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NOTE - I need to know if people are going to attend if possible!

I've made a booking and the next Stafford meet for Midlands Vapers (and anyone else for that matter) will be as follows (Note it is on MONDAY again):

Date: Monday 25 January 2016

Venue: The Sun Inn, Stafford (in the "back room")

www.thesunstafford.co.uk/

Time: 7pm til 11pm - I'm happy to arrive earlier if wanted. The Sun does very decent food (and good ale), so some might wish to arrive earlier and eat...

Please confirm if you are coming.

Please feel free to invite people on other forums and non-forum members

If you know any business types, or anyone else who flies business class, ask them to save you a couple of the "courtesy bags" (contain free toiletries, ear plugs, etc) they give every passenger - they make great bags for vaping gear

My last "revisit" to the OK Smokey "Roll Your Own" flavours is what I regard as "the daddy of the group " - Old H



For this, I again dry-burnt and rewicked my my Venturi RDA (fitted with a single 0.7 ohm twisted Kanthal coil) with Japanese "Puff" cotton and, having "Old H"'ed it up, reset the airflow to "fairly tight" as before. (This is 30mg juice remember).

As with the others the liquid is thicker than the high PG naturally extracted tobacco liquids I mostly vape nowadays. The liquid has a very strong gold colour and, in this case, smells of "roll-up" style tobacco with just a hint of a spicy fruitiness to the odour.

When vaped, the inhale provides pronounced "roll-up" flavour and feel and has a smokiness quite different from the other two flavours I've reviewed here. In terms of being "like a smoke" this gets closer than more or less any non-NET juice I've tried. The aftertaste is a smokey-tobacco one with a hint of sharpness and doesn't leave any sweetness or overly dry out the mouth.

The liquid gives me a satisfying hit and all-round vape experience. The vapour has a tobacco smell to it which passes quickly.

Whilst lacking the complexity of an NET this juice gets surprisingly "close to smoking". I've bought quite a lot of this over the years. A friend and fellow Professor from Devon (who was one of my first vaping converts) has been using this liquid more or less exclusively for over five years - speaks volumes I think.

My next "revisit" to the OK Smokey "Roll Your Own" flavours is "Virginia Gold"



For this, I dry-burnt and rewicked my my Venturi RDA (fitted with a single 0.7 ohm twisted Kanthal coil) with Japanese "Puff" cotton and, having applied a liberal quantity of "Virginia Gold" set the airflow to "fairly tight". (This is 30mg juice).

As before the liquid is thicker than the high PG naturally extracted tobacco liquids I mostly vape nowadays. Like the Drummer, the liquid has a good strong gold colour and, in this case, smells of tobacco with a quite strong fruity sweetness to the odour.

When vaped, the liquid really does have a Virginia style tobacco taste with a slightly smokey but noticeable sweetness - the aftertaste is tobacco but is somewhat dominated by a fruit sweetness. Overall the vape is "heavier" than Drummer.

Unsurprisingly with 30mg liquid on a 0.7ohm coil (about 25w in my mech) the hit is excellent - and "roll up" with a bit of "pipe". The sweetish aftertaste does linger a bit, and again is rather mouth drying. The strong vapour produced has a noticeably "Virginia" smell, but this doesn't hang about.

Whilst not a complex liquid this does (again) provide a "close to smoking" experience and is a very good vape. If pushed I would say I prefer the Drummer, but Virginia Gold is most acceptable nonetheless.

The OKS "Roll Your Own" Flavours have been one of my "always in stock" choices for many years. I just ordered and received a "re-stock" and realised that I hadn't reviewed these liquids since the "old" UK Vapers days...

In "the old days" these flavours were named by the roll-up tobaccos they were intended to taste like, but time and the possibility of litigation has moved on, and now you will have to guess that from the liquids current names. I doubt you will struggle somehow

OKS's RYO flavours can be bought in regular or double flavour and in strengths from zero to a very robust 38mg. I buy these in Double Flavour 30mg or "extra" strength as three 50ml bottles in a "multipack" for approx £50 - so not cheap liquids.

I'm going to review three of the RYO liquids: "Drummer", "Old H" and "Virginia Gold". (OKS also do "Autumn Leaves" RYO). OKS have never been very forthcoming about PG/VG balance - the liquids have both in is about all... (My guess is majority VG but couldn't swear to that). Edit to add: I've just been told they are 30/70 PG/VG.

I shall do the actual reviews over the coming days/weeks - I like these liquids but want to do my "standard reviews". So as a taster here are some pictures:

Look forward to seeing you Jeff - as you say, the beer at the Sun is also worth looking forward to