Ok so I have been scouring the net trying to find tips or recipes for the StillSpirits profile kit.
My friend and I have been trying to create a whiskey that doesn't need coke, for ages. Every essence we tried always ranged from ok to really crap. So I purchased the kit and attempted to create the JW Black recipe. It was OK but needed tweaking as our real goal was single black as a minimum quality and if we could get double black then our work would be done. Our tweaks involved 1 ml more cereal notes and 1.5 ml more caramel. We chucked in a bit more glycerine (5ml) to smooth it out and ended with a whiskey that was not quite 'double' black but was a genuinely nice whiskey to have on the rocks. (thats right, a whiskey made from neutral spirits that doesnt need coke!)
I'm hoping that in 2 weeks of the flavour marrying we might possibly have something that is almost a double black.
I've also heard that the glycerine masks the flavour and many people say not to add it, but I noticed it did make the spirit smoother.
Can anyone place tips, suggestions, experiences?
We need a good strong thread on this kit! I thought it would be impossible to get a whiskey as good as I did, while its no platinum, this kit is really good.