Irish Coffee from Flavor Jungle. The label says "Best at 18.67%." Is it just me or is that way too much flavor or is this typical. Anyone try mixing it at a lower percent?
Picked up my first one-shot
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18.67%, wow! That's super specific. I'd say anything over 20% would be borderline. Maybe it has to do with the combination of flavors to create it. I suppose it also depends on your power settings and if you MTL or DL. Never tried one shots, so just speculating.
Maybe make a couple of small testers and compare. Let us know.
Not necessarily excessive. Have my own portfolio of complex nuanced elixirs and they all came out between 16-19% to be seen as more universally appealing to a test audience of inductees.
Much followed and beloved @Bill's Magic Vapor had a slew of shake-and-vape recipes that targeted that high zone (and above). Well worth peeking at.
However, a percentage as such is no indicator of quality. Any juice maker can throw a bunch of bulk cheap ingredients together, slap a name on it and call it boutique with some fancy packaging being the better part of the effort. And I've sampled all too many.
Simple rule of thumb: If it's too overpowering back-off (dilute) until it isn't. If it hits the spot, that's grand.
Should note dense juices are well enjoyed MTL. I do a modified fuller output MTL at high% but often dilute my own mixes for DTL by 25% or more.
Good luck.
IMO, there IS no %....where any single flavoring or one-shot will end up being the BEST for everyone to use. We don't all have the same tastebud sensitivity, taste preferences, and opinions.
With the 15+ one-shots I've tried so far, it has worked better for me, to start around 5% and slowly work my way up if needed...because they vary in potency. Even 5% was too high for me with 1 of them, though the recommended % was 8-10%. I ended up backing off to only 3% and that was still plenty strong enough.
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You can always mix it lower. It's easy to add more but harder to to dilute when it's to strong.
So let me get this straight.A company selling you a product would overestimate how much of that product you should use? To hell you say.....
Never heard the term one shot but google told me it means its a premade recipe in flavouring and seems i already use that from a brand called the flavourist...
The recommended percentage sounds a lot to me but i guess must be very diluted....how many mls is the bottle?
I always start from low and increase if needed but if a manufacturer suggest lets say 10 percent i will start from 5 percent...the bad thing is that u have to let it steep and be patient in order to make sure cause once i didnt let it steep long enough and added more flavour but in the end turned out to be tooooo much for me even tho it was still at recommended range...
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The recommended percentage sounds a lot to me but i guess must be very diluted....how many mls is the bottle?
I always start from low and increase if needed but if a manufacturer suggest lets say 10 percent i will start from 5 percent...the bad thing is that u have to let it steep and be patient in order to make sure cause once i didnt let it steep long enough and added more flavour but in the end turned out to be tooooo much for me even tho it was still at recommended range...
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So let me get this straight.A company selling you a product would overestimate how much of that product you should use? To hell you say.....
Cheap ingredients have been plentiful. It's easy to get a flavor pop using them. And let's face it, we think we're tasting .... when we first quit. In that sense, vaping is an acquired taste.
Good luck.
I found with a most of the one shots they recommend 10% up to 25%, it really surprised me too. Like others I start at half the recommended and go up or down from there. I'm only guessing but the one shot itself must be mixed at very low flavor % Makes marketing sense in that you would have to buy more, more often, but expensive to end consumers. I usually mix my own at lower % than recipes suggest because I don't like strong flavoring but with one shots I have had to go in the recommended ranges
It's a 30ml bottle. I picked it up to get the free shipping. I had searched and searched years ago for a coffee vape that didn't give me an instant pounding headache. When I saw this one I figured what he heck. I think I'll make a full strength 25ml tester and go from there. I keep a bottle of nic base premixed with my preferred pg/vg in the freezer. Makes diluting a breeze. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the good advise - and the laughs
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As a shake and vape at the recommended percent it's a damn good coffee. More like some unspecified designer coffee flavor, not necessarily Irish, but still tasty for all that. No side effects so far. I had to add some sweetener, but I expected that. We'll see how it holds up after steeping a while. Right now I've got it in a GO S MTL tank (1.69 coil, 11.7w) and it's very smooth.
Odd thing, as I was mixing it I thought it smelled exactly like someone had added coffee flavor to Inawera Biscuit. Hmmmmm.
Odd thing, as I was mixing it I thought it smelled exactly like someone had added coffee flavor to Inawera Biscuit. Hmmmmm.
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