dissapointment?

[Ryan Kelly]

has anyone else ever gone to a brick and mortar and tasted a juice and thought it tasted amazing so you buy a bottle and then get home, fill up your favorite tank and it tastes horrible? i went to my B&M today in search of a nice desert flavor. i tried a boston cream pie flavor and it tasted amazing. i tried it in a basic evod so i figured it would only taste better in one of my nicer tanks. i got home and filled up my aerotank mini with a fresh coil and it is just horrible. 10 bucks down the drain. anybody want some free juice? hahaha

 

[Dissonance]

Throw it in the back of your juice rotation for a few weeks, maybe it just needs steeping...

I have noticed that some juice companies have horrible QC. Before I started making my own juice I was getting Niquid from a local B&M store... Buying 3 bottles of the same stuff and all 3 tasted different. It was blueberry cheesecake; One would have a strong blueberry note and just a little creamyness, couldn't even taste the graham cracker crust. Another would be all cheesecake and graham cracker, just a hint of blueberry. Then another would have so much flavoring in it that it would taste like vaping perfume... Lesson learned; Make my own juice, save money, get better and consistent results.

 

[Rodeorat]

At least your B&M used an EVOD for a taster. Most of them use cheap CE types, which taste like crap. And if you're used to RBAs, you can't taste anything out of cheap clearo anyway.
The smaller the bottle/clearo, the faster it steeps. It's possible the EVOD you tasted had been filled for a week or two, while your sparkly new bottle was fresh. Shake it up and see if its better in a week or two.

 

[Dissonance]

At least your B&M used an EVOD for a taster. Most of them use cheap CE types, which taste like crap. And if you're used to RBAs, you can't taste anything out of cheap clearo anyway.
The smaller the bottle/clearo, the faster it steeps. It's possible the EVOD you tasted had been filled for a week or two, while your sparkly new bottle was fresh. Shake it up and see if its better in a week or two.

Yeah, I can vouch this... I started working at a new store that just opened up, I'm the only person there that uses RBA's... They told me to "try all the samplers so I can get a feel for the flavors"... Been slowly sneaking drips from the sample bottles into my dripper since all I can taste on the CE5 "testers" is a 2 week old coil that needs changing.

 

[Zealous]

At least your B&M used an EVOD for a taster.

Even Protanks aren't great when you're used to an RBA. The place I get eliquid from has protanks for testers & those suckers a) dry hit in a second & b) don't have any flavor. I almost always ask them to just drip a bit on my atty so I can see what it will taste like at home.

@OP maybe youre juice just needs to steep. But it could also be a QC issue. I'd leave it sit & see if it gets better.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

This has been my biggest hurdle lately. I've gotten better gear all around gotten better at rebuilding, etc, etc. I should be primed for vape nirvana. And when I use a flavor i already know I like, I am! But it is soooo difficult to find new flavors based on the crappy ce testers at the B&M's. might as well just pick it blind and see what happens. lol One of the shops I frequent puts the "premium" liquid in rebuildable tanks or drippers, so that helps. They are usually very well steeped also. But even that isn't a guarantee... I've used the "this will save me money in the long run" line far to many times for it to work on a truckload of DIY gear at the moment. lol

 

[Ryan Kelly]

yea. i mainly use my RDA but i wanted a desert type flavor just for casually vaping when my giant RDA cloud machine isn't totally appropriate

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

Any of the desert type flavors I've tried just tasted like dry sand. Cactus and Yucca tree come to mind.

However, the dessert flavors I've tried can be very tasty!

Just saying!!

 

[crxess]

Fresh mixed?
Place in a coffee mug of hot(not boiling) water
Keep the water hot/warm for a few hours.
Shake every so often.
Let cool, Dry and place on a shelf.
Sample in 2 days.

 

[klynnn]

Sadly I wish some of these places around here had vapable juice in their store let alone when I get home. I haven't found one place yet and three new vape stores opened within 5 miles of me.

 

[herb]

Even Protanks aren't great when you're used to an RBA. The place I get eliquid from has protanks for testers & those suckers a) dry hit in a second & b) don't have any flavor. I almost always ask them to just drip a bit on my atty so I can see what it will taste like at home.

@OP maybe youre juice just needs to steep. But it could also be a QC issue. I'd leave it sit & see if it gets better.

I would be happy if places had Pro Tanks for testing because like others have said the ones they usually let you test on suck big time. A rebuilt coil works well in my PT II.

 

[Rab D]

A problem I've experienced is full-size bottles which taste different from samplers. I recently really liked a 5ml sampler, so bought a 30ml bottle; but the taste wasn't the same. I guess the samplers are made up in batches and left to steep, whereas the 30ml are made up to order.

 

[Dissonance]

A problem I've experienced is full-size bottles which taste different from samplers. I recently really liked a 5ml sampler, so bought a 30ml bottle; but the taste wasn't the same. I guess the samplers are made up in batches and left to steep, whereas the 30ml are made up to order.

Could be, or could just be that 5ml is gonna steep a whole lot quicker than 30ml... To the point it may have steeped during shipping.

 

[Tmg666]

Yeah, I can vouch this... I started working at a new store that just opened up, I'm the only person there that uses RBA's... They told me to "try all the samplers so I can get a feel for the flavors"... Been slowly sneaking drips from the sample bottles into my dripper since all I can taste on the CE5 "testers" is a 2 week old coil that needs changing.

Lol sneaking. Should talk to your bosses, the bms by me the workers get to use all the display equipment and can use the sample juices for drippers/rbas. Only at work though that is. All 3 are owned by different people so maybe your boss will follow that idea as well. You could always argue it could help with sales

 

[Giraut]

But it is soooo difficult to find new flavors based on the crappy ce testers at the B&M's. might as well just pick it blind and see what happens.

Just bring a small RDA with you and drip the juice you want to sample in it. The B&M store I patronize offers samples in crappy iClear 10 clearos, but it's fairly easy to open the clearo and carefully drip a few drops in my own atty. At least that way I know what it really tastes like, unless the juice has been ruined by sitting too long inside a clearo that has a burnt wick.

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

What I've learned is the cheap tanks mute the flavor. Many times its the yucky tastes that's being muted. You think you like it. Then when you get home you taste something that was muted before but is fully tasted in your better tank. I've experienced this quite a bit. I've been making my own juice for months now, but I love buying new juices too. It's hard to test a juice in those cheaper tanks because the horrid bad tastes in some juices are muted until you put them in a Russian or Kayfun or a good dripper.

I bought Halo TriBeCa from one of my local shops. I tested it in a CE4 tank at the store. It was delicious so I bought a 30ml bottle at a little over $20. I got it home, loaded it up in my Russian and I still get the good taste but this horrid taste also. It's not steeping. I ask the shop owner before I left how old was this juice. It was over a month since he received that shipment. Plenty of time for steeping. I've had it for 3 weeks and still get a horrid taste. I've tried it in my drippers, Kayfuns, Taifun FT, and my fogger. All tanks taste the same.... It's those little cheap tanks muting parts of the flavors. You get home and boom you get hit with all flavors, the good and the bad!