Bounty Hunter tastes like what?

[tonybaloney]

I've just received my current order from NiteliteVapor.com. I ordered some Bounty Hunter due to all the posts highly recommending it. Most of the posts that I read claimed that it had this cake/cookie/oatmeal/cereal taste to it.

After trying it I can say that they are all completely wrong. It almost has a cherry cough drop taste to it. Not overly powerful as a cough drop but it's there. I don't taste anything similar to cereal or cake or a cookie. I'm really not sure what all the commotion is about. It's fair at best if you want a cherry type vape.

I didn't let it steep as some people recommend, and to be honest, I think steeping is made up thing that vendors with terrible tasting juice just tell you to do. I have had plenty of other juices that taste amazing as soon as I received them. Also, the juice that I received has a born on date of February and it is now March. If steeping was the case, I would assume that it already has.

Overall, I'm very disappointed with what I received based off all the reviews that I read. I'm not saying it's a bad product, just that it tastes nothing like I expected or what was described on NiteliteVapors.com.

 

[samwest]

The taste will change over time as the flavors mingle. Tobacco flavor juices usually benefit from steeping. I personally don't care for nitelite's juices. Don't let that stop you from trying other vendors like backwoods brew, alien visions, and copper creek. Don't throw anything away; as you get used to vaping your taste buds will change and what tasted bad could taste fantastic down the road.

 

[Lilkcceleb]

I certainly do not get any cherry taste from it. Vanilla but I can't get the Rice Krispy taste and I don't get (Va)Nilla Wafers either. Got a box of them and it's not there for me. It's good but i have stopped trying to figure out exactly what it is.

 

[ambientech]

I don't get any cherry and don't think I have ever heard anyone get cherry from it but hey taste is subjective LOL Like the others said try it again in a few day's if you still don't like it try it again in a couple weeks. I can say my taste changes all the time rendering many juices I loved to tasting like dirty socks.

 

[tonybaloney]

The taste will change over time as the flavors mingle. Tobacco flavor juices usually benefit from steeping. I personally don't care for nitelite's juices. Don't let that stop you from trying other vendors like backwoods brew, alien visions, and copper creek. Don't throw anything away; as you get used to vaping your taste buds will change and what tasted bad could taste fantastic down the road.

Just curious, but why would a flavor change with time. If you were to shake the .... out of it, wouldn't it be properly mixed. This isn't a steak we are marinating. Not like one chemical is porous. Is it because some byproduct has evaporated?

I've tried the other brands you suggested and I personally think they taste they way they are described right from the get go.

 

[spaceballsrules]

Just curious, but why would a flavor change with time. If you were to shake the .... out of it, wouldn't it be properly mixed. This isn't a steak we are marinating. Not like one chemical is porous. Is it because some byproduct has evaporated?

I've tried the other brands you suggested and I personally think they taste they way they are described right from the get go.

Shaking it does disperse the molecules evenly, but some molecules need time to "bloom" or bond with the other molecules. Sometimes, there is also evaporation of alcohol residue.

It's akin to making chili. If you just mix all the ingredients together, it isn't going to taste that great, and some flavors will overpower others. Once you let it simmer for a few hours, the flavors start to blend. If you take the finished chili, stick in the fridge overnight, and heat it up the next day, it's even better, and the flavors have all come together.

 

[EleanorR]

I've just received my current order from NiteliteVapor.com. I ordered some Bounty Hunter due to all the posts highly recommending it. Most of the posts that I read claimed that it had this cake/cookie/oatmeal/cereal taste to it.

After trying it I can say that they are all completely wrong. It almost has a cherry cough drop taste to it. Not overly powerful as a cough drop but it's there. I don't taste anything similar to cereal or cake or a cookie. I'm really not sure what all the commotion is about. It's fair at best if you want a cherry type vape.

Everyone else who has ever tried it/raved about it (including people who have vaped for years) gets that yummy vanilla cakey/wafery/graham craker/cereal flavor; you get "cherry cough drop"; ergo everyone else is (and I quote) "all completely wrong" and you alone have guessed the true identity of this mysterious juice!

Cherry cough drop! Who knew?


Ah Tony Baloney, that review, combined with your ECF name, makes me almost suspect you're having us on!

 

[tonybaloney]

Everyone else who has ever tried it/raved about it (including people who have vaped for years) gets that yummy vanilla cakey/wafery/graham craker/cereal flavor; you get "cherry cough drop"; ergo everyone else is (and I quote) "all completely wrong" and you alone have guessed the true identity of this mysterious juice!

Cherry cough drop! Who knew?


Ah Tony Baloney, that review, combined with your ECF name, makes me almost suspect you're having us on!

First off, thanks for making fun of my name. I fell like I'm back in elementary school with that comment.

There is no intention of misleading anyone. If you are a Bounty Hunter groupie and enjoy it, good for you. I was just trying to voice my opinion from what I received from NiteLite. Since you are so upset about my comments, I'm assuming that you are one of the posters who rants and raves about this product.

With that being said, maybe I received a bad batch. If that is the case, then NiteliteVapor has quality control problems and leaves me to believe that they are half ... company.

 

[EleanorR]

Breathe, Tony. I had no idea that "Baloney" was your real name. My deepest apologies, to you and your whole family.

So tell me, does the Bounty Hunter taste better or worse than the Boba's Bounty (which you also hated); I've never tried that juice and would like to know your opinion on how the two compare.

 

[lasttango]

there are a lot of people on ecf with a wealth of information... very few people will try to dupe you by telling you something is amazing when it's cra*

when you get vastly different results than most people it usually means that it's you...

your tastebuds, equipment or preferences...

my best advice is to avoid the juices that other BH fans recommend... and follow the recommendations of members who love the juices you love.

I like one out of every 6 or 7 juices I try enough to buy them again... Almost all of the juices I try are loved by someone. I have tried more than 100 and I only buy about 4 in bulk.

...and many juices do need to steep... you'll figure that out as you get more experience. Let a juice sit around for a few months and you'll taste a dramatic difference.

some juices don't need steeping...

 

[Reveen]

As soon as I started vaping at higher voltages, I started getting the hint of cherry flavor as well. In the beginning and with low voltages, it tasted like a vanilla cereal-ish baked good. It might actually be the steeping because even at the low voltages now I cannot replicate the flavor I used to get. I 100% understand the cherry flavor he is getting.


That being said, I still like the juice, but it definitely doesn't taste like how it did when I ordered it a few months ago.

 

[Karla Lyle]

I didn't let it steep as some people recommend, and to be honest, I think steeping is made up thing that vendors with terrible tasting juice just tell you to do. I have had plenty of other juices that taste amazing as soon as I received them. Also, the juice that I received has a born on date of February and it is now March. If steeping was the case, I would assume that it already has.

Very entertaining thread. It's amazing how much hostility there is in the world of vaping and because of differences in opinion I was one of those that also said I thought steeping was BS. I later realized I was wrong, but only half wrong. I have definitely found that juices do, in fact, get better with time. I have also never found a juice that I hated at first, that I ended up loving, with just steeping time. I actually said the exact same thing, that if a juice needs steeping it's cause it sucks to begin with. That statement is completely false. That being said, I can usually tell when I first get a juice if I will eventually like it or not and have not been wrong yet about that. The juice does change quite a bit though and usually gets a lot better with time. As far as tobacco flavors, I have also heard those take much more time to steep although I can't speak on it because I'm not a big tobacco vaper, other than RY4. So just like taste is subjective, I guess the need to steep is as well. Just my thoughts

 

[EleanorR]

Karla, you're right, steeping requirements are also subjective.

I'm in that unhappy group of "speshul" vapers () who needs to steep nearly all her juices for a minimum of 3-4 weeks (for some tobaccos, it's more like 6! ). Alas, often I can't even tell if I'm going to like a juice until at least the 10-14 day mark.

If you can enjoy most of your juices right out of the mailbox, count yourself very blessed! Some of us are very jealous of you!

 

[Creniker]

I buy BH in bulk but dont let it steep. Thats just how I roll. I dont get the same flavors your getting, but to each his own. lasttango hit the nail on the head. I've tried probably 50 juices, and I buy 1 in bulk, and I have a bottle of 2 or 3 more sitting around just in case I want a change. Its all subjective. Enjoy what you will man.

 

[ambientech]

As soon as I started vaping at higher voltages, I started getting the hint of cherry flavor as well. In the beginning and with low voltages, it tasted like a vanilla cereal-ish baked good. It might actually be the steeping because even at the low voltages now I cannot replicate the flavor I used to get. I 100% understand the cherry flavor he is getting.


That being said, I still like the juice, but it definitely doesn't taste like how it did when I ordered it a few months ago.

I too thought they changed it on us I lost that goodness I fell in love with. I laid off of it for a 2 weeks and vaped a completely different juice that is more earthy and dry. When I went back to BH it was exactly as the first day I vaped it. So at least for me no it isn't different at all it was my buds that were tasting it differently.

 

[billherbst]

The whole question of Bounty Hunter (and other juices) tasting different out of new bottles than from the first bottle one ever bought seems to me most likely an issue of "user error." Now, by "error" I don't mean that customers did something "wrong." I'm using the word in the sense of "statistical error" in sampling. Taste buds change, equipment changes, even the same atties and cartos age and produce different flavors. And, of course, human memory is notorious for its inaccuracy. Every study about memory confirms that. Witnesses in courtrooms swear that something happened exactly the way they remembered it, but then time and again, it turns out that their perception or memory of events were flawed or faulty. Human beings have profound difficulty separating "objective" reality from projected fantasy.

Now, if that offends you, feel free to toss it all out. I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

But consider this: Bounty Hunter is Gene's cash cow, the single juice from which he earns probably the bulk of his income. He feeds his family, puts food on the table, and pays the rent/mortgage with that money. Think about it: What are the odds that he would be cavalier or slipshod about making sure that the flavor profile of Bounty Hunter was replicated exactly each time, in every single bottle? I think the odds of that are slim and none.

I'm as sure as I can be that Gene monitors like a hawk the shipments of Bounty Hunter he receives from the juice wholesaler he's hired to manufacture Bounty Hunter according to his precise recipe of flavorings and mix ratios. In support of this view, we know from his own posts in the NLV supplier threads that Gene has not hesitated to discontinue even quite popular NLV juices when his supplier wasn't able to obtain the specific source flavorings used.

If Gene were to receive a shipment that tasted "funny" or "different," I have no doubt that he'd pour it down the drain or---more likely---show up at the manufacturer's facility shouting, "What the hell is this?" I'm equally sure that he wouldn't just say to himself, "Well, it's close..." and then sell it to his customers. No way.

 

[Vaprasticator]

I am definitely not tasting the cherry. I am on my first bottle, and it hasn't had a lot of time to steep. For me though, it was awesome right out of the package.

I do agree with Karla though, in that, I have yet to have a juice that I totally hated as far as smell and taste out of the envelope that went from zero to hero with steeping. One of my first orders ever, not from NLV but from a vendor I won't name, was complete garbage. It was a large sampler pack. I tried it months later, and it almost made me gag.

I will say though that not just Bounty Hunter, but absolutely everything from NLV that I have tried up to this point (pretty much everything but the menthol) has been absolutely phenomenal for what it is, a value priced juice with unique character. To me this says that success for a juice vendor lies not in producing a multitude of flavors to suit all palates, but doing a few juices extremely well and focusing on the consistent production of those juices.

 

[Xaria]

To answer the question..angel food cake.

Sure there are lots of subtle flavors in this concoction but that is the output for me. I love BH but it runs behind Caramel Corral, which is so good.

I have tried all of NiteLites juices and I am wondering if maybe you got a miss labeled bottle? Sundance has a citrus kick to it, I get orange from it. Someone else stated they got a mislabeled bottle BH, Vanilla Strait. I forgot which thread I saw it in.


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[Lilkcceleb]

I think Vanilla Strait tastes just like BH lol. Now I'm wondering...

 

[billherbst]

I'm not as fond of Vanilla Strait as I am of Bounty Hunter. I think they use the same vanilla concentrate, but I don't experience the overall flavor profiles of the two juices as closely similar. 2nd cousins, maybe, but not brother-sister. The recipe mixes are substantially different.

To my palate, Vanilla Strait tastes like it's all vanilla---not necessary "pure" vanilla (because I'm not sure what "pure" vanilla would be, so a safer term might be "exclusively" vanilla). By contrast, Bounty Hunter uses NLV's subtle tobacco base and adds a cake element---angel food, vanilla wafer, white cake, whatever.

For those who prefer rich vanillas, however, Vanilla Strait is right up there with the best major league retail vanillas, including BWB Vanilla Bean, AltCig Vanilla Love, VapetheRockies Voluptuous Vanilla, and Vaperite Madagascar Vanilla. I'm sure many more exist, but those are the ones I've tried that strike me as a cut above the ordinary. In addition, my short list doesn't even include any of the top French Vanillas.