It's hard to project how long juices need to steep for flavor maturation. Right now, I have 10 juices that have been steeping for various lengths of time from 10 days to 30 days. Some are good at the mix percentage and others have darkened and matured to the point where they are going to need cutting with unflavored nic base.
I find that average mix percentages are usually too high for me, so I start on the light side of the range. Right now, I have been using the HS Red USA Mix pretty often as it steeped toward the 30 day mark at 7%.
In some of my recent mixes below I decided to go with vendor recommendations and comments by user reviews. Most turned out too rich for my vaping taste.
Django's Bounty mixed at 20% turned really dark by the 30 day mark, but it's good for a squirt of sweetness in a tank of something else for a combination vape. My next mix will be half that %.
ECX Fired Cured Virginia worked well at 1.5%.
ECX Key Lime Pie at 11.5% isn't bad, but I'll cut it from 11.5% down to about 6% to 8% next time and work from there. At 11.5% it's a dark ice tea color and a little over the top, but nice. It's good for a flavor shot in a tank of something bland to add the Key Lime flavor. I can taste the lime, sweetness, and the pie crust, so it's spot on if you can find the right mix.
ECX Black Honey Tobacco is good at 11.5%. It's a clear Orange mix with a sweet honey flavor. Tobacco notes are slightly overpowered by the sweetness, but it has promise. I'll probably mix it at 7% next time and work from there.
ECX Sugar Cookie mixed at 14% smells just like sweet sugar cookies if you sniff the mixed bottle. Again, I'll drop the percentage next time to somewhere in the range of 7% and 10%. It's a little on the strong side, but a good flavor.
After not smoking for almost a decade my flavor sense has heightened to the point where I don't need much flavor to taste the mix.
I find that average mix percentages are usually too high for me, so I start on the light side of the range. Right now, I have been using the HS Red USA Mix pretty often as it steeped toward the 30 day mark at 7%.
In some of my recent mixes below I decided to go with vendor recommendations and comments by user reviews. Most turned out too rich for my vaping taste.
Django's Bounty mixed at 20% turned really dark by the 30 day mark, but it's good for a squirt of sweetness in a tank of something else for a combination vape. My next mix will be half that %.
ECX Fired Cured Virginia worked well at 1.5%.
ECX Key Lime Pie at 11.5% isn't bad, but I'll cut it from 11.5% down to about 6% to 8% next time and work from there. At 11.5% it's a dark ice tea color and a little over the top, but nice. It's good for a flavor shot in a tank of something bland to add the Key Lime flavor. I can taste the lime, sweetness, and the pie crust, so it's spot on if you can find the right mix.
ECX Black Honey Tobacco is good at 11.5%. It's a clear Orange mix with a sweet honey flavor. Tobacco notes are slightly overpowered by the sweetness, but it has promise. I'll probably mix it at 7% next time and work from there.
ECX Sugar Cookie mixed at 14% smells just like sweet sugar cookies if you sniff the mixed bottle. Again, I'll drop the percentage next time to somewhere in the range of 7% and 10%. It's a little on the strong side, but a good flavor.
After not smoking for almost a decade my flavor sense has heightened to the point where I don't need much flavor to taste the mix.
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Hubs has cancelled his long chemo session. He hasn't been feeling that great and just wasn't ready to be that sick.
My mixing session will go on
My mixing session will go on
Saving that is going to be good, I bet. Good morning all. Sigh wanted to sleep in so of course I woke up early. LOL.
Anna
Thanks for your reviews
I cut all my mixing percentages months ago when everything started tasting really overflavored to me.
I'm sorry he's not feeling well. Isn't he close to being finished with the treatments?
Yes, hugs and happy thoughts to you and your husband, Fran. I hope he is feeling more up to snuff soon and that things can resume. Chemo is a (censored). I hope things start to get easier.
Anna
Anna
He's supposed to have one last long session. I don't know at this point if that's going to happen.
So, the other day I decided to start mixing "myself" finally. Up till now, it's been my wife, but she only vapes simple tobacco mixes herself and I hated bugging her when I wanted something new for my DTL tanks (I am a tobacco and MTL guy 90% of the time, though).
So, the first was a "London Fog" recipe, seemed to come out just fine. Vaped it right away...a lot of creams in it, though, so I'm sure it will get better with some steeping.
Today, I decided to try my own concoction as I wanted to try a primarily tobacco vape, with some added flavouring, for DTL fun. Came up with this "Creamy No 5":
Hangsen No.5: 8%
TPA Bavarian Cream: 2%
TPA Coconut Extra: 2%
Inawera Milk Chocolate: 1%
TPA Sweetener: 1%
Shook it for 15 minutes and I quite like it! Not getting much of anything other than the coconut, but that's OK. We'll see what happens after some steeping. Might need to up the tobacco as I forgot that I find the No 5 a mild flavour.
Long story short...If I had known it was this easy, I would have started a long time ago.
So, the first was a "London Fog" recipe, seemed to come out just fine. Vaped it right away...a lot of creams in it, though, so I'm sure it will get better with some steeping.
Today, I decided to try my own concoction as I wanted to try a primarily tobacco vape, with some added flavouring, for DTL fun. Came up with this "Creamy No 5":
Hangsen No.5: 8%
TPA Bavarian Cream: 2%
TPA Coconut Extra: 2%
Inawera Milk Chocolate: 1%
TPA Sweetener: 1%
Shook it for 15 minutes and I quite like it! Not getting much of anything other than the coconut, but that's OK. We'll see what happens after some steeping. Might need to up the tobacco as I forgot that I find the No 5 a mild flavour.
Long story short...If I had known it was this easy, I would have started a long time ago.
That is just as easy as it can beSo, the other day I decided to start mixing "myself" finally. Up till now, it's been my wife, but she only vapes simple tobacco mixes herself and I hated bugging her when I wanted something new for my DTL tanks (I am a tobacco and MTL guy 90% of the time, though).
So, the first was a "London Fog" recipe, seemed to come out just fine. Vaped it right away...a lot of creams in it, though, so I'm sure it will get better with some steeping.
Today, I decided to try my own concoction as I wanted to try a primarily tobacco vape, with some added flavouring, for DTL fun. Came up with this "Creamy No 5":
Hangsen No.5: 8%
TPA Bavarian Cream: 2%
TPA Coconut Extra: 2%
Inawera Milk Chocolate: 1%
TPA Sweetener: 1%
Shook it for 15 minutes and I quite like it! Not getting much of anything other than the coconut, but that's OK. We'll see what happens after some steeping. Might need to up the tobacco as I forgot that I find the No 5 a mild flavour.
Long story short...If I had known it was this easy, I would have started a long time ago.
Happy Mixing
It is always so good to see a new mixer with a success right off the bat. I'm hoping to have some success with my mixes of today. I have just one left to do so I'd better get to it.
The one mix I have left turns out to be a rather odd tobacco blend. Haven't named it yet
Hangsen Fortune Strike 5%
FA Fresh Fig 1%
FA Almond 1%
Cap Graham 1.5%
Hangsen Fortune Strike 5%
FA Fresh Fig 1%
FA Almond 1%
Cap Graham 1.5%
The really in your face,upfront taste of fruit in my Strawberry Rhubarb Cheesecake has backed off some and I'm liking it even better.
Todays mixing is done.
Todays mixing is done.
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