I’ve decided to add another of my personal favorites lists to
The Big RY4 List. This will be added to the
List at the next update in October, but I’ll post it now as a sneak preview.
The new list is my
Top 10 Personal Favorite NET-based Custom RY4s. All the RY4s on the list use natural tobacco extract flavoring made from any of four methods:
1. Simple-Soak Macerations
2. Steam-Distillation
3. CO2 Extraction
4. Tobacco Absolute
Tobacco Absolute (TA) is an odd bird. Unlike natural tobacco extract flavorings made from the other three methods, TA is a commercial product made using a proprietary and carefully-guarded private process that yields a super-concentrated essential oil (or "concrete). While TA is made from real tobacco, it is rarely used by itself as an eliquid flavoring. Typically, TA is mixed along with synthetic, lab-based tobacco flavorings to give the eliquid a smoky, ashy taste somewhat reminiscent of the experience of smoking tobacco. Flavorings made from the other three methods (maceration, steam-distillation, or CO2 extraction) do not confer ashiness and produce only the pure taste of the tobacco itself, along with any cased/topped sugars or flavorings that are commonly sprayed onto the tobacco during growing/curing/processing.
By definition, NET-based RY4s are part of what I call the
Custom RY4 genre, which other people sometimes term “American” or “Modern” RY4s. The other genre is
Classic RY4s, which are also called “Chinese” or “Traditional” RY4s.
Classic RY4s are made using a core trio of three flavorings, all synthetic: tobacco, caramel, and vanilla. Other flavors may be used sparingly to accent the Holy Trinity. Classic RY4s are usually light-colored, from pale gold to amber, with a vaping impact that is bright and almost sparkly or effervescent, and a flavor profile that unifies all the flavorings into a single taste experience. When we vape a Classic RY4, we don’t taste tobacco, caramel, and vanilla. Instead, we taste a single flavor that we call RY4.
Custom RY4s are also made using the basic trio of tobacco, caramel, and vanilla, but other flavorings are added more frequently. Custom RY4s range in color from light to dark. They emphasize the deeper, darker tones of the taste spectrum, with a flavor profile that presents the individual flavorings as distinct, separate elements. When we vape Custom RY4s, we can easily distinguish the tobacco flavor from the caramel and vanilla flavors.
Two lists follow below. The first is my Personal Favorites list, which is ranked. Below that is the entire group of Natural Tobacco RY4s currently included on
The Big RY4 List, re-posted from the
Categories Page of the most current update. That list is alphabetical and unranked, with the source and type of natural tobacco flavoring used to make each RY4.
[Note: Other natural tobacco RY4s are available from retail vendors, such as SmugJuice RY4, but those have not yet been obtained for review and, as a result, aren’t included on
The Big RY4 List.]
Bills Current Personal Favorite Top 10 NET-based RY4s
1. QuickNicJuice ouR whY qu4tro
2. Bill’s Burley Kake RY4 (homemade extract, DIY juice)
3. KillerJuice RY4
4. MountainOakVapors Full Virginia Flake RY4
5. GoodEJuice GJ4
6. MyVapeJuice Rogue RY4
7. Want2Vape RY4
8. VapeRite VR4
9. RiverBottomFogSauce KillR Y4 - sold by VapingWatch
10. VaporStation VS4
Natural Extract Tobacco (NET) or Tobacco Absolute (TA) RY4s
from the Category Groups page of The Big RY4 List
GoodEJuice GJ4 (in-house macerated NET)
HighbrowVapor Highbrowbacco RY4 (NET, source unknown)
KillerJuice RY4 (“all natural,” presumably NET, source unknown)
Mom&PopVaporShop RY4 (Tobacco Absolute)
Mom&PopVaporShop RY4v2 (Tobacco Absolute)
Mom&PopVaporShop RYO4 (Tobacco Extract, a derivative of Tobacco Absolute)
Moondrop RY4 (Tobacco Absolute)
MountainOakVapors Full Virginia Flake RY4 (in-house macerated NET)
MyVapeJuice Rogue RY4 (in-house macerated NET)
PrimeVaping PV4 (NET, unknown source)
QuickNicJuice RY4 (Tobacco Absolute, I think)
QuickNicJuice ouR whY Qu4tro (in-house macerated NET)
River Bottom Fog Sauce KillR Y4 (in-house macerated NET) - sold by VapingWatch
SpringVapor Fall Harvest RY4 (Tobacco Absolute)
SpringVapor Black Label RY4 (Tobacco Absolute)
SpringVapor Black Label RY4 - Day and Night (Tobacco Absolute)
VapeRite Organic VR4 (in-house macerated NET)
VapeRite RY4 (in-house macerated NET?)
VaporStation VS4 (Tobacco Absolute/NET blend)
Want2Vape RY4 (in-house macerated NET)