<h3>Grab Apple by the Melons</h3><h4>Description</h4>[Heads up! This recipe is available as a flavor pack on Bull City Flavors!](http://www.bullcityflavors.com/grab-apple-by-the-melons-by-exclusive-girl-pick-choose/)

**Grab apple by the Melons** aka **Melon Hi-Chew**  

This blend starts off as a refreshing realistic melon with a hint of mixed apples. As it steeps, both the Apples and the LA Watermelon come out more adding a mouth watering candy affect similar to eating a melon and apple hi-chew. This is a refreshing ADV that I can't stop coming back to. 
 
**Flavor/Development Notes:**
My initial goal was to create a realistic perfectly ripe melon salad with some chopped up apples mixed in. A flavor that felt juicy and refreshing with a touch of crispness from the apple blend. Well I over did it a little on the LA Watermelon and it candied it. I ended up liking it so much it turned into my ADV. It takes about 4 days steep for the LA Watermelon to really blend in and add that mouthwatering candy feel.

**Sweet Watermelon (CAP) 2% / Wild Melon (FLV) 1%:**
The sweet watermelon felt lacking in fullness/roundness. Its almost like a watermelon that's just starting to pass its prime and needs to be eaten before the flies make a meal of it. Its still good, just on the sweeter side. Adding the wild melon rounded out the flavors nicely. Wild melon is a mixture of watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon. The combo of the melons in wild melon are very tasty and I recommend this flavor on its own or mixed with other melons.  

**Watermelon (LA) 2%:**
Initially was to just add a mouth watering affect. It did that successfully then candied it to the point that its more of a hi-chew (the more realistic version of a mamba for those who haven't had it before). I would drop it down to maybe 0.75% if I want to go back to achieving a realistic watermelon but I really like where the 2% took this.  

**Anton Apple (INW) 0.75% / Fuji Apple (FA) 3%:**
Anton Apple is more of a granny smith style apple; acidic, crisp, and my favorite type of apple. The Fuji Apple helps balance out the acidity by adding a refreshing sweet bite. It also helped bring the watermelon sweetness out of that too sweet zone and back to the sweetness I was looking for.  

**Cactus (INW) 0.25%:**
Adds the juicy, wet mouthfeel that that every watermelon flavor needs. Not much more to say about this since it doesn't affect the taste at such a low %.  <h4>Recipe</h4>CAP Sweet Watermelon &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>2%</strong>FLV Wild Melon &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>1%</strong>FA Apple Fuji &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>3%</strong>INW Anton Apple (yc) &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>0.75%</strong>INW Cactus &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>0.25%</strong>LA Watermelon &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>2%</strong><p>Total Flavor: <strong>9%</strong></p>