Hello VU!! My very first post!! I have just started DIY and started with 5 different flavors to start mixing single flavor recipes. To my surprise most turned out decent, all except TFA Butterscotch. It was easy to tell with the others if I needed to go more flavor or less flavor for my next mixes, but that Butterscotch is just god awful. It taste like wood chips with a hint of spice, and I have no idea where to go or what to do with it. I guess what I'm really asking is for others experience with TFA Butterscotch. Is it really that bad? Did I maybe get a bad batch of flavor? I mixed at 12%, 80vg/20pg, 6% nic. Thanks in advance for any insight, and Merry Christmas!!
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TFA Butterscotch, what to do?
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Put a few drops in water and put it in oil burner, make home smell good. Only use, stuffs gross
I didn't like it either, flavor west is the best butterscotch imo. Mixed light like big nasty said, its a powerful flavor so it's 2nd or 3rd in my mix. Like Custard as a main, 4% butterscotch, a vanilla also 0.5% flavourart fresh cream does a good job of calming the butterscotch down.
Don't know what flavors you have but those go well together.
Don't know what flavors you have but those go well together.
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I was going to say, Butterscotch mixes better than a single flavor for some reason. New as well and was looking forward to doing Butterscotch but boy was I disappointed. Added some cream and was liking it and so am trying other mixes that hopefully brings out the Butterscotch more. I figure it as a secondary flavor now, not the main... Again, I am new so I could be real off base here....
Oh, I also put custard, creams, butterscotch and the like away for weeks before I touch it. They take a while to get good. I will shake daily and for the first few days take the cap off and let it vent.
If you can wait a month they really get good... assuming a good recipe in the first place.
And yeah, to my taste buds butterscotch has to be mixed with others stuff... overload.
If you can wait a month they really get good... assuming a good recipe in the first place.
And yeah, to my taste buds butterscotch has to be mixed with others stuff... overload.
TFA Butterscotch is abysmal. To me, it tastes nothing like butterscotch. I haven't tried FW butterscotch, as fq06 suggested, but I think that if you're looking for a REAL buttery butterscotch, it'll be hard to find without some kind of diketone. The FW Butterscotch tested positive for diacetyl, or acetyl propionyl several months ago. I'm.not sure if they reformulated or nor since then.
***If diketones don't bother you, or if you're willing to use them in moderation, you'd have good results with some FA Butter (diluted 10:1 PG:butter), and perhaps TFA caramel candy, dulce de leche, and/or caramel original. I haven't tried this, but it's definitely where I'd start.***
***If diketones don't bother you, or if you're willing to use them in moderation, you'd have good results with some FA Butter (diluted 10:1 PG:butter), and perhaps TFA caramel candy, dulce de leche, and/or caramel original. I haven't tried this, but it's definitely where I'd start.***
I think 12% is way too high. I usually see people using it at around 5%. Maybe try diluting it or if you drip, do a 1-to-1 drip ratio of your mixture and straight up VG to see if it's better.
I agree with a couple of posters above. I'm not really a MBV/Flavor West fan but their butterscotch is awesome. I like Flavour Art's butterscotch as well.
I agree with a couple of posters above. I'm not really a MBV/Flavor West fan but their butterscotch is awesome. I like Flavour Art's butterscotch as well.
