Help! My first shot as total DIY is mucked up? Or needs to steep? Coffee.

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pizza2me

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Hi all,

I used TPA Coffee (clear) PG.

Tried to make 60PG/40PG, 15mg. I started with the assumption I've read to start with 10% flavoring. (but I've since read that maybe I should have started lower with this flavor... ? Can't find it now though)

I used the e-juice Calculator and did the following to make 8ml of juice. Using 100%PG 48mg nic.

Nic = 2.5ml
PG = 1.5ml
VG = 3.2ml
flavor = .8ml

Smells kinda like vanilla/cocoa butterish. Tastes REALLY weird. can't describe it.

Am I way off with the 10%? Something else?

Or does it just need to steep?

Thanks!!!

(On to try tobacco Blend or Tobacco Flavor.... Both of which I've heard must steep... And use a lower % of flavoring... I think.)
 

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What a guy!!! What would we do without good folks like you on this forum! :p

I ask myself that same question every day I wake up.

But, you do have other choices here. You can wait a day to see if the taste improves. I don't know. The smell is what it is. I'm surprised it doesn't smell like coffee, as that's the only flavor you used. What does the stuff smell like by itself? Do you think it may not be coffee at all? You could lower the amount of flavor percentage, by calculating a flavorless 60/40 15% batch and adding those ingredients to your mix. Or, you can add a drop or two to increase the flavor. I don't think 10% was a bad place to start. You can use high school algebra to figure out how to change it.
 

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If you feel you over did it with flavor, try adding the exact same amounts of everything EXCEPT the flavor. From there you can add one drop at a time to get it where it's vapable. I've heard the coffee flavors are really strong so I'd start with 5% flavoring and work up. If you add the same amounts of nic, VG and PG, that would give you 16 ml at 5% flavor. That's my 2 cents. Lord knows I've chugged more juice down the drain than what I've been able to vape since I started DIY so take it for what it's worth. lol
 

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For TPA coffee I did this recipe:

40/60 PG/VG Blend

5% TPA coffee
5% Lorann Caramel
5% TPA Double Chocolate
2% Lorann Cotton Candy

To get your flavoring to 5% add:

2.5ml nic
2.3ml PG
3.2ml VG

This will keep you at 60/40 PG/VG with 15mg nic and make your juice 5% flavoring. Pour into a larger bottle if you need to.

The reason you'll add more PG is to keep the correct PG% from the missing flavoring.

Hope this helps! :)
 
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Wow! Awesome info folks!! I'll have to try it out tonight. And thanks for the recipe! I need to get more flavors to try that. I'm trying to start simple. My wife likes straight Coffee and I like straight Tobacco.

Prettycat... Does that recipe taste like black Coffee or something mixed? And do you usually have to steep your Coffee mixes?

Thanks for the great help! I'll be back! :=)
 

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Heh, I haven't tasted it since I made it, since I made it for someone else, but he loves it! I need to make it again so i can give actual feedback on it.

When i tasted it initially, it was coffee with a hint of caramel. But the flavors take longer to meld and grow, so the other flavors would come out more after a few days. Think a Starbucks coffee type of vape.

Any coffee can benefit from a little sweetener, such as the cotton candy/ethyl maltol, so that might help.

Many of the vendor juices aren't just one flavor straight, coffee juices usually are coffee combined with something else. Same for tobaccos, I'm pretty sure many or them add caramel, etc. for more tasty juice. I can't stand tobacco, but i have as yet to see a juice that's straight up coffee flavor. Adding a flavor doesn't mean you'll taste that flavor, sometimes it simply enhances the existing flavors. Depending on how much you use.
 
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