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 October Recipes 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.
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Happy Vaping!
Went for something basic this time around:
3.5% CAP Sugar Cookie
0.75% INW Biscuit
2.5% LB Strawberry Cheesecake
1% TFA Strawberry Ripe
0.5% TFA Vanilla Swirl
Resembles a vanilla cookie filled with strawberry cream on the inside I used to eat when I was a child here in Dominican Republic.
I'm mostly vaping
#Nanner Nog by /u/mlnikon
OMG it's Delicious! Just a lovely combination for flavors. Doesn’t really taste like banana eggnog - more like a silky smooth banana pudding mixed with vanilla pudding and then topped with nutmeg and butterscotch. I love that dark sticky sweetness of butterscotch with the banana and the rich milky body, and the spice is just icing on the cake.
But I've also tried a few other things, and when I run out of Nanner Nog the first one I'm going to go back to dripping is
#BURLY BOiZ by /u/matthewkocanda
What a robust, interesting flavor! I can see where it might not be for everyone, but I love it. There’s so much going on in here, I can’t even focus all of it in a single hit, but it’s not muddled. It’s one of those things where you keep coming back to look at from another angle. A sweet Snack Pack banana pudding-type banana is the most forward flavor, but it’s quickly joined by warm spice and the boozy start of a full-bodied, oaky bourbon that carries almost entirely throughout the vape. Then the tobacco that clearly I.D.’s this as a tobacco flavor, which carries through the rest of the vape, followed immediately by a rich creaminess. It’s almost like chewing on an unlit banana-flavored cigar while chugging a mouthful of bourbon laced with nutmeg at the same time. Just so much it’s borderline overstimulating, befitting the inspiration here, I think. Every so often, even though it’s not anywhere in the ingredients individually, I swear I get a hint of chocolate, too, like maybe the banana cigar was stored next to a chocolate cigar long enough for it to absorb just a little of that flavor. Craziness.
I mixed and tried some more of /u/RamboUnchained 's
and will enjoy the rest of it after it steeps a bit longer. It is an awesome end of fall, early winter recipe. It tastes like two pumpkindoodle cookies used to make an ice cream sandwich with eggnog ice cream. I modified the recipe a bit to have 0.25% TFA Holiday Spice and 0.2% Rich Cinnamon instead of 0.3% Holiday Spice and 0.15% Rich Cinnamon, because I made a note last year when I tried it the first time that I thought it might be a little better balanced that way. Sounds crazy that shifting 0.05% from one flavor to the other would make any difference at all, but them shits is STRONG. I can't remember well enough exactly what it tasted like last year to be able to say it was actually better, but it was really fuckin good.
Two of the things I tried were for a side-by-side battle of
#Coquitos
I didn't think either recipe was perfect, but there was a clear winner: Coquito by MECH_MOD_RN, aka MaryBeth.
These notes need some work. It says OoO Coconut Custard in bold in one spot, but WF Coconut Custard elsewhere. It’s WF Coconut Custard in the recipe itself, so that’s what I used. I love the coconut milk flavor here, and it goes so well with the mix of warm spices. The rum note is terrific as far as booziness and in a sense authenticity, but I wish it had some of that darker, sweeter molassesy or brown sugary rum flavor. It’s like it’s got spiced white rum in it and I’ve never heard of that, gimme some of that dark base to slide in under those spices and mingle with the richer coconut cream.
MaryBeth has since reached out to me and told me that she actually did use FA Jamaican Rum in addition to the VT Light Rum, which sounds like it would have perfected it, but messed up when she shared the recipe. Still waiting for the recipe to be updated with the right amount of FA Jamaican Rum before trying it again, but I'm guessing it's supposed to say something between 0.75 and 1.5%.
The Coquito that lost was still pretty tasty, but had a major issue. It’s smooth and rich and rummy with a nice subtle spice on top and coconut throughout. I really appreciate the way that marshmallow comes in with the thick sweet finish. But, that citrus from the FA Custard pokes out some on top. I wouldn’t have guessed that it would, because I’ve tasted it covered up completely in several recipes, but it comes out a little on top and the coconut top note (the richer, basier coconut is great, tough) is slightly marred by it. It doesn’t taste like it really belongs here. It seems like this could be fixed by swapping it out for a different custard, but notes say a couple of different custards didn’t work so well. Maybe covering it up with something else? The darker rum flavor is lovely in the base here but doesn’t really bring the warm boozy top notes - maybe adding something like VT Light Rum would improve that and simultaneously overpower that lemony thing the FA Custard is doing?
Nog Milk was another tasty recipe. Just a basic eggnog. It fixes the too-light milky and eggy notes with FLV Eggnog, without watering down the delightful spice of FLV Eggnog, along with adding a lovely touch of vanilla. All that’s missing now is the booze!
I also tried this Spicy Mango Sauce. Review: Someone get this man some FLV Heat. That’s what this really needs. The cinnamon and little touch of Eggnog brings some warmth and spice but doesn’t quite hit that “spicy” bar. It might also help to fully cook the mango more than the bourbon is doing. I enjoyed vaping this because mango, but it still tastes too fresh for sauce. Unfortunately I don’t have an answer for what would definitely take it there. Experiments with FA Liquid Amber and mango haven’t produced promising results. Maybe a bit of something jammy that tastes like some other cooked down fruit would get it the rest of the way there? VT Jam It or something like that?
Oh wow it’s amazing that I made this cut. I haven’t mixed a new recipe in nearly a year. I just mixed up a batch of this myself to bring in the fall. Happy vaping!
u/hashslingingslashur’s Leche de Coco, modified with CAP sweet strawberry.
Love the original, but have been trying it out with various strawberries at varying percentages, usually between 1-2%. I think INW shisha strawberry was the only one I didn’t really care for. Otherwise, can’t put this stuff down.
This reminds me I desperately need to order more sweet coconut.
care to share the recipe? did you just add strawberry or replace something with strawberry?
Pretty typical week for me.
Brigade and Cinder and Smoke with me at work.
At home in the MTL tank is my latest Boba’s Bounty recipe.
Thinking this week I’m going to start on a Gold Ducat recipe. Something that really lets it shine as the main flavor. Probably going to just throw some DNB and tobacco absolute in there and call it a day. We will see.
Hi, i'm from Portugal so if you don't understand my bad english i'm sorry, e saw that you have nice recipes for vaping and many people like your "Brigade", i bought a Uwell Caliber for trying to stop smoking real tobacco do you think i should try your original recipe or the Brigade twenty-pod? because people say that caliber has good flavour i'm still waiting that it arrive. Thanks
It might be ok to do the original Brigade in it. I have one of the Caliburns, and I made the pod Brigade for it just, but it might be fine with the original. You could always mix the original and try it out, and if it’s not strong enough you could add the difference to make the pod version. Probably safer that way because it’s easier to add flavors than take them out.
Pretty much strawberry. I’m new to mixing and I’ve mixed two simple recipes, one in my tank today is just tfa strawberry ripe mixed with tfa cheesecake graham crust. It’s not bad but it’s not great either.
Try adding vanilla, it helps. I mix my liquids sort of like perfume; you have your base (cheesecake Graham) then the mid would be vanilla, and the high note the strawberry. That's pretty much the standard I follow when making recipes and it works for me, far as what I like in a vape.
Little 1 2 3 I threw together: 3% Flv Wild Melon, 2% Inw Shisha Strawberry, 1% Tpa Coconut Candy. Pretty decent s n v, flavours develop after a few days. Next batch will try different strawberrys
I make a pretty good raspberry cheesecake that's been my ADV for about 2 years now. I used TFA Cheesecake with Graham crust, Capella NY Cheesecake, TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, & TFA Sweet Raspberry. Still working on an acceptable creamy cinnamon custard, if anyone's got any suggestions for a recipe.
Hmm. Cinnamon custard?
The best custard I know - VT Banana Custard (so many other custards have horrible offtastes like egg and/or vanilla) - works ok with cinnamon, but usually requires something to tie them together. VT Chocolate custard is next best, and since chocolate and cinnamon are perfect together, and cinnamon can cover up that egg taste... The only question is creamy.
I think something like this should work:
3% VT Chocolate Custard
2% CC Devon Cream
.1% FLV Rich Cinnamon
Should be a nice cinnamon-forward pudding-style thing with chocolate notes. (For a better chocolate, use VT Devon Cream.)
You don't like eggs either?! Your taste buds need to grow up!
And I wouldn't call VT Banana Custard a custard. Its a great flavor, one of my favorites for sure, but you have to crank it up quite a bit and let it steep for quite a while before the custard really comes through. It is, however, an amazing banana flavoring right off the shake and when used fairly low.
I have a vanilla custard concentrate and a bit of flv cinnamon toast left and a sweet cream, but for some reason I can't find the right levels to make it work. I've tried using cinnamon Danish and it didn't either. I feel like if I could just find the right cinnamon I could achieve the profile mix I'm looking for, but so many cinnamons end up tasting like red-hots or fireball...
Some strawberry lemonade
Random mix I threw together the other day that ended up being much more enjoyable than I planned on. Having a lot of trouble finding a recipe I enjoy in the year or so i’ve been mixing /: