I'd like to say hello and ask for some advice please

[gilbertvape]

Aug 30, 2013 22:03:56 GMT Didge said:

Hi and welcome Gilbert,

Although extremely happy with the juice vendors I've found on this site, I did once encounter exactly the same differences between a sample and a larger bottle. I've used that same vendor many times since and had no further issues.

In their defence though, I suspect the difference may amount to little more than a few drops of flavour concentrate, quite difficult to measure I imagine, especially in a small sampler bottle.

Buying from large-scale producers (often chinese) may offer more mix consistency but these will usually offer far less flavour combinations to explore.

Personally I prefer the custom mixing service and range of flavours available from our UK based vendors, even if there is an ocassional disparity between flavours.

Having said that, taste buds change quite drastically during the first few weeks off stinkies, as do the juices if left to steep for a week.

Cheers!

Well it's not my tastebuds as the samples are still tasting fine, I've put the 30ml bottles in a cupboard for now and I'll try them again on Monday.
After that if all is not well I'll contact the vendor.
Hopefully all will be well because their delivery service is fantastic, order one day get it the next

(PS I've ordered insulin syringes of Amazon, to mix the Virginia with the Cherry so everything will be ok in the end no matter what )

[Roscopecotrain]

Hello and welcome to aaec. Great advice so far and +1 for giving it a few days steeping. All sorts could happen.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[Roscopecotrain]

Aug 30, 2013 22:13:36 GMT gilbertvape said:

Aug 30, 2013 22:03:56 GMT Didge said:

Hi and welcome Gilbert,

Although extremely happy with the juice vendors I've found on this site, I did once encounter exactly the same differences between a sample and a larger bottle. I've used that same vendor many times since and had no further issues.

In their defence though, I suspect the difference may amount to little more than a few drops of flavour concentrate, quite difficult to measure I imagine, especially in a small sampler bottle.

Buying from large-scale producers (often chinese) may offer more mix consistency but these will usually offer far less flavour combinations to explore.

Personally I prefer the custom mixing service and range of flavours available from our UK based vendors, even if there is an ocassional disparity between flavours.

Having said that, taste buds change quite drastically during the first few weeks off stinkies, as do the juices if left to steep for a week.

Cheers!

Well it's not my tastebuds as the samples are still tasting fine, I've put the 30ml bottles in a cupboard for now and I'll try them again on Monday.
After that if all is not well I'll contact the vendor.
Hopefully all will be well because their delivery service is fantastic, order one day get it the next

(PS I've ordered insulin syringes of Amazon, to mix the Virginia with the Cherry so everything will be ok in the end no matter what )

Always good to have a bottle of menthol in the vape draw as this will always turn a bad liquid into an ok liquid that you can vape.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[gilbertvape]

Aug 30, 2013 22:38:57 GMT Roscopecotrain said:

Aug 30, 2013 22:13:36 GMT gilbertvape said:

Cheers!

Well it's not my tastebuds as the samples are still tasting fine, I've put the 30ml bottles in a cupboard for now and I'll try them again on Monday.
After that if all is not well I'll contact the vendor.
Hopefully all will be well because their delivery service is fantastic, order one day get it the next

(PS I've ordered insulin syringes of Amazon, to mix the Virginia with the Cherry so everything will be ok in the end no matter what )

Always good to have a bottle of menthol in the vape draw as this will always turn a bad liquid into an ok liquid that you can vape.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

haha nice one, i'll be keeping stocked up with menthol anyway because I enjoy it, good to know it overpowers bad liquids

[kailey]

Hello and welcome, gilbertvape. Hope the juice improves for you with some steeping.It gives it time for the flavours blend together better.

[Deleted]

gilbertvape .... only just caught your thread. You have already been given all the advice that I could have offered but I would just like to welcome you and your girlfriend to the friendliest most helpful ecig forum on t'interweb. Congrats on giving up the stinkies.

[Perpetua]

Had a reply from Jason bright and early this morning Gilbert, it clarify's the situation for us all. But if you're still not completely happy after it's been left for a little while, then as Jason says - please contact him.

Aug 31, 2013 5:01:51 GMT VE Jason said:

The Hangsen are premixed, so technically don't require any steeping.

But, we are selling it a lot fresher than we used to (where it could be in stock for a month or so before dispatch) due to the demand at the moment, so it goes out virtually as it lands from Hangsen.

We are taking a delivery from them every 10 days at the moment and we did have a batch of menthol in the last delivery that had an edge to it, but once the customer left the top of for a few days it was perfect.

So that is what I would advise in the first instance - partly because we have had no other negative feedback about the Virginia and we are selling around 200 bottles of it a week - so it is unlikely to be a faulty batch and more likely that if the customer previously had a 5ml bottle of it - that would have been in stock a lot longer because we keep larger stocks of the 5ml bottles.

Please ask them to contact us if that doesn't work and we'll get it sorted out for them, no problem.

Jason

[gilbertvape]

Aug 31, 2013 5:57:34 GMT @freefromsmoking said:

gilbertvape .... only just caught your thread. You have already been given all the advice that I could have offered but I would just like to welcome you and your girlfriend to the friendliest most helpful ecig forum on t'interweb. Congrats on giving up the stinkies.

 Thanks, a very nice welcoming community there is here

[gilbertvape]

Aug 31, 2013 6:21:23 GMT Perpetua said:

Had a reply from Jason bright and early this morning Gilbert, it clarify's the situation for us all. But if you're still not completely happy after it's been left for a little while, then as Jason says - please contact him.

Aug 31, 2013 5:01:51 GMT VE Jason said:

The Hangsen are premixed, so technically don't require any steeping.

But, we are selling it a lot fresher than we used to (where it could be in stock for a month or so before dispatch) due to the demand at the moment, so it goes out virtually as it lands from Hangsen.

We are taking a delivery from them every 10 days at the moment and we did have a batch of menthol in the last delivery that had an edge to it, but once the customer left the top of for a few days it was perfect.

So that is what I would advise in the first instance - partly because we have had no other negative feedback about the Virginia and we are selling around 200 bottles of it a week - so it is unlikely to be a faulty batch and more likely that if the customer previously had a 5ml bottle of it - that would have been in stock a lot longer because we keep larger stocks of the 5ml bottles.

Please ask them to contact us if that doesn't work and we'll get it sorted out for them, no problem.

Jason

Thanks again Perpetua, I'll wait till Monday and see how it goes.
I'll even order another 5ml bottle just to double check again for myself.

Erm, Jason in his reply to you mentioned leaving the lid off, is that something I should be doing with the bottles in my cupboard?
Is that how you steep them?

[Perpetua]

Aug 31, 2013 20:29:17 GMT gilbertvape said:

Thanks again Perpetua, I'll wait till Monday and see how it goes.
I'll even order another 5ml bottle just to double check again for myself.

Erm, Jason in his reply to you mentioned leaving the lid off, is that something I should be doing with the bottles in my cupboard?
Is that how you steep them?

YW Gilbert . . . I'd give it another week myself before you try it again. Personally I leave the lids on any bottles steeping, as I'd be just as likely to knock them over with the lids off.

There's no hard and fast on that.

[gilbertvape]

I'll take the lid off the one bottle I've opened(it's up high in a cupboard I don't use so it'll be fine)
I'll order a 5ml sample on Monday and compare it with the 30ml bottle on Tuesday then contact vapeescape with my findings

I'm going to open the 30ml Cherry bottle now and see how it is.....be back in half an hour....

[gilbertvape]

Cherry tastes just fine btw

Which complicates things a bit more!

I'm going to open the second Virginia bottle, see how that is.....back in half an hour....

[gilbertvape]

Second bottle still tastes funny.
I've ordered a 5ml sample, should have it by Tuesday, I'll report back then!

(worst come to worst I'll get another 30ml bottle of Cherry and mix it with this Virginia I don't like)

((next time I order cartomisers, I'm just getting the silver ones so I can write the flavour on them, I've got so many flavoured carts lying around now! ))

[Perpetua]

You could always speed the steeping process up a little by standing the bottles in a cup of warm water several times Gilbert, it will help the infusion process along.

[digital7]

Usually I dont have any problem but I have sometimes experienced some variation in taste but not too bad. Letting the liquid settle for a few days has helped. Also using a different, more powerful battery, or a different cartomiser/clearomiser made a difference to the taste too so I just experimented with different combinations until it tastes perfect. Good luck.