Strawberry/Blueberry Cheesecake.

[mikalares]

How long do you have to 'age' these? I ordered these with doublers about a week and a half ago, same time I ordered Boston Cream Pie and a Butter Cream doubler. Wow, the two latter are awesome together btw, delicious, that Butter Cream goes good with lots of stuff. I use it with AC too. Love the AC, LOVE IT, can't get enough of it. I really hate to say anything negative, I really do, as you can tell by the raving before the negative, but these cheesecake flavors both still taste the same after a week and a half and the flavor is, it's... it's just not good. It doesn't taste like fruit or cheesecake. It tastes like what I'd imagine liquid plastic to taste even in a fresh atty with fresh batts.

Did I get a bad batch or did I not wait long enough?

Thanks!

 

[mwa102464]

Give it some more time I have ones that I have let sit for a month or more before using, if its still not right for your taste buds than add some extra flavor, I find both of Geoffs strawberry cheesecake and the Blueberry just awesome, you can also add some of Geoffs sweetner to them to give em a bit more sweeter taste.

 

[mikalares]

Cheesecake flavors have always been one of my favs, hence my curiousness on these because everything else has been amazing that I've tried from him. I also have the impatient flaw, soooo.. I'll wait a little longer and try again.

 

[cainne]

And if they age a month and still aren't good... then it should just age 2 months?

That argument can just be used to push off a "the flavor isn't good" opinion forever. There has to be a reasonable threshold.

I've ordered the blueberry cheesecake twice and the strawberry once. In all three cases they were good right off the bat. The flavors changed VERY MINORLY after a couple days and after that no real difference until about a month and a half later when I tried the remains of the strawberry again and it was just a bit bland in a brand new carto.

If you waited a week and you dont like them I'd have to say from my experience either you just don't like the flavor per your personal tastes, it was a bad batch, or there's equipment issues. I don't buy "wait another 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 12 weeks" etc

I DID add about 10 drops to the last 1oz bottle of blueberry cheesecake and found it gave it a little better taste IMO.

 

[ArdentHope]

I DID add about 10 drops to the last 1oz bottle of blueberry cheesecake and found it gave it a little better taste IMO.

What did you add?

 

[mikalares]

Hmm, I don't know. I really don't think it's me not liking them. They, so far, taste nothing like the fruit they're supposed to or the cheesecake, there's really no flavor at all outside of (I don't even know how to describe it). I've never vaped straight PG or VG either one, but it's almost like what I'd think something like that would taste like. Just a faint chemical type taste. They smell wonderful and the other stuff I have is great. I really just don't know.

 

[cainne]

What did you add?

I forgot to clarify; sweetner.

 

[Poeia]

And if they age a month and still aren't good... then it should just age 2 months?

That argument can just be used to push off a "the flavor isn't good" opinion forever. There has to be a reasonable threshold.

The reasonable threshold is how long you are willing to wait. Several of the flavors I ordered were excellent the day they arrived. Some got better after a week. But there are a couple of flavors that continued to evolve after that point.

I just traded some Bananas Foster because all I could taste was the rum. The person who received it PMed me to ask if it were a new bottle that needs aging because all he can taste is the cinnamon. Same flavor, same batch, two very different reactions. That's because taste is subjective. The fact that I taste something you don't doesn't mean either of us is wrong. It just means that we are individuals.

One final point. I quit tobacco 5 1/2 months ago and I find my sense of taste is still evolving to a minor extent. Based on the date you joined ECF, I will guess that you have only been vaping for about 2 months. Perhaps your sense of taste and smell will continue to develop. Perhaps not. Either way, I think I'll select my flavors and when to vape them based on my taste buds, not yours.

 

[cainne]

You're not correctly understanding my point. Liquid goes bad after approximately 6 months correct?

Simply telling somebody that's unhappy "wait longer" isn't always the correct response. IE: it's telling THEM to not go by their taste buds as you just said. There has to be a reasonable duration after which you should expect a flavor to taste like what you ordered. I'm not saying most of TV's flavors aren't good. I'm not saying they don't do a good job. All I'm saying is that vendors CAN and DO make mistakes, especially when each bottle is individually made, there can be discrepancies between a flavor ordered last week and one ordered today.

It seems as if the mentality I've seen here is "They can do no wrong" and that's not a good assumption. That they USUALLY do a great job and USUALLY make a great product doesn't mean that if somebody has a major problem with a batch that that person must be in error. Just telling them "wait longer" continually isn't always going to fix it if in fact the batch was made poorly to begin with. Wait a bit, sure. But we have to be willing to entertain the possibility that that isn't the problem every time.

 

[bones25]

My 2 cents:
My German Choc Cake and Butter Rum tasted like liquid plastic to me for 3 1/2 WEEKS! Now the GCC is just awesome and the Butter Rum is better, but it still tastes sort of like a lifesaver butter rum candy with sweet n low or some chemical sweetener to me. Tastyfinger and AC were great the first day. Banana Nut Bread took about a week or so.

 

[MsSki]

Blueberry Cheesecake is my everyday always on hand vape. I never have had to have it sit or anything , I just love it to pieces. Now i do believe that my taste buds have come back to life everything taste better
Tara

 

[kalekona]

Blueberry Cheesecake is my husbands favorite- actually it is the first non tobacco flavor he would try- For me it is just OK and it did take a bit longer for the blueberry flavor to come out- for me strawberry tasted great from day one but the blueberry took a bit longer.

As for aging I have to disagree on a set threshold. I ordered some Pina Colda thinking I would love it- hated it. But about 2 months later I thought I would give it a second chance and it tasted completely different and I liked it a lot by then.

Taste is a subjective thing- and I find I have to switch flavors every few days or the taste starts to lose it's flavor- a few days with a different vape and the first one tastes great again when i go back to it.

 

[markimar]

I did a DIY of raspberry brandy cheesecake and it was awesome day one I haven't tried the blueberry or strawberry cheesecake but most flavors IMO hit the sweet spot at three weeks. I have some that taste better and better by the week!
But I have noticed your taste buds change day to day. I go through the everything taste like paste phase atleast once a day and nothing I do changes. It's pretty frustrating when no matter what you do taste like dog doo! I just wait it out.

 

[dk2]

I'm still waiting for my blueberry cheesecake to taste great (been a month and abit) it's not bad but not great, the kretek on the other hand tasted great first day.

 

[syndicate2083]

This one was a somewhat miss to me, but thats just personally.

As far as the flavors themselves, pretty spot on. I could taste the delicate nuanced cheesecake/graham and definitely the more powerful blueberry taste. It just didnt hit my tongue quite right. Still a great juice, but not my personal favorite. It definitely did not taste all plastic or artificial to me though.

I've had a couple that really tasted exactly as was described, but I just didn't end up liking. Apple Pie and Butter Rum are probably my prime examples, they were "great" in that it tasted pretty close to the real thing, but just didnt hit my pallate as I expected /shrug.

But if you do really enjoy BB and cheesecake, I'd recommend trying it.

As for the time thing, some of mine have been awesome day 1, and gotten better, and others were good day 1 and became much more nuanced over the course of a month or two. GCC was one that was excellent day 1, but became more "velvety" as time wore on.

YMMV, taste buds, time from last analog, off tasting days/weeks, time of the year.. so many variables. Allot of these flavors are fairly delicate so it can be difficult to pick them out or taste them as fully as if you were eating/drinking it which makes it taste even more off to some.

-Tim

 

[Ralph T]

Out of the 30 or so TV flavors I have tried/bought. Blueberry Cheesecake just didn't work for me. I still have some and it still doesn't work for me. My buds just aren't well honed on the cheesecake part. Knowing this I have refrained from the Strawberry Cheesecake. The reality is that we all have different sense capabilities. No matter how good the reviews, I will on occasion run into an EWWW YUCK. But in the case of TV, I know its me, and not the juice.

ETA: I think for me it's the dairy element that MY buds don't get.

 

[mikalares]

Thing is? I like cheesecake based juices. TV isn't my first go at them. I tried this stuff again and it's a tiny bit better, but it's still almost not vapable. It just tastes like chemicals. Other stuff I've gotten from them is good, so I'm still not sure if I need to let it sit even longer or if I got a bad batch I'd be willing to pay for a small sample if someone has one to send, so I can compare what it tastes like after being say a month old, to what I'm tasting now.

 

[cainne]

You'd also be presuming that THEIR month old batch was made with the same ingredients in the same proportion as your batch which could or could not be the case.

I have some bb cheesecake that is about a week old now? I'll send you a sample of that if you want and you could compare it to yours because if anything since it's "younger" it should taste worse than yours if the aging is the factor, no?

 

[mikalares]

Yeah, that's why I want to do a comparison, to see if another 'batch' tastes different than what I have. If it does, then I know something was done different with mine. So, yeah, a sample of them from another source would be great.

 

[Nyxie]

I got blueberry cheesecake about 10 or so days ago. It tastes good so I am not complaining but almost all blueberry flavor. Hoping it will get more cheescake flavor coming out as it ages.