<h3>Stout Sauce</h3><h4>Description</h4>This is a lightly baked banana with caramel and bourbon notes.  After a longer steep, a subtle earthy RY4 comes through in the middle of the exhale.  

I've been eating bananas every morning before I leave the house, and for some reason whenever I smell anything that is supposed to have a "Bourbon Barrel flavor" I think of banana.  This flavor association seems like it would be a delicious thing to inspire an e-liquid profile   This time of year my beer of choice is a Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout, so I wanted to create a vape that not only paired with them side by side but also had enough nuance to vape all day and enjoy it.  

The core concept:   TFA banana cream/TFA toasted marshmallow/TFA Kentucky Bourbon

These flavors come together to create that flavor association I keep getting in real life.  It's smooth, creamy, and predominantly banana.  The TM/KB combo serves to enhance that banana into something interesting.  It almost gets a bit baked by the combo.  I landed at these percentages because any higher on the TM/KB and it got to "warm."  The 3-1-1 ratio here is the sweet spot, at least for me.  Play around with those a bit if you want to adjust the bourbon to your liking.  

I wanted to add a touch of earthiness and a boatful of dark sweetness into this recipe, so caramel and butterscotch bolster the sweetness of the cream base.  I didn't want to go completely tobacco, RY4 double along with the Butterscotch Ripple was a great couple of flavors for that.  If you let this steep closer to a month and beyond, those tobacco notes show up in the middle, subtle enough to really add something nice to the profile.  

Enjoy folks, and long live winter!

<h4>Recipe</h4>FW Butterscotch Ripple &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>3%</strong>TPA Banana Cream &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>3%</strong>TPA Kentucky Bourbon &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>1%</strong>TPA Ry4 Double &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>4%</strong>TPA Toasted Marshmallow &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>1%</strong><p>Total Flavor: <strong>12%</strong></p>