Sick of the Steeping Game

[CapableVapable]

This scenario keeps playing itself out: get a juice, try it. Eh, it's not too good. I'll let it steep. Come back to it in a week. Ok, a little better, I guess that will do. Another week or so passes. Ok, now the juice is worse than ever.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm tired of trying to guess whether a flavor sucks or whether it needs to steep or whether it's steeped too long and so on. I've tried flavors from four vendors and seem to play this game with three of them. The fourth, MyVaporStore, is seldom mentioned on here, but they give me the most consistent tasting juice out of any I've tried. When I open up butterscotch out of the mail, I know exactly what it will taste like. How? Because it will taste exactly like the bottle I have here that I've been using for six weeks. Unfortunately, I'm kind of obsessive about having a lot of variety and their flavor selection is somewhat limited.

So I come to you, good people of ECF! Who are some consistent vendors? Whose juice is great right out of the mailbox and great after a month? If it helps move things along, then yes, I'm probably looking for vendors who DON'T mix their juices to order.

Here are the other three vendors, by the way. I'm not saying all the juice was bad by any means...just wildly inconsistent: FSUSA, Vapor Bomb, and Tasty Vapor. I've also tried V4L, but their problem went beyond inconsistency and steeping time.

 

[markfm]

The small and midsize vendors' vendor juices will all tend to mature a bit with a little time, since they have fresh stock, mixed at order time or at least fairly near that time. How much this comes into play depends on the juice complexity (number of flavors) and the individual flavors being combined. Some things are pretty much good to go, but those tend to be the simpler combinations, things with less subtle flavors.

If you want unchanging from day one, you're talking bulk dealers. Why it is unchanging is that the stock, what gets shipped, has already sat for a while.

From your description of a juice that seemed to improve with a little time, then turn worse, it sounds like you might be pretty new, going through taste bud changes. Some stuff that I liked the first couple weeks I absolutely didn't like at 6 weeks or 3 months. Not the juice continuing to change, but my own taste changing. Those juices I passed along to others, who did like them. Changing tastes on our part is pretty normal. Also there are points where you will hit a dead spot, everything tastes blah for a day or so, again normal.

You mentioned some pretty popular vendors, generally decent product consistency. If you want to branch out, perhaps try Backwoods Brew, well known for their tobacco flavors, or if you want some more sweet flavors try a bit of KickBassVapor, Southern Ambrosia, or Purevapes. The latter three are all small vendors, so be forewarned that you can expect their products to change a bit over the first week or so, as undertones come through better.

 

[CapableVapable]

If you want unchanging from day one, you're talking bulk dealers. Why it is unchanging is that the stock, what gets shipped, has already sat for a while.

Who are some vendors that match this description?

 

[leannebug]

Ditto on what mark said, however.. Since you want this....

Who are some vendors that match this description?

I would try Mrs T. She has great consistant juices. Her sweeter juices tend to be better. I have never had to steep any of her flavors. But you'll pay a higher price tag.

Hth!



Ps. Love the bumble!

 

[markfm]

Vapor4life (which you don't like, though perhaps try their newer VG juice?), NHaler (check their forum area, there are some people who really like their juice, too).
Perhaps Totally Wicked or Intellicig -- they are UK based firms, not sure if they fresh mix in the US vs. bringing it over from there. Liberty-flights is also originally UK.
For freedomsmokeUSA, I don't know if it is available yet, but I believe they were coming out with pre-steeped product, too. I forget what the line is called but I'm sure they mentioned it in their forum area.

 

[CapableVapable]

Thank you both! I'll have to try those out.