Steep time: Full Cycle
Nic level: 12mg
Atomizer: RM2 0.9 ohms
Mod: Reo Grand
Thoughts/Tasting Notes: I can't decide if I like this one more early or late in the steep cycle, but as mentioned before, the journey is the real thrill. I get caramel/brown sugar early on, with hints of vanilla, tobacco, and even chocolate. Who knows. Not too much cinnamon, once in awhile, hints of it. At this stage it is very good, but it's almost like candy compared to later on.
After about 3 months, a mild cigarette tobacco really comes into play. The tobacco is not dark, not light, certainly not pipe tobacco, it's not spicy at all, and it's got none of the ashtray racket going on either. For me, it's like if you filled a humidor with Marlboro Lights and let them sit for a year with fairly high humidity. Then when you open it up, you inhale it through your mouth and you can taste it. Of course, the caramel and vanilla are still there, more blended, but the tobacco is a little more separate on the exhale.
Of course it still changes quite a bit at this stage, sometime more tobacco than others, and I have a friend that can't ever taste the tobacco at all, so it is definitely not a tobacco forward juice. It is the one Nicoticket flavor that I have never left home without. I think it's really cool that we each individually all taste different things in The Virus, and it's still so highly rated, winning the 2013 Best of ECF Tobacco award. And also for me personally, all the changes that it goes through, and none of them are any better than others, I still can't decide what steep level I like this juice at, although I try to figure it out everyday.
