Week 69

Medicine Flower Root Beer:

Yep, this is the real deal. Tested at both 1% and 1.5% in the Aromamizer V-RDA with a simple Kanthal twisted coil, with 1%-20% PG, I find it to hit full flavor at just 1% with no added PG. It tastes like a fine craft root beer just as my favorite juice, Kai's Virgin Vapor Root Beer Float. Just like the commercial juice I knew and loved, there is not a hint of ice cream taste. Unlike the Virgin Vapor brew, the Medicine Flower extract is perfectly clear and not a paler version of root beer color, so clearly the extraction is cleaner. Wintergreen is the most prominent note, and the flavor is sweet but not overpoweringly so, and I don't get any notes that hint at a soda flavor, whatever that might be.

This is easily an ADV if you love root beer but is not an every-day vape for me because I lose the sense of the more bitter and fruity notes after a while. Maybe there actually is a note of carbonation to it, as it is reminiscent of flat root beer once I've gotten too accustomed to it for too long. It needs absolutely no homogenization time and has full flavor mixed at 1% for me immediately.

I finally have something to contribute here. Got a new shipment in today and tested out VT chocolate custard at 2.5%. Off the shake it's fantastic, deep, rich chocolate. Reminds me almost of the chocolate you get on a donut, really no off notes that I could tell. Went through my 5ml tester in about ten minutes. Nice full mouthfeel, for me it could easily be a solo flavor adv at 2.5. Curious to try it with WF deep fried pastry dough or maybe LB lava cake. The flavor is quite strong, so I can see it being a bit of a bully in a mix, but I'm sure a legit chocolate donut is in there somewhere

Tried two Bavarian Cream flavors for the first time:

LA Bavarian Cream - Tastes yogurty. Like Dannon Vanilla Yogurt. Almost exactly the same vanilla as those yogurts, and quite vanilla forward, also very sweet and creamy smooth, with some caramel behind it. But that dairy twang goes over into yogurty tartness, which is not what I’m generally looking for in a Bavarian Cream. I could see using it in all kinds of recipes, but if I just really wanted to vape Dannon Vanilla Yogurt, I’d head over to VSO and get that Spork Pudding vanilla, it also tastes like Dannon Vanilla Yogurt to me, even more than LA Bavarian Cream, and it’s a richer, more deeply saturated Dannon vanilla yogurt experience, like the difference between Original and Light vanilla yogurt, plus you get a cool little spork.

WF Bavarian Cream - Maybe some novelty bias here as this is new to me, but I think it’s my new favorite. This is like an improved TFA Bavarian cream. Very similar, but more potent in all the areas except the dark caramelly sweetness, that’s still there, and even still tastes like it could go maple-y if too much is used, but the dial on that is turned down, leaving more room for a fairly thick and very sweet cream with lots of strong, warm vanilla and a smooth mouthfeel. Some butter, no egg. Rich, without being super heavy. Lots of body, body for days, and saturation, like it really was designed to be vaped. Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but I bet it works a lot like TFA’s. The thing with TFA Bavarian Cream is I often have to use it in conjunction with another cream, because I want more creamy vanilla but don’t want more dark sweetness possibly getting maple-y on me. This WF Bavarian Cream might be able to stand as the lone cream in more recipes than TFA Bavarian Cream could.

WF Butter Pecan Pie. Solo at 8% it was quite delicious. Very rich. Fairly sweet and gooey. Seems it can almost pass for a one shot. I notice a hint of crust in there with a faint cinnamon note very much in the background. It's pretty smooth so adding 2% WF Roasted Pecans And Cream gave it a nice toasty crunchy bite to it