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Creating an apple cider recipe from the ground up. Flavor descriptions and some advice on breaking away from the influence that flavoring names has on your recipies.
submitted almost 10 years ago by christopherson

I have to try and keep this short, having computer issues and am stuck on mobile for the last couple months so please excuse the lazy formatting.

This has been a LONG time coming. I've wanted an apple cider for as long as I've been vaping, but nothings been quite authentic enough and I'm ready to share my progress in this particular recipe and open it to some collaboration. PLEASE, by all means, provide any feedback you've got. By ALL means I am no expert or master juice maker, but I'm here to share my experience.

Ingredients: I'll provide detail on the flavors that are not as common. Feel free to use the search or google for flavors ignored.

INW - Black Tea: An earthy tea and the base of what will make the cider. One of the closest tea flavors I've tried, and is one of those background flavors that would be a great addition to any beverage vape ( Coffee, cola, cider, ect.) aswell as a nice standalone at above INW average percentage. Be careful, as it will mute and soap if you overuse it.


FLV - Clove. This, along with a few other Flavorah's, is a staple in any DIYers arsenal. At full percentage you've got that clove cig. Absolutely delicious but leaves an unsettling after taste for me. Still love it. But at a drop this new flavor brings a new scope to earthy vapes. The flavor I didn't know I wanted with the effect of FA Green Tea and INW Exotic Roots, but actually good.

FLV Rich Cinnamon: Just like Clove, it's a Goddamn winner. 10/10 would throw your other cinnamons away. This is the ground cinnamon you may have been looking for. It goes in all my bakery flavors and puts the spice in my cider.

Go look them up right now, it's fucking expensive. FLV's rich cinnamon too. "What are they thinking?", you might ask. Well not the same thing you are. It's a one drop ingredient. One drop in a 15ml is all you need to go places. 4 drops will clove cig, one will give you what you need here. Rich cinnamon is a one and done in anything.


Get away from reading label's and use your taste to define a flavor.
It's easy to add apple to make this an apple cider, like its easy to add lemon to lemonade. But what makes a recipie unique is creating the base of the flavor, in this case the cider. If you take the time to taste your individual flavors, it will take you to the next step of being able to understand them beyond their name. If you don't do this, your juice is only as good as your face value impression of the ingredients you are using.

The cider consists of FLV Clove, Rich Cinnamon, FA RY4, and TFA Horchata. Clove is to give a depth to the apple that is found in cider. Rich Cinnamon is to give it spice. RY4 while the odd man out is here, is for a carrier and mouth feel. TFA Horchata is added to give the vape a milky body.

FA honey and Lemon Sicily is added to sweeten it up and the apple... Well... To ruin the whole thing.

Have to submit this befor my battery dies but I hope this helps someone out there and I hope you enjoy it!

Tweak it to your liking, but here is the 15ml recipe. Please dont hate me for not using %, I have this memorized and I'm running out of time.

PER 15 ML: feel free to use ml instead of g, it will change but give you a nice place to play around. Feel free to criticize me for referring to drops. When using such a small amount of them I don't notice much of a difference.


INW - Black Tea - .45g.
INW - Apple - 5 drops.
FW - Red Apple - .25g. ( try it without first, and if you want more apple just add this to taste) TFA - Horchata - .25g.
FA - Honey - 2 drops.
FA - Lemon Sicily - 4 Drops.
FA - RY4 - 5 Drops.
FLV - Clove - 1 drop.
FLV - Rich Cinnamon - 1 drop.

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by 5ive_Staralmost 10 years ago

Maybe some tfa champagne for that sparkling feel and fa fuji to brighten it up and give it that real apple crispness? I'm gonna give both a go and let you know. I haven't found a decent use for clove yet so we'll see.

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by christophersonalmost 10 years ago

I like that Idea, I have some INW Pink Champagne I might have to add

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by christophersonalmost 10 years ago

But honestly, it's the best uss of clove I've had so far. Might be worth cutting in half if possible. 1 drop per 30ml.

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by joesphaaalmost 10 years agoTobacconist

> 1 drop per 30ml

This is where I like it at.

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by CoccoBill_fialmost 10 years ago

The problem with drops is that they vary, a lot. Just by comparing the average drops from regular FA/TPA/CAP dropper bottles, they can be anything from 0.01g to 0.03g, so 5 drops can be anything from 0.05g to 0.15g. With some flavors that's a night and day difference.

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by christophersonalmost 10 years ago

Totally feel you. Honestly with how many times I've played with it, I just converted to drops to save a bit of time. Everything else I do is by weight. I'm 100% sure this will scare some people off, but I want to share this groundwork for others to play with and make it even better. Give it a try and you might see what I mean. It's as close as I can get it solo, so now I'm looking to see where everyone else can take it.

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by CoccoBill_fialmost 10 years ago

Oh yeah, the recipe. Looks interesting, I'll have to give it a shot. :)

Unfortunately I neither have INW Apple nor FW Red apple, so I'll have to tinker with FA Fuji, INW Bahrain gold apple and INW Two apples. I think the bahrain gold will be golden here (pun intended). Thanks for the inspiration.

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by christophersonalmost 10 years ago

Honestly the Apple is completely up to you. That was just my favorite. There are some apples that just wouldn't play well, but you have some good subs.

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by queuetuealmost 10 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

I love cider, and I've been working and posting updates on one for months now, so I clicked this post very eagerly. Then I saw ... wtf? Horchata? Clove? Cinnamon? RY4?

Oh, right.

If you mean mulled cider, then I wish you'd put "mulled cider" in the title so I don't get all excited! :) As far as mulled ciders go, this does sound tasty, though.

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by DrMclovensalmost 10 years agoThe Mad Alchemist

totally thought you were about to lay the verbal beat down for a second lol.

I was Like DAAMN Que

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by queuetuealmost 10 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

You should have seen the first version. :) This one is significantly self-censored, but I guess some still bled through.

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by DrMclovensalmost 10 years agoThe Mad Alchemist

hahaha You're great, man.

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