I've been in the process of moving to a different city and last night I needed to come back home for a few days. unfortunately, I only had about 20mls of my last home brew with me. so I went down to the local shop and bought a bottle of Super Strudel... jesus. soooo much sweetener. probably has at most, 3 flavors. and they charged me 22$ for a 30 ml.
Me neither. Was thinking about trying these grape flavors from lost art. Maybe one day I'll feel stupid enough to pay 25$ for 30ml but I doubt it
Theres at least 10% sweetener in those flavors they're just terrible. Everything lost art makes is artificial tasting trash.
Yup, pretty much. Was given a bottle by the company. For me it was actually vapable compared to 80% of the other rubbish on the market, but def. sweetener city. There's 2 bottles of juice I'll waste my money on anymore. Shurb and Royalty 2. The rest (I've tried a whoooole lot of commercial juice as I run a business selling it) is shit. Blows my fing mind that people go bonkers for such garbage
If you have to have real Shurb Breazy is selling jtjm shurb for $9 if you use the coupon code OCULUS. But I would also highly recommend you try captaincannibal's clone.
Honest question, because maybe my palate sucks? What is wrong with sweetener?
I've been adding .25% sucralose to most of my recipes recently, including some of the tried and true recipes on this forum and I feel like it brings out the other flavors much more. Strawberry in particular I can't really taste without it.
Is it a time thing? Will I dislike it the longer I vape? It's genuinely been bothering me.
.25% isn't that much. I'll do .50%-1% of sweetener (although I'm moving from sucralose back to EM), and even that's fairly low compared to most commercially-manufactured brands. They'll do 5%-10%, which is a ridiculous amount of sweetener, plus it gunks the shit out of your coils.
One thing I've recently discovered: I ran out of PG, so made some max VG mixes a couple nights back. They're a bit sweeter than normal, which makes sense given VG's slight sweetness. If someone wants to bump up the sweetness level a little, without using sweeteners, trying going for max VG (which in my case is about 85% VG, the only PG is from the flavorings.) I was missing the throat hit of my usual 70/30 for a couple days, but now I'm used to it and enjoying it.
I was too lazy to mix for a couple days, so I dipped into my stash of commercial juice. Labrat Liquids and Plumes of Hazard are still great, not overly sweet at all (and I know the PoH guys actually specified "no sweeteners of any kind" in their juices.) Most of the Phillip Rocke stuff I have has a fuckload of sweetener and was almost unvapable (although TBH I haven't liked most of their flavors anyway.) I was reminded why I didn't finish a lot of the bottles I had in the cupboard!
Relevant question: how can I make Space Jam eclipse since Capella doesn't sell the tobacco flavor anymore?
About a month and a half ago, I bought some Steep Pop Deez whatever it's called. Only because it came with a surprise (metal wide-bore drip tip thing) and because the owners of the shop are cool as shit and I go there a lot to pick up stuff for my dad. Anyway, I still have like over half of it left because I can't vape it for too long and I have to rewick after.
We all know that our own concoctions are great.
However there are some things that we can't reproduce successfully, no matter how many people try in a concerted effort.
The white whale for myself (and a lot of others) is Cosmic Fogs' Milk and Honey, so I still buy this every few months.
If you're complaining about buying a shit juice, then yeah... bad luck. However if you're complaining about buying a shit juice for a price you think is too expensive then thats all on you.
As a DIY-er I know when I'm going to run out, and I can figure out how far in advance I need to make a new bottle. By this point in time all of us DIY-ers can pretty much predict when we're going to run out and how far in advance we need to make a new batch.
If you moved back home last night you would have had at least a few days notice of when you would run out, right? And I'm guessing your moving back home wasn't on a whim, so you must've known for at least a week that you would be doing that, right?
Sorry... I do understand you're just trying to say you bought a juice that you don't like, but don't try and stack the virtues of DIY onto the reason it is shit... Lots of companies make fantastic juices.
I think it would have been more constructive and informative if your post title was something like "Super Strudel is a really bad juice" and then informed us in the text that it was too sweet and over priced.
what I meant to convey was that I have went almost a year without buying juice, and when I do I bought the only bottle that fit a profile I knew I would like, and it wasn't as good as something I could have made myself.
I'm not saying it wasn't good, because it is pretty decent. I just could have made a better bottle for much much less.
usually I do keep several bottles in reserve, but the last 4 weeks have been really hectic with moving and my job location changing to the city I'm living in before I was moved up there.
Well... to be honest you probably could have conveyed that a bit better ;)
However I totally understand what you'e talking about - it just didn't come across in your post. That (imho) looked like more of a /r/circlejerk type post - which is why I pulled you up on it.
I take a lot of stock from peoples personal experiences of companies and products, so I like to make sure that whatever I hear can be verified - or at least justified with some anecdotal stories.
So no hard feelings, I just wanted some explanation on what you were posting and why.
I've been working on MnH for so long. I would seriously pay $1000 for even a decent hint of what is in it lol I know it's marshmallow and peanut butter taste of some sort, but the juice description says there is honey in it which I'm highly doubtful of
My white whale is Placid
I have a friend that would spend like $50 at sales times, just on placid, and so I tried to make a copy of it and that friend swears by it and quit buying placid and now just pays me for a fraction of the price. It's super simple.
- TFA Honeysuckle 3%
- TFA Pear 7%
- TFA Key Lime 2%
- Koolada .5%
- TFA Strawberry Ripe 5%
The main adjustments I make for certain people is just increase the lime or menthol if they want, but this recipe is probably the closest to the original.