Do you think the flavor changes with age?

[Brewster 59]

Today I noticed something I thought was odd I was vaping rum and coke which had a tart taste to it actually good but my batty died so I switched to atomic fireball which really tasted off. The last time I vaped this stuff it was awesome today not so great it is a couple of weeks old and was wondering if the flavor changes with age.

 

[MHR7331]

How are you storing it? If you're leaving it out in direct sunlight/heat, that might explain it.

 

[AshHole]

I was going to ask the same question, but along another tack...

I have some juice I accidentally left open without drip nozzle for a day... thinking nothing of it I put it back together and dripped some.

It had a 'fuller' flavor! Kinda like letting a wine "breathe" -

I also noticed - if I put down a fully loaded PV and pick it up in the AM it tastes different too.

So I was wondering - do juices change when left open to the atmosphere - or am I just crazy? (you can call me crazy I wont mind)

 

[VapingRulz]

It may also be that your taste buds are changing.

 

[Brewster 59]

well I store all my juice in a case my daughter use to use for her mac make up so it is in the dark and it is pretty darn cool here now. I was keeping it in the fridge but read a post where dvap didnt really recommend that and others said some of their juices went bad. I have quite a bit of juice and dont want it to go bad. My taste buds must be doing wierd things cuse a lot of juice taste different to me than it first did.

 

[john doe]

if you went from smoking to vaping right away then the first time you vaped you'd still have smokers tongue. after a week or 3 your sensitivity to different tastes change. also going from one flavor to another the second flavor is affected by the first. ever try orange juice right after brushing your teeth? makes it real funky.

 

[Lightgeoduck]

Today I noticed something I thought was odd I was vaping rum and coke which had a tart taste to it actually good but my batty died so I switched to atomic fireball which really tasted off. The last time I vaped this stuff it was awesome today not so great it is a couple of weeks old and was wondering if the flavor changes with age.

Well it depends how ald are you?

I haven't had a problem so far... well except for one of my coffee liquid bottles that I left in the car... sort of changed flavor on me... not sure if it was the heat or the sun.... but still.... the rest of my bottles are in a cool dark place (but not for preserving ,, its just where I keep my stash)

 

[WonderfulMe]

I think it changes as it ages. I have some johnson's creek that has been packed away for a few months, all the flavors taste the same now. I also notice that if I don't like a juice and then wait a week, sometimes it tastes different, sometimes I like it. Not sure if this is age related or not though.

 

[Lightgeoduck]

I have a question... has anyone tried shaking the bottle? maybe the flavoring is heavier and in time settles at the bottom?

just wondering if that mattered or not

 

[DinosaurVapor]

I have a question... has anyone tried shaking the bottle? maybe the flavoring is heavier and in time settles at the bottom?

just wondering if that mattered or not

8-o8-o8-o

ALWAYSshake the bottle before you use it.....wait.... is this not a given? i thought everyone just naturally shook the bottle....the ingredients all have a different density,so where they settle in the bottle depends on how heavy they are per oz......

AGAIN ALWAYS SHAKE BOTTLE!!!!

 

[Lightgeoduck]

Thanks Dino,,, maybe I should use smilies more so its easier for people to depict the tone of my post hehe

 

[DinosaurVapor]

Thanks Dino,,, maybe I should use smilies more so its easier for people to depict the tone of my post hehe

haha....but still, shake that xxxx up!

 

[Jules22871]

The only flavor I ever had changed was Bavarian creme that I made myself using LorAnn's. It not only changed taste but it changed color and smell also. All of my stash is in a dark place and I keep my house at 62 degrees pretty much year round. None of the juice I've bought from suppliers has ever changed.

 

[catlvr]

I always shake mine before using. I haven't noticed any change with age in any of my supplier bought juice. Just started to try my hand at diy so I don't know about that yet. I think alot has to do with the taste buds. Some days the flavor is real strong tasting to me and other days hardly any flavor. Different times of the day I notice this also.

 

[kase]

I think my tastes change with age. Something I liked 2 weeks ago might not do it for me today.

 

[Brewster 59]

I always shake mine before using. I haven't noticed any change with age in any of my supplier bought juice. Just started to try my hand at diy so I don't know about that yet. I think alot has to do with the taste buds. Some days the flavor is real strong tasting to me and other days hardly any flavor. Different times of the day I notice this also.

Yup thats what i'm talking about cant figure out why. Its been 45 days since smoking an analog but juice tastes different ranging from strong to weak at different times.

 

[jongleur]

I always shake the bottle before filling carts or dripping, too, for the obvious reason already mentioned in this thread.

But I do wonder sometimes, if the negative effect of shaking might outweigh the positive effect.

What could be the negative effect of shaking the liquid, you ask? In a word, oxygenation.

That might not be a good thing over time. Anyone know?

--John

 

[Madame Psychosis]

I think, especially with thicker liquids, this might be an issue of flavors "permeating" somehow throughout the juice. I might be wrong, but I have definitely observed that flavors alter a bit with age and this might explain it. (I had cut down enough on my smoking by the time I started vaping that I had a fairly robust sense of taste.) I haven't noticed the phenomenon so much with the handful of factory-made "commercial" liquids I've had.

With liquids that are mixed fresh (e.g. DIY or made-to-order flavors like TastyVapor) I notice that the flavors change over time, especially during the first week.... Someone pointed that out on the DIY forum and it explained why I noticed that immediately trying my DIY liquids didn't reflect how they'd taste a bit later.

Oxygenation could it part of it, no doubt, especially since some plastics are more air-permeable than others. (An interesting experiment to test this would be to have multiple bottles of identical-batch liquid in soft plastic, hard plastic, and glass bottles with varying levels of air in them, leaving them sit in a dark place, and seeing whether some change more than others in flavor if at all.)

 

[Dkrom68]

They do seem to change as time goes by i think its the flavors working themselves into one another as ive noticed even shaking a bottle thats been lying around the flavor seems to enhance more. I always start with lower flavoring and vape it for a couple days before i ad a little more if it needs it it always seems to richen up if that makes sense.