Bill have you had time to experiment with Red Pirate? I ask because I am enjoying it more and more and have demolished half of my 12ml bottle. That toasty, cereal-ish flavour is just marvelous. I think it would make an excellent base for an RY4.
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Tonight I got out my half-full 15ml bottle of Red Pirate, which I admit is getting a little long in the tooth---at 18 months old, the juice's flavor may have flattened out some and no longer be accurate (or good). The label reads "exp. 3/12." Yikes! That's six months ago. Well, I can't do anything about it, since this is the juice I have to work with.
So, I mixed up 1.5mls of diy RY4 Double from TPA and added 1.5mls of the Red Pirate to make a little sample bottle of (trumpet fanfare) RP4.
Shakeshakeshake. Atty-drip. vape. My reaction? Very odd, confused flavors, and sort of sour. Not the good kind of RY4 sour, more a what-the-hell-is-this? sort of weird sour.
OK, don't give up just yet. First try some Red Pirate alone for a control.
Blow out atty. Drip. Vape. Ah, yes. Toasty tobacco. No sourness. Still fairly tasty, even with Alzheimer's.
In science, a failed experiment doesn't prove much---it merely disproves one specific thing. Perhaps the 50/50 proportions were wrong, or my all-VG liquid nic made for a lousy base blend (too much VG?), or maybe Red Pirate and RY4 Double just don't like each other much. I could try a 2:1 ratio, or PG nic for an 80/20 base, or one of the many other RY4 flavorings I have (or simply straight caramel and vanilla, for that matter). Right now, though, I don't have the gumption for all that, so I'll simply report my initial findings.
After one experiment, I prefer Red Pirate as a stand-alone vape, rather than a mixing juice.
YMMV, of course.