Flavor West Huckleberry
ConcreteRiver
Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.16 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: FW Huckleberry@ 3%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 35 days.
Flavor Description: A dark, sweet berry base that tastes like artificial blueberry with a hint of a darker blackberry. Some balanced tartness and lighter perfumey top notes. A bit of cooling herbal mint and anise kind of bite.
Inhale is all deep, almost syrupy dark candy blueberry. Dense and heavy with just a bit of harshness. Exhale is sweet, with blueberry syrup right up front. Higher, floral blackberry notes with a slight cooling herbal mint tinge and a spicy anise / basil bit of spice. Fairly subtle blackcurrant tartness and funk. Sweet, but reads as mostly natural with no aspartame edge. Dense but just a bit dry, lacking a really juicy, syrupy edge. Lingering spicy, dry notes and a bit of waxy mouthfeel.
Off Flavors: Light cooling spearmint / anise on top. Not ovewhelming, but it's there.
Throat Hit: Nothing major. Those top notes get a little floral and harsh over 2%.
Uses & Pairings: Good, relatively complex base for a blueberry mix. Seems like a punchier version of TPA Blueberry Extra. Heavy enough body to stand up as a good primary note in mixes.
Good candidate to provide most of the body for a blueberry cream or custard mix with some help from something like FA Bilberry for a more realistic blueberry or FW Blueberry for a candy blueberry.
In bakeries, I think this should work as a kind of commercial "blueberry" kind of flavor. With some added liquid amber or a jammy fruit in the mix it should do a good job of pulling off some of the deeper sweet flavor of a blueberry jam.
Good candidate for a blueberry-esque berry note for a dry sweet tobacco. Strong enough to stand out, but not juicy enough to swamp a mix. Doesn't seem to have any of that red berry woodiness or heavy syrupy texture.
Notes: S&V concentration testing, seems to be best between 1.5-2%. I get a fairly weak flavor at .25 and .5%. Just some light indistinct berry sweetness. 1% has a fairly full flavor, but it lacks some definition. 1.5% is good, with a nice mix of sweetness and a clearer dark berry flavor. 2% has those cooling herbal mint show up, but as a light accent to the blueberryish depth here. 3% is a bit sharp and floral, still workable but I'm getting some harshness. 4% is pretty solidly floral, and the berry sweetness isn't really any better or stronger than 2%.
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