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[RogueSeraph257]

I have been making my own juice for about 4 months now, and need a bit of help. Most of the juice I make, (chocolates, peanut butter, and fruits,) ends up with a sour aftertaste, that or the flavor is really weak. I usually do a 18-20% flavor, with a few drops of vape wizard, 5% sweetener and about 1% ethyl maltol, in a 50/50 pv/vg and 25mg nic in a 15ml bottle. I let them steep for 2 weeks or more. The only one I've done that was any good was a blackberry/apricot juice.

Any help would be appreciated.

I make coffee and coffee dessert vapes for a friend and those seem to turn out ok, I just think the strong flavor of the coffee masks the sourness.

Also, been looking for any good watermelon, raspberry, and strawberry mixes.

 

[dannyv45]

what brand of flavoring are you using?

 

[RogueSeraph257]

I have many different ones, I use Flavour east, cap, FW, TFA, Inw, LA, ecig express signature, FA, Jungle, Hangsen. I've tried many of them, and have many flavours of each brand. I just dont know what I am doing wrong.

 

[RogueSeraph257]

Wow, as of this posting, 178 days = 178 cans of chew.... 700 dollars not spent there, but at least that much on vaping...lol and I still cant get it right.

 

[RogueSeraph257]

And does equipment have anything to do with it? I use 2 different setups, an evod system and a itaste vv with a aspire nautilus mini.

 

[Soignee]

It might help if you could post an example of one of your recipes with the brand of flavor and the percent that you are using.

There are a lot of different things that could be wrong, too little flavoring, too much flavoring, too much sweetener the combination of flavors etc...etc...

If you can throw some more information out there someone will come along and point you in the right direction.

 

[JD1]

........... I usually do a 18-20% flavor, ......... 5% sweetener .............

Those numbers seem really high to me but I guess it depends on what brand of flavor you're using. I'd suggest vaping a little of your base unflavored to get a good reference for what your flavors are doing, then add some flavors at low percents to start, then add more if you think it needs it. If there's still no joy, you might need to switch brands. Good luck.

 

[Boletus]

What are you using for sweetener?

A control experiment might be useful: make some unflavored juice, let it sit for a while, and then try it.

 

[rasmith1959]

I agree in that you really do need to taste all of your ingredients to see how they taste on their own. It's like trying to make tea with swamp water, it won't matter how long you let the tea steep all you're going to wind up with is tea flavored swamp water.

So start off with your PG, vape a little and see if it has any strange taste and then do the same with your VG. Neither one should have any taste to them, but VG should have a slight sweetness to it. If either one has a funky taste, then I'd find a different source for the offending liquid.

Now mix a small sample of your PG, VG and nicotine base in whatever strength you use and see how it tastes. After doing all this then you will have the knowledge of what your base liquids taste like with no flavoring. This makes it so much easier to find out where a funky taste is coming from once you've done this.


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[Mr.Mann]

Those numbers seem really high to me but I guess it depends on what brand of flavor you're using. I'd suggest vaping a little of your base unflavored to get a good reference for what your flavors are doing, then add some flavors at low percents to start, then add more if you think it needs it. If there's still no joy, you might need to switch brands. Good luck.

Yeah. I would cut those numbers per batch into thirds -- at least. My mixing woes, similar to what is described, was miraculously fixed by not exceeding, or barely exceeding, 5-6% total flavoring.