I've seen a number of companies or flavors that claim they were 'aged' in 'oak barrels' for 'x number of days'. To me it sounds a bit of marketing mumbo jumbo to increase the perceived value of a juice, but I don't have oak barrels here to test it out.
They probably just throw in a few drops of FA Oak Wood/FLV Oak Barrel... and charge double
I've always assumed this is exactly what they do. This industry is littered with marketing bullshit.
I said that about Johnson Creek and the owner came in saying that they actually do the oak barrel thing and think the price is justified and it always sells out really fast, so the customers seem to think it is worth the price.
They went out of business though so....
JC Founder's Reserve was aged in charred oak barrels that had previously held whiskey. New batches (1100-1200 30ml bottles) sold out same day, often within an hour or two.
There were a lot of factors in the going out of business. Some of them were due to poor decisions, but some very significant factors were beyond JC's control.
Damn. I saw in one of my fb groups someone selling those VCT juices, 60ml is around 22-24 usd. @.@ it has a pretty label and says it was "aged in oak barrels for 90 days".
It can, but not to the degree that it will with liquor. Use of charred barrels has more of an effect, especially if the barrels previously housed alcohol such as bourbon or wine.
The problem IMO is that VG/PG do not move in and out of the wood as easily as alcohol does. In fact, the biggest issues we had were in keeping the barrels hydrated enough to not shrink and leak. "Basting" them helped. Keeping them in a high humidity (think fog) room helped. But that also waters down the e-liquid, as that water will move out of the wood into the e-liquid, since VG & PG are hydroscopic.
I totally agree with the part about keeping the barrel hydrated. I tried this for fun using a small one liter barrel. Went to check it 3 months later and the barrel had dried out and everything had stepped away.
What I would do in the future - and what should work very well - is aging the liquid in a clean glass bottle and addding Oak chips to the liquid.
Some time ago a group did a test on E-Cig, apparently it does what it says. Did a blind taste test.
Sounds really credible. Very trustworthy
The Lazarus vintage definitely has bottles of Journey that come in oak barrels it's called Barrel journey... You actually can even buy them in the bottles.. Journey is a phenomenal juice fantastic flavor.. Unfortunately I don't think there's any diy'ing it it's to intricate when I started diy I pretty much gave up hope on my love for it.. It's a cigar dipped in cognac with a buttermilk finish... It's very masculine and still sweet and smooth..