Darcy S. ONeil

Flavour Drops & Calculator | Patreon Exclusive

Added 2024-11-16 14:15:05 +0000 UTC

The preferred working unit of bartenders for dosing small amounts of flavour—like bitters—is the "drop" or "dash," which is helpful in a fast-paced working environment. Can we take this idea and make it work for any type of flavour? Yes we can!

With a few simple steps, we can take the idea of a drop and use any professional flavour compound or combination of compounds and dose that at the appropriate levels into cocktails, sodas, non-alcoholic beverages or even in food applications. I've simplified the process by creating an online calculator to tell you how many parts per million (ppm) of flavour are in a single drop. Combine that with the FEMA GRAS information on flavour usage levels, and you can effectively work with any flavour compound using a simple bottle dropper.

Even better is the fact that this gives you over 3,000 flavour compounds to work with instead of the 100 or so herbs and spices you've been making extracts and tinctures from.

I've been making videos for 3 years, and everything I've produced has laid the groundwork for this video because this is the easiest way for someone making drinks to experiment with flavour compounds. The accuracy is reasonable for testing and tasting different flavours and working those flavours into drinks.

Here is a link to the Flavour Drop Calculator

Another calculator is being worked on that will allow you to see how many ppm of each flavour compound contributes to your formulation. As mentioned in the video, I am not a programmer, but I'm close to getting it to work. The harder part is entering the 3000 flavour compounds into a database so the form has meaningful data to work with.

As usual, if you have questions, post them in the comment section. Thanks for being a Patreon member.