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you just got a foul tasting juice or if it's something wrong with your hardware? Last week I tried a coffee flavor two different times in a CE5, it tasted horribly burnt both times, but it was producing nice, smooth plumes. At first I thought something was wrong, but after the second time and it still tasted horrible, I went back and looked at some reviews on the juice and it had quite a few reviews saying it just tasted burnt. So I figured it was the juice and not me or my hardware. Today I tried some White Rabbit from AIV and it tastes funny to me. I'm not tasting ANY of the flavors other people mentioned. I can't even pin-point what the taste is. But the TH is smooth, it doesn't burn, producing lots of vapor... This juice has stellar reviews... It doesn't taste burnt, just "funny", I don't know how else to describe this taste.
 

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you just got a foul tasting juice or if it's something wrong with your hardware? Last week I tried a coffee flavor two different times in a CE5, it tasted horribly burnt both times, but it was producing nice, smooth plumes. At first I thought something was wrong, but after the second time and it still tasted horrible, I went back and looked at some reviews on the juice and it had quite a few reviews saying it just tasted burnt. So I figured it was the juice and not me or my hardware. Today I tried some White Rabbit from AIV and it tastes funny to me. I'm not tasting ANY of the flavors other people mentioned. I can't even pin-point what the taste is. But the TH is smooth, it doesn't burn, producing lots of vapor... This juice has stellar reviews... It doesn't taste burnt, just "funny", I don't know how else to describe this taste.

I would say it is more likely the juice. Do you have any that you KNOW you like that you can try? White Rabbit seems as it's one of those juices that has a multitude of flavors because I have heard it described in so many different ways and nothing definitive. Also, if the flavor is something that you're not totally familiar with, the brain has nothing to compare it to. It would be just like trying a new food, either you like it or you don't. Or even: it is intriguing enough that you acquire a taste for it over time.

Good luck :)
 

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Not familiar with White Rabbit (hmm, need to try some!), but it may need steeping like many other fine juices to bring out the flavors. Also, I'm not a fan of CE5s, they mute many tastes & pick up a plastic taste, ymmv.

I have noticed that some of my juices taste way better in a carto. And I have yet to have any problems with juices in my Vivi Nova... Gonna have to stick it out though, just ordered 5 replacement heads, lol. I love vaping and I love trying all the new hardware & juices, but sometimes I wish everything weren't so subjective. Can't there just be one great product that EVERYONE loves, lol? But what would be the fun in that? :)
 

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White Rabbit... Humm... Is that a derivative of Rabbit Tobacco?

Don't laugh... Rabbit Tobacco is great stuff: Urban Dictionary: rabbit tobacco

I have no idea, a friend gave me her sample bottle to try out. If it is, that may be why I'm not fond of it... (yet). Gonna let the other half of the bottle steep for a bit, and see what happens. I couldn't really smell the juice before, but now I can smell it in my clearo and the smell matches the taste so I don't think anything is malfunctioning...
 

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I have noticed that some of my juices taste way better in a carto. And I have yet to have any problems with juices in my Vivi Nova... Gonna have to stick it out though, just ordered 5 replacement heads, lol. I love vaping and I love trying all the new hardware & juices, but sometimes I wish everything weren't so subjective. Can't there just be one great product that EVERYONE loves, lol? But what would be the fun in that? :)

I hear ya! Right now everyone seems to love the kanger pro, but give it a few more weeks and greater availability, probably be haters pop up here and there too :) but we're all searching for the holy grail of vaping, the journey is half the fun!
 
Did you try these juices in a new clearomizer...or one that you washed out? Remember that the atomizer in your clearomizer will eventually go bad and needs to be replaced. That burnt taste may just be your atomizer going bad. If you take the same clearomizer that gave you the burnt tatse, wash it off, and put in one of your regular juices does it taste fine or burnt? You gotta figure out if it's the juice or the clearomizer.

FYI, the clearomizers are great but I never found that they wick fast enough, I would regularly get a burnt taste because the wicks just couldn't keep up with the vaping...especially when the juice would run low. IMO- I dont think you get great flavor from any juice through a clearomizer. Try getting a cartomizer tank system, $30-$50....same basic principal except you're not relying on 2 little wicks pulling liquid up against gravity. The tank continually feeds a cartomizer using gravity and the wicking action of the poly fill inside the cartomizer.

As stated previously, the purest flavor is attained from dripping....but what a PITA!

That's my 2 cents,

Vape On!
 

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What kind of ego are you using? If it is the Twist, try adjusting the volts, as diff flavors have different sweet spots. I have never tried any cartomizer so I can not suggest you any kind. I myself have been using 2 tanks of Vision Vivi Nova and I just have to tinker with how much volts I need to use on certain flavors to get to the right spot.

Also, when you said White Rabbit, I immediately thought of this

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It's a creamy, milky candy.
 

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What kind of ego are you using? If it is the Twist, try adjusting the volts, as diff flavors have different sweet spots. I have never tried any cartomizer so I can not suggest you any kind. I myself have been using 2 tanks of Vision Vivi Nova and I just have to tinker with how much volts I need to use on certain flavors to get to the right spot.

Also, when you said White Rabbit, I immediately thought of this

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It's a creamy, milky candy.


Well if it's in any way supposed to taste like that, no wonder I didn't like it, lol. Milk hater here!

Edit: And I'm just using an eGo C...
 
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Did you try these juices in a new clearomizer...or one that you washed out? Remember that the atomizer in your clearomizer will eventually go bad and needs to be replaced. That burnt taste may just be your atomizer going bad. If you take the same clearomizer that gave you the burnt tatse, wash it off, and put in one of your regular juices does it taste fine or burnt? You gotta figure out if it's the juice or the clearomizer.

FYI, the clearomizers are great but I never found that they wick fast enough, I would regularly get a burnt taste because the wicks just couldn't keep up with the vaping...especially when the juice would run low. IMO- I dont think you get great flavor from any juice through a clearomizer. Try getting a cartomizer tank system, $30-$50....same basic principal except you're not relying on 2 little wicks pulling liquid up against gravity. The tank continually feeds a cartomizer using gravity and the wicking action of the poly fill inside the cartomizer.

As stated previously, the purest flavor is attained from dripping....but what a PITA!

That's my 2 cents,

Vape On!

I have some carto tanks on the way... I've just heard such great reviews on the White Rabbit, I couldn't wait to try it! I gave up and cleaned out the clearo and put something else in it and the new juice tastes great, so it must just be a flavor I don't get along with! Thanks for everyone's help!!
 
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