My all time favourite flavour is grape, and for the longest time I've been trying to create the ultimate grape vape with mild success.
I recently picked up Pixie Sticks by Wonder Flavors and threw together a 50ml of something to vape while I worked on my next creation. By freak accident I have somehow managed to recreate Grape Drank by Ruthless. This isn't some "oh, it's pretty close, but really it's nothing like it" recipe. This is literally the same, I mean I've gone through 100s of ml of Grape Drank and I can say with confidence this is the closest you will get to the real thing.
Pixie Sticks Wonder Flavors - 2.5% Grape Juice TPA - 5% Grape Soda FLW - 6% Lemon Lime CAP - 0.5% Sour Wizard FA - 0.5%
Try it and tell me I'm wrong but holy shit this is it.
EDIT: Apologies for noob formatting, it looked fine when I posted it. Would be interested to hear if you guys agree on the likeness!
Not doubting your results, OP--that's an awesome discovery, but Grape Drank predates Wonder Flavors as a company and Pixie Sticks was released within about the last year.
Also just as an FYI to anyone using FW Grape Soda, keep in mind that it has close to 2x the sucralose as CAP Super Sweet. So using it at 5% would be like using Super Sweet at around 8-10% or using TFA Sweetener at 20%+
Yeah, I know that grape drank doesn't contain pixie sticks, I've tried many times before to recreate it using older flavours. More recently it has grape and apple listed on the box but the apple grape combinations I've tried have been way off.
Yes, it's sweet but not any more sweet than other juices I've tried in the past.
Nailing the actual ingredients isn’t too important if you end up with the right flavor. I have all the flavors to mix this up but unfortunately I’ve never tried Grape Drank so I wouldn’t be able to tell you how close it is IMO.
Maybe I’ll mix it up just to see what Grape Soda tastes like that high. I don’t think I’ve ever gone over 1% before. RIP coils ;)
haha, DIY is pure insanity. the willingness to jump through hoops to nail down accurate flavor percentages despite the suffering our coils need to endure to deliver the flavor of our concoctions. we are an odd bunch. it takes a lot to transition from re-building wires to one day saying, "ya know? fuck this shit! I'm gonna just make my own juice!"
Formatting:
Pixie Sticks Wonder Flavors - 2.5%
Grape Juice TPA - 5%
Grape Soda FLW - 6%
Lemon Lime CAP - 0.5%
Sour Wizard FA - 0.5%
You think that’s better formatting than what OP posted?
Edit: it’s showing in the app the same as OP’s post. On the site is showing correctly. My fault guys. Sorry u/9777!
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WF Pixie Sticks @ 2.5%
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TPA Grape Juice @ 5%
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FW Grape Soda @ 6%
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CAP Lemon-Lime @ 0.5%
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FA Sour Wizard @ 0.5%
FTFY
You think that's better formatting than what /u/9777 posted?
Ooh I'll have to get some of these and try this. I also love grape vapes but haven't really had any luck diying with grape. For such a simple profile I really struggle.
I have been bugging the sauce la for months to make their purple powder available as a concentrate, they finally did for me last week and I picked up 4x30mls of their concentrate for $40.
They are a cheap budget company but damn if they dont make my favorite grape. They only use capella and im sure its like 4 ingredients, but I cant even get close for some reason. I can live with $10/30mls of one shot concentrate though for now!
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6% FW Grape Soda
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5% TPA Grape Juice
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2.5% WF Pixie Sticks
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0.5% CAP Lemon-Lime
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0.5% FA Sour Wizard
shrug Everyone was doing it. Here's my preference.
You should check out /r/goobergrapevape
It's a small group of people from this sub working on making a perfect PB&J flavor. It's slow moving, but your love for grape would be useful.
Grape juice tpa above %5 gives the pixie effect adding in the wf makes sense
You could lower grape soda for more powder texture.
Hell yes! Im a grape lover to the max and will certainly be trying this on my next flavor order. Ive never gotten a diy grape flavor just right myself either. Its odd how grape can be difficult to mix. I have about 8-10 different malaysia grape flavors on the shelf next to me and would love a great diy solution, fingers crossed on this one.
Have you ever vaped a ws-23 grape juice? I cant do without it but maybe you enjoy adding some ws-23 to the mix and cool it down.
You would think something as simple as a single fruit flavor would be easy, but grape is such a hard one to get just right. I don't enjoy koolada/ws-23 in my liquids but maybe a tiny drop would give it some extra freshness.
This recipe alone makes me want to put a flavor order in but shipping to where I'm at in SE Asia is a nightmare, will have to wait and bundle it with some other stuff in the next month or two. Just curious tho can you explain a little why you put in Sour Wizard and Cap Lemon Lime? Was this to enhance the pixie sticks, something you remember from Grape Drank, or just something you think works well when mixing grape in general? I've always tried loading in sweetener to my DIY efforts and this mix has none, but I imagine that's because of the FLV grape soda's super high content?
Also, on my last flavor order I overlooked TPA Grape Juice and have since read countless good comments about it, I do have FLV Grape Soda but standalone it's a far cry from a commcercial juice. What other grapes have you tried/enjoy? Are there any other combos or extra flavors (such as the Cap Lemon Lime) that you've found work well but weren't able to get just right like this mix?
Hey, Lemon Lime adds a tart element and Sour Wizard helps even out the flavours a little, though it may not be essential. Grape Drank has this kind of powdery quality which I could never quite nail with just grape alone. And yes, if you use FLW Grape Soda you don't need sweetener as it has a pretty crazy amount already!
Other good grapes to try are TPA Grape Candy & INW Grape, TPA Grape Juice is kind of standard in most grape recipes. I had actually run out of Grape Candy which was the reason I used Pixie Sticks, as soon as I smelt it I thought it would be a really good addition to grape.
I have seen some people try adding apple to their grape recipes so that would be worth experimenting with as well.