I for one am impressed that you're so keen to tell everyone in this sub that you know what dick tastes like.

That's a shit ton of cheesecake, bro.

Are you shaking your flavorings before you use them?

Also, I find that anything with cheesecake/custards need to 'age' at least 2 weeks. I usually let them age for a month. Though I can't imagine 9.5% GC Cheesecake would ever taste good. Maybe 3-4%

What brands are you using of flavoring? This sounds like it's really heavy on the graham crust to me. If it's TFA, it might be okay, but if it's something like FA you're using way too much flavoring.

Pour out 10mL of VG, taste that. Then add 1 or 2 mL of PG, taste that. Then put the nicotine in. Taste the unflavored juice. Then add flavorings 1 at a time to see what's going on.

Second, have you kept an older batch and tried it after steeping for a week? I vape a lot of Tiger's blood, and it's barely yellow if not clear when i first make it but turns amber in color after a week of steeping.

Third, how thoroughly are you shaking it? Are you using warm VG to mix? Are you using fresh cotton? Are you mixing in a relatively clean space? Are you washing your hands before mixing? I'd recommend adding nicotine to PG and mixing so it is a bit more homogenous after mixing.

If it's every single recipe, chances are you have bad VG, PG or nic. Tasting each of these separately (don't taste raw concentrated nicotine) will tell you where the problem is.

Ok guys, thanks for all the responses. I really appreciate the interest this thread has generated. And it's kind of comforting because I was about ready to throw my DIY stuff out the window. It has been pretty frustrating so far.

So I just 'taste tested' the VG and the PG I've been using for the past month. Yesterday I got a litre of new VG through the mail. I will try to describe the flavours as best I can:

PG - Very bitter. Very much like dandelion sap.

VG - Somewhat sweet, but has a definitive bitterness to it which becomes more pronounced over time in the after-taste. The sweetness gives way to bitterness.

VG I just got in the mail - Tastes like cotton candy, candyfloss. No evil after-taste. Very sweet.

I won't try the Nic :P

The old VG tastes very dissimilar to the new VG I've just picked up. So if only one component has gone bad, it's the VG. However, I don't know what PG is supposed to taste like and if the nicotine is good. So all I can conclusively assert is that the VG I got through the mail tastes markedly better than the old stuff I was using. Which is a start, I guess.

I have been storing my ingredients in a cool dark place.

I measure using 10ml and 1ml syringes.

So what's the best course of action here? I could mix up some juice with the new VG [no PG or nic] to see if that was the problem. Flavourlist:

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Any suggestions for a really simple nic-free max VG recipe?

Edit: Have just put together some 90% new VG 10% vanilla bean ice cream to commence taste testing and comparisationary procedurisms.

With that recipe I would have to say the cheesecake. I would try it around 3%

INW dick tastes way better than TFA Dick, try using that flavor!

is it bad that my first and main thought was

"I wonder if a gay guy or horny girl red this title and got offended because they like dick"

...i'm hopeless XD

"DIY Juices taste like dck" Correction, YOUR "DIY Juices taste like dck." And you can say dick here btw. No need to sensor. What brand of PG/VG/Nic are you using? Are you sure that you're not cross contaminating flavors? What are some other recipes you've tried? The percentages in that recipe sound bad just looking at them.

Watch this video first https://youtu.be/1ytu2ErgDHg after that I would recommend you taste test pg only, vg only, nic with the pg/vg you mixed and then if all tastes good you know your base is fine test your flavors individually at lower % and increase to know what they taste like over diluted and over concentrated. This should allow you to know what's wrong just by tasting. Personally, I have never tasted dick so I can't help you beyond that.

Stop stirring it with your penis ;)

Try mixing the same recipe with 0 nic and see if it tastes better. I've been having the same problem, I think my nic went bad.

I've had fart. I've had soap. I've had feet. I've had vomit. But I've never had dick.

I spent a good minute trying to figure out if you were serious.

Going over 5% of any kind of cheesecake will make your juice taste like a sweaty ripe body part. Some cheesecakes are best at 3% depending on the brand.

Well I just dumped out my entire stash of juice.. Some is OK but most is not as anticipated. Reason I did this.. I was refilling a smaller PG bottle from the big 'ol jug I've had from day one and absently tasted a puddle of spilled PG. Holy cow it was nasty, bitter, quinine, hot and just plain awful. First time I had ever actually tasted straight PG and I'm pretty f'ing sure its not supposed to taste like that. My VG is as expected, slightly sweet and pleasant. So the 100% VG stuff I mixed up last night tastes good, as I would expect. Check your ingredients and use good flavors (ie not MBV)

Personally I felt the same way about strawberry cheesecake type vapes. If you're using TFA Strawberry you might be one of the lucky "I can't taste TFA Strawberry" group members.

What flavors do you currently have? Taste is subjective, you're not going to like everything, I dislike most retail juice myself and can agree that most shared DIY recipes are not fantastic but there are few gems out there that's for sure. Again, post your flavorings, I bet we can find you an ADV :)

Where do you get your nicotine and flavors? Also, how do you store your nicotine?

Also, how do you measure out your flavors/nic?

I have been DIY ing for a long time and people still say to me your juices are the most grotesque vape i have ever experienced , no joke .

I just have zero talent for DIY , sometimes it's best to admit it .

op has tasted dick before

Let us know what flavors you have and maybe we can help you come up with something decent.

I definitely wouldn't go anywhere near 9.5% with the Cheesecake (GC Crust)

With flavors like that you want to start small and work your way up, like 2%.

Fruit, the ripe strawberry should be the main one in that mix, but I'd probably start it around 7%.

Amazing and easy if you have the flavors:

TFA Juicy Peach: 7%

TFA Strawberry Ripe: 7%

TFA Blueberry: 7%

I have friends who use this as their ADV, it's that good.

Seems your PG may have gone flaccid. Try just mixing the flavors max VG without nic, using your new nicotine. This way you can put in piece-by-piece to see what is giving you the phallic taste.

I would test this recipe at at

• 3% cheesecake graham crust
• 4% strawberry ripe
• .5% sweet cream.

Then from there see how it plays out. I find its better to under flavor and have total flavorings below 10% and then build up the flavor you want to be more prominent. Maybe start with just the cheesecake and strawberry. Sweet cream tastes weird for a few days during steeping

I always add ingredients in reverse order to this ie. Flavor first, nic last. Is it possible that 100mg/ml nicotine is reacting with some poor quality plastic bottles? Try mixing a 0mg recipe and see if you can still taste dick.

Over Flavoring, Let it steep. Try not to push higher than 12-15%. I like around 6-12%.

If the flavorings don't taste the same after you add them to VG/PG/nic it's probably the VG/PG/nic. Taste them individually. Just don't try the nic without diluting it to around 1mg/mL.

Eat less dick. Up

I only use the graham crust when I want a hint of buttery graham cracker in my mixes, otherwise I use a mixture of cheesecake, cream cheese icing and whipped cream in various ratios to get a really heavy creamy cheesecakey flavor.

I would try;

• 2.5% cheesecake (graham crust)
• 4% cheesecake
• 4% whipped cream
• 4% cream cheese icing
• 3%% strawberry ripe
• 2.5% strawberries and cream

The cheesecake, cheesecake (graham crust) and cream cheese icing mix to make a very nice cheesecake flavor, and the strawberries and cream adds a sort of candied strawberry (like the cream-savers strawberries and cream candy) flavor that adds to the strawberry ripe to make a more complete strawberry. If you want more crust flavor I would reccomment 1% graham cracker and 1% pie crust (which adds more of a buttery pie crust note to the existing graham cracker crust, and rounds it out nicely.) The whipped cream just smooths out and ties together all of the other creamy bits.

*edit: This is based on a recipe I vape, but with a few adjustments. Also, fixed a few issues with the %s, realised I wrote them wrong.