Dark Honey Berry (DHB) by River Bottom Fog Sauce (RBFS) available online at www.vapingwatch.com
The juice: Site description; "Dark Honey Berry is made with Green River Black Cavendish, which has a mild brown-sugar flavor, blended with smooth honey to up the sweetness.. The sweetness is reined in some by a tart berry essence."
The Hardware: Mech with Atomic dripper, 1ohm micro coil of 28ga Kanthal, Koh Gen Do wick.
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best. (For sweetness 1 equals very dry and 5 equals very sweet. For tobacco impact 1 equals very mild tobacco and 5 equals very aggressive and/or complex.)
Sweetness: 3. DHB is a fairly sweet vape, but less than a few of the other new RBFS like KillrY4, Count Caramel, and Admiral's Pipe. The Green River Black Cavendish is drier than the other Black Cav heavy blends from them. The sweetness also has a different feel here with less of the fuller, smooth sweetness, and the berry flavor providing a brighter fruit sweetness. As the description says, there's also a berry tartness in play which reigns the sweetness back.
Tobacco Impact: 3. The tobacco in this blend is Green River Black Cavendish, which is made using Green River Burley. This tobacco plays quite different than the Black Cav used in Caven Fever. The flavor of the tobacco is less buried in casing and presents itself stronger. Closer to a straight Burley tobacco with some nuttiness and a touch of leafiness. I find it more complex and, well, tobacco-y here.
Vapability: 3.5. DHB works when desiring a good fruit tobacco, which admittedly hasn't been that often for me these days. I've always enjoyed fruit tobaccos, but it's not a category I vape for long sessions. The flavor holds up very well though, the notes don't fade or become tiring. There's a fair amount of complexity with the berry, tobacco, and honey, and the interplay between them morphs and keeps it interesting. It sort of demands my attention, so not workable for me as a background vape.
Flavor Accuracy: 4. Petty much as described on the site with one exception; it's not a berry 'essence', it's a berry flavor. That's good though, I'm glad the berry makes a strong showing and I don't have to search for it. The berry is tasty, natural, and a little tart. Honey makes a very small showing here, more of a modifier than an obvious presence.
Overall: 3.5. Berry is certainly a unique flavor to compliment tobacco, a nice change from the more common cherry, apple, and peach. It's a strong showing in the fruit tobacco category. DHB isn't a juice I really want to grab for often though, more for when wanting to mix things up a bit.
The juice: Site description; "Dark Honey Berry is made with Green River Black Cavendish, which has a mild brown-sugar flavor, blended with smooth honey to up the sweetness.. The sweetness is reined in some by a tart berry essence."
The Hardware: Mech with Atomic dripper, 1ohm micro coil of 28ga Kanthal, Koh Gen Do wick.
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best. (For sweetness 1 equals very dry and 5 equals very sweet. For tobacco impact 1 equals very mild tobacco and 5 equals very aggressive and/or complex.)
Sweetness: 3. DHB is a fairly sweet vape, but less than a few of the other new RBFS like KillrY4, Count Caramel, and Admiral's Pipe. The Green River Black Cavendish is drier than the other Black Cav heavy blends from them. The sweetness also has a different feel here with less of the fuller, smooth sweetness, and the berry flavor providing a brighter fruit sweetness. As the description says, there's also a berry tartness in play which reigns the sweetness back.
Tobacco Impact: 3. The tobacco in this blend is Green River Black Cavendish, which is made using Green River Burley. This tobacco plays quite different than the Black Cav used in Caven Fever. The flavor of the tobacco is less buried in casing and presents itself stronger. Closer to a straight Burley tobacco with some nuttiness and a touch of leafiness. I find it more complex and, well, tobacco-y here.
Vapability: 3.5. DHB works when desiring a good fruit tobacco, which admittedly hasn't been that often for me these days. I've always enjoyed fruit tobaccos, but it's not a category I vape for long sessions. The flavor holds up very well though, the notes don't fade or become tiring. There's a fair amount of complexity with the berry, tobacco, and honey, and the interplay between them morphs and keeps it interesting. It sort of demands my attention, so not workable for me as a background vape.
Flavor Accuracy: 4. Petty much as described on the site with one exception; it's not a berry 'essence', it's a berry flavor. That's good though, I'm glad the berry makes a strong showing and I don't have to search for it. The berry is tasty, natural, and a little tart. Honey makes a very small showing here, more of a modifier than an obvious presence.
Overall: 3.5. Berry is certainly a unique flavor to compliment tobacco, a nice change from the more common cherry, apple, and peach. It's a strong showing in the fruit tobacco category. DHB isn't a juice I really want to grab for often though, more for when wanting to mix things up a bit.
