Juices going sour within a week

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levander

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There's some issue I'm having. I had this with the last batch of juices I got, and though I fixed it.

A week ago, I got an order in the mail from MBV. I intentionally ordered two flavors people were saying din't need much steeping to get at least decent flavor out of: Ecto-Cooler and Cinnamon Roll. And these two vaped fine for almost a week.

On the 6th or 7th day, I was vaping Ecto-Cooler out of a tank that I had kept been topping off when it got low. And I'm noticing more and more the flavor is really bland. And there's this really sharp, slight sour flavor that I think is what people call "chemically".

I switch out for the Cinnamon Roll flavor and I can taste some Cinnamon, but that flavor is turning sour too.

The thing is, this is what happened to me with my 1st order of ejuices. About a week or two into it, I noticed almost all the juices didn't taste good. But that was my very first order of ejuices ever, I had just started vaping. I was wondering if my noticing that had to do with my taste buds waking up after having smoked for so ungodly long.

What's making me wonder if I've done something to turn both batches sour is these bottles were stored in the same place most of the time. In front of my computer case, next to my keyboard. It is in a darkish room, in the basement with no windows. Although it's an unfinished basement and the room next to it does have french doors pointing south. So sunlight seeps in, but doesn't hit directly on the juices or even come close to hitting them directly.

This could be vapor's tongue, but I don't think it is. Last time this went away as soon as my new MBV juices came in the mail.

There's a bunch of stuff I could talk about having tried with this issue over the last couple of days, but that's the general idea. And I've actually got an experiment going here to see if I can get back to a vapeable set-up with some MBV juices that weren't stored by my computer. But upstairs in a bedroom closet. Although, I don't close the closet door on that closet, so some indirect sunlight got in there too.
 

levander

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No, just the MBV juices and the flavor from the other vendor I mentioned in OP that I ended up not liking because I think it went sour.

My experiment to get a vapeable setup with MBV's coffee liqueur is going well so far. I rinsed a Protank 2, filled it with a little of that juice, put a new coil on it, let it sit for 20 minutes to saturate the wick, and started vaping. Because I didn't clean the new coil, the flavor isn't great, think they say something about chemicals on new wicks at the factory... But I've taken about 10 vapes and the flavor is getting better.

So, it's starting to look more and more like an issue just with Cinnamon Roll and Ecto-Cooler that I had stored in my basement by my computer.
 

levander

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What's weird about this is the sour flavor isn't 100%. Like sometime I'll let the tank sit there and saturate the wick, and a few vapes will taste fine. But then more and more you vape less carefully and you'll just get that weird flavor. So you try a new tank, and maybe it works a little at first.

Still trying my experiment with coffee liqueur...
 

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Hmm..that really is odd.

I will say that I liked MVB very much when I first started out, but in my travels managed to find some vendors with more natural tasting flavors and now have given away almost all of my MBV flavors. I bought a 50 mL of butterscotch from them because I really enjoyed the small bottle I got from them, but it took nearly two months of steeping before the chemical taste went away from the big jug. I also still enjoy Freckled lemonade. Any others from them now have a chemical taste..faint but there. I still order hardware replacement stuff from them though because you can't beat the customer service! Hope you get it figured out!
 

levander

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Tealady, the 6th or 7th day after I received the MBV flavors. I was vaping Ecto-Cooler for about 3 days street when things starting going South. E.g., I was topping off that tank with Ecto-Cooler for those 3 days.

I've been vaping the coffee liqueur for over an hour now I think. I'm going to claim positive results, but they're not conclusive: 1.) I think I'm just not crazy about this coffee liqueur flavor. 2.) I think maybe it needs to steep longer even though it took 3 days to come in the mail, then I left the cap off (in a closet with an open door) for two days, then four days later took the cap off for about 8 hours, and it's about 2 days after that now.

I've been getting some dry hits and I screwed something up filling the tank because when I started vaping it, there was a touch of gurgling. I've had gurgling a time or two before and it was so bad I couldn't vape very long with it, had to sit down and fix it. But this gurgling, I just blew through the bottom of the tank and that got rid of most of it.

Trying to get all the variables straight so I can figure out what's wrong is really maddening...
 
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levander

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One question I'd really like to get answered out of this thread. Is it possible for someone to ruin their juices a week after getting them by them sitting in very indirect sunlight during the day? No idea if sitting near a computer has anything to do with it. And I am in the South, near Atlanta in the USA. We have higher humidity in the South than most parts of the country.

The floor above my basement is air conditioned during the day, but not the basement itself. I just glanced at the weather forecast, we are getting highs as high as 82 F this coming week, and probably had last week as well.
 

levander

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Have you tried putting either of the "bad" tasting ones in a clean tank? You did mention that you were topping them off "On the 6th or 7th day, I was vaping Ecto-Cooler out of a tank that I had kept been topping off".

Yes, that's one of the things I've tried. Rinsed a tank, put some of either Ecto-Cooler or Cinnamon Roll (done once for each), put a new coil in, let tank sit for 20 minutes to saturate the wick, started vaping. At first it tastes okay, but then I'm like, "no, this is still crap".

What's going on now is I'm trying the same procedure with MBV's coffee liqueur, and getting pretty good results which are described above.
 

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I get that sour taste too and it's not just with MBV flavors. It's with different ones. If I only fill the tank to about 1/3 full, it seems like I don't get that sour taste as often. I never get it in menthol/minty flavors though.

I think your juice is fine, though it's better to store it in a dark place, like a drawer.
 
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