Inawera Lemon Mix and Blackcurrant.

[stonethecrows]

These two flavours can be bought at www.inawera.com/. It takes you to the Polish site, but just click on the flag on the right hand side which takes you to another Inawera shop which is easier to follow and you get a 15% discount on your first order, with code 'FIRST15'

The price of these concentrates are about £2-£2.20 each, some are even cheaper. The beauty about these is, you generally only need between 2-5% so the value is brilliant. There are a few that need 8-10% but of the ones I've tried so far they have been mostly mixed at 3% . Unlike some I've had in the past from the UK. I'm not mentioning any names but....some really do take...... Liberty's. I've had some of the inawera concentrates from the UK before including the two below, but I can't for the life of me remember where I got them ???. I pretty much buy direct these days..anyway, so la de da.

Although the shop I've linked is abroad, shipping is a pretty good price and it took six days from ordering to my door.


Inawera(wera garden)Lemon Mix.

I added six drops to 10ml of 60/40 PG/VG. I normally do a 4ml or 5ml sample of new concentrates, but with this one, I only needed to sniff it to know it was a keeper. Sure enough, after a 7 day steep it was excellent. It's Zingy/Zangy/Tangy/...or ant other...y...you want to call it! I get the lemon, I get the Lime and it's as though it's been picked off a tree in Menorca. A very good standalone or great with other fruits....le 10/10.

Inawera Blackcurrant.

I made an initial 4ml of this up at 60/40 PG/VG - because, when I took a sniff of it...it smelt a bit funny, however, once I let it steep for 10 days+ it was if somebody had thrown a shitload of blackcurrant bushes in my face:)I mixed it at 4%(about 9 drops) some of you may need less. It is so authentically real and delicious, you may be spitting the pips out at the end!...(are there even pips in blackcurrants lol?)....This concentrate can be another good mixer, I've already mixed Lemon mix 'n' Blackcurrant with a touch of menthol and koolada, which is another fine concoction. It also works well with Absinthe/Pear and the like. Just have mess around with it....9.5/10. The only reason I never gave it a ten, is because of the funky smell you get when you open the bottle.

Just a word about the bottles. The nozzles are thinner than the generic concentrate bottles, or the general consensus of most concentrate bottles is usually 30drops= 1ml....but with the Inawera nozzle tops, I consistently measured 56/57 drops per 1ml so, 1% flavouring into a 10ml mix would be 6 drops from an Inawera nozzle top bottle.

I've got a load more to mix....fruits/mints/tobaccos/tobacco absolutes ..I will try and review a few more if I can. 

[djs]

No surprises from me. Inawera is excellent stuff.

When you say some UK vendors take liberties, do you mean on price or strength?

Inawera seems to work with just "drops" of flavour. Some brands require as much as 20% and even then, you can hardly taste anything.

[Pepperty]

I bought 10+ inawera fruit flavours at a bargain price from 28vapeslater. WHY oh WHY did no-one mention (that besides there very pretty gold lids) that wording is foreign, and only pictures of fruits on label?!?!

SO...I'm supposed to know a concentrate blueberry, from a blackberry from a melon or mango?!
so, I cant tell my peach from my pear or my apricot

[Pepperty]

Mar 14, 2014 21:36:32 GMT djs said:

No surprises from me. Inawera is excellent stuff.

When you say some UK vendors take liberties, do you mean on price or strength?

Inawera seems to work with just "drops" of flavour. Some brands require as much as 20% and even then, you can hardly taste anything.

I'm going to take a stab at that meaning 'Liberty Flights' because as long as I breathe - I'll never buy from them ever again! You know their regular 25% off deals? theres a reason for discount..........you end up with 35% of normal flavour..

No lie, I had 3 other concentrate flavours already bought elsewhere - that compared terribly in comparison to Liberty Flights mix, i could even SMELL they were weak. As a new mixer, was the worst case scenario ever  ??? almost put me off DIY due to their dreadful low quality mix, i lost track of what percentage I needed to make up. They have lost MY custom for life.

[djs]

No argument from me Pepperty

I have not shopped with them for over a year and will never, ever return.

* massive rant deleted *

[vigowomble]

I think they're Polish Pepperty. Just type the words into google, ask it to translate and stick a label on the bottle

[stonethecrows]

Mar 14, 2014 21:45:44 GMT Pepperty said:

I bought 10+ inawera fruit flavours at a bargain price from 28vapeslater. WHY oh WHY did no-one mention (that besides there very pretty gold lids) that wording is foreign, and only pictures of fruits on label?!?!

SO...I'm supposed to know a concentrate blueberry, from a blackberry from a melon or mango?!
so, I cant tell my peach from my pear or my apricot

Put up a pic Pepperty or pm me...peter piper picked a pepper ppppp...that was a mouthful - I should be able to help you with the Polish ones, I've got a bucket full of these concentrates.

[sammy13]

Mar 14, 2014 22:09:44 GMT vigowomble said:

I think they're Polish Pepperty. Just type the words into google, ask it to translate and stick a label on the bottle

I thought they were Italian , someone who makes concentrates is

Never tried to read my bottle , it has a lemon on it lol

[sammy13]

Mar 14, 2014 21:53:06 GMT Pepperty said:

Mar 14, 2014 21:36:32 GMT djs said:

No surprises from me. Inawera is excellent stuff.

When you say some UK vendors take liberties, do you mean on price or strength?

Inawera seems to work with just "drops" of flavour. Some brands require as much as 20% and even then, you can hardly taste anything.

I'm going to take a stab at that meaning 'Liberty Flights' because as long as I breathe - I'll never buy from them ever again! You know their regular 25% off deals? theres a reason for discount..........you end up with 35% of normal flavour..

No lie, I had 3 other concentrate flavours already bought elsewhere - that compared terribly in comparison to Liberty Flights mix, i could even SMELL they were weak. As a new mixer, was the worst case scenario ever  ??? almost put me off DIY due to their dreadful low quality mix, i lost track of what percentage I needed to make up. They have lost MY custom for life.

If a uk store sells inawera ( or any other ) flavourings, surely even if they decant into smaller 10ml bottles, you still get the original flavouring?
This is what I thought but obviously I am missing something.

[stonethecrows]

...or, if like me, you buy concentrates from Leisure Liquids and mix them at a ''mean'' average of 15% then, buy the same identical concentrate from somewhere that...takes liberties....and then need a ''mean'' average of 25%> to get the same strength juice.

[djs]

What do you reckon - stonethecrows?

If I want to make up some new homemade, should I get from the Inawera shop (Ye Olde Shoppe Inawera Polska) or buy in the UK from an Inwera "rep"?

[stonethecrows]

Personally djs, I would go le www.inawera.com/ (click on GB flag on the right)...you get 15% off your first order with code 'FIRST15'.
Concentrates come in their own individual little box, and then it comes in protected packaging .

[djs]

Mar 16, 2014 18:19:48 GMT stonethecrows said:

Personally djs, I would go le www.inawera.com/ (click on GB flag on the right)...you get 15% off your first order with code 'FIRST15'.
Concentrates come in their own individual little box, and then it comes in protected packaging .

Thank you. I will shop there later. It's been on my "plan" for ages, just been trying to decide which flavours by trying the pre-mades from LT.

[GunJack]

I believe the ones sold by LT are authentic Inawera, so a good UK-based alternative

[bootneck]

Mar 17, 2014 10:27:51 GMT GunJack said:

I believe the ones sold by LT are authentic Inawera, so a good UK-based alternative

Not a company that will ever see my money again,Inawera Orange that floats on mixes and Tino d Milano Cherry Cigar that you have to use nearly treble of the one supplied direct from Inawera hints that they may not be any better than Lf for taking us for a ride.