Nicotine and taste

[Allankustom]

Hi everyone
Quick question which I hope is easily answered.
Does the amount of nicotine in your juice alter the taste of your juice.
For example would juice with 20mg of nicotine taste differ to juice with less or more nicotine in.
For the sake of completeness I am using Grizwald's Gourmet juices
Cheers

 

[sailorman]

Usually, it affects the taste to some degree. It depends on the flavor and the nic strength though. Moving from 18 to 24mg probably wouldn't affect most juice enough to notice. Moving from 6 to 18 might be quite noticeable, especially with lighter or more delicate flavors.

Bottom line, if you keep within reasonable parameters, you probably won't notice a difference, except in throat hit.

So, what flavors are you trying to alter? What are they now and what are you trying to change them to?

 

[bebowebb]

I haven't noticed any real flavor differences, but definitely a difference in TH.

If you were to notice anything, you could bump the flavor or add a touch if PGA to replace the TH.

I'm sure some more experienced members will join in and be able to offer a little more help than I can.

 

[Allankustom]

I'm using 20mg in the Grizwald's Gourmet range.
As for altering flavours I'm just wondering really about taste vs the nicotine I really want to enjoy a really strong taste flavour yes the nicotine is nice for the effects of it but flavour is the key I guess

 

[Allankustom]

TH & PGA ?
What's that mean pls ?

 

[byggd]

I haven't noticed any real flavor differences, but definitely a difference in TH.

+1 on this.

 

[bebowebb]

TH & PGA ?
What's that mean pls ?

Sorry, TH is the abbreviation for throat hit and PGA is the abbreviation for Pure Grain Alcohol.

 

[Allankustom]

Thanks for the info I guess I'm looking to exaggerate the flavour of the juice for the best and nice strong taste

 

[bodrell]

If you hover your mouse over any acronym that's underlined, you'll get an explainer box. That's all explained in the stickies.
The higher the nic, the more intense the TH, very generally speaking.

 

[sailorman]

Yeah, you really can't do that by changing the nic concentration. You'd have to order it that way, or drip instead of using a cartomizer.

BTW, someone said to add PG to increase throat hit. That's incorrect. PG doesn't provide throat hit. Nicotine does. VG mutes throat hit, so naturally a higher PG juice will have more TH than a lower PG (higher VG) juice. You can't subtract VG from a juice and replace it with PG, so the only way to increase throat hit of a juice is to increase the nic level and dilute it back down with pure PG, thereby reducing the % of VG.

 

[elfstone]

exaggerate the flavour

There are ways to do that, I guess... Maybe you want to go check out the DIY forum.

I found these blog entries very enlightening about what affects flavor intensity: E-Cigarette Forum - Hoosier - Blogs

 

[DC2]

From everything I've heard the nicotine has a slightly peppery taste to it.
I wouldn't know because I started with 12mg strength and still use 12mg strength.


So it should potentially have some effect on flavor.
But I guess it would depend on how strong the flavor is that you are working with.

 

[excaliber]

I've been vaping for about a year with homemade e-juice. but in canada I can't get nicotine I WANT TO GET THE THROAT HIT!