Steeping & Sampling

[Evie Luv]

Do you normally have to steep your Halo juice or are they usually good to go right away?

How do you steep juices?

What is the best way to sample juice favors? I'm getting the Triton kit plus extra mini tanks. How much would you fill a mini tank to sample the juices?

 

[BigBen2k]

All Halo juices are pre-steeped. That being said... some still need a bit more work, notably Voodoo. Tribeca and Southern Classic have always been ready to go, for me.

Shake the bottle like a mad person, and leave the cap open, overnight. If you have a sample bottle, pop off the dripper tip. Shake it up a few times a day, and after a couple of days, you should be good to go.

When you get the mini tanks, you'll see how they're built; they have short wicks. The level does not matter; you just need to keep the wicks wet.

The Triton tank has long wicks, but it still needs a bit of twirling, to get that last drop out.

 

[wheezal]

Shake the bottle like a mad person,

angry mad or crazy mad? cuz one of those ways i've been doin it wrong.

 

[BigBen2k]

angry mad or crazy mad? cuz one of those ways i've been doin it wrong.

Whatever works!

You can dance with it, if you prefer.

 

[jefsview]

And always shake the bottle BEFORE filling your juice delivery device, since some flavors might settle.

Some folks have reported epiphanies with Tribeca once they shake the bottle before filling.

Once shaken, I usually squeeze the dripper tip to make certain that newly shaken juice got in there and I am not using unshaken juice

 

[JohnnyDill]

At the very least, allow your Halo juice to obtain room temperature. Sometimes the mailbox is quite cold! Then shake like mad and leave cap off overnight. Should be good after that.

 

[chesty]

shake it, shake it, shake it like a polaroid picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

 

[Supergrover]

I found Tribeca to benefit from a week more of steeping, for my tastes.
All are good as soon as they are room temp and shaken before a fillup.

Sub zero however, nothing can help that be good to me.

 

[SeniorBoy]

A hard question to answer since some folks can vape and enjoy fresh juice and do not require steeping. YOUR taste buds and not ours. YOUR time vaping and not ours. Here is what I suggest with a NEW juice you have never tried from Halo or any vendor on planet earth:

Break the seal
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds
Take the cap off or use pliars and remove the tip on plastic bottles
Let it site with the cap off for one hour
Smell it and make notes
Cap back on and shake vigorously for 30 secs
Fill a tank
Let the tank "sit" for 30 minutes
VAPE and take notes. Smell and take notes. Let the juice sit in the tank and continue to test vape over the next few days at various times of the day before you decide if the juice is a keeper or not suited to your buds.

Please don't get caught in the "what am I supposed to taste" trap or weather YOU need to steep a juice. Another funny one which you should ignore is the bloviating BS that you will love the juice after letting it sit/steep for 2 months. LIKE who could remember what it originally tasted like. LOL Total baloney IMHO since juice is about 80% mature/steeped after two weeks and any changes in the taste after this time line may in fact have nothing to due with the juice and or be so very very subtle that most won't even notice and a few will but in all cases it's a SUBTLE difference. For example, your taste buds changed and or matured which changes the taste. Your delivry device changed or new heads and the old ones were gunked up which changes the taste. See? The juice didn't change at all but other factors changed.

If you decide to steep as per the great advice in this thread, leave the juce in the tank and it will also settle and steep to a certain degree. Test vape the juice after a few days to see if the steeping has improved the juice taste for YOU and not us.

If you find a keeper, your "written notes" in the above instructions will guide you on what to due with a new bottle and your also training your sence of smell and taste buds which is always a good thing. I could write a manifesto on this subject so don't be reluctant to ask questions and I hope we have helped you in some way.

 

[JR 137]

A hard question to answer since some folks can vape and enjoy fresh juice and do not require steeping. YOUR taste buds and not ours. YOUR time vaping and not ours. Here is what I suggest with a NEW juice you have never tried from Halo or any vendor on planet earth:

Break the seal
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds
Take the cap off or use pliars and remove the tip on plastic bottles
Let it site with the cap off for one hour
Smell it and make notes
Cap back on and shake vigorously for 30 secs
Fill a tank
Let the tank "sit" for 30 minutes
VAPE and take notes. Smell and take notes. Let the juice sit in the tank and continue to test vape over the next few days at various times of the day before you decide if the juice is a keeper or not suited to your buds.

Please don't get caught in the "what am I supposed to taste" trap or weather YOU need to steep a juice. Another funny one which you should ignore is the bloviating BS that you will love the juice after letting it sit/steep for 2 months. LIKE who could remember what it originally tasted like. LOL Total baloney IMHO since juice is about 80% mature/steeped after two weeks and any changes in the taste after this time line may in fact have nothing to due with the juice and or be so very very subtle that most won't even notice and a few will but in all cases it's a SUBTLE difference. For example, your taste buds changed and or matured which changes the taste. Your delivry device changed or new heads and the old ones were gunked up which changes the taste. See? The juice didn't change at all but other factors changed.

If you decide to steep as per the great advice in this thread, leave the juce in the tank and it will also settle and steep to a certain degree. Test vape the juice after a few days to see if the steeping has improved the juice taste for YOU and not us.

If you find a keeper, your "written notes" in the above instructions will guide you on what to due with a new bottle and your also training your sence of smell and taste buds which is always a good thing. I could write a manifesto on this subject so don't be reluctant to ask questions and I hope we have helped you in some way.

You could actually test the effects of steeping if you really wanted to...
Buy a new bottle every week for a few weeks. Once you get the new bottle, begin your steeping process. After however many weeks you want to test the effect of (how about 5?), fill a new tank and coil with each week's sample. Using a regulated battery (making sure the wattage is the same!), take a few drags of each tank (same number of drags).

If you really want to torture yourself in an exercise in futility, substitute months for weeks.

If you genuinely think you can tell the difference, have a person randomize samples and see if you can guess which is which.

Stupid and pointless (just like me), but an experiment in the effects of steeping can be done. All you need is a little too much time on your hands and no desire to do anything important with your life.

Now that I think of it, my younger brother who's 27, lives at home, works for minimum wage and took the week off from what he refers to as work because he just bought an XBox One would be the perfect subject. Now to convince him he should take up vaping (he's never used tobacco)...

 

[BigBen2k]

...or you could throw money at the problem, and get one of those fancy ultrasonic heated bath units.

If you put some thought into it, you can get creative.

 

[CafeDigitalDiva]

...this is why I have a lot of juice! You guys must be really patient! Me, not so much. Give me da joose...NOW! That's what I loved about Tribeca, and even VooDoo, for me, it required no steeping. maybe just some shaking, and airing over night. But everyone is diff.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

At the very least, allow your Halo juice to obtain room temperature. Sometimes the mailbox is quite cold! Then shake like mad and leave cap off overnight. Should be good after that.

And for some of us the mailbox can be quite hot!

The same thing applies!

 

[SeniorBoy]

LOL! You guys crack me up.

Actually, @Diva and @Doc have prompted me to continue with my manifesto! Like this might be way to much info! LOL

1) Even if you use an UC like I due you need to remove the bottles and let them sit until they reach room temp BEFORE you vape them. I'm not a fan of placing them in the refrig to cool them down. Some things need to happen naturally. The same principal applies to those who use the baggie hot water bath to accelerate the steeping process. And of course the point which @Doc raised about hot or cold mailboxes/climates. Finally, in either case a vigorous shake before you take the cap off.

2) What you should do after you find a Halo juice that you like is deploy a "steeping rotation" which is a term I just made up. LOL At any given moment in time after the first bottle of juice has reached 80%/steeped (if you need it) I order a second bottle. Then you consume the first bottle while the second bottle is steeping the old fashioned and easy way. No muss. No fuss. Dark, stable, and cool place. Shake every few days and bingo! Your good to go. After the first bottle is consumed your ready to rock and roll with a YUMMY steeped second bottle of juice. Of course, if you enjoy fresh virgin juice none of this is necessary.

HTH

 

[Sirius]

Shake it, then bake it..I don't steep..Never have never will.

 

[BigBen2k]

Washers vibrate, Dryers warm up... Duck tape a bottle to it?

Heat is easy. Just use a small sauce pan, heat up some water to near-boiling, turn it off, put your bottle in, and wait a couple of hours.

Vibration is trickier.

 

[Thepinfamily]

Steeping does improve flavors but I don't bother. All the juices I like are good fresh or steeped. I've found the juices I dislike fresh I still dislike steeped. It's also true that any juice I like steeped I also like fresh. Steeping does make the juice tastier but its not enough to make or break it.
I will however take my caps off overnight. It helps get rid of that new juice taste. Alcohol and perfume flavors tend to evaporate quickly.

 

[BigBen2k]

Some flavors improve, some don't. A few change drastically.

 

[Big Al Knine]

Ok so I understand that steeping allows some juices to taste better? That it is a personal taste preference? But why? Is it because the ingredients are mixed better? Is it because certain ingredients evaporate?

I have never steeped my juices since I started 5 weeks ago, but none of them have tasted the same as they were sampled at my local shop. So my question is? Could steeping allow the juice to taste more like the samples at the shop that have been sitting in an tank for a long time?

Also if I took the juice out of the bottle, would that make the steeping process faster?

like this?

Thank you.


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[BigBen2k]

There's no perfect method; it all depends on what flavorings were used.

Some flavors blend in quickly, others tend to stay in suspension in the PG/VG mix. Some flavors are alcohol based, so just need airing out to tone down.

Some juices are pre-steeped, others are fresh out of the mixing lab.

They are all unique, so it's up to us to figure out what works best for each one. Most of Halo's juices are ready to go (pre-steeped), but Halo's base has a unique component that doesn't sit well with some people; the good news is that steeping will get it out. Anyone can experience this by vaping a fresh Halo juice without inhaling.

I'm not a fan of dumping a bottle in a little dish; the steeping time required exposes the juice to impurities.