All the regular and occasional posters to this thread seem to me truthful and sincere, so I have reason to doubt what EbenezerScrews wrote, except to say, what a drag!
Below is a pic of my Heartland and Vaperstek 100mg/ml nics in the 30ml bottles that I keep in my DIY drawer. They've been a room temperature for about three weeks. Next to those are 30ml bottles of pure PG and VG. To the far right are two 3ml bottles of unflavored VG mixed to 12mg with Heartland and Vaperstek nics.
I brightened the jpg a bit but didn't alter the color intensity or balance. As you can see, the bottles of PG and VG are clear and colorless, like water. The partially-filled 30ml bottle of Vaperstek has ever-so-slightly yellow or gold hue. The bottle of Heartland has a more obvious yellow/gold tint, but it's not pronounced and nowhere near "brown" or even tan. The 3ml bottles of mixed juice show those same colors respectively, although very diluted, since each has only 7 drops of liquid nic.
None of the six bottles has a scent that I can detect. No chemical or petroleum smell at all. When I atty-drip from the 3ml sample juice bottles, both taste exactly like what they are---unflavored VG with 12mg nic---which is to say, very subtly sweet (the VG) with a bite (the nic). I can't discern any "flavor" with the Vaperstek sample. It's clean and pure tasting. The Heartland sample is similar, except that I taste the very faint presence of what, for lack of a more precise term, I'll call "tobacco." Since I'm a natural tobacco vaper (and home tobacco extractor), that flavor is pleasing to me. It's nothing like vaping an NET juice, however, in that I wouldn't even notice it if I weren't paying close attention. On the other hand, the Heartland juice sample is noticeably less sweet than the Vaperstek juice, so some masking of the VG sweetness seems to be occurring.
The Heartland nic in the picture came from a one-liter jug that is now almost exactly a year old and has been in my refrigerator since I got it. I also have another full liter bottle of Heartland in the freezer that was purchased roughly six months ago. I smelled it when it arrived in March, and it was odorless.
My Heartland nic is obviously
not what EbenezerScrews and others got and have complained about. Why this is I have no idea. I don't know if this thread has enough exposure or clout to affect Heartland's nic sales, but I'd assume that Ty, the owner of Heartland, cannot be happy about the bad press.
