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Haha, I'm glad you feel intrigued.

Feel free to drop me a PM/chat/whatever your fedi platform supports, I check every few hours so should be able to respond with relative ease.

My vote goes for a generally tall and slender species.

I think he'd play the hell out of a Kelpien for example. Say, Saru's long lost brother they don't talk about, at all?

It may be cute at first but I hope she gets the help she needs down the road, as this kind of self-doubt will ruin her relationship(s). It ain't healthy to constantly question your worth and the actions of your partner.

I'm fully in support of putting said lobbyists in stockades and providing rotten produce to the rest of the attendees to throw at these fuckers. At least it reduces food waste a little.

There really isn't a favourite, I'd recommend you experiment yourself until you find the sweet spot for you.

Again, use the Cube Cola recipe as a basis for getting the amounts right, and try the various "leaked Coca Cola" recipes that utilise oils to get the right ratios.

For example, the ratios of the Cube Cola recipe are:

• 62 unit orange
• 50 unit lime
• 16 unit lemon
• 12 unit nutmeg
• 7 unit cassia
• 2 unit coriander
• 2 unit lavender
• 2 unit neroli

With unit being 0.01ml.

In contrast the ratios of the Pemberton recipe are:

• 40 unit orange
• 60 unit lemon
• 20 unit cinnamon
• 20 unit nutmeg
• 20 unit neroli
• 10 unit coriander

This will give you almost the same amount of oil (0.154ml vs 0.170ml), but a wildly different flavour result.

Playing with the ratios of the orange-lime-lemon will shift the base cola flavour. I personally found that mixing different orange oils instead of straight up "orange oil" (in my mix I used tangerine, clementine, blood orange, bitter orange, sweet orange, neroli, bergamot) provides a much deeper, richer cola base (think like the difference between a cheap store brand vs Pepsi). This is where you can do most of the experimenting, first try to shift around the internal ratios (e.g. Cube-Cola has it at 130 units total for the citrus oils, so keep it 130 units but feel free to go e.g. 70-46-12 on the orange-lime-lemon, or swap the lemon and lime, etc.), then the orange-to-all ratios can be tuned too (just, again, go in small steps).

Nutmeg, cassia and coriander define how "spicy" the cola tastes. They add a different kind of richness (more of a warmth really), and I can't emphasise just how careful you have to be with these as even just a fraction more can seriously change (mostly ruin) the flavours. Especially cassia. Even in the Cube-Cola recipe I had to reduce it from 0.07ml to 0.025ml for it to not be overpowering - the Pemberton recipe on the other hand emphasises it to the point where it ISN'T overpowering (which is surprising, I know).

Neroli is optional but I found that like my previously mentioned orange base mix, it can add a subtle yet noticeable richness. Just like the spice oils, I recommend caution, move in VERY small increments when you change things.

I'd recommend you use the Cube Cola measures for unit base, as that wastes little to no oil if an experiment turns out bad.

Well, as I mentioned in my previous comment, some flavour profiles definitely go better with whiskey than with just themselves. I'm yet to try the Jameson's raw cola combo yet, so can't say if that would be the case for it too. It doesn't seem to be available in the UK sadly.

It really doesn't take much time though? Like, making 6-8 variants takes about an hour, and half of that is taking notes.

I'll give it a go sometimes, but the AMD CPU + Nvidia GPU combo wasn't exactly winner the last time I tried.

Hope I instilled some curiosity. Honestly it's not even that expensive to get started with (you can get food grade oils for about $40, then all you need is gum arabic, citric acid, sweeteners and E150 for colour, and finally vanilla for a final touch), unless you want to go real fancy with adjustable pipettes and such.

The recipes are all down to ratios of the oils, so if you do begin to experiment I recommend:

• making a big batch of the base syrup (sugar, citric acid, water, vanilla, lime juice, E150, etc.) as this doesn't change much, but ingredients can be fine-tuned at the end
• making small batches of the "7X" mix (the Cube-Cola recipe actually calls for minuscule amounts, we're talking down to 0.05ml, so use that as a starting point and shift the ratios for the Pemberton recipe), mixing it with the gum arabic (again use the Cube-Cola recipe for ratios, this is basically to make the oils water soluble without using alcohol)
• taste test the batches, and make sure you take very strict notes (scientific method comes into play, as you will be most likely mixing 6-8 variants like I did, keeping meticulous notes as to what you changed compared to previous recipes helps honing in the right flavour)
• start with pure white crystal sugar for sweetening - various sweeteners have after-tastes or the commercial variants have additives that cause foaming or separation, so before you go sugar-free, tune in the flavour you want, then experiment with sweeteners.
• if you can get some, try phosphoric acid instead of citric acid - much more sour and has lesser health effects, meaning you can use 1/10-1/20 as much.
• neroli oil is kinda spenny but worth the money given how little you can put into the mix and still have a strong effect on the flavour.
• Do NOT go overboard with the lavender oil. In fact go super duper careful with it because one minor spill and it WILL stick around on your clothes, skin, mouth, kitchen tiles, everything, for weeks.
• same goes for cassia oil. Be very, very, very careful, unless you want to smell like you're sticking entire cinnamon sticks up your arse.
• an adjustable pipette costs about $30, but is immensely helpful. I ended up getting a 1ml with 0.001ml stepping and a 5ml with 0.025ml stepping. Tips are cheap, and easily connected/ejected as these pipettes are designed for lab use, so you can ideally dispose of the tips without contaminating anything else. Which is important because of the previous two points.
• Mix in a tall glass. For the gum arabic mixture and beyond I recommend using a small motorised milk frother (it's like, $5), as that fucker needs lots of work to dissolve.
• careful with heat exposure. The gum arabic base (gum arabic + water mixture before adding the oils), and the base syrup (water and sugar) can take the heat, but the flavourings - let it be the vanilla, the 7x mix, or even the caffeine citrate - can't. Make sure that everything is room temp when mixing the latter or dealing with a mixture containing them. I once overheated the 7X mix with the milk frother by accident, and it turned out to be the most disgusting, bitterest juice straight from Satan's asshole.

I think I've gotten all the generic advice down I can. I do have a bunch of notes tucked away somewhere, I'll try to find them!

Not the 50 shades of grey I expected.

oh she be definitely hitting the royal bong

Wait till you see the upgraded version: