Lol, whoops, it's May already, is it?
Makes me so happy to see the /r/diy_ejuice community blossoming, we are on track to him 200,000 page views this month! (Holy ejuice batman!!)
This month I'll leave you with two tips that most people struggle to come to terms with:
1- Sweetener- for the most part- is not needed in your juice.
Don't be tempted to add EM (Ethyl Maltol/Cotton Candy) or Sucrose to your recipe, you'll find that without any added sweetener your juice will taste 100% cleaner and your coils will not gunk up nearly as much as "commercial" juice that uses sweetener. Most flavours are sweet enough. If you feel like
2- Sometimes less is more.
Don't be tempted to always hit that "magical" 20% flavouring percentage.
A flavour might taste too wear at 5%, perfect at 8%, then at 15% the flavour will disappear again.
When building a recipe, get to know the individual components first, and try to blend your juice so that there is a main component, and smaller flavour notes. Check out the recipe threads in the sidebar for some starter percentages to work from.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a good month so far (Warming up in the Northern Hemisphere I hope!), I'll see you all around the sub!
-Mo
Note: Please refrain from posting random, ballpark recipes you haven't tried yet!
Here is a mix I made up based on Grandmaster.
I love it.
GMASTA 10% TFA Banana Cream 3% TFA Caramel 6% TFA Peanut butter 1% EM 2% TFA Marshmallow 1% TFA Whipped Cream 3% TFA Graham Cracker Clear 2% TFA Vanilla Swirl (or cap VC)
I know it's a pretty flavor heavy, but I think it's tasty as fuck.
Post any feedback!
Man, this is seriously amazing! I made it last night and it was really good fresh but after leaving it in an ultrasonic cleaner for a while and trying it again, I'm blown away. Fantastic recipe, thanks so much!
Glad you liked it! It has been my ADV for a couple weeks now. Tastes amazing after a week cure.
Reporting back. This recipe is very good. Nice complex mix of flavors. I don't personally like Banana, but this is amazing.
Thanks for the work you put into it.
On a side note I used Caramel Candy instead of regular Caramel. It adds a nice caramel taste on exhale that lingers for a bit. Quite nice. I can't really taste the Peanut Butter individually, but it does blend well.
I kind of want to let this steep and see how it tastes, but I don't think that's going to happen, this is really good.
I just ordered all the flavors this will be my most complex mix to date... I will report back by Friday night how it turns out. Do you have any recommendations on steep times?
Yeah, this recipe is amazing, i tweaked it a little because of what i had available (used toasted marshmallow in place of regular and vanilla bean in place of swirl) and changed it to be 20% flavoring and its out of control, i literally cant stop vaping it. Good work man, good work.
No Name Currently:
All TFA Flavors
6% Strawberry (not ripe)
6% Juicy Peach
6% Blueberry Wild
Really powerful fruit blend. Can almost taste the juicyness to it. I just can't come up with a name haha. It's great though.
I will share with you some of my flavor blends. These are made to be max VG juices so flavor will very with your PG/VG blend. I have many more, but I still hold out that the FDA regulations may not be horrible and that I can some day start up my own juice label. For now I will remain a minimum wage earning, college graduate.
All TFA
Green Peach Tea >10% Juicy Peach
>5% Green Tea
>1% Coconut Candy (Enhances Peach, not needed)
Double Apple Tea >5% Apple
>5% Green Apple
>5% Green Tea
Green Rasptea >7% Raspberry Sweet
>3% Pomegranate
>5% Green Tea
Valhalla >10% Bavarian Cream (French Vanilla is OK)
>10% Apple
>3% Pear
>2% Banana Nut Bread
Girlfriend >10% Blueberry Wild
>10% Pomegranate
>10% Bavarian Cream (Vanilla Swirl is also OK)
Clouded (Made for Dripping) >5% Coconut Candy
>5% Honey Suckle
>5% Vanilla Swirl
Jack Rabbit
>5% Jackfruit
>5% Apple
>5% Pear (Pineapple also works)
>5% Vanilla Swirl
We should talk about tea. It's been my focus for several months now (lemonades previously). What are you testing them on? The ratios seem kinda high.
Do you have dragonfruit? Try adding 1-2% to your favorite mix. You shouldn't taste it, but it should brighten the mix and act as a sweetener. Juicy peach at a similar percentage (<3%) will do the opposite. It brings out a dry tea note on the back end.
Anyhow, if you like tea and are working on them, I'd be happy to share notes. I'm not looking to sell, just share. I want thousands of badass recipes at my fingertips and the only way to get there is to open source it.
I'd like to talk about Teas... Been working on one for months. keep changing the flavors, looking for the right ones... haven't been able to get that flavor lightbulb go off in my head lol
EDIT: in fact.... http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/261um9/tea/
Sorry that I didn't respond to this sooner. The concentrations are high bevause I am a flavor fiend and it was made for max VG while giving the flavor of a 50/50 blend. All flavors except for Clouded are vaped in a Kayfun Light Plus. While that may seem high in a Kayfun or Dripping, not everyone is using that equipment. My mother a girlfriend both prefer using iClear 16 Ds. The airflow is minimal so higher flavor concentrates are key to keep them off analogues. Feel free to post revisions.
I made your Green Peach tea in a 50\50 mix no nicotine yet. I am digging the taste on the exhale, but I will see how the flavor blend after a 1 week steep. Thanks for turning me onto the tea idea.
The exhale definetly has more peach. The inhale reminds me of lipton's green tea. Also, the smell reminds a lot of people of cat pee. I didnt get that, but I also knew what I was vaping while others didn't. It is fun stuff.
EDIT
I also stopped adding the coconut candy since TFA added that it does contain custard notes. It is also the reason why I added the french vanilla/vanilla swirl alternatives to my recipes. I left bavarian cream because that how the blend was originally.
Banana Strawberry Milkshake
8% Banana cream 6% Strawberry ripe 4% french vanilla
All TPA
might adjust after steeping but is great freshly mixed!
This. is. delicious.
Thanks for sharing. I saved it to my recipes on e-liquid-recipes.com and I like to make the really good ones public. Do you mind if I publish and credit you in the notes?
Thanks again for sharing. My wife is going to love it even more than I do.
How was it after some time? You are correct, it is great fresh out of the shot glass.
Less is more when it comes to flavor is something I definitely learned in my first month so far. I now try to keep it at 10% flavor max, unless it a really light flavor.
These are the first flavors I've submitted so far since they're the first I'd actually buy.
(All TFA flavors)
Choco 'Nilla Swirl:
•Vanilla Swirl 5% •Chocolate 3% • Bavarian Cream 1% •Graham Cracker 1%
A nice sweet dessert vape. Made a 10ml bottle last night and it was good, tried some more earlier today and ended up making a 30ml bottle.
Honey Pear:
•Pear 5% •Honeydew 3% •Strawberry 3%
This has been my adv since I started mixing. Very vapable flavor that I don't get sick of. It's no Honey Pearry clone but I've absolutely begun to prefer this flavor over the original.
Also I try to use the least amount of flavoring as possible while still getting a good, strong taste. I usually drip pretty low ohms so these juices have always been plenty enough flavor for me. I also try to keep my mixes as close to 90/10 vg/pg, so if vg/pg ratio isn't an issue to you, you may want to up the flavor percentages.
Edit to format correctly.
This is in April's thread but I'm hoping I can get more input here, maybe someone could point me to a better white chocolate flavoring because I think that's what's missing.
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream v1
Cakestone (Cake Flavor Base) (wink wink DIYer reference)
30% Flavorwest Yellow Cake
30% TFA Vanilla Cupcake
25% TFA Bavarian Cream
15% TFA Cotton candy
Remember to shake vigorously to combine flavorings
10% Cakestone
5% TFA Strawberry
1% TFA White Chocolate
Can I use EM for the Cotton Candy in the Cakestone mix? I have Cotton Candy (Circus) and I think that has another flavor added in, so I don't think that will work.
Yes, it has to be cotton candy, you can use EM but i'm not sure of the ratio, if you find out how much EM is used in TFA CC you can just replicate that.
PS: for v2 of cakestone, the Bav. Cream is reduced to 10% and marshmallow is included at 15%, it gives it a more neutral creamy flavor.
My only 2 recipes that I like since getting started. All flavoring is TPA. I add the flavoring and the nic the rest is VG for me in case that makes a difference.
Yellowish Snow!
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Pineapple 10%
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Juicy Peach 5%
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Pear 4%
My Version of HoneyPeary. I have never tried the real stuff, so do not use thinking its a clone!
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Pear 6%
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Strawberry (ripe) 3%
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Pineapple 3%
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Honeydew 1%
Still looking for a Bamskilicous clone for Venom / Antidote or even anything with a close flavor profile. I am 6 batches into Antidote and all I have succeeded in is making bitter garbage literally.
You really can't go wrong with any recipe that contains TFA Juicy Peach :_
Knowing that I like the fruit flavors, tend to lean toward the sweeter side and don't really like the creamy or savory stuff.
Any recipes with Juicy Peach that you would recommend I mix up on my next mixing day?
i'm working on a series of tobacco juices with a season theme, this is the third iteration of my "Spring Blend" decent after 10-14 days of aging, still working on it though. it's been tough to balance the Mile Seven + Lemon Lime + Creams like i want.
- Tobacco Tuscan Reserve (FA) .5%
- Flue Cured (HS) .5%
- Indian Tobacco (HS) 1%
- Mile Seven (ECX) .75%
- Black Mile+ (ECX) 2.5%
- RY2 (HS) 2.5%
- Hongtashan (ECX) .75%
- Lemon Lime (Tasty Puff) .25%
- Milchstein v3 1.5%
- Italian Cream (HS) .75%
- Graham Cracker (TPA) 1%
TFA Pina Colada Liquid
16% Pina Colada
2% Milkstone
2% Coconut Candy
1% EM
I just made this - it's already good and vapeable, still a little strong since it's fresh - I suspect after about a week it will be SUPER good! Will revisit and report in about a week.
I made a few other recipes that I'll post after I try them if they are good.
Edit: I typed the wrong ingredient before. And yes, this is pretty coconutty.
idk if luck or skill but this is my first recipe and now my adv
5% banana cream tfa 3% bavarian cream tfa 3% natural banana la
may need to be adjusted to personal tastes edit: i call it banana creamy edit2: ive only mixed it in 30pg/70vg at 6mg nic so i cant say how it tastes on other strengths or pg/vg ratios edit3: sorry about the double post sometimes i forget things
So I was playing around with making a fruit - cream base (like milkstone, but fruity) and needed to test it out. Recipes follow, would like to get a little feedback.
All flavors TFA
FruitStone - fruit/ cream base >25% PG
>25% Irish Cream
>20% Sweet Cream
>10% Vanilla Swirl
>10% Strawberries & Cream
>5% Orange Cream
>5% Banana Cream
Verucca ' s Tears
>4% Blueberry Extra
>4% Blueberry Wild
>6% Strawberry
>3% FruitStone (see above)
>2 drops per 10 ml of Sour
Dragon's Tears (my 4th version of this mix. My favorite so far) >8% Dragon Fruit
>6% Strawberry
>3% Fruitstone
>2 drops per 10 ml of Sour
Edit: formatting.
Here is a recipe I've been tweaking a bit. It's very nice and I just made another batch.
Maori Marshmallow
- 12% tpa marshmallow
- 3% tpa toasted marshmallow
- 3% tpa kiwi double
- 0.6% tpa whipped cream
- 0.3% em 10%
- 0.3% tpa lemon
It's a slightly tart kiwi with a nice fluffy marshmallow. I find it gives a stout th at first, but smooths out after a couple vapes. It's good after a couple hour speed aging.
If anyone knows of a good way to smooth out the th from the marshmallow, lmk.
I have two that turned out pretty darn good. They need a week to age and settle in because they are awful at first, but now really good and refreshing.
KEY LIME POPCICLE - I don't taste the graham cracker in this one, it tastes like a key lime popcicle to me.
7% TFA Key Lime
4%TFA Graham Cracker Clear
5% TFA Vanilla Swirl
ORANGE CREAMCICLE
12% TFA Orange Cream
7% TFA Vanilla Swirl
4% TFA Sweet Cream
I've been lazy and haven't reordered my main flavors so I've been using some of my leftovers. This mix has turned out pretty good and is really sweet, almost candy like, with no additional sweetener (I stopped using it in all my mixes).
Raspberry Pom
TFA Pomegranate 10%
FA Raspberry 4%
Mixed it 50/50 at 6mg nicotine. I vaped it fresh and it was fine, but I was sick so my taste was definitely off. After 4 days where I can taste it proper (for the most part) it's definitely gotten better.
Raspberry Lychee
7.5% FW Raspberry
3% TFA Lychee
Strong flavor profile, and a very nice taste.
Do you actually like TFA lychee? To me it tastes terrible. CAP Lychee is much better imo.
What does tfa and all those other abbreviations stand for??
TFA = The Flavor Apprentice TPA = The Perfumers Apprentice (Same company as TFA) FA = FlavorArt Cap = Capella's LA = Lorann's FW = FlavorWest
There are others, but it's late and my brain isn't working. They are the companies each flavor used is from, for example, LA pomegranate is very different than TFA pomegranate.