Black tea eliquid

[BDL95]

I've recently started looking into making my own eliquid, because it seems cheaper, and new laws are gonna mean I can only buy 10ml of eliquid, so it only really makes sense to mix my own
I absolutely love black tea, and I've searched for flavour concentrates (as well as normal eliquids) and I can't find any normal tea flavours, just fruity or herbal tea
So I'm wondering if I could use PG (tea brand, not propylene glycol) tips instant tea with a PG/VG base
Does anyone know how I'd do this? Could I just pour the granules into the PG/VG base, or would I heat up the PG/VG base, or add water to the granules to make it into a liquid?
And given you use 1 teaspoon / 0.5g of tea per cup, how much would you use to make such an eliquid?

Thanks guys!

 

[halbgott]

I've recently started looking into making my own eliquid, because it seems cheaper, and new laws are gonna mean I can only buy 10ml of eliquid, so it only really makes sense to mix my own
I absolutely love black tea, and I've searched for flavour concentrates (as well as normal eliquids) and I can't find any normal tea flavours, just fruity or herbal tea
So I'm wondering if I could use PG (tea brand, not propylene glycol) tips instant tea with a PG/VG base
Does anyone know how I'd do this? Could I just pour the granules into the PG/VG base, or would I heat up the PG/VG base, or add water to the granules to make it into a liquid?
And given you use 1 teaspoon / 0.5g of tea per cup, how much would you use to make such an eliquid?

Thanks guys!

I make a flavor by steeping a bag at room temp of st Dalfours ceylon peach in vg for a week (airtight). It blows away any peach or tea flavor I've tried. Pg will work too. You could just rip open a bag of crappy tea at replace it with the good stuff and pinch the bag shut. I use 1 bag per 6 oz of base.

 

[northhar]

I make a flavor by steeping a bag at room temp of st Dalfours ceylon peach in vg for a week (airtight). It blows away any peach or tea flavor I've tried. Pg will work too. You could just rip open a bag of crappy tea at replace it with the good stuff and pinch the bag shut. I use 1 bag per 6 oz of base.

When you say 6 oz of base do you just add nic and vape.. or is it concentrate where you would use 5 to 10% in a mix of pg/vg nic..

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

The way I read it is base is equal to 6oz of nic, pg and/or vg. Seems to go a long way for one bag.
1 oz is equal to 30ml. so 30x 6 = 180 ml

 

[halbgott]

I premix vg with nicotine in a large bottle with a little distilled water at about 6 mg to make stuff as I need or want.
The teabag mix is just used as flavoring, for me I add from 20 to 25 percent because it's not concentrated like lab flavors.
Just keep it from light or it loses it's flavor.

 

[halbgott]

The way I read it is base is equal to 6oz of nic, pg and/or vg. Seems to go a long way for one bag.
1 oz is equal to 30ml. so 30x 6 = 180 ml

Sorry for the confusion, I should have just said vg, not base.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

I premix vg with nicotine in a large bottle with a little distilled water at about 6 mg to make stuff as I need or want.
The teabag mix is just used as flavoring, for me I add from 20 to 25 percent because it's not concentrated like lab flavors.
Just keep it from light or it loses it's flavor.

Sorry for the confusion, I should have just said vg, not base.

Thanks for clearing that up.......make more sense now.....How much vg do you put in when you are steeping the tea bag?

 

[halbgott]

Thanks for clearing that up.......make more sense now.....How much vg do you put in when you are steeping the tea bag?

I use 100 percent cause me and pg don't get along. Flavor may be better with pg, I like the natural sweetness that vg gives it though.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

I use 100 percent cause me and pg don't get along. Flavor may be better with pg, I like the natural sweetness that vg gives it though.

Thanks but not what I meant to ask....let me try again....When you put the tea bag in the vg to steep it, how much vg do you use?
sorry if I wasn't clear before.

 

[halbgott]

It's ok, I meant that you could steep the tea in 100 pg if you wanted to.
So I use
six ounces of 100% vg for 1 teabag.
Just so you know, you may not have to add as much flavor as I do to a juice with a diy straight black tea flavor and it may not play well with wicks color wise.

 

[ChelsB]

This thread makes me want to go grab a bag of each of my teas and have a go at it! Sounds interesting!
I'm also thinking of doing an English breakfast with milk and Sweetener!

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[tazzle]

Inawera makes a black tea flavor, though I haven't tried it. I do like a lot of Inawera flavors, though, so it might worth trying (note that percentages for mixing are usually lower with Inawera than most flavors; I'm seeing 3-5% as a single flavor for Black Tea.)

I'm also thinking of doing an English breakfast with milk and Sweetener!

Not actual milk, right? Because you want to avoid vaping lipids.

 

[ChelsB]

Inawera makes a black tea flavor, though I haven't tried it. I do like a lot of Inawera flavors, though, so it might worth trying (note that percentages for mixing are usually lower with Inawera than most flavors; I'm seeing 3-5% as a single flavor for Black Tea.)



Not actual milk, right? Because you want to avoid vaping lipids.

I should've specified, no, not actual milk [emoji4]


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[SteveS45]

This thread has me thinking of trying to make Earl Grey flavoring myself but I think I would try to make a concentrate with a minimal amount of PG like 15 MLs which would be strong I am thinking.

 

[ChelsB]

@leftyandsparky I saw this thread and thought of you


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[leftyandsparky]

@leftyandsparky I saw this thread and thought of you


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I do love my teas, but I don't think I can vape it!

 

[SteveS45]

I found a Cherry Blossom Tea flavor I thoroughly enjoyed during 100°F Summer Heat Waves last year! I am looking for a bottle to try making a concentrate but wondering if it is safe to vape tea.

 

[ChelsB]

I do love my teas, but I don't think I can vape it!

I'm not sure either but am going to try it anyway. If I don't like it, I'm only out 1 tea bag and 6 oz of VG


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[SteveS45]

I do not see a reason to make 6 ounces (180 ML) and if I do this I will make 15 Mls or so of concentrate.

 

[ChelsB]

I'm going off what @halbgott has done with 1 tea bag per 6 ounces of liquid so I don't have to strain it...


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