A poster here---seantex---kindly sent me 2mls of High Caliber Our 4---which is more than enough to test for review. Thanks, Sean! This is a 50/50 PG/VG blend, 24mg nic strength, and golden brown colored. It was tested by dripping into a Joye 1.5 ohm LR atty powered by a Hello 016 battery providing 3.9 volts for around 10 watts of oomph.
This is our first RY4 from a supplier rather than a vendor. High Caliber is a USA-made line of juices carried and sold by numerous vendors, among them: altsmoke, electronixstix, nu-vapor, litecigusa, vaporjunction, and perhaps others (those are ones that Google found). I was sent the not-quite-empty original 10ml bottle, which listed all the particulars except the vendor, so I don't know where it was purchased. Suffice it to say that we can safely refer to this liquid as High Caliber Our 4.
Since this bottle is reaching its end, I assume that the liquid has had ample steeping time. (Fed Ex was a bit rough---though intact, the bottle arrived in the mailing envelope smushed half-flat and now won't stand up. No problem, though.). At 24mgs nic strength, throat hit is solid, and vapor production is voluminous, as one would expect from a 50/50 blend.
As for flavor, my very first impressions upon initial inhale were tobacco and fruit, in that order. On the exhale, the lurking caramel and vanilla emerged. The tobacco is good---no perfume-y or chemical overtones, and the caramel/vanilla, while subdued, are definitely present. So Our 4 passes muster as a bonafide RY4.
But what the heck is this fruit thing? Is the fruitiness part of the tobacco flavor or from a separate ingredient or ingredients? I'm guessing separate. The bad news is that I am not a fan of fruit with my tobacco. The good news is that the fruit flavor is extremely subtle---forward but not potent, more an aura than a distinct flavor.
As an aside, I always wondered what happened in Hollywood at the "studio pitch" where some Oscar-winning screenwriter (or hack) was hoping to get a green light for a story or script idea, which is only one of the hundreds of meetings with huge egos that must sequentially approved to actually get a movie made. I had a Hollywood clientele back in the 1980s-90s, and I got to see Tinseltown from behind the scenes, so now I know the answer to that one.
My new curiosity involves creation of eliquids. Imagine a flavor chemist in a lab or a juicemaker in a kitchen, trying to make a tasty version of RY4. Then imagine that this person takes a toke of some RY4-formula-in-progress and says, "Pretty good so far, but not quite there yet. What this juice needs is pineapple!" Now, I'm not suggesting the there's pineapple in Our 4 (I can't identify the specific fruit except to assert that some hint of fruitiness is subtly present). But you get my point. What bozo thinks that RY4 needs pineapple or any other fruit, for that matter?
Or maybe I'm way off base here. Maybe my taste buds are screwy and there's no fruit at all in Our 4. Or perhaps all the Top 10 RY4s on my list have the tiniest smidgen of pineapple in them to sharpen their sweetness. Yeah, and maybe pigs fly.
The fruitiness doesn't ruin Our 4 for me; it just demotes it some. Imagine a general standing before a soldier who went AWOL and ripping off his epaulets. In fairness, I really don't mind this juice at all---I'm merely dressing it down, not putting it up in front of a firing squad with a last vape and a blindfold. So, here comes my the usual YMMV disclaimer: You might really love Our 4. For me, it falls in the middle of the pack, but necessarily below my reference standard, Madvapes Dekang pre-mix RY4, settling in at #20.
Category Groups: Dessert, Deep/Dark, and Variants
