This was an accidental mistake, I've never had a juice that tasted truly 'sour' i guess the sour taste doesn't translate well in a vape.
Whilst waiting for my tobaccos to steep, i needed something that would be good to vape off the shake.
Actually i never really vape fruit juices, nothing against them i just sorta get bored of them pretty quick.
Also i never really share recipes due to not being a great mixer :)
However i think this one warrants a share, due to the sour component of it. This is a sour, grapefruit and orange vape, the inhale is a solid grapefruit, then on the exhale you get the sour tangy orange. The orange is there, but its chilling in the background with the sour tangy note at the front.
Somehow Sour recipe | All The Flavors
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|FW Blood Orange|1.5%|| |:-|:-|:-| |INW Cactus|0.25%|| |CAP Juicy Lemon|1%|| |FA Sicilian (Citrus Mix)|2%|| |CAP Supersweet|1|| |CAP Sweet Tangerine RF|1.5%||
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Edit - apologies for the lack of development notes as requested:
Truth be told, as mentioned above little development went into this and calling it a fluke would be fair. However the flavours chosen were all obviously chosen for a reason, even if the sour outcome was unanticipated.
FA Sicilian is the foundation here, it’s a forgiving flavour that’s hard to fuck up when used. As far as fruits go its complex enough on its own, therefore I aimed to highlight some of the tangy notes by using the other flavours whilst keeping FA Sicilian at the dead center of it all.
CAP sweet tangerine is a zesty, wet sweet orange to the point of coming across as slightly artificial, this was used for two reasons, firstly it’s wet and at a low percentage we just take the tangy / zangy taste to add some zest to FA Sicilian whilst avoiding plastic sorta orange flavour from it.
FW blood orange isn’t zangy or tangy..far less artificial than CAP sweet tangerine, this is where we will take our orange from. It’s used pretty low here for one simple reason - I’m not a good enough mixer to avoid muddling, so it’s used sparingly here just to take the orange and avoid pushing it too far so that it steps on FA Sicilian’s toes.
CAP juicy lemon...to me at least CAP sweet tangerine a lemon flavored cousin, artificial, zesty, tangy...and it’s used in the same way, I don’t want any lemon from it but I want the tangy zest it has, just a drop gives us that and avoids introducing the lemon.
INW cactus...it’s cactus init, I anticipated without it, the juice would come across as a hard boiled candy, a drop of this avoids that issue, and keeps it wet.
Cactus is the shit. I find that it has a lot of weird reactions with different flavor compounds so that may be the catalyst to make this stuff "sour". Mix it with guava and pineapple or raspberry, hibiscus, and honeysuckle for a hell of a good bubblegum-ish type thing
Thanks for the tips man, I got it during the Grack craze - due to rarely mixing fruity stuff i don't often use it, i should branch out abit and experiment more.
It's a super overrated yet underrated flavor. It has a lot of uses but I would mainly stick it in fruit recipes because it give this kinda faux-juiciness that I haven't really found in anything else. Paired with mango is a dream too, but mango is a bit of a rabbit hole so be prepared to sift through a few different combos before you find the right one
Edit: if you have FW candy watermelon and FW hard candy, mix 3.5% watermelon, 1% hard candy, and 1% of that cactus for a treat. No sweetener needed. It's kinda sorta like Baby Bottle pop Watermelon powder or, if you were around for it, Cosmic fogs Kryptonite
Front page recipe posts should, according to rule 8, have significant development notes. I get that you are new and I am still not a great mixer myself. You could always say why you chose those flavors, what they taste like individually to you, or what you hoped to get out of them at the very least. If you dont feel comfortable doing that but still want to share your recipe, please feel comfortable posting a recipe in the monthly recipe thread where signifcant notes are not a requirement.
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lastly, i tried a citrus mix by u/mixman0g that tasted 'sour' to me. I think it was probably bitter and not sweet which came across to me as 'sour'.
Apologies lurked here for years but never shared a recipe - my bad, notes added as requested. I guess you getting sour from a mix using FA Sicilian sorta adds weight / confirms it does have some sour properties if used in a certain way. Do you have the recipe at hand at all?
I’m glad you shared it and even gladder you added the notes. I appreciate any content on the sub where someone shares their experience. I also know what goes into writing up a post and why those rules are there.
It used jf juicy lemon if i remember correctly and not Fa lemon Sicily. Off hand I couldn’t tell you the rest. Thanks for the edit and for finally stepping out of the shadows.
I love sour, I need to find a sour vape! Good luck on fixing yours though’.
There is a clone of the grapefruit/pineapple(lift). That is pretty tart and tasty.
I haven’t ever made juice and now with nicotine not being able to be bought, I doubt I’ll ever get to make it. Sorry. I joined thinking about it and like hearing about y’all’s flavors!
You forgot to put the FW blood orange in the post 🙂
Excellente! Very interesting, I’ve also had a TON of luck using the combo of FW Blood Orange and CAP Sweet Tangerine to create very strong, interesting fruit flavors.
I first found it in a recipe by Developed (“Blood Orange Sherbet”)... Since then I’ve used these 2 oranges in a couple dozen recipes! They’re kinda like magic for folks with wimpy taste buds.
I’m gonna buy FA Sicilian and mix this up, thanks for posting!!
Thanks man I will look into those recipes on developed too as I don’t mix enough fruity stuff and those two flavours are underutilized. Hope you enjoy the mix once you have FA Sicilian/ Citrus mix let me know how you get on :)