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Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 18:44:13 +0200
From: Tim Graf 
To: cola@sparror.cubecinema.com
Subject: Somes

Hi,

first of all let me thank you for the very useful cube cola website. Some
weeks ago I stumbled across the original OpenCola recipe and consequently
ordered the ingredients and tried to follow the instructions. However, it
turned out impossible to create the proposed emulsion with just 3ml of
water. I found your website, and all went well (didn't even need a driller:
a 5~@ milk whisk worked perfectly for my ~50ml emulsion).
I continued to fumble with the ingredients, as I wasn't quite satisfied with
the taste. Both Open und Cube cola taste more like a mixture of cola and
orange lemonade. After some smelling tests with varying oil mixtures I
eventually quartered the amount of orange oil and reduced the overall amount
of oils (as the taste was a little overabundant). Lime seems most important,
but the spicy notes shouldn't be neglected too - the mixture at OpenSoda.org
doesn't taste like cola at all. So far the taste had become much closer to
Coca Cola. Yet there was still something missing: vanilla. As I had no real
vanilla extract I took ordinary vanillin sugar. 10gr on 1l of sirup added
the missing vanilla note. Here is my receipe for the oil mixture:

6.00 ml lime oil
4.00 ml lemon oil
2.00 ml orange oil
1.00 ml cassia oil
1.00 ml nutmeg oil
0.50 ml coriander oil
0.50 ml lavender oil

One thing remains unsolved, however - did you ever manage to create a clear
cola? Mine gets cloudy - the more the colder the water. I guess an alcohol
extraction of the oils should remove undissoluble parts of the oils. Maybe
I'll try this the next time...

Regards,
Tim