This thread is for you to share what you are vaping lately, be it your own or another mixers recipe. Maybe you happened to stumble upon your new ADV in the August Recipe Thread? Or did someone recommend your first mix to you in the Suggest a recipe for my flavors Thread?
Share what you liked or didn't like too much, but most importantly, please make sure to properly link to the recipe and to the mixer if they're on reddit.
If you need some inspiration, some websites keep track of your mixes and batches: e-Liquid Recipes and All The Flavors.
Also make sure to checkout last week's thread for inspiration or to follow up on a mix that turned out even better after a week of steeping!
Happy Vaping!
Been on vacation this week, and I’ve used the time to do a lot more mixin’ than I usually do.
Single flavor tests this week:
-
INW WG Morning Rain
-
INW Classic Sunlight
-
INW USA Mix
-
INW US Blend
-
INW American Classic
-
INW Classic US Bacco
-
INW Sahara
-
INW Aloe
-
FA Layton Blend
-
FA Cam Blend Ultimate
And I’ve also been messing around with some fall mixes like a Black Cedar RY4, a kind of strange but good cheese cake/marzipan/Dark for Pipe combo, a non-clone Boba’s Bounty thing, a non tobacco Apple and spice thing, threw the INW Aloe in an açaí green tea I’ve been messing with, and testing a v3 of a HS Highway/HS Red USA thing.
That's a lot of 'Merican stuff: USA, US, American Classic, Classic US. Do they all have something in common besides the name?
This past week I tried 20 different flavors with "Honey" in the name. AMA about flavors with honey in the name.
Also sampled the latest versions of some projects that still have miles to go, made a big dent in a bottle of Cardinal before setting the rest aside to steep, finished off all of the final version of my Impropapiety and some of a previous one that had just a little too much of a couple of the ingredients, and fell in love with this Honeysuckle Tobacco by /u/ebc88 . Yes, you read that right. Honeysuckle Tobacco. They said it couldn't be done, but Ebc88 did it. Not quite as crazy-yet-wonderful as Cactus Bacco but pretty close.
I am going to grab some FLV Milk and Honey with my next order. Are there any other Honey flavors you'd recommend that give a baked honey sort of flavor similar to honey graham instead of pure basic honey? I had a comment saved (I unsaved it apparently) about Honey Circles IIRC but it was to use it under 1% or it gets too grainy.
So you need a honey that's been baked into a bakery, not one that has any trace of floral stuff going on or even that sticky gooey straight-up honey? I'm going to second /u/patg55 's suggestion of TFA Honey Circles as probably your safest bet, at 0.5%.
Vape Train's Honeycomb might work even better, or might not, I haven't played with it much yet beyond single-flavor testing and trying someone's cereal bar recipe that had it in there with a bunch of other stuff. It's primarily a toffee flavor but with a honey accent that tastes cooked and not floral sort of wrapped around that toffee. It depends on whether the toffee will nicely fold into or be covered up by whatever else you're doing or whether it proves too assertive.
OoO Honey Puffs Cereal is one I haven't tried but based on what /u/mlnikon said about it, I'd consider that one as well if neither TFA Honey Circles nor Honeycomb does what you want them to do.
About to mix up another batch of Cardinal myself. Some amazing stuff. Have you tried doubling the tobacco as suggested for the longer steep? Following the original recipe, it seemed to me that the tobacco is great for a week or two, then drops off, then comes back again (maybe that's just me). I'm wondering if doubling the tobacco will make it TOO strong for the first few days. I like vaping this stuff pretty much right away.
I haven’t tried doubling the tobacco. It’s too strong and sharp for me to shake and vape but I find it wonderful after steeping overnight. I like it then for about 3 days and then the tobacco is too weak. I’ll leave it alone for about 11 days then. Come back to it at two weeks and I love it again. I’ve never had it last beyond week 3, I vape it all up
Any good uses for FLV Honey Bee? I haven't figured out how to use it yet!
Actual good uses that I have tried and can vouch for? No, not yet. All I've done with it so far is vape it standalone at 0.5 and 0.25% when I first got it and 0.25% and approximately 0.13% a couple days ago. But I can speculate for you if you like.
I like this flavor but it think it's usefulness is going to be limited to floral recipes, teas, brighter fruit mixes (not dark berries that already lean a bit floral). It is probably not going to work as well with creams, tobaccos, or nuts. And you can just forget about bakeries.
When diluted to about 0.13%, it loses more of the floralness on top without losing nearly as much of its honey sweetness and its still a pretty strong flavor, so I’m thinking less than a quarter percent (or less) is going to be a good starting place for this for all but the hippy dippy flower power recipes.
Huh, honey wasn't even on my radar. What's the best beginner pick, maybe to go with a custard?
I want to say FA Honey for the versatility but you specified custard. I don't think FA Honey is necessarily contraindicated with custard - I've had it with vanilla ice cream flavor which is more or less a type of custard - but because it's a bit floral I think it needs to be with a fruit + custard to really work super well.
Vape Train Honeycomb is as much a toffee flavor as a honey flavor but this is one that I'd really like to see mixed into a custard so I want to suggest that for purely selfish reasons. Get someone else to do all the work of perfecting it and then I get a great recipe out of it?
What do you think about a honey to mix with tobacco flavors (thinking FA desert ship atm to make a turkish type tobacco)?
My first impulse is to say whatever covers up the taste of FA Desert Ship the best because that might be my least favorite tobacco. But seriously, I think two great options are TFA Black Honey and SC Honey Flue Cured. Unfortunately I get a pretty clear licorice/anise note from TFA Black Honey and I hate that. But if it doesn't bother you - maybe you even like it or want it - that's otherwise a great sort of dirty, dark honey. Think RY4 Double kind of dirty but with honey instead of caramel. None of those pissy off notes honey flavors are notorious for, just the licorice thing. SC Honey Flue Cured has gobs of sticky sweet honey without gross off notes. It's a tobacco flavor but the tobacco in it is light and seems like it could easily be pulled into whatever direction you want with another stronger tobacco.
Those are some good options, I think, for a non-floral honey to use with your tobacco. If you want or don't mind your honey having a bit of flowers in it or at least strongly reminding you that bees use flowers to make it, take your pick, there are plenty to choose from: FA Honey, INW Honey (with a good long steep), FLV Honeybee. If you're into the idea of some bakery notes in your bacco, there's TFA Honey Circles and VT Honeycomb that might be good, but the first is a little dry and the second might be too much sweet toffee flavor by the time you use enough of it to get that honey flavor as prominent as you might like.
Wow, sick thorough reply here! Thanks a lot. I'm finally getting FLV Cured and FLV Red Burley with this order to mix up some Cardinal so maybe I'll try the honey with these tobaccos too. I don't have many tobaccos but FA Desert Ship (and SC Deluxe) seems to be on a more mellow side, I can mix 2-3 drops into 30ml of an RY4 and after a week it's got a nice punch to it that the RY4 lacks by itself. Which helps a lot so I can lay off FA Soho and let me taste buds recover.
I'm pleased this week because I was finally able to re-order my "All Day Vape" recipe. I'll be mostly vaping on that for the next few months.
Dr. Flomenizor's Fruit Juice
7.5% FA Ripe Banana
5% FA Apple
5% FA Green Apple
1.5% FA Pineapple
1.5% FA Grape Juice
Menthol Crystals to taste
I'm vaping some testers of creams. CAP Sweet Cream, FA Fresh Cream, FLV Cream, TFA/FW/JF Bavarian Cream, Chef's Devon Cream, FA Catalan Cream, FA Vienna Cream. I'm trying to get to know them better.
In between I've been vaping unflavored and Prickly Victory for a break.
On mobile so no links until later.
Cracked open fiestas and fiascos by u/ConcreteRiver. It’s what happens when guava gets drunk at a party and decides that dropping a tab of acid sounds like a great idea.
Next up, Apple bacco by u/sadpandavapes. Fantastic straight forward Apple caramel ry4. Solid. I think the key here is the butterscotch ripple which makes everything just that hair more awesomeness.
Then, butter almond custard by u/KRUCIAL. This is a meaty ass custard. This has some beef in it, I think. And it’s mixed with the fat of twenty babies. I almost want to up the %’s by a hair and add sweetener and hole up in a bunker with a half liter waiting for the world to end.
I’d mixed with BS ripple before and didn’t like the mix so now I’m convinced I need it to blend. Here’s two great examples of how to bend it to your will.
On mobile so no links until later.
Cracked open fiestas and fiascos by u/ConcreteRiver. It’s what happens when guava gets drunk at a party and decides that dropping a tab of acid sounds like a great idea.
Next up, Apple bacco by u/sadpandavapes. Fantastic straight forward Apple caramel ry4. Solid. I think the key here is the butterscotch ripple which makes everything just that hair more awesomeness.
Then, butter almond custard by u/KRUCIAL. This is a meaty ass custard. This has some beef in it, I think. And it’s mixed with the fat of twenty babies. I almost want to up the %’s by a hair and add sweetener and hole up in a bunker with a half liter waiting for the world to end.
I’d mixed with BS ripple before and didn’t like the mix so now I’m convinced I need it to blend. Here’s two great examples of how to bend it to your will.
been working on my first recipe, a lemon cream cookie (like those Girl Scout cookies that had 2 cookies sandwiched between a lemon cream, forget the actual name). mixed up a few small 5ml test batches of different approaches and have been jotting down notes as to what direction i want to go in after vaping the first one after a few days steep.
I dumped out 2 240ml bottles of vg into equally sized bottles, filled them up half way to the top with pg and continued to empty the 60ml 100%nic into all 4 bottles evenly. I then added flavor ( silverline gummybear, silverline rainbow candy and vapewild monster energy ) almost randomly to the bottles until they where full as I saw fit, so I had gummy-rainbow, rainbow-monster, etc.
Can anyone tell me if this is a bad way to mix? It seems like I got the %'s right by eyeballing it and all of my juice tastes great, just unsure what might be the consequence of my actions, if any. Also I may have some of the numbers wrong on bottle size, especially the nic bottle, will update when I get home if anyone cares ahaha
In my opinion, yes, that is a bad way to mix. If it works for you, then whatever. The main problem is that you will never be able to replicate what you made. I mean if you don't care about being off on every single part of your recipe from 1-25% then more power to you. I think if you put the tiniest bit of effort into it you may have a more rewarding experience, but if you don't really give a shit about a recipe being right, and all that matters is that it is vapeable, then you are on the right track.
I was recommended a Sour Strawberry on facebook. That and I'm trying Sainte Vanille. Pretty tasty but I think I've outgrown my entheon, and looking into more restrictive rdas.