My MtBV juices, all the bananas, moo juice, and blue moo, came in the mail yesterday. By the smell of them and first vape, I can tell the juices recipes are quality works with time invested in them, the flavor has been fine tuned, rather than just reverse engineered and sent out the door. For example, the banana cream pie has a tangy side, as well as a hearty side to the banana itself, which gives you a great flavor that seems to be floating in the vapor, where you can taste it in your nose and the front of your tongue. The hearty side of the banana gets you on your tongue towards the back, the sides, and gives you the sensation of a full mouth. It is what makes you want to eat and swallow, when you are vaping. These two qualities are important. If you have only the effervescent tangy flavor, the juice will seem artificial and cheap, if you have only the hearty authentic flavor, you may feel frustrated, like you are always a millisecond away from being able to swallow the banana and after a while of vaping, you won't be able to taste it anymore. When a juice has both of these qualities, they can clash, making the tangy tip of the tongue, candy flavor, seem sour, and leaving the hearty true flavor muddled and bitter. It is important that these two qualities have a slight syncopation to them, in other words, are not an exact match. This provides excellent separation of the two qualities, while also blending together to make one complete flavor. This juice has excellent positive separation rather than negative separation, which is sometimes called division. The biggest thing is that they need to steep, without a doubt. These juices are some of the least mature juices I have tried, when brand new, and that is usually a good thing. Sometimes, in theory, the less mature the juice and flavors are when mixed, the greater potential the juice has to meld together. The nicotine is giving me a clunky nicotine throat hit, not a whole juice throat hit, just the nicotine. The flavors are sharp, shallow, and isolated from one another. This all points to steeping. Most importantly though, from my experience with juices, the quality is there in these juices and the potential is there. Tasting these juices brand new is like looking at two puzzle pieces sitting an inch apart. I am very much looking forward to trying these when they have matured. I can tell it will be something special, I can tell the volatiles are there to coax the flavors out of their shell and move that nicotine clunky throat hit to a whole throat, whole e juice, whole flavor throat hit. I believe I can also tell that the steep time should be on the longer side, four to five weeks for the dark juices, maybe a little less for the lighter juices. The banana nut bread has a irritating spicy finish to it that I am very familiar with in other juices I've had, steeping will turn it into that eery, dark, muffin-like, bakery, slightly bitter, banana flavor that fills your nose with that incredible body healing ambrosia. I will definitely be back with a review after a month or so of steeping and a couple weeks of vaping. I would love to hear if you agree with me or think I'm an idiot. Ciao!
Disclaimer: These are my opinions only. While I do have a background in wine and flavor, I am not an expert on e juice flavors. When I say "you" as in "when you taste that flavor" I usually mean me. Obviously your experiences will be different and I don't know how flavors differ with different people when they are inhaled, rather than drank. Thank you.
