I'm pretty new to diy and ive recently stocked up on 40 or 50 flavours and have been working my way through them doing single flavour testing. Tried flv mango as a single flavour and went back to a tank of Charlie's chalk dust mango pittaya pineapple and BAM. Flv mango is definitely in this juice. Never had this happen before but holy shit did it feel good to make one more step on the journey to becoming a God tier mixer. This community is awesome and I wouldnt have this awesome hobby if it wasn't for you guys :)
Edit: need more flavour recs. This is what I have so far https://imgur.com/gallery/RrwXvSn my local vape shop is having 30% off all concentrates so ive been loading up like crazy. Any staples im missing?
Edit 2: the guava in bad drip god nectar is cap sweet guava lol. And picked up a bunch more concentrates today: flv wild melon, tfa vanilla swirl, cap sweet guava, fw butter pecan, fw fruity rings, tfa banana nut bread, fw butterscotch ripple. Next on the list is some baccies and maybe an almond. And fa pear. And fa meringue. And inw biscuit. And inw grape. Fml lol
>awesome hobby
Rabbit hole. FTFY
Trust and believe, one day it will be cheaper. One day..... ive literally bought 5-8 flavours a week for the last few months and I still feel like im missing heaps. I've got 10 bottles going of single flavour tests and have another 15 or so to go before ive got comprehensive notes on every flavour in my collection. Here's what I have so far... suggestions for what to get next? https://imgur.com/gallery/RrwXvSn
"Cheaper one day" oh you poor innocent thing! Heheh.
If you like tropical flavours, INW does outstanding Pineapple and Dragonfruit. I really enjoy VTA Pineapple Juice and have heard wonders about Sugarloaf Pineapple. Mango juice is quite nice too. Get a bunch of cooling definitely! Coconut grab VTA's one and forget about any other existing ones. CAP Golden Pineapple might be up your alley as a tropical flavour despite in the long run being oversweetened pineapple syrup buuuuuut it's a staple for many recipes. There's Cactus by... Shit I think INW? I forgot it's 7am here. Juicyness control, very sensitive flavour that shifts the feel even by adding 0.1% so good value.
Edit: oh I see you have Kaktus already. Hadn't gone through your list.
Have cap golden pineapple and cactus already. Is vta coconut the be all and end all? The shop that has the sale on doesnt stock vt :( everything but that in fact. Also both the fw grapes I have i can barely taste the grape flavour. Maybe im a fw grape non taster. Any recommendations for a grape to work towards a hubba bubba type vape? I can taste other grapes. Morris the grape by vaporeyes is my fav juice atm. Just not fw :(
Looks like you've got a lot of the good ones. Only ones that stand out as missing is TFA Vanilla Swirl and INW Biscuit. You do have plenty of vanilla options though. Maybe consider FW Butter Pecan. I don't really see a baked/salted caramel. If you like coffee with milk, go for PUR Caramel Coffee w/Sweet Milk, good as a stand-alone.
Im guessing butter pecan is nuttiness with a bit of creaminess and bucketloads of mouthfeel? An oilier version of hazelnut?
I didn't see FA Meringue, FA Strawberry. INW Shisha Strawberry, INW Shisha Vanilla, FLV Cream...all 5 of these are MUST-HAVES for me.
It is buttery, sure. Can smooth out some rough edges of tobaccos. Never bought the Hazelnut since it's not a very desirable nut for me. Though it works well in tobaccos and coffees.
I'm just starting out and plan to make around 20 or so 100ml bottles. What amount of flavoring do you recommend in terms of what to get? 30ml of each?
Look it all depends man. I buy 30mls of whatever I get because thats the lowest denomination my vape shop sells. Ive been burnt with a few flavours which sucks really bad coz now I have 3 or 4 30mls that are useless to me. If you can get 10, get 10. Do single flavour tests at 5% for tfa cap and fw and 2% for flv and fa. Taste the juice every day through an rda. See what flavours you like. See how long they take to bloom. Write diligent notes about it and your palette will start to open up. You will start to notice nuances in flavour. To pick what flsvours to buy, find a couple recipes you want to try that fit your fav flavour profile and get the ingredients. Then mix the recipes and do the same note taking day to day.
And watch all of diy or dies back catalogue. Invaluable stuff :)
Yeah I've been debating on which liquidbarn flavors to go with (if any) other than sour gummy, blue raspberry and pink lemonade since the recipes I have call for those.
What RDA setup do you use?
Variant rda dual coil with just a plain Clapton wire build 6 wraps at about 0.3 ohms. Ive also got an old mad dog rda with a 0.2 kanthal 6 wrap build but its kind of airy and a bit lower on the flavour bomb side of things. Variant is pretty much the drop rda with the air positioned vertically. My rta is a single coil alien blotto at about 0.22. You can see a pattern here hahaha I like flavour bangers. You?