Newbie DIY and Pina colada

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Hi Folks,
Decided to take the wonderful plunge of creating your own e-juice and being d would greatly new to the DIY annd all I have a few questions and would greatly appreciate any and all assistance. I am a pina colada nut, just love it. I ordered my juice from Jason at Vaperenu and my PG and VG from Essential Wholesale, no nicotine is being added to the mix.

All my pre-ordered juices have always been 50/50 on the PG and VG and I want to keep that mix in my own making of e-juices. On my first try, I mixed a 10% solution of pina colada, I could not taste it so I went to 15%, just barely tasting it. Questions, Do you need to steep your e-juice for a while or should you just be able to use it and for how long? I have had my first batch sitting with the cap off for three days now and I shake it a couple times a day and am up to 20% on the pina colada e-juice. Wrote Jason and he said one might have to go higher as pina colada can be a little on the weak side. Can you over flavor, I see a lot of websites offering 1x and 2x flavoring in their e-juices? Do I need to adjust my PG and VG to get more taste? Again, I am not using any nicotine, do I need a sweetner to bring out the flavor? Should I being using cocunut and pineapple to create my Pina colada e-juice? I know it is a lot of experimenting, If you have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Happy Day after Thanksgiving everyone!
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[Switched]

IMO yes juices need to steep for a week or so. Some subtle flavours longer. Don't know why you are steeping with cap off??? No need for that. 15-20% is about the norm, you did it right starting off at 10%.

 

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Thanks for the response Switched, I had watch a few U-Tube videos on making e-juices and they all had mentioned leaving them open for 24-48 hours and steeping for a week or so. After the 24-48 hour period they would open the caps every 24 hours or so, I guess to let them breath a little. Still waiting for a good recipe or I was wondering instead of using the pina colada flavor should I be using pineapple and coconut.

 

[justboringsarah]

Another thing to help them age a little quicker is a hot water bath. Just boil some water in a coffee mug,and then sit your bottle of juice in and wait until the water completely cools to room temp. After a hot water bath I let me juices sit without the cap on and usually they are really good within a few days

 

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U R Welcome!

Yeah I read continue to read about the uncapped thingy. I sure would like to know who is propagating this unsavoury pasture practice.

 

[Nikhil]

The uncapping technique started off as a way to get rid of perfume/floral notes from liquid, I don't know how it became common practice. All it will really do is reduce the strength of your flavor if there are no bad notes.

 

[Lisa B]

I just put the caps on mine and store in my tackle box for a week, then test them.