I don't see to many posts around here about labeling systems. So I'd figure I'd post how I've been doing mine. Its simple and easy, and as long as you make sure you label them this way you won't confuse one bottle with another.
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Before you go about naming your juice, Label it with the flavor your trying to go for. (IE Blue Raspberry, Cherry Sour, Sour Patch Kid) Those types of things, You can come up with a name later once you've finally nailed something good. You can always think of a name that fits what golden glorious juice you end up with later and for the most part, I've found the name will be more suited to what the flavor actually ends up as. I know with some of the premium juices I've vaped they are going for what the name of the juice is (A good example is Nerd Alert) Which is supposed to be a nerds candy flavor, but it really tastes more like a starburst tropical flavor to me anyways. So a more fitting name might be something that deals with starburst tropicalness theme.
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Buy some address labels or something of that affect. This will make labeling your bottles far easier.
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Now the simple and easy part. The versions. I use a simple v1.0 format for my first attempt, and if it needs less or more or something I make the adjustment in my mixing tool and then increment the version number by 0.1
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It ends up like this
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Blue Raspberry v1.0 - First Attempt
Blue Raspberry V1.1 - 2nd Attempt
Blue Raspberry v.1.2 - 3rd Attempt
and so on.
When I hit v1.9 I roll it over to v2.0
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Another good thing to do, is don't delete your previous versions of the recipe until you've struck gold. And that one is the one you will be naming.
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A simple app that honestly, is worth the 5 bucks for the pro version, is Vapetool pro. I use this for building recipes, and I use All the Flavors website for storing my almost perfected/very good recipes. This helps free up all that clutter that my Vapetool Pro ends up as.
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Just figured I'd post this little tip for the newer mixers to help them out a bit.
Good post! I really have fun coming up with creative, but somewhat informative names. 'Inside joke' names are fine, especially when it's really only you consuming them, but selling "Aladdin's Mist" makes me cautious to buy it without tasting/smelling.
I encourage you to think your version control through a bit more. It's not important to get to 10, it's important to represent significant changes.
Arnold Palmer 1.0 might have 5% TFA Sweet Tea, 3% LA Lemonade.
Arnold Palmer 1.1 might have 8% TFA Sweet Tea, 4% LA Lemonade
AP 2.0 might be when you decide that you want to add 1% CAP Lemon Lime, and a few drops of WS23. 2.1 might swap WS23 for Koolada.
By 4.3 (Final?) You might have dumped LA Lemonade altogether, and require a specific steep.
You can also PRINT the name, but use sharpie and tape for the version, so you don't need to print a new number every time. Reusing a plastic bottle for similar flavours is useful, because frankly you're never getting that Spiced Rum flavor out of it.
Also - double check what you're holding, what you're about to add. Sniff it, taste it. Don't add that leftover Grape Soda to your new mix - it's actually INW Lemon Mix, and will ruin your 30ml.
This is pretty similar to what I do. The number after the decimal is for a different batch. Like this week I made only one version of Shoobidity Doo Wop, V1. Next week I might try it and decide it's missing something and have three or four different ideas for that might fill that hole, so it'll be time for Shoobidity Doo Wop V2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc., all mixed on the same day, each with just one different ingredient. One of those 2 point somethings will have some slight change two weeks later and become V3. And so on.
This is a really good post. My husband refused to label anything when he first started mixing and it would drive me INSANE.
I now use address labels and print our labels on them with a pc. But before I did that, I got desperate one night after getting so frustrated with his lack of labeling (he and I have very opposite tastes in juice and I was annoyed after vaping something of his instead of mine for the dozenth time) and I grabbed some stickers we had at the house and just stuck them on bottles and jotted what was what in a notebook and on my laptop.
We actually ended up keeping some of the names. I stuck a Rick and Morty sticker that's Rick's head as the adidas logo with the word "schwifty" under it on a bottle of one of his favorites (peanut butter custard) and it's now affectionately known as "Get Schwifty" even though we have a proper labeling system.
I switched to address labels after I realized I had 3 60ml bottles of who knows what. Not even sure if they're 0mg or 3mg.
Please share your voodoo to make Peanut Butter palatable - I understand it's personal but all mine taste wrong
I actually do not like PB to vape myself except for in a white chocolate reeses blend I do, to which I add TPA marshmallow and TPA Graham Crust to make it taste like the reeses PB. He has a custard blend that he mixes with PB that he really enjoys (sorry, I don't know it off hand - it's about a dozen flavors). I also have a friend does PB with Liquid Barn snickerdoodle and it makes a pretty tasty PB cookie.
Here's a peanut butter recipe that I made that came out pretty good.
It's a V1 that I never got around to refining, but check it out and see if it's worth working on.
% Vendor Flavor
7
(TPA)Banana Nut Bread
0.5
(INW)Biscuit
0.5
(TPA)Brown Sugar
0.75
(FA)Butterscotch
1.5
(FW)Creamy Hazelnut
2.5
(TPA)Peanut Butter
0.6
(TPA)Pistachio
I have one or two more, if you want to see them let me know.
I've had a little luck with mixing tpa dx pb 7%, tpa marshmallow 3%, tpa graham cracker clear 1%. It's not perfect at all, but it hits that pb note. I am ordering some flv pb to round out and amp up the pb flavor based on suggestions I've gotten here.
I do something similar. First used masking tape. Cheap, easy to peel but looked tacky.
Tried a couple types of paper labels. Peeling off was a pain, but looked better than masking tape.
Now i use a brother ptouch ($10 on fb marketplace) with generic laminated tze tape (5pack for $10). Each tape is 26ft long. Easy to peel and water-proof.
I love my Brother TZ series labeler! Also useful for my model is a date stamp button that you can shift x days forward in settings— ideal for adding a “best after” steep date to your juice label— and save slots that can use dates relative to printing date (even if recalled later).
Personally I just label with masking tape and a sharpie, so I usually have a standard label:
Name of Juice - Date Mixed - Date Ready
I'll occasionally add the VG% or Nic% if it's something different than usual, and I often don't add nic when I mix so I'll add a label about how much nic it needs added.
I do use version numbers, but they usually reference a recipe on ATF. For example I might have 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 of a recipe all steeping at once to try out different variations, like trying to decide which is the best fruit to use in a recipe. I try to only change one flavor per major version.
I use green painters tape. It's light green and black (fine point) sharpie marker shows up well on it. A roll lasts a long time. It's easily applied and removed. It sticks on the bottle really good. I got label stickers before and they didn't stick on bottles very good at all.
I'm a bad DIYer, I haven't labeled stuff in ages because I don't have creative names for anything. The only real differentiation for me is I have 4 different types of bottles and generally have two different types steeping at once so right now I have a Killer Kustard clone steeping which is the darkest of the 3 in a tall 60mL bottle. I have a mango with HS Mango in a 30mL tester bottle and then a variation of Tama Mango with my own spin on it to make it a bit funkier which is also in a tall 60mL bottle but clear, not dark like the Killer Kustard. I like the idea of the labels because my GF has a printer here now for work which I could probably use...
Forget about naming them don’t you worry about forgetting what’s in said 4 different bottles? You must be young and still have a super sharp memory ...however you do it 👏🏻👏🏻! I find labels ( from my ptouch) helps tell me first, what’s in it; second, when I made it and when I feel it should be cooked enough. I can’t imagine trying to do this w/o labels so hats off to you my bad diyer 😂😩friend ....;)
Here is what I've been doing.
Flavor Name VG/PG ratio Nicotine content Date mixed. Example- Trixter 70/30 3mg 10/30/18
I do something similar but I try to keep the label as simple as possible. I only write Name, version and date&time of mixing on the bottle and I keep a notebook where each recipe gets two pages. One for ingredients and general notes and the other for writing down whatever I notice when I try the juice during the steeping process. I'll have Coffee 1.0 and once I'm done with that I try to improve it in Coffee 1.1 etc. Makes tracking individual flavors in the recipe really easy.
I got 1400 water resistant labels from online labels dot com for a good deal. I cut the labels in half and cut up the borders so I'm going to get more like 3500 or 4000 labels out of that one box. I just v1, v2, v3 everything. Write every version down in a notebook and make notes when needed. Closing in on the end of the 2nd composition book now. One thing I do that might be different is my notebook pages. Top line is recipe name and v1 - v2 - v3 horizontally. Date mixed is above each version #. There's a column under the recipe name with all of the ingredients and I fill in the percentages under each version #. That's the best way I've found to waste the least amount of paper. If a version is standout, it gets its own entry in the calculator (hotrod's since I started using a real calculator so it's way too late to change). Labels are just Recipe - version - mg/ml - type of nic - mix date.