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[kingofswords]

6 new flavors.....ecko plasm( i been wanting to try but juicy vapors shipping far too expensive) dragon fruit and butter popcorn

[gizmondothefirst]

Feb 29, 2012 0:39:51 GMT kingofswords said:

6 new flavors.....ecko plasm( i been wanting to try but juicy vapors shipping far too expensive) dragon fruit and butter popcorn

Aw crap! Just when you think its safe to come here....I shall have t take a look.
At this rate Perps we'll be doing a group buy with ViP!??!

And I've just mixed an iced lemon and t'is rather delicious! I guess its a bit like Griz's arctic lemon, but with stronger lemon flavouring (Got my Lemon flav from Sainsburys)

Did a plain strawberry too (another from sainsburys) and its a bit lame. I've added plenty of favour but I think its that which lacks body. Tastes like strawberry Hubba-Bubba, after it has been chewed for an hour....yuk!

[Roger]

Wish my flavours from VIP would hurry up & get here, want to try the Honeywood Tobacco

[jsis]

Mine arrived today. First test HW tobacco.

Can taste honey and wood.. with a mild hint of tabacco. Lol

Probably one of the better tobac flavours I've tried, but I'm gonna have to move onto chocolate waffles or cake already

[Roger]

Arrived today, hurrah.

[Perpetua]

You ladz don't have much patience do you before trying out your home brews!

Haven't been ignoring you Giz about doing a group buy from VIP . . . but I don't know that as individuals we'd gain a great deal with the very reasonable shipping prices Sherryl charges . . . rather suspect that RM's postal cost will be as much with fluids as shipping from the US, as they do weigh quite heavy.

I'd be a little wary as well of buying in largeish quantities of nicotine base as an individual, I wonder if it's one of those products that you'd need an import licence for?

[jsis]

Defiantly not Perps, Gotta find ya feet and a mix you like hey I tell yee, this cake is quite something... really nice it is. I'll wait till i've finished this 10ml mix now then do the same for ye old chocolate waffles lol.

I agree, I'm not sure much would be saved by doing a group buy, the best way to find out would be by going back to one of them links I posted. You can click the back link at top of page and play around with the weights to see the differences it makes. I have more than enough flavour for now though to not be concerned by this.

As for a licence, I don't believe it applys. My only concern would be that the stronger the nicotine base and the larger the quantity, would respectively be the bigger chance you have of customs swiping your parcel from ya. You have to remember it is poison in it's raw form. If you have enough to kill serveral large horses whilst maming the whole family and your neighbours too. There's an ever increased chance they'd mistake it for something it isn't, then it's goodbye cash, hello questions.

[Perpetua]

It is lush the Cake Mix isn't it Jsis!

That was my thinking also on buying nic base in any quantity, even if a licence wasn't required, best avoided I think.

[gizmondothefirst]

Sorry I've been quiet - I can't seem to spend long enough away from work to actually reply!

The vip GB was meant 'tongue-in-cheek' and I agree the shipping prices are so reasonable that after the RM have had their share there would be very little, if any, money saved!

Patience is something I seem to lack where vaping is concerned! I knew I wouldn't be able to wait for a mix to steep properly...although a lot of mine have been so awful I have been left with no choice other than to leave them a week or 10!!!
I have had no luck what-so-ever with the 555 tobacco. Its either too strong and tastes like burnt caramel, or too weak and tastes of caramel (not a nice one!), but regardless there is no tobacco!?! I've mixed it with another problem juice - TPA tobacco, which tastes of Turkish Delight (and nothing else!) and now I'm left with a burnt caramelly turkish delight - yuk! Back of the cupboard for that one!!!

My coffee is amazing, as is iced lemon and cherry tunes!

The pre-mixed HC RY4 is now ruined as it was too harsh on my throat, so I watered it down with VG, and added caramel candy. That didn't taste right so I added 555. Still rubbish so a little vanilla. No better so a dash of coffee and D-D-L. All in all it is horrid!!! If I can dilute it enough it may make a good base, but it my be heading for the U-bend before I waste more stuff on it!

Luckily - my little LT mate Karma has saved the day by sending me her pre-mixed RY4, which tastes even better than HC's! Thanks Karma

[jsis]

Late night vaping... gotta love it

Giz.. I find it really paculiar that your having trouble with many of your flavours. There's so much talk of steeping going on here and I really don't believe it's needed. The longest I steep mine before being good is 15 mins. The flavour is always just there n much more often than not.. its also bang on the money.

Could I ask.. what cartomizers are using ? And at what volt ? These two factors will affect the final taste you get too.

[Perpetua]

We'll agree to disagree on the steeping I think Jsis, as I do find it makes a huge difference to the blend of a mix.

Sherryl's Caramel Candy, would be wrong in a mix, because it is just too much of a Candy flavour . . . if you want a nice Caramel flavour to go with Tobacco's, I'd thoroughly recommend TPA's Original Caramel, it's more of a ' toasted ' Caramel and not super sweet.

If I could send you some patience I would Giz, because you're throwing too much into a mix all at once and not giving it any time in between doing so.

My mixing mantra is . . . Slosh, shake, steep . . . tweak if needs be, but otherwise savour.

But good to hear you're having some successes along with the almost inevitable not so lovely mixes.

[gizmondothefirst]

I have a couple of findings I'd like to mention about my mixing experience so far....

I have been testing my mixes by direct dripping into the SR atty's that came with my Ego. This, i have always found, gives a very strong flavour & TH with masses of vapour.
I've been using this method to perfect(????) my mixes before committing the juice to a carto, which I did to a couple yesterday. The flavours seem to be a lot smoother from a carto than the atty. The vapour produced isn't as intense and the TH is a tiny little bit muted.
The problematic 555/TPA tobacco is absolutely gorgeous in a Boge SR!
Also - jsis very kindly sent me some Honeywood to try (Thanks mate!) and I have tried it this morning. It is very perfumey straight out of the atty, and although nice, the taste is much like a smokey perfume. I threw caution to the wind and filled a carto with it and the difference is huge! The perfume is still there, but very, very faint, and adds to the enjoyment of the stronger tobacco flavour.

Also ( ) The 'dodgy' mega mix that I did and relegated to the back of the cupboard was put into a carto, and again I was quite surprised to find it quite pallatable! It definitely needs something still (proper caramel (Ordered)) but its a flavour that, to me, is almost there!

I have no true views on steeping. So far it has been hit and miss for me - some juices seem to taste the same after a week as it does straight away, whilst others have changed a lot after leaving for a few day. I don't get it, but for now if a juice isn't tasting good straight away i put it to the back of the cupboard with the intention of trying again in a weeks time! (I won't throw anything away!!!)

[jsis]

Your welcome. I believe that perfume your refering to is the honey. It's very noticable at first on a LR Boge and the smell is something else. That is one flavour I found that after a couple of hours steep, them flavours subsided and then it was more of a smoked honey tobacco taste. Which was actually really nice if you like that sort of thing. I've never come across a juice where it feels like you'e just had a ciggerette, and that one did. It left the tobacco aftertaste in ya mouth.

Agree to disagree sounds good perp lol.. I believe sherryls flavours are quite rich. They remind me of the apple pie I tried from the decadent range. The colours are very intense

[gizmondothefirst]

My impatience gets the better of me again as the perfume taste in the Honeywood was too much for me, so I added it to TPA and then thought 'what the hell' and added some 555 mix i had.

Luckily the end result is fab! All the elements I liked of all 3 are very prominent, and the not too nice ones are muted to a level that I believe actually enhances the other flavours. It is now in competition to an RY4 premix for my 'throughout the day' vape!

Cherry tunes is my 'before bed' vape. Iced lemon is my "first of the morning' vape, with coffee my follow up from lemon and my 'after meal' vape in the evening. Lunch time is generally my testing time, so the pre-mixes I don't like are 'fiddled' with and are tested then.

I have just received TPA caramel flavouring for any yukky juice, so the cigar premix I got with my LT, although not yukky to me, doesn't really have a taste so now it can be rejuvinated!

I feel self sufficient in an almost 'The good life' way

[kingofswords]

finally got some pg last week so finally got round to making some juice.

kinda got mixed feelings really.
i vape at 18mg and sometimes 11mg but dont really notice the difference so thought id just mix some 18mg base then drip into other bottles with flavours would be easiest option.

so to test out flavours i dripped 8 drops of base into a few condoms and then added 2 drops flav and shake and drip onto my imist atty. pretty sure drops from different bottles were different size so cant say 20% flavoring for sure but will be fine if mixing with drops rather than syringes.

well cinnimon hot shots blew my socks of in both concentration and texture.....its like those hot sour jawbreaker/gobstopper things i used to have as a kid. fruit stripe gum once again was so (if a bit too much ) flavourful, tasted exactly like resfreshers sweets(you know the ones with shebert inthe middle) and so i tried gummi bears....not much flavour so added couple more drops and was very noticable flavour but tasted kinda like rubber....but rubbery as in cheap gummi flavoured sweets...perhaps tesco value gummi bears and tried a few others and flavs not so great. peanut butter was yukkk...more nutty than creamy like what i expect american PB to be like.

i didnt steep any of these so hope this will change them alot, but as theyre candy flavours ive been told they wont.