Clark from Nicoticket sent an email detailing the closure of the business. He included a few recipes and mentioned there’d be more to come.
Nicoticket Betelgeuse
(CAP = Capella Flavors)
CAP Raspberry 5%
CAP Orange Mango 3%
CAP Golden Pineapple 5%
CAP Sweet Strawberry 6%
CAP Super Sweet 1% (optional)
Nicoticket Grandma's Cinnamon Danish
CAP Cinnamon Danish 15% (yes, that's it!)
CAP Super Sweet 1% (optional)
Nicoticket Gravity (Baha Blast Mountain Dew)
CAP Tangerine 3%
CAP Cranberry 3%
CAP Peach 6%
CAP Pomegranate 3%
CAP Super Sweet 1% (optional)
My "base recipe" is very simple.... any combination of CAP flavors, 10-15%.
Sure Bert
OOO Rainbow Sherbert 5%
CAP Super Sweet 1%
Someones clone of Betelgeuse 4 years ago was exactly the same as this except they used cap sweet mango instead of orange mango and tfa sweetener. All the same percentages too. Pretty impressive.
Right? I've been vaping that one on and off for the past couple years. I don't have orange mango though :( By any chance, have you tried it? is it just a combo of orange and sweet mango, so I could do 1.5% sweet mango and 1.5% orange?
I knew if wasn't tfa sweetener tho - I think everyone knew they used SS in everything
I haven’t tried it. I was just searching history on the company after seeing this post and came across the clone. Seems like there’s quite a bit of drama involving their past. Lol
Yeah I always make it with SS as well. The clone is pretty good. I never actually vaped Betelgeuse bc I wasn’t into those kinds of flavors back then but I don’t think I’d want orange mango in it seeing as someone below mentions it’s sweetened. If anything I want more mango in it lol thinking of doing a Betelgeuse with the addition of a couple other mango flavors.
FYI: The tobacco and vanilla recipes won’t me made public.
”Unfortunately there's no way for you to reproduce my tobacco or vanilla vapes as I make the flavoring myself... but - I will (in the coming weeks) be publishing a cookbook with the recipes that include off the shelf flavoring.”
If we could get The Virus that would be great
He makes the flavoring for that himself, so unfortunately we won't ever have it again. :(
I know he uses a NET and a house made vanilla. The NET is pretty easy. I suspect making the vanilla isn't much harder.
You should ask if is giving that one out or not. Even if he thinks none of us can do it, which he is wrong, it would still be great to have; something to strive for.
Making vanilla extracts is dead simple, but it takes a little bit of time. You really only need three things:
- Vanilla beans (cut in half, then split lengthwise)
- Carrier liquid (Vodka/Rum or VG)(I suspect PG would work too)
- Mason jars with lids or some other vessel with a lid (I used pint size Mason jars)
It takes as little as 2 months, but I hear the longer you let it go the better the extract. I made my first batch about a month ago, and I don't want to touch it for at least 12-18 months.
I really wish Clark would at least release an overview of Custard's Last Stand as it was my favorite vanilla custard ever. Based on the ones he did release I would suspect is would be Capella Vanilla Custard and some of his home brew vanilla extract, and maybe another one or two other Capella flavors.
Sad to see clark go hes had some bangers a long the way. I haven't had it in years but I maintain strawnilla is still one of the best S&c recipes out there. Its a shame about not publishing the vanilla recipes, itd still be nice to know the exact % of everything else and be able to sub in vanillas until we find something close, but oh well. Still excited for all the other recipes.
I was a little bummed about these releases. Everything in the list (or something REALLY similar) is easily found here or on ATF and ELR. Even after closing the doors for real for real - the few recipes that the community really wanted are not released because we can't make a NET like he did. I was really hoping to see them and then try and see what could be reasonable subs to make something decent/close but necessarily exact.
There have been vendors who have released recipes in the past but I thought there would be a lot more than there has been recently . Maybe in due time.
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If you know you're shutting the doors and moving on it's the right thing to do to give back to the countless people who have been die hard customers and supported your business over the years .
The one recipe I am hoping to clone is one he will not release and I cannot find any clone recipes for it either. It is The Cure and it is the ONLY thing my boyfriend (a smoker) will vape. He maintains he would give vaping another try if I could find/recreate his beloved juice. It is very frustrating. I still have a bottle of it and without actually testing it (it’s five years old, lol) it seems to be some sort of tobacco with chocolate, vanilla, and caramel notes… which is in line with what I remember. I can’t find even so much as a description to work off of. I tried emailing Clark ofc he never answered not even just to tell me what the flavor profile was.
Their write-up:
> The Cure (40/60)
> We took an extra large marshmallow and roasted it over a piping hot campfire. We made absolutely sure to get the edges slightly brown, just like you like it. Then we took a generous amount of rich chocolate and “smooshed” it all between two slightly sweet graham crackers like a sandwich! Melty s’mores in your left hand, and your favorite smoke in the other, this night around the campfire is one you will never forget. This is the cure for a long work week.
> Like The Virus that came before it, The Cure is firmly in the “dessert tobacco” category. The Cure features our signature naturally-extracted tobacco base married with sweet golden graham crackers, fluffy marshmallows, and rich, dark, cocoa’ish chocolate. If you prefer a more “milky” chocolate mix with Frenilla at a ratio of 20% Frenilla (approx) to 80% The Cure. The liquid is finished with top notes of coconut, almonds, and our signature in-house vanilla extract. Over time, the chocolate fades and the liquid balances revealing an intricately blended naturally extracted tobacco that emerges progressively over time. The tobacco element is particularly prevalent in Kayfun style devices, if you still use one. Mixes exceptionally well with all of our bakery and tobacco offerings. Some get a dark chocolate liquour, especially fresh. This liquid is extremely complex – we reccomend trying in a wide variety of devices! Personally I prefer to drip The Cure since it is VG heavy. This is intended to be a true “All Day Vape” (ADV)… the flavoring is “layered” to such end that the liquid continues to evolve throughout the day and throughout the life of the liquid.