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I steep the RY4 for at least a week, somewhere warm.

On the coffees - if the eliquid and concentrate is a light, clear golden brown it's the Kawa, if it's very, very dark brown it's the Wera Garden coffee. The latter is very strong and similar to PA Kona Coffee.

I like this one too. I also like the Flavor West - the Flavor West Cinnamon Roll has a shorter more prevalent dough taste and its cinnamon is slightly warmer. They are both great.

There are 3 brands within the Inawera portfolio:

Tino D Milano - this is the top of range stuff and typically very polished and ready to go. I have yet to have a bad one -they all seem really good
Inawera - this is the standard range
Wera Garden - this is the professional / serious mixer stuff and is generally very strong and sometimes (but not always) unfinished - which can be an advantage if you want to add a flavour without any complications.

Overall, they seem very good on fruits and tobaccos and good VFM.

James were you seriously recommending someone stays in Wellingborough? There are loads of glorious villages in Northants. That's like recommending that someone who's going to see Shakespeare's birthplace spends the night in the Winston Green or Small Heath areas of Birmingham.

I was quite surprised by this one. It tastes more like a Swiss milk chocolate than a British one and I too found 10% to be a good point. The surprising thing was, it was quite robust when mixed with some strong flavours - I expected it to be overwhelmed, but it stood up well.

There have been a few threads on a variety of boards where people have made coffee as normal and then slowly reduced it. The trouble (in my mind) with this methodology is that you evaporate off some of the more volatile aromatics that are serious contributors to the coffee flavour.

I have steeped (both in PG and VG) ground coffee - straight from the packet using the steeping bags available at www.leisureliquids.com . This worked fine for everything except Espresso - which is a really fine grind that permeated the fine perforations in the steeping bag. Every other blend I tried was great though. Using this method the flavours I got were good.

BBraun and Terumo are also good makes. The limitation with all syringes is (a) the aperture within the Luer slip/lock connection (b) the needle you attach to it. Anything under 14 gauge will struggle to draw VG (Even with bigger apertures VG is a pain). Smaller 18 and 16 gauge needles are good for drawing flavour concentrates. One thing to be aware of is that PG is used in the printing process that applies the transfer gradation scales on most syringes - as a solvent - so sticking your syringe (as opposed to just the needle) into a bottle is not clever. Many people do this with small 1ml syringes into flavour concentrates and as these are ooften provided in solution in PG this isn't clever.

Also be aware that most of the plastic syringes are supplied as disposables. If you are a very heavy mixer you might find that your syringes start to stick. Some people who throw syringe barrels full of RY4 concentrate into the 1 litre of RY4 they make up every 4 months or so deny this happens. But people who make up small quantities regularly will tend to acknowledge wear. I had a 30 ml syringe barrel and when I ditched it, it was possible to feel the wear with a finger: the problem was / is that I fine tune around 8 16 24 ml and 9 18 and 27 ml. These are the measurements of prediluted nic base I use for making 10ml bottles of juice. I get the same wear on 1 ml barrels around 0.05 0.1 and 0.2 ml - though these wear faster. Needles, on the other hand, are pretty long lived.

The alternative to plastic is to use etched glass syringes. However my mixing discipline is now 1 x 1 ml syringe per flavour concentrate - which prevents corss contamination of concentrates so a move to glass would be very expensive.