FA and KH Ice Lemon Tea Comparison

[beedee]

I've been a big fan of Iced Lemon Tea from Flavour Arts for a while, recently tried the Kandi-hed Iced Lemon Tea, thought I'd do a compare:

Authenticity: Both are quite authentic flavours,  you get tea and lemon in good measure in both - the FA has the edge here, as I get the tannins and that nice malty flavour in the tea, if you prefer your tea with less tannin (eg lighter teas like Darjeeling, rather than heavy ones like Assam) then go for the KH 

Coldness: There is hardly any in the KH, but a fair amount in the FA, funnily enough, if I was doing a comparison a year ago I'd probably have preferred the KH just because of this - but now I like a bit of menthol/ice in my mixes.

Sweetness: The KH tastes much sweeter than the FA to me

Strength: I mix the FA @ 4% and it gives me plenty of flavour, I mixed KH @ 20% as recommended on the bottle and this was also just right for me 

Value for money: the FA is £3.20 for 10ml, the KH £1.45. However, taking into account the difference in strength the FA will get me around 250ml of juice and the KH around 50ml (I think this works out at 12p per ml for FA and 29p for KH).

Overall: I prefer the taste (and the price!) of the FA, but the KH is a nice flavour, too, good for a change, so I'd buy it again if I saw it going really cheap in a sale.

I have not tried either in a mix - but the KH might be a better bet for this, just on the basis you wont be using tiny fractions of % to make a difference.

Be interested to hear other people's thoughts.



Happy mixing

[djs]

Nice work.

I shall acquire!

Thanks beedee

[beedee]

You're welcome djs , once you've tried it be really interested to know what you think.

[djs]

Mar 20, 2017 10:39:30 GMT beedee said:

You're welcome djs , once you've tried it be really interested to know what you think.

Currently sorting through possible new tobacco choices, but the Iced Tea is already in the bag.

[beedee]

Mar 20, 2017 10:58:15 GMT djs said:

Mar 20, 2017 10:39:30 GMT beedee said:

You're welcome djs , once you've tried it be really interested to know what you think.

Currently sorting through possible new tobacco choices, but the Iced Tea is already in the bag.

If your looking for new tobaccos and have not tried FA Soho, its worth a go. 

Whenever I use it out and about it's the one that most consistently gets a 'That's a really nice smell' comments.

It's got dark tobacco, caramel sweetness, touch of liquorice, but hard to describe, I've never tasted anything remotely like it.

A bit expensive as they recommend mixing it @ 20%, but, when I used to do only tobaccos, it was my favourite.