steeping times

[bogfish]

Hi all. I am totally new to making my own mixes up . I've made a batch of blueberry and harvest berry up and was wondering if anyone could please give me some advise on how long to leave them to mature ?

many thanks , Andy

[Deleted]

In my experiance fruits can be shake and vaped, but will still improve with time ( i usually give them a week) Desserts and Custards anything from 4-6 wks, plus allow them to breath for 12-24hrs ( top off)

Everyone has different ways of doing things, but the above works for me.

[toots]

Hi & to our friendly forum bogfish.

Normally I let fruit mixes steep for 1 week and I think that's pretty standard for fruits. Give a good shake, place in a dark cupboard and give the bottle a few shakes during the steeping week. Some people leave the tops off for a while, others don't. I normally keep the tops on mine, but each to their own. When I give the bottles a shake up I tend to take the cap off and squeeze the air out a bit, and then have a sniff to see how strong and yummy the juice smells

[phatfil]

welcome bogfish,

have a taste vape, if your not luving it let it sit a week or 2 before trying again,,

[sydsut]

Hi and a very warm and hearty AAE-C bogfish to the forum with all the answers. Most single flavour concentrates are relatively good to go, depending on PG/VG ratio and Nic strength. The more complex multi concentrate mixes can take easily 4 weeks and usually benefit for longer periods. Also these mixes can range from OK after 24 hours to really horrible in that time, with metallic, chemically flavours, that disappear after a few weeks. I tend to err on the side of caution and give everything at least a week now.

[bogfish]

Thank you for your replies guys . Am looking forward to having some fun mixing different recipes and looking through this forum

[chykensa]

bogfish - hi and welcome to the forum. There are many of us mixers here, so please don't hesitate to ask more questions, that's what we are here for!

[Perpetua]

Welcome to you bogfish.

Capella's Harvest Berries is one of those fruit flavours that really does improve with steeping . . . . I'd give it a couple of weeks if you can for it to be at its nicest.

What percentage did you use?


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[bogfish]

Hi Perpetua , I used 50-50 pg-vg with about 22% harvest berry and a few drops of menthol. I have already tried the 5ml bottle I did and it was nice but maybe a little weak . Hopefully leaving the 30ml bottle to steep will bring out the flavour more .

[Perpetua]

I normally go with 20% Harvest Berries, VG heavy mix bogfish . . . . and leave it for a good month before using. But that's just what suits my tastes - no hard and fast rules on percentages, as long as it tastes good to you, that's all that matters. 

Koolada is another additive you might like to try, it adds a ' cool ' sensation to a mix, minus any actual flavour. That also works well with Harvest Berries and other fruity flavours.

www.chefsvapour.co.uk/perfumers-apprentice/1928-koolada-10.html

[TJ]

Harvest Berry is supremely good, I do 20% and sometimes 5% Strawb in there with it as I don't like the teeny tiny hint of blueberry I get without the Strawb, very very good.