Two Thumbs UP for Bloog!
I have many good things to say about this company -- first and foremost, I want to congratulate them on raising the standards for customer service. They have SO much patience and no matter how stupid my noob question was, they didn't hesitate to answer or explain. Also super fast shipping, and they have awesome sales.
Regarding the gear and flavors: I ordered a 65mm automatic battery, a box of blank cartomizers and three packages of flavors (coffee, chocolate and mint) in the "light" 11mg nicotine level. I have had varying degrees of success and failure with different companies and each manufacturer has a different idea of what "coffee" is supposed to taste like.
Bloog gets it. The coffee tastes like coffee. No artificial vanilla-ick aftertaste like so many others, just a nice, slightly nutty-sweet flavor of coffee. Very good throat hit, even at the light nicotine level, carts last about the same as others, but they keep the flavor and strength until the end.
But -- the one really awesome thing about the Bloog cartomizers is the removable rubber plug on the sucky end. That means you can refill them with liquid a few more times and get more life out of them without having to destroy the mouthpiece! They are made to be refilled! With this in mind, I plan on going back to buy some of their flavors in liquid. I am curious if I can brew up a mint-chocolate coffee frappuccino flavor...
MINT: Now I never smoked menthol cigarettes when I was an analog smoker. Hated them. But Bloog's mint is not like a menthol cigarette. It's actual mint. It's more like Altoids, peppermint candies, mint ice cream... When I was kid, we had wild peppermint growing in the back yard and Mom would have me pick a bagful and she would brew mint iced tea -- it's just like that. The mint has a softer throat hit, but that's a good thing.
The chocolate tastes like chocolate -- not quite bittersweet dark chocolate but not that cloying-sweet taste of milk chocolate either. It's somewhere in between and will make you feel like you're cheating on your diet.
One last note - the KR808D-1 style battery seems, at least so far, to have a slightly better lifespan between charges. The finish is soft and velvety-feeling, not shiny hard. I like that.
All in all - in my short life as a newbie vapor-fan, so far Bloog is the top of my list.
