It isn't alcohol infused.
There is no alcohol. It is inspired by the term cask strength. It is meant to denote a stronger strength and extra aging.
Juicy just needs to get the Extra-extra extract version
There is definitely some 'oomph' to MvJ extracts. You just gotta ramp up the extract percentage, and you'll find that they gunk a lot quicker and produce definitively more flavor than their base counterparts.
Any cigar (or NET) vape will do this; anyone who's vaped W2V ACID Blondie or Cold Infusion knows exactly how
gentle these are to coils- they are merciless, fast-gunking flavor cannons. W2V's Campfire coffee, while not a NET, tastes like it's namesake percolated coffee- however, it gunks at about the same rate as a NET.
Regarding Louisville- I have a very well aged bottle of it. I think I took more to the London route and enjoyed Latakia more, but that doesn't mean I like straight latakia 100% of the time.
If there's just a bit of something else in there to "round it out", so to speak, I can vape it all day (I run one tank, one flavor, all day long most of the time. There are, however, exceptions) and the closest I can think of is Balkan- has that same London Latakia punch, doesn't gunk as quickly (though this will obviously vary based on how the extract is filtered and the %), and is rounded out with the Macedonian tobacco. I forget what else is in it, but it was mysteriously alluring every time I loaded it up on a fresh coil/wick or after a good dry-burn on the ReadyXwick.
When I vape my Cavs (that made me lol, because I think of the Cleveland Cavaliers [the Cleveland 'Cavs'] every time someone says "Cavs" in reference to a Cavendish) people often don't even notice a hint of tobacco smell. Dry burning them, however, produces an odor much closer to burnt hair than fine tobacco.
I often wonder, though, if we can find a simpler way to pull the essence of flavor from a tobacco, without the gunk. Sure, there's all this talk of supercritical C02 extraction and all, and there
has to be a reason HHV's tobaccos aren't anywhere near as gunky as other vendors'- even if some of the blends are hybrids, the gunk factor should be more present than it is; as it stands, I can run HHV juices for
days compared to most NETs before needing a dry-burn.
I guess you could say that's one of the reasons I enjoy HHV juices; Fiddling with things has a tendency to bother me, and the less fiddle-factor with my devices, the better.
In fact, I just twisted a 2.3Ω coil on some readyXwick pared down shorter on the KFL- just to the top of the wick channels intentionally to see if it would draw liquid effectively after a deliberate juice flood- it did, and the liquid level is dropping.
Flavor is coming through pretty well now on the Sony batteries, compared to the demonfires.
All in all, I guess you could say that I'm focused on less equipment maintenance and maximum flavor output.
As I made mention of HHV, they fit the bill in this regard. However, you're not going to find a GJ4, Acadian Gold, or Latakia-based blend that will vape as clean as an HHV juice. MvJ's standard blends reflect this performance to an extent, however you're definitely getting the different tobaccos dancing around visibly, and not simply working backstage to improve the performance.
Absolutely no offense to HHV or MvJ implied in any way whatsoever; but I wish
all NETs vaped as cleanly as HHV (even with extra extract) and MvJ (with extra extract, not doubled).
Those of you who recall the posts regarding the differences in color hues/flavor between the current HHV blends and how they were in the past, will also note that a steeping will shift these liquids to the same hue they previously arrived at the doorstep in.
Remember, when we first started ordering from HHV, they were a small business- from what I understand, now they have a B&M and a new location, which implies new mixologists. We're all human, and sometimes....well.... juices just require steeping.
From here on in, let us let the vendors know if something isn't the same as a previous order with their juice. It's easy to try and "steep it away" and try to change the flavor- but if there's a mix-up in the mixing, the owner ought to know what's up, amirite?
For example, when I first vaped MvJ's FVCS, I got it with regular extract, STP.
I found it smooth, but I literally
could not taste it. There was a tobacco
presence, but I was wondering where the flavor was, so I emailed Diane. She was as clueless as I was. Then, a week and a half later, the flavor started to come through. Had I ordered a bottle of extract and just threw a bunch in some premixed base, I might have been freaking out at the flavor being too strong.
FWIW, MvJ has helped me step down my nicotine levels. It's just hard to mix to everybody's taste, and even harder to get an exact extract % that will work on all hardware. If a liquid
destroys a factory-built coil after the first tank, a new vaper might have no clue as to what's going on and might simply go shop elsewhere; or they'll wonder what's wrong with their equipment, ect.
While it's good to be inquisitive on such a level, it's better to venture into potent NETs with advance knowledge of the gain and drawbacks in regards to hardware/wicks and other such tradeoffs.
MvJ is, as I see it, NETs that everyone can enjoy- even those who are running factory standard coil heads or rewicking with FT silica prebuilt heads will be able to tell a difference. Those of us who are more "hardcore" can step it up even further by ordering extract & base and mixing their own, doing their own extractions,or branching out into the "heavy-hitters" (which happen to be, unfortunately, heavy gunkers most of the time).
When I was very first vaping a lot of GeJ, I was rinsing factory kanger heads and using paper towels to clean the "flavor wicks" (I no longer use "flavor wicks" of any sort as they seem to mute flavor) and a kitchen sprayer to blast the gunk out of the wick/coil after nearly every tank (of course, I'd let a whole pack pile up before doing this) to every two tanks, depending on the juice.
I couldn't even tell you how much money ReadyXwick has saved me since I stopped buying coil heads, but figuring a pack of coils per week or two, over a span of about 8-9 months.... yeah, probably quite a bit.
Sorry if I'm all over the place, but what I'm getting at;
We are all still testing out this technology. While there may be "cleaner" ways of delivering the "sensation" of analogs, the flavor is something that those methods cannot replicate. They may never. Until such time, we have plenty of countermeasures against the dreaded beast known as "Gunk"; but those unaware of its presence due to menthol or other such things....well, they may never know what keeps causing their equipment to go all wonky and stop producing vapor/cause congestion/flooding, ect.
Unfortunately, some of them give up vaping because of things like this. Others give up because they try "Cigalikes", and yet others are falling into the dread that the news media is spreading that, "they may be worse for you", which is a large crock of willy-nilly, because my chest x-rays (those of a former chronic bronchitis sufferer) say otherwise.
Saying PV's/E-cigs/NETs "
may be worse for you" is like saying, "your mattress
may randomly burst into flames" on the tag.
Any doctor that agrees with the logic that PVs "may" be worse for you....well, no comment.
Hospitals liberally use PG.
It may dehydrate you a little bit, but it certainly isn't going to kill you- unless you're allergic to it, obviously.
If studies that are actually peer-reviewed and accurate on "The dangers of PG" pop up, I may change my viewpoint.
Meanwhile, going to the hospital
may possibly expose you to MRSA- which actually
is proven to kill people.
