Can juice steep too long?

[JJOOHHNN]

I have not run into something getting worse with time but just wondering.

I am thinking about having juices around longer than I have in the past. When I have had some that are many months old I have found I have liked them all better. Some I hated in the first month where great in the forth month. Ones I have liked out of the box seem better in the second month.

Big bottles seem to me (nothing scientific here just feels this way) to take longer for it to get better.

I am thinking about trying to deliberately get to where I have 4 month and older juice.

I have been bad about saving bottles. I think I want to go get the smallest and largest bottles of all that I have liked and start moving liquid from the large bottle to the small bottle. I would be vaping out of the small bottles and letting the biggest bottles I can get age.

 

[emus]

I've had a couple flavors go stinky after sitting too long. One was maybe a couple months and the other was well over a year. I have some flavorings about 2 or 3 years old that are fine.

 

[JJOOHHNN]

I've had a couple flavors go stinky after sitting too long. One was maybe a couple months and the other was well over a year. I have some flavorings about 2 or 3 years old that are fine.

Thanks,

Maybe my plan of getting huge bottles and aging them is not so good.

 

[jefsview]

It all depends on the juice and how it's made.

Some juices age fine, years in fact.

While others reverse-steep and loose flavor and/or get "funky/stinky/nasty" with age.

Depends on how it's made.

 

[emus]

Thanks,

Maybe my plan of getting huge bottles and aging them is not so good.

Concur.

In addition to shelf life issues; it is common to loose your taste for your now fav flavor.

It is ok to stock pile a lil extra PG, VG and unflavored nic.

 

[JJOOHHNN]

I am not worried about loosing my taste. I have learned to not to load the the tank with the same juice twice in a row.

 

[bones1274]

I have had a few different vendors who's juice has turned black and tasted like crap after a few months. Mrs. T's was the worst offender at one month.

 

[v1k1ng1001]

Nicoticket's Betelgeuse does not age well (5+ months). No biggie, just order smaller volumes. It's a great fruit blend!

 

[nj1001]

I hate that sometimes my favorite flavors get muted from over use. I have had batches run a little muted from time to time however. I usually find one or two I love and over chain them all day every day sometimes for a year or more. I notice not getting the same flavor out of them until I switch to something else and then go back.

 

[Steamix]

Probably depends on how many of the components that make the flavour are volatile. Heard from the grapevin that flavours composed for dairy products are formulated differently than flavours made for use in bakery products. Makes sense - dairy products are kept in a cooling chain ( they better, to keep the salmonella at bay ), making cakes and cookies needs stuff that's stable at high temperatures...

 

[Thunderball]

All above posts are good ones +1 on all.

If you do have a big batch, you may want to get it out of the plastic bottles an into some glass bottles due to "leaching".....

 

[weare138]

juices start to darken after awhile...and some get better with steeping, butjuices go bad after a year or so. if you store them in the fridge they will stay nice n' fresh

 

[weare138]

eliquids will leach off of the poisonous chemicals in the plastic causing health issues in the long run

 

[JJOOHHNN]

You guys don't make this easy.

 

[v1kingfan]

I've had it happen to honey pearry after 3-4 week, which is a huge downer since it's my favorite flavor

 

[Criticalmass]

Thanks,

Maybe my plan of getting huge bottles and aging them is not so good.

You could use glass bottles and when they reach the stage where you really like the flavor just move them to the refrigerator.

30ml is 1 ounce or so.

http://www.amazon.com/Cobalt-Blue-Gl...al+oil+bottles


And the two ounce (amber - 50ml is 1.7 ounces or so)

http://www.amazon.com/Amber-Glass-Bo...al+oil+bottles

And the four ounce (cobalt) = 120ml

http://www.amazon.com/Pack-Cobalt-Bo...e+glass+bottle