DIY Question

[Kennerd]

I have been DIYing my own E Liquids for a little while now. Anyone have any tips on bringing down the throat hit of a lemon or citrus based juice?

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I have a great pink lemonade flavor that I couldn't get the throat hit down on. I found out it actually contains lemon juice concentrate. Tastes wonderful! But burns my throat a little. Plastic tanks don't like it much either. The citric acid is rough on them. Try a higher VG ratio. That might help.

 

[Kennerd]

I have a great pink lemonade flavor that I couldn't get the throat hit down on. I found out it actually contains lemon juice concentrate. Tastes wonderful! But burns my throat a little. Plastic tanks don't like it much either. The citric acid is rough on them. Try a higher VG ratio. That might help.

Yeah this flavor that I make is a lemon cupcake, its a 73VG 27PG. It seems pretty thick, but I will try to make it even higher and see what that does.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

What lemos flavor are you using?

 

[Skunk!]

I make mine at almost 100% vg. I am allergic to pg. I use rdas exclusively though. There is no problem with wicking with those. If you need to thin your liquid, try distilled water at less than 10% that should help

 

[Kennerd]

I make mine at almost 100% vg. I am allergic to pg. I use rdas exclusively though. There is no problem with wicking with those. If you need to thin your liquid, try distilled water at less than 10% that should help

I use drippers 90% of the time, so I like my juice thick, we were just trying to bring down the throat hit from the lemon flavoring.

 

[Kennerd]

in that particular flavor I am using Natural Lemon from Cappellas. But I also have lemon Sicily from FA, and Lemon from FE, maybe I will try one of those in place of the capellas.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I haven't had any luck with Crap-ellas. They are weak flavors and some just have a strange wang to them that I can't place. OSDIY has the pink lemonade flavor I was talking about. It's one of their own. It might not be so harsh in smaller percentages. I mixed it in at 20% to give it a test. I'm steeping a "Rosy Palmer" (Arnie Palmer with pink Lem) now that doesn't seem to bite as hard. It's only 5% lemonade flavor. It will be done in a couple more days. TFA seems to be my fave so far, but flavor west has some good stuff too.

 

[Kennerd]

I haven't had any luck with Crap-ellas. They are weak flavors and some just have a strange wang to them that I can't place. OSDIY has the pink lemonade flavor I was talking about. It's one of their own. It might not be so harsh in smaller percentages. I mixed it in at 20% to give it a test. I'm steeping a "Rosy Palmer" (Arnie Palmer with pink Lem) now that doesn't seem to bite as hard. It's only 5% lemonade flavor. It will be done in a couple more days. TFA seems to be my fave so far, but flavor west has some good stuff too.

Yeah, CAP is hit and miss for me, I like their Vanilla Custard v2, and blueberry. I don't think I have anything else from them. I don't really like TFA, most of the fruit flavors I have gotten from them taste really perfumey. I have been sticking to Flavour Art lately, I like alot of their flavors. I have a few flavor west flavorings as well.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I had that same problem with wha is now my fave strawberry flavor from FW. After you mix anything that is perfumey, let it sit with the bottle completely open for a couple of hours (no cap, no spout - longer for any bottle over 30 ml). Whatever it is that makes it perfumey seems to evaporate out. Te you can cap it and let it steep. FA has some tobacco flavors that I like. One of my everyday vapes is:
5% each FA Royal and 7 Leaves with 5 drops/10ml of TFA Bourbon. It's a nice mellow tobacco flavor with a sweet, oaky kick from the bourbon. It's not everybody's cup o' tea, but I have spent many an hour on a barstool with a glass of whiskey and a Marlboro. Kinda like goin' home for me. Lol!

 

[lovemytank]

Lemon, most coconuts and pg kill my throat.