Steeping/Old Juice?

[three_sixteen]

Hey folks,

I went back to analogs for a good while, but I'm picking this e-cig thing back up. When I was going through my collection of juice I found some older bottles.. maybe a year+ old that have changed to an almost brown color.

I tried peach, which was less discolored than the pear, doc pepper and strawberry that I have and it seemed to be okay.. but I'm a little nervous about trying the others. The expiration date on them all is 2012, but it almost seems like they're expired now?

Has anyone used juice that's really old and discolored? I've been hearing about this steeping thing as I browse back through the forums, but I think that maybe these things have steeped too long?

 

[been there]

Hey three-sixteen , no ones chimed in yet so I'll give my op the expiration ok but juice does get darker over time the only thing I think would happen is the nix level would drop over time and if it taste ok vape it in my op .

 

[Morandir835]

Three_sixteen (sir or Ms.?) had a few juices get a bit darker over time, but none of them had any ill effects from it that I could tell. The main reason for the expiration date is the nicotine breaks down over time...

 

[wader2k]

Nicotine juice is photosensitive....meaning that light will cause it to get darker over time. This does not affect the taste.

Temperature can have a bad affect... too much heat can spoil juice.

 

[been there]

I always use the wrong abbreviation the op is suppose to be opinion , it may get better no promises .

 

[three_sixteen]

Nicotine juice is photosensitive....meaning that light will cause it to get darker over time. This does not affect the taste.

Temperature can have a bad affect... too much heat can spoil juice.

I kind of suspected that something like this was behind the color change, is there any way to tell if it's been spoiled? I haven't been keeping my juice in the fridge, but I do live in Arizona so the house gets pretty warm in the summer..

 

[jmpublius]

Temperature can have a bad affect... too much heat can spoil juice.

Really? This might explain the brewhaha I had with you guys a couple of months ago over three bottles of ....ty tasting juice I ordered. I'm surprised nobody thought of this, including myself. I remember the mail packages being overly warm when they arrived. I thought maybe the mailman had them on the heater or something. Makes sense though.

 

[three_sixteen]

Really? This might explain the brewhaha I had with you guys a couple of months ago over three bottles of ....ty tasting juice I ordered. I'm surprised nobody thought of this, including myself. I remember the mail packages being overly warm when they arrived. I thought maybe the mailman had them on the heater or something. Makes sense though.

Hey yeah, how much time in a metal mailbox of 100+ degree summer heat is too long for juice?

 

[Morandir835]

Three_sixteen doesn't take long. Putting juice in 130 degree heat for an hour dramatically changes it's taste, and not for the better....

 

[wader2k]

Spoiled juice would simply taste bad/wrong. The nicotine itself degrades so nic strength can lessen.

I would think it would take a while.....short exposure to heat shouldn't do any harm. (our posts crossed M'dir--I do believe that 130 deg for 1 hour would not be good!)

Another thing to note: I've read that storing FLAVORED juice in the fridge is not a good idea. The humidity can play havoc with the flavor. A cool/dry place is optimum.

Unflavored/raw nic juice can be refrigerated with no ill effects.