UK Flavours Concentrates

[chickenboy]

I'm new here and new to mixing. Been messing around with this for a couple of weeks now and finding my feet. Had some successful mixes and some not so. Particularly pleased with GVC clone recipe I found on this site.

Anyway. About UK Flavours concentrates. They look to be better value than most as they are £2.69 for 30ml rather the usual 10ml, so I got a bunch of their 99p samples to test the water. So far broadly speaking their fruit flavours are pretty good. I don't really go for fruity myself, but Chickengirl pretty much only Vapes fruit. UK Flavour's Mango, Peach, Raspberry, Black Cherry, Apple and Pineapple are all winners with her. Strawberry and Orange not so much. I have others I haven't tried yet. Mixed at 15% they are pretty convincing.

Their non fruit flavours have proved less successful with the exception of butterscotch so far. Espresso for example ... At 15% I detect very little coffee at all. It's just sweet.

Anyway. I see they also do triple concentrated range for £4.50/30ml. Has anyone tried them? Do they taste the same? Can you literally use a third as much?

 

[walks]

I bought a UK Flavours mixing kit when I first started mixing and one of the concentrates I had was a triple strength vanilla custard. I was trying to create a mix which I think would have used about 10%. However, I didn't realise the concentrate was triple strength and so it was really strong! Have to admit I didn't try it again with only a third of the concentrate though as I wasn't keen on the overall flavour anyway.

 

[chickenboy]

Strong then.

Vanilla Custard is actually one of their flavours I got a sample of, standard strength ... And mixed at 15% it's meh. Something a little sweet and vaguely vanilla. Makes me wonder if triple strength is stronger but not actually triple.

 

[rughead121]

Strong then.

Vanilla Custard is actually one of their flavours I got a sample of, standard strength ... And mixed at 15% it's meh. Something a little sweet and vaguely vanilla. Makes me wonder if triple strength is stronger but not actually triple.

I use their vanilla custard (18% with 3% DDL is good) and their triple strength vanilla custard. Both need 4-6 weeks steeping. The boss lady swears that it is triple strength but I have often wondered. The triple coconut and the triple caramel do seem to be proper triple strength though

Try the strawberry at 20% that worked for me

 

[chickenboy]

I use their vanilla custard (18% with 3% DDL is good) and their triple strength vanilla custard. Both need 4-6 weeks steeping. The boss lady swears that it is triple strength but I have often wondered. The triple coconut and the triple caramel do seem to be proper triple strength though

Try the strawberry at 20% that worked for me

Thanks, I'll give at another try and hide it away for a while. How much of the triple strength custard do you use?

 

[rughead121]

Thanks, I'll give at another try and hide it away for a while. How much of the triple strength custard do you use?

I ended up using 8% It was pretty damn nice with a few other things chucked in

 

[chickenboy]

I ended up using 8% It was pretty damn nice with a few other things chucked in

8% .... Which would suggest it's more like 2x rather than 3x for the custard, assuming the triple strength at this level tastes the same as the standard at 17. Good value if you like the flavour. Works out at something like a quarter the price of Capella per bottle (if my insomniac maths is right). I will experiment further

If a flavour works well from these guys, especially for those where triple, really is triple then these concentrates are very good value it seems to me. Out of interest, what else was in your sample set ... Anything good? I'll dig out my notes on anything you didn't try and maybe have a revisit of those I rejected but at a stronger level.

 

[gouldenvape]

Can't say that I've used the UK Flavours concentrates yet, although I do have some, I have been using Innawera flavours and working and 3%- the figures that you mention seem very high- are these ratios recommended by UK Flavours?
I will have to change my mix ratios if the new ones I have got, from UK Flavours, need more than 10% Flavour added.
It sounds like Innawera are also producing a similar Flavour to the Triple Strength range.
I did use since TW Flavour concentrates, a while ago, and they needed in the 10% plus range mix.

 

[chickenboy]

For their standard strength concentrate their general guideline is 10% to 20%. Certainly most of the fruit ones are good and strong (probably too strong for some) at 15%. It's a lot more than 3% but it's in line with recommendations for most Cap flavourings for example and they do come in 30 ml bottles for around the same price point as most 10ml of everyone elses

 

[rughead121]

8% .... Which would suggest it's more like 2x rather than 3x for the custard, assuming the triple strength at this level tastes the same as the standard at 17. Good value if you like the flavour. Works out at something like a quarter the price of Capella per bottle (if my insomniac maths is right). I will experiment further

If a flavour works well from these guys, especially for those where triple, really is triple then these concentrates are very good value it seems to me. Out of interest, what else was in your sample set ... Anything good? I'll dig out my notes on anything you didn't try and maybe have a revisit of those I rejected but at a stronger level.

LOL Bear in mind I like custard that kind of grabs hold of your ears and nuts you right in the mush. I have used up to 25% standard strength in a recipe before now.

To me the normal strength tastes looks and smells exactly the same as TFA/TPA vanilla custard so personally I find it stunning value.

UK Flavours concentrates I love:

Vanilla Custard
Coconut
Caramel (acquired taste)
Raspberry
Apple
Pear
Sweet Cream
Sweet Biscuit
Peppermint
Apricot
Peach
Double Choc
Sweetener

Concentrates that I find ok:

Strawberry
French Vanilla
butterscotch
Toffee
Red licorice
spearmint
Vanilla Ice Cream
Anise

Concentrates that are the devils work:

Lemon
Rum
Amaretto
Irish cream