Since I was one who spoke well of RTE, I'm looking forward to your comments. Absolutely right about Evan. He really cares about his products.
And I have to ask about the cat urine room note. Since I loath that smell after an unfortunate experience with our felines, what liquids gave you that "note."
I've sampled a few of the The RTE liquids now. They are clean. I've started to get used to gunky and flat two dimensional tasting liquids of late from our favorite vendors who must have felt the pinch of dropping demand after the deeming regs ravaged the NET industry along with the changing landscape of vaping with the proliferation of sub ohm vaping. Pure speculation on my behalf.
However Evan has stuck true to the passion for NETs and his customer service and product has all the hallmarks of a enthusiastic vendor starting out with a young enterprise.
Initially when trying the Havana #2 I detected what appeared to be the taste of coil 'hot legs' or hot spots , which was common when rebuildables first started when hot spots were a common thing. It wasn't unpleasant like a bad hot spot but I can be fastidious about coils heating unevenly. I actually rebuilt some coils thinking I had hot spots until I realized that I wasn't getting hot spots and that it was how the juice tasted. Once I identified the flavor of the juice I realized that what I was confusing with minor hotspots was a clean, crisp, dry cigar taste with no sweetness. From there it was all love. This is how a cigar maceration is supposed to taste.
I've also sampled the PA Oscura Maduro and that Ecuadorian Shade. Both pack a punch. The PA Oscura has chocolate notes with a solid cigary dry woodiness and Earth.
The Ecuadorian Shade is bang on a Shade. I do like a good Shade Tobacco and its mellow low key leafiness. I really enjoyed Goodejuice's Shade Tobacco which was a bit sweeter. The RTE Ecuadorian Shade is drier and more ashy but still a clean filtered liquid.
There is real clarity in RTE's juices. They achieve a good balance between flavor and cleanliness. I've gone through 4mls of the Havana #2 n the G T 3 and I've still got what tastes like a clean coil.
I think Evan has ensured that he doesn't veer into the efficient high turnover production of warm maceration and stuck with the more patient cold maceration method which is why there is a cleaner flavor with greater clarity in the juices.
Evan maintains that he uses a 2-3 month cold Mac method and filters the juices twice or three times at 3-5 microns if I am not mistaken.
I am also enjoying the throat hit from the nicotine which is crisp and fresh tasting.
The price is on the expensive side but vaping these juices at 12mg gives me plenty of mileage and at the end of the day, vaping a 3mg juice at 100 watts at $15 a bottle is no more affordable than vaping a 12mg juice at $30 for a 30 ml bottle.
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