After tinkering around with the amounts in February's alcohol I have here at home having twice the amount of vodka to the apple liqueur evened the different tastes out with the root beer schnapps sitting in between. There is a kind of unique taste that the Russian vodka is enhanced by the flavor of the root beer schnapps, if you add less of the ingredients where it's like 1 ounce of each the ingredients then the platinum is the prevalent taste.