Experimentations are fun. Scientific ones, not so much (sorry, but memories of high school chemistry haunt me...) but i've always done them in terms of food and cooking. One of my favorite tools for food experimentations are Torani's sugar free syrups. You can mix and match and creat all sorts of beverages. For example, mixing diet coke with strawberry torani actually makes a pretty yummy soda (because under normal circumstances, i loath diet coke).