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#This week's flavor is.... ENERGY DRINKS!
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Next week's flavor will be: Sugary Candy (Pixie Sticks, Sweet Tarts)
The week after that will be: Eggnog
The week after that will be: Red Licorice & Swedish Fish
The week after that will be: Pound & Butter Cake
The week after that will be: Sponge & Fluffy Cake
The week after that will be: Chocolate Cake
The week after that will be: New World-brand Custards (TFA, CAP, FLV, WF, LB, PUR, etc)
The week after that will be: Old World-brand Custards (FA, JF, INW, etc)
The week after that will be: Far East-brand Custards (FE/SC, HS, HC, VT, etc)
The week after that will be: Currant
The week after that will be: Custard Apples (Cherimoya, Guanabana, Soursop)
The week after that will be: Grape
The week after that will be: Blessed Trinities (Blueberry Trinity, Blackberry Trinity, Bourbon Trifecta, Cheesecake Trinity, Cake Trinity, Ice Cream Trinity, Lemonade Trinity, Mango Trinity, Peach Trinity, Daveberry Trinity)
The week after that will be: Jams
- I like Hangsen Energy. It tastes sorta like RedBull but not all the way there. It's still probably the best Red Bull flavor.
- TFA Energy Drink isn't bad. It's got a decent energy-ish type drink flavor. Don't use too much. It's a stage-5 wick clinger. It will not come out (of your wicking material) no matter how many tanks full of whatever.
- SC Energy (Bullcity) is pretty good. I can't describe it but can tell you, it's pretty potent. I'll use 2% max.
- CAP Energy is the closest to Rock Star I've tried. I just got this one and haven't done anything with it.
- Not a fan of FA Mad Mix. It's supposed to be Red Bull but I don't think it is. Same goes for FW Red Bowl (very weak). FW Monstrous was vapable but I wont order more. Not sure if it's the same as Green Goblin. I have that too but dont think I've tried it yet.
Thanks for these quick-take notes!
Do you have any idea what might "fix" HS Red Energy to take it the rest of the way to Red Bull?
I haven't tried Red Bowl yet but I'll be surprised if it doesn't really taste all that much like Red Bull. Why? Because underneath the licorishy yuck, the Red Bull part of FW Jagerbomb tastes pretty right. So, I know FW at least has some idea of how to make a Red Bull flavor. Surely then they didn't fuck up Red Bowl? I'll have to see.
Green Goblin isn't a very concentrated flavor. When you get around to trying it, crank that puppy up to 8% at least.
> Do you have any idea what might "fix" HS Red Energy to take it the rest of the way to Red Bull?
I might be alone in thinking this, but I taste something similar to Juicy Fruit gum in actual Red Bull. It's nothing dominating but I get a hint of it. I dont get that with HS Red Energy. Maybe I'm crazy haha. I've read other people say it's spot on accurate. I really should play with it more. It doesn't have carbonation either of course. I've never added coolant with it so that might be good.
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Maybe I used FW Red Bowl too light handed. It really didn't have much flavor when I SFT'd it. I didn't realize that Energy Drinks was coming up or I would have prepared. Energy flavors aren't really popular but I like to try them..
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Energy Cow.
You talking about Health Cabin? it's in the list.
Or are you talking about Juice Factory or maybe My Freedom Smokes?
i looked into some trinities. there's a few more you may have missed (like slashaLo's apple), not sure if you want to include them. also, what about bases and stones? there's a few interesting ones.
I want to include them all but don't want to go digging around trying to find them.
Yay... The three weeks of hell are over.
How can you even mix without ever using any strawberry flavors?
Quite easily. I've been mixing a couple years now... Mostly my own recipes because, yeah, almost every recipe out there includes flavors I don't like. My main reason for getting into tobaccos was to make it more likely I could find recipes there was a chance I'd like.
To each their own but like... my favorite mango recipe has shisha strawberry as an ingredient. It doesn’t taste like strawberries.
Kiwi flavors are usually gross.
But that doesn’t = “ok X type of flavor by twenty companies are all bad!” That’s just silly.