Update: DIY_eJuice... now 200% prettier!!
Holy shit, where did the year go?!
It's been a long one... http://i.imgur.com/E2ulBlD.png just look at those pageviews grow!!
My most recent endevor has been to perfect a Root Beer juice... from what I have read, the trick is to add Wintergreen. What I have come up with so far:
Root Beer V1
Root Beer (TFA) 15%
Wintergreen (TFA) 3%
Menthol (10%) 1%
Toasted Marshmellow (TFA) 2%
Vanilla Swirl (TFA) 2%
So kids, what have you lot been up to over the holidays?
A simple but tasty Berries and Cream:
10% Capella's Sweet Strawberry
10% TFA Blueberry Extra
5% TFA Toasted Marshmallow
After having this steep for a few days, and dripping on it occassionaly once or twice a day, this stuff is delicious!
Definitely gives you the mixed berries, and the toasted marshmallow rounds everything out. Will definitely be keeping this one around.
Thanks again!
I have just recently gotten into DIY. This is my first big hit so I thought I would share it with everyone since I learned so much reading this sub.
This juice is inspired by Gambit from Five Pawns. I won't call it a clone, mine is heavier on the Apple and lighter on the caramel than Gambit.
I mixed up a 10mL sample, tasted, then promptly mixed a 30mL bottle. My son and I are both vaping this stuff like its our job! I gave it a 15 minute hot rice steep before vaping. Good right out of the gate IMO.
10% TFA Apple Pie
5% TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
2% TFA Caramel
1.5% TFA Cotton Candy
This is mixed into 45PG/55VG @ 3mg Nic
Just an FYI, vaping this with a VTR, Cotton wicked Protank II, 1.5 Ohm coil at 3.9 volts.
Super simple but very good.
Fuzzberry
- Strawberry (TFA) %5
- Juicy Peach (TFA) %5
- Sour %20 (TFA) ~%1.5
The sour can be left out or adjusted for taste.
Strawberry and peach tfa are a winning combination!!! The malic acid will bring out the fruits enormously!
Made this today as my first DIY in like a year+ and damn it was really nice. Thanks very much for sharing. Think this will be one I'll make in bulk.
Unfortunately I vape this flavor so much that most of the time it tastes like nothing. CURSE YOU VAPORS TONGUE!
You either love them or hate them:
Gas Station Cappuccino
- Bavarian Cream (TFA) 15%
- Caramel Cappuccino (TFA) 1.5%
Fucking CC from TFA... strong shit. I once got some on my hands and my room smelled like Mi Goreng noodles for a week....
I'd love some input on this one
Moon pie
For those not in the southern US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_pie
- Banana Nut Bread (TFA) 7%
- Chocolate (TFA) 7%
- Toasted Marshmallow (TFA) 3%
- Butterscotch (TFA) 3%
I may have posted this before... but I'm vaping it like crazy just now because it is so delicious.
Pina Ankara
15% FW Ankara Tobacco
10% FW Pineapple
Very simple tropical tobaccoish flavour. FW Ankara Tobacco has an almost-but-not-quite flue-cured tobacco quality to it. I like it easily as much as FW 555 Tobacco. I'm not sure I'm in love with FW Pineapple (I also have some Lorann, which is really good)... but these two go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Here are a couple I liked this month: All my flavors are TFA :)
Kiwi Punch: *Kiwi (Double) 8% *Cotton Candy 5% *Bavarian Cream 3% *Black Cherry 1%
Blackberry Pom: *Pomegranate 6% *Blackberry 4% *Ethyl Maltol 4%
There are some others that I'm tweaking, hopefully I'll have them for February's thread. Happy January! The sub looks very nice.
Giving your blackPom a shot this morning. Will report back :)
Nutella all flavors are TFA >* Bavarian creme 4%
- Bittersweet chocolate %3
- White chocolate %3
- Hazelnut 2%
- Peanut butter 2%
This is my first hack at a Nutella clone and it's pretty awesome as is, might need an extra percent of Bavarian cream and white chocolate.
EDIT After stepping away for a while and coming back to it, for the second batch, I increased the bittersweet and white chocolate by 1%, as I'm pretty sure the Bavarian Cream is potent enough. 4% on the chocolates is much better.
Another simple recipe:
Pina Guavada
1% - 2% lime or lemon juice or citric acid
7% Pineapple (I've used both Flavor West and Lorann, probably any will do)
7% Guava (mine is Flavor West)
Fruity and tart, very tropical... but tends to work best at low power as something in it seems to burn easily (I'm not sure if it's the pineapple or the guava).
I'm pretty sure TVC's piña guavada has some coconut in it, too. They seem to like coconut over there. Just an aside.
Just mixed this up last week one with 1% TFA coconut extra added and one without. I prefer the one with the coconut added it smoothes it out a little. But it definitely needs to be done at lower power. I also did some straight guava and I think that is the reason it has to be lower power because if I go above 4.3V with just the guava it tastes funky, while straight pineapple I can go to 4.8V before it starts tasting a little off. Thanks for the great recipe.
I've tried this mix with coconut too, and I agree... it smooths it out somewhat. I think I prefer it a bit edgy, 'though... or maybe I just don't like what coconut does to it.
I do like coconut in a pina coloda mix, however.
I haven't tried TFA coconut extra... my coconuts are PFS (from canvape.com) and FW. I will get some TFA coconut extra with my next order, I have heard much good about it.
Very, very interested in making my own juice. But, if brownie recipes called for 89% mix, 6% egg, and 5% oil, I probably wouldn't make brownies either. Is there a standard, like most people make 15 ml or 30 ml? Could recipes start being written to make a definite amount instead of the infinitely scalable ratios?
There are many free ejuice calculators for PC/mac as well as ipod and android that will allow you to put in the percentages and give you definitive quantities based on the amount of juice you would like to make. personally I use http://ejuice.breaktru.com/
Infinitely scalable ratios is wrong. If you see my OP, you will notice that it's 15% + 2% etc etc, which means each flavouring is a percentage of whatever size juice you are making.
It's not rocket science, DIY should be easy, but some people just use the wrong method of keeping notes, which is basically not reproducible.
Checkout the sidebar for heaps more information, personally I think to get started the .1ml calculator is online and absolutely FANTASTIC
Ejuicemeup is ok, I guess, but is showing it's age. The third option on the list in the sidebar is by far the most powerful, even letting you calculate how much your DIYing is costing you!
> The third option on the list in the sidebar is by far the most powerful, even letting you calculate how much your DIYing is costing you!
And measure via weight
%5 is %5 regardless on the size of the bottle. The percentage of the flavor scales with the size of the containers volume, so if you have a 60ml bottle %5 is going to be more than a %5 in a 10ml bottle.
- %5 in a 10ml bottle is 0.5ml or about 10 drops.
- %5 in a 60ml bottle is 3ml or about 60 drops.
Most of these recipes are written just fine.
My wife is a pretty good cook and I've heard her say that sometimes you can't just double or halve a recipe: the salt will be slightly off, or the pepper, or cook time or whatever.
Is anyone getting different results when he makes 100ml as compared to 1ml? Wouldn't 1ml be hard to make? Would 5ml be easier? A standard might be nice. Just a suggestion. I'm glad there are calculators. I'm also glad brownies don't require a calculator. (but if they did my smart-ass would be much smaller)
What do the professionals do? Do they mix each and every batch for order? Do you get slightly different versions every time you order? Do they have production runs with uniform standards?
I always mix my first batch of something in 10ml bottles... if I like it, next time ill make a 30ml bottle... if it turns into an all-day-vape, ill make it in 100ml bottles... percentages let me mix up any size bottle I want.
It's much like recipes we use for catering. Instead of cups, tablespoons, etc... everything is in percentage ratios. This allows us to scale to the number of servings easily... its a lot easier to say 10parts flour to 1 part sugar than it is to make 20 different recipes for the same item just because we serve groups of 10 to groups of 500.
BlueBerry Dutch
- English Tobacco (SM) 6%
- BlueBerry (TFA) 3%
- Mary Jane (TFA) 1%
This is pretty delicious on the first taste. English tobacco is definitely more like pina colada than tobacco.
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Mango (TFA) 10%
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Dragon Fruit (TFA) 5%
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Sweet Cream (TFA) 5%
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Vanilla Swirl (TFA) 3%
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Pear (TFA) 2%
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Koolada (TFA) 2%
80/20 PG/VG
Normally a fan of Max VG blends, this turned out well though.
I saw this on ECF, idk if you were the OP but it is damn tasty.
The original recipe I had seen with this called for bavarian cream and sweetener. I replaced those two with pear and koolada, and liked this much better.
Here's my most recent mix. I was really pleased with how good it was on the first try. It's a little strong on the cinnamon for me, but I think others will find it to be a good balance. It's loosely based on TVC's Southern Comfort. I call it
Southern Nights
10% TFA Peach
5% TFA Black Honey Tobacco
1-3 drops of TFA Cinnamon (This shit is strong)
1% TFA Smooth
Tested in 84% VG at 6mg (15ml.)
I just made some of this exactly as described, but with just a drop or two more cinnamon, then let it sit in a hot water bath for a few hours.
Heycallme, thank you. It is so good that I'm now experiencing an emotion that I can only describe as 'happiness'. For me this is a big deal.
1-3 drops of cinnamon in how much of a bottle?
Whoops. I definitely should have included that info.
15ml bottle. If you decide to mix up a batch, I'd appreciate it if you let me know what you thought!
Was this regular peach or juicy peach?
The Stallion
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Black Honey Tobacco (TFA) 3%
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Toasted Almond (TFA) 7%
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Double RY4 (TFA) 8%
This is a pretty nice, smooth tobacco vape. Just enough Black Honey Tobacco to taste it, but not overpower the other flavors. Toasted Almond takes a backseat in this concoction, but adds a nice nutty undertone to a slightly sweet, mild tobacco juice.
Terberker
- 1% TFA Toasted marshmallow
- 1.2% Acetyl Pyrazine
- 1% 1/4 tsp diluted EM in PG
- 1% TA diluted (1ML in 10ML pg)
- 1% FA Smooth
- 1% FA Latakia
- 1% FA Virginia
- 4% FA Perique black
50/50 PG/VG - or whatever ratio you want.
pretty decent from the get go, but gets better with age.
Coke-ah-Cola
- Cola Syrup (TFA)10%
- Koolada (TFA) 4%
70\30 pg\vg gives the right throat hit for fizzie like taste. 50\50 is still tasty
I made a small bottle of this, pretty good. Mrs says ehh flat coke!
sorry im new to DIY, but what is TFA? i know thats supposed to be the place you get the flavoring from iir but whats the actual site?
A collection of popular flavoring vendors can be found on the sidebar along with various other resources.
The Perfumer's Apprentice- check out the sidebar for the URL ;)
You can also get TFA from other suppliers. Sometimes cheaper than TFA sells direct. RTS Vapes sells TFA and others as well. As an example 30 ml of Bavarian Cream is $5.35 where TFA sells it for $5.50 (an oz just under 30 ml)
They also have Capella and Flavor Art which I prefer to TFA for many of my flavors. They sell everything you need even nic, kind of a one stop shop.
Here's one I just mixed up inspired by AiV:
Cherry Blossom Green Tea with a hint of Strawberry
Cherry Blossom [TFA] 10% Green Tea [TFA] 5% Natural Strawberry [TFA] 2%
Let me know what you think or if you have a similar recipe!
That sounds tasty. Pomegranate and Green Tea works well too. Don't have a recipe, I just kind of mixed the 2 flavours in a clearo one day :)
I made a happy accident this month, which is actually pleasant. It's mild and not particularly in your face, but the flavours pair well together. Meant to use Capella Sweet Strawberry (mine has a red label) as I've been working on a strawberry-pear mix, and instead grabbed Capella Apple Pie (also has red label).
I will make this again and try to add in a cinnamon flavour and brown sugar to the mix, and possibly bump up the Graham a bit.
Pear-Apple Pie
3% FA Marshmallow
8% Capella Apple Pie
5% TPA Pear
1% FW Graham Cracker
1% Sweetener
2 drops of dilute AP per 10 mL (I dilute mine 4 drops to 6 mL PG like some others do)
1 drop lemon juice per 5 mL
(I use 24 drops to the mL)
Well, this is a favorite of mine and I havent got any places to sell it for me, so I'll just release the recipe. It's really simple and delicious. It even gets better with time!
Strappaloupe
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Strawberry (TFA) 10%
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Cantaloupe (TFA) 7 %
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For an added flavor: Add Pear (TFA) 2% OR Mango (TFA) 2%
Not my recipe but just made it for the first time and it is really really good.
15% tfa banana cream 10% tfa caramel candy
I made this after buying some Namberjuice caramelized banana (which is delicious BTW). The above recipe is very close but not exact. However I think I like this recipe better.