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I pulled the trigger too quick. I guess I'll just miss out on the sale. I'm almost out of a couple of my regulars so was in a bit of a hurry. I'll have to get a bottle of the English toffee to try. I wonder what shipping is on one bottle.
I have always liked onestop. They always include free pipettes, a pair of gloves, and some sort of bite sized candy. Plus they have some wonderful blends like the Baked Cinn role, blue raz and Lucky Shot. I hope you remembered their discount code. JFK will get you 11% off.
FW has a peanut butter I like, very strong. I also use their skittles flavor(one of my adv). % use on that can range between 5-10 %. It too is very strong. Capt has suggest their french vanilla is good also, so I plan to buy on my next order. FW was the first juicy fruit and bubble gum that I really liked along with their spearmint flavors, but those require higher % unless you allow them to steep a long time.
ALERT. Just got a email from onestopdiy for an updated discount code of ecf. This is now 15% off. This discount applies to all codes such as JFK also.
Customer appreciated sale last from Sept 1- Sept 30
Customer appreciated sale last from Sept 1- Sept 30
What % do you use for Lucky shot?I have always liked onestop. They always include free pipettes, a pair of gloves, and some sort of bite sized candy. Plus they have some wonderful blends like the Baked Cinn role, blue raz and Lucky Shot. I hope you remembered their discount code. JFK will get you 11% off.
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Since this was my first go around with that flavor, I have it at 10%. Still trying to decide if I like it or not. It taste like a light caramel right now, so continuing to steep to see if that helps.
I am beginning to think there may be a note of coffee in the lucky shot. Even tho I may not taste 'coffee' my body always rejects that flavor and gives me a nauseous feeling. I am experiencing that now. Shucks, may have to pif my bottle.
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No; I can't say I have. I gotta say that the $7.50/15mL kinda scared me away. That, and the absence of any reviews at BCV.
For now my mango collection consists of TFA, LA, INW, HS, CAP, and FA. Once I've worked through those, and if I'm feeling a touch wealthy, I may give FLV a try.
Is it really that good? $7.50 for half an ounce is 3 times the price of most of the others. I did a quick "notes" check over on "the site that must not be named" and I saw a couple that stated that it benefited from up to 4 weeks aging. Is that your experience too? I don't know that I have run across that for a fruit flavor before.
I've just started playing with the Lucky Shot too. So far, I've mixed one 15mL batch at 8% in a 30P/70V/6mg. base. I have picked up caramel, vanilla cream, graham cracker, and just a hint of cinnamon(?). Haven't noticed any coffee though. But coffee is in my normal rotation so I am not sure I would be perceptive to it unless someone pointed it out to me.
The first 15mL lasted me about a week. Now you have me motivated to mix a larger batch and see what time might do to it.
I've worked my way through all of those, and I found the HS Mango at 8% is my keeper.
That may be a little to high of a % for others, but my taste buds are shot
.... it's still the best "true to Mango" flavor I've found.BTY, the INW has a bitter bite
Thanks for the info!I've worked my way through all of those, and I found the HS Mango at 8% is my keeper.
That may be a little to high of a % for others, but my taste buds are shot
BTY, the INW has a bitter bite
I hear what you are saying about shot taste buds; between the 30+ years of stinkies, and starting out DIY as a high flavor mixer, mine said "No more!" Nothing sounded interesting enough to mix, and what I did mix just tasted OK, so I ended up mixing a 30/70/6mg. unflavored to get my nic fix and keep me away from the analogs. It actually wasn't unpleasant and I could almost mix it in my sleep. No worrying about whether I was using the flavors too high or too low, no fussing with aging, just shake and forget about it. After about 3 months of that I started wanting flavor again. But now I am trying to re-explore my flavors individually to find my actual preferred percentage; instead of taking a recipe as gospel and then tweaking it from there. With 240+ flavors it going to take me a while.
RE: your BTW; thanks for the heads up for INW. I have seen a couple of reviews saying this was more of a "green" style of mango vs. a "yellow" version.
I have always liked onestop. They always include free pipettes, a pair of gloves, and some sort of bite sized candy. Plus they have some wonderful blends like the Baked Cinn role, blue raz and Lucky Shot. I hope you remembered their discount code. JFK will get you 11% off.
I have a couple of these in my cart to order but just got a bunch of flavors from BCF and a few extracts from Real Flavors.
ALERT. Just got a email from onestopdiy for an updated discount code of ecf. This is now 15% off. This discount applies to all codes such as JFK also.
Customer appreciated sale last from Sept 1- Sept 30
nice, guess its time to throw some more stuff in the cart there.
ooo, just remembered they have the vg line of real flavors. gotta try some new flavors
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I don't have the HS or the FA to compare YET, but it is that good. That FLV price I also find ridiculously high, especially while I'm trying to buy from the Mfgr's as opposed to rebottlers and ship to Canada. I never go that other site, mainly stick here, but I'd say almost all my stuff gets a 1 month steep as I have so much juice I need to go through. It's is the best I've tried so far.
Fully agree with the 'green' aspect of this. I think I also mentioned before their website is based out of Poland, and is by far, bar none, the worst I've ever attempted to use. IIRC there's a first time buyer 15% discount, and with my cart filled I attempted to use Paypal with no luck. After contacting them, they said PayPal will not work for North America, and I'd have to pay privately. And by the way, no more discount as it was used for that first unsuccessful order. No American prices, so you're constantly doing a conversion from Polish to US to Canadian. Even just my address was giving problems. While you have city, state, country and we have city, province, country, IIRC there was no state/province field so I had to jiggy with it. I gave up.
What is the description on the Lucky Shot? I just put an order in with one stop for the English toffee and am excited to try it. I also picked up a small bottle of yellow cake since someone mentioned it was so good. Now I just need a recipe for the cake.
This is a complex flavor with heavy vanilla, caramel and graham cracker notes. Smooth and rich.
It gets rave reviews on their site and this forum so it is in my cart.
I wanted to try the FW Yellow Cake til I saw it had fructose in it and gunks up coils and worse according to the BCF user reviews.
ALERT. Just got a email from onestopdiy for an updated discount code of ecf. This is now 15% off. This discount applies to all codes such as JFK also.
Customer appreciated sale last from Sept 1- Sept 30
What type of bottles does onestopdiy ship the 15ml and 30ml flavors in, glass plastic? I'm assuming their TFA's are rebottled from larger sizes, not the original glass bottles you get directly from TFA?
FYI:
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Let Bull City Flavors help you get those creative juices flowing with our Labor Day Sale! Shop our website on Monday, September 5th and receive 15% off your order with the code LABORDAY2016. Sale starts at midnight EST on September 5 and ends at midnight September 6.
Don't forget...FREE SHIPPING for orders over $75!
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