to mixing the concentrates together in one bottle of 10ml mix.
Once i know the ratios i want i then mix a bigger batch using the concentrates together.
Who else dose it this way also?

 

[billy_idle]

I'm still enjoying just single flavours on the whole, but when I've mixed flavours for a 'special mix' bottle I've done it as you described.

 

[nicotinelad]

Thanks for the reply billy_idle. glad to know im not the only one doing it this way.
it dose not always work, i have a really nice rhubarb and a really nice apple. so i mixed them together , lovely rhubarb and apple i thought
old socks YUK.
Still dont know why. but i only wasted about 5ml.

 

[billy_idle]

I'm really just at the start of the DIY journey though. I made a nice Apple, Caramel and Cream Fresh mix for my wife yesterday, but just added them together until it tasted nice lol. We are pretty easily pleased though.

 

[oldhippydude]

i used to do very similar to you when I was experimenting with flavours.
I would drip separate flavour juices into a dripper to check what flavours worked together before moving on to a bunch of 10 ml test batches.
Now I have got some mixes I like, that work for me , my mixes are variations on a theme and are likely to be either identical to previous mixes or slightly tweaked and I only mix 100ml batches . Since they are only slightly tweaked then the worst that can happen is they will be slightly worse than mixes I like and I can live with that.

 

[nicotinelad]

Sounds the same as i do oldhippydude, in 10ml bottles.
I have just bought a little boy dripper so will use that as well.
Once i find my best flavours i tend to mix them up in 60ml batches.