Hey guys. A few days ago my new order arrived and i finally mixed u/Vurve's Best Damn Pink Lemonade
Its really amazing and i like it but every now and then it just suddenly tastes burnt. I checked my coils and everything is fine.
I even rebuilt everything to make sure that everything is working and i get the same problem.
If i empty the tank and try different juices the problem is gone. I can vape multiple tanks and no burnt taste.
As soon as i try the Pink Lemonade again, i get the burnt taste again.
Its not on every puff, sometimes its there, sometimes its not. Does anyone here know what could be the reason?
If other juices dont produce this problem i'm 100% sure its not the cotton/coil, but just in case someone wants more information: I mixed at 50/50, I'm at 0.2Ω (SS at 26AWG, 6 wraps, dual coil) and at around 40-45 Watt.
Sounds to me like you're just not accustomed to unsweetened citrus throat rape which is further compounded by mixing at 50/50. I'd try it at 70/30 vg/pg and see how that goes. Then maybe a little sweetener/EM if it's still too much. Strong citruses aren't for everyone though.
I guess I'll experiment a bit with different ratios of the flavours/PG/VG and maybe some sweetener.
If you stick with it I'd also recommend some WS-23/FA Polar Blast to cool it down. It's lemonade it ain't supposed to be hot.
I get the same thing happening with my mix at 70/30 on a .2 mesh. It tastes really good then yuck. It happens to me on other lemonades, commercial and diy. Maybe it's something with temperature. Like maybe it hits a certain temp that burns off a compound that builds up while vaping the juice. It sucks because I love lemonades. I wonder if we keep taking long hits every time if that would make sure that yuck gets burned off more evenly.
Do you mix your other juices at 50/50? That's a lot of PG for running 45w
Yes. There are some exceptions but almost all my juices are at 50/50. Also i forgot to mention in the starting post, i vape my juices without any nicotine which could be important to the question because i saw some posts asking about it.
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//edit: Back when i started vaping i started with 70PG so i'm used to high PG juices.
And you don't encounter that issue with any other juice mixed at that ratio? Even other citrus mixes?
There's a store bought lemonade that I looove that does the same thing. It's not every hit, it's not the coil. I just assumed it's the citrus flavoring or maybe because it has so much sweetener in it.
Its LA lemonade. For whatever reason it has a burnt taste every few hits. Never used to have this issue but seems to happen now. Might have a crappy batch
Do you know how to fix that problem? LA Lemonade is amazing and I dont really want to replace it.
Would using less of it or combining it with sweetener or anthing else help on that?
Also, you said you never had this problem. What percentages did you use on LA lemonade?
Is the juice cloudy? I Vaped a citrus punch at 10% and it was pretty cloudy and not a great vape. I also had a lime that was equally strong and cloudy at 3% and extremely harsh but I wouldn't say burnt but I could see someone inexperienced percieving it as burnt. In my experience burnt tastes only come from either some gunk burning on the coil surface or the cotton itself so unless that's happening it's likely the malic acid concentration. I find flavors with alot of malic acid never end out being useful as the dominant flavor in a recipe but serve as useful tools at around 1% to spin a dominant flavor like mango at 6% in a different direction. A little bit of malic acid in Capella's mango for example really brings out a pineapple note thats hidden in Capella's mango.