The Really Big RY4 Roundup (long)

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sandybeach:6907674 said:
I will give my :2c:, I know for a fact I have vendors been all up on post, which is fine with me......I would ask for a RY4 any day because the trade off is great.... this thread gets what 20 views a day if not more and 9 times out of 10 the review good or bad and us even talking about it drives traffic to that vendor, this site helps vendors every day and its because of the community the people that come here, I have seen this community help vendors make so much money its crazy, do they owe me anything...no they do not but as me being part of this community I will ask for a RY4 to do a review in a second because I know what it could do for the vendor. They need us!!! and that is a strong but true statement.


SO roxxette did you get your new RY4s in yet, anything good?

It's been my experience, that when a vendor sees me praising their juices on ECF, they sometimes send me free juices without me asking. I do not want to have a reputation of being a chazer. That word does not translate well to English, sorry for the Yiddish.

I'm not a chaser but I would take free juice any day I have a lot of fun testing new stuff like a kid in a candy store. Proud of it lol just put forward with my address on the envelope Sandy lol
 

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I will give my :2c:, I know for a fact I have vendors been all up on post, which is fine with me......I would ask for a RY4 any day because the trade off is great.... this thread gets what 20 views a day if not more and 9 times out of 10 the review good or bad and us even talking about it drives traffic to that vendor, this site helps vendors every day and its because of the community the people that come here, I have seen this community help vendors make so much money its crazy, do they owe me anything...no they do not but as me being part of this community I will ask for a RY4 to do a review in a second because I know what it could do for the vendor. They need us!!! and that is a strong but true statement.


SO roxxette did you get your new RY4s in yet, anything good?

I agree, and btw later tonight i will post review of the 2 ry4 :) a little tease !

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passer,

I'm here. Still alive and kickin', well, as best I can.

You know me, though. I'm not as much a participant in the chat-room-gab-fest Twitter-style one-line-back-and-forth posting as some folks are. I tend to save up my energy for longer essays and novellas. You may or may not believe this, but much of the time, I simply have nothing to say. I read the thread every day, though, sometimes ten times a day, like any good ECF junkie. I'm just unlikely to amass 10,000 posts in three months as I've noticed some people do. Not judging, just sayin'. Whatever floats your boat.
 

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Ok so yesterday i got my hands on vaporstation ry4 and "vs4" , both liquids where tested using a mark infinity with a 1.1ohm coil at with a fresh aw imr battery so my guess will be 12watts.

Like probably most of us do i started smelling like a hound both bottles and to my surprise they where both the same only that "vs4" have a big caramel smell, i started dripping the regular ry4 first to feel the tweaks and bits they made to vs4 like they describe; after a couple of drags i had to come here and see what Bill said about it and saw he classified vaporstation as a well blended juice hmm i think it needs to be in its own class of i dont know what these is, you cant pick any vanilla or caramel and arguably tobacco :) personally i was getting kind of like a citrus blend....

Anyway cleaned everything to try the VS4 and here whe go again basically the same taste just with a flavor bump (pretty much the whole tweak if you ask me) it taste exactly like the ry4 just with a bit more flavor BUT still you cant really describe what these stuff is, you take the label out of the bottle and tell someone these is just a random tobacco blend and i doubt they will say hey these is a well blended ry4.

Conclusion ? Yeah these is a really nice blended liquid to the point you cant tell what it is, something similar in style will be AVE boba's.
 

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its not a bad liquid, its also very clean so money is not wasted.

if im correct the last ry4 i had was highbrow, it was very "watery" 70pg/30vg but the vapor was on par with a 100vg liquid and a lot of flavor :) at first i liked a lot but after a while i was getting like ginseng taste and put me off; in fact the bottle its in the trash.
 

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roxxette,

Highbrow RY4 made a great first impression on me, but it didn't hold up. I tired of it quickly and found more and more not to like.

By contrast, VaporStation VS4 didn't knock off my socks, but proved to have great durability and staying power as a tasty RY4.
 

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Vaporstation ry4 and vs4 are both good liquids and its one of those rare ones that you dont really get tired of it but know theres something better.

Can you tell me if im fact you can describe it ? :p like i say all i know is a good flavor but thats it theres nothing to tell.

Roxxette,

Here's what I wrote about both juices in the very first post of this entire thread (post #1):

VaporStation VS4
From the web site: “The creation of this flavor was actually an accident. In our first attempt to create the famous RY4 flavor, we asked our developers to include some of their own ingenuity. Well, they did a damn good job. VS4 is absolutely superb and is of the highest caliber of analog flavors on the market. Our best seller; Highly recommended!”

I love Vapor Station’s tobacco juices (especially Frisco, Tampa, and Tennessee). Their RY4 is not in the same league, but I still like it. In addition to a pleasing sweetness, the word that most comes to mind about this juice is balanced: Nice throat hit. Nice flavor. Nice high and low end. All in all, a nice juice that lands in the middle of my second 10.

VaporStation RY4
From the web site: “One of the most popular analog flavored e-liquids in the world, RY4 is sure to tantalize your taste buds. A leafy tobacco undertone coupled with a semi-sweet caramel and spun sugar texture. Highly recommended!”

I bought a sample 5ml bottle of this a couple months ago. My memory is that I wasn’t as impressed with the RY4 as I am with VaporStation’s other tobacco juices, many of which are terrific. The RY4, however, struck me as average at best and disappointing at worst. As a result, my sample bottle of VS RY4 ended up being added to one of my larger bottles of DIY RY4 blends (I have three different DIY blends of RY4).

I don't have any VaporStation RY4 to re-test, but I do have a carto loaded with VS4 at my fingertips. My current bottle of VS4 is now 16 months old, so I can't guarantee its flavor accuracy. My first reaction is that this custom RY4 is ever-so-slightly sour, with the synthetic tobacco somewhat more pronounced than either of the dessert flavors (no nuts in this one). My VS4 emphasizes the mid-notes of the caramel and vanilla, which are balanced but lack highs or lows, and are neither rich nor sweet. VS4 tastes somewhat sparse or lean, a bit akin to the image of a tree in winter that has shed its leaves and pulled all its energy away from the branches and toward the trunk. It's "tree-ness" reduced to the essentials. Well, VS4 tastes like the RY4 flavor profile reduced to its essentials.

Some RY4s grab the vaper's attention with their sparkle or sweetness. VS4 doesn't make much of an impression, since it is neither bright nor sweet (again, my particular juice's advancing age may have flattened out the flavor some), but it has substance and depth, giving it a staying power that some sweeter RY4s lack. As Roxxette notes, I could happily vape VS4 for a long time without tiring of it, and that is its main strength.

Over the 18 months of this thread, I've gone back and forth in my opinion of VS4. At this point, I wouldn't consider it a Top 10 RY4, but it is nonetheless a good one. When I graded VS4 in my "Re-visiting RY4s Update Review" in post #1447 back in April, I gave it a B+. That still seems about right to me today.
 

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Yes thats about it, a good liquid and nothing fancy but the main point is that if you like it you can vape it 24/7 for years like you did with your regular cig brand :) the 15ml bottle of VS4 is almost gone btw and i got it yesterday so that have to count for something.

I dont buy new liquids anymore directly from shops other than my regular flavors but il start trying the "new" ry4 that show up that might get overlooked, the problem for me is that i cant be buying small bottles around cause i still have to pay the minium 1pound weight of parcel to the company i use :(
 

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Billherbst this is a great thread that I just came across, but did skip through a few pages or I'd be here for a week LOL! I love reading descriptions where it's obvious people have such discerning palates! ....
so maybe I missed it, and I apologize if you've ansered this question: Do you cleanse your palate between tasting different flavors and if so, what process do you use? (i.e. a sip of plain water and a bite of white bread? or some such?)
I'd be curious if any of the posters here cleanse their palate between taste testing ejuices?
I have a terrible time with my ejuices not having consistent flavors but I'm sure it's because I drink coffee in the morning along with water between sips, but by late afternoon I might have a cola, then occasionally a beer or other alcoholic beverage in the evening. None of my ejuices taste the same, depending on what I've been sipping on or eating for that matter :facepalm: This taste variation doesn't happen when smoking analogs :confused: I never switched my brand of smoke once I found my Nat Sherman Hints as they always taste good no matter what I eat or drink !
Can you tell I'm still having a difficult time getting off analogs (started vaping in late February) To this day I still light up a Nat a couple times a day and still like them, but most of the time I'm chain vaping about 10 different flavors every day:blink:
 

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I know I’ve posted repeatedly that I won’t do Big List Rankings again, but I was bored this morning, so here it is. Call me capricious.

The grades given for these 91 RY4s are my opinion only. They are also current and may differ from grades I gave in the original reviews. So please understand that if you base a buying decision solely on this list, you might end up getting an RY4 that I like rather than one you’ll like, since my tastes and palate are unlikely to match yours perfectly---in some cases, not even remotely.

Note also that within each grade, the RY4s are listed in alphabetical order by vendor. For example, Apollo RY4 is not the grand prize winner---it’s just the first RY4 listed in the “A” group. Doing this is ridiculous enough without splitting hairs or nit-picking between RY4s within the same grade.

For vendor links and original review post numbers, as well as Category Groups, please refer to the most recent update of The Big RY4 List (post #2237 from July 28th, 2012).

Did I mention that these grades are my opinion only? LOL.

Finally, no RY4s were harmed during the making of this Report Card, except of course the RY4s that got lousy grades.

A
ApolloECigs RY4
Bloog/SmokelessImageVolt RY4
CrystalELiquid RY4
CrystalELiquid RY4 Double Tobacco
GoodEJuice GJ4
Halo Tribeca
MrVapes RY4
RWVapors RY4
Vapor..... RY4
VaporTalk Dulcis

A-
Ikenvape RY4 Gold PG
Janty Elixir RY4
Mom&PopVaporShop RY4v2
VapourWorld Dekang RY4 Intense
Want2Vape RY4

B+
AlienVisions Raf-a-licious
ElixirLiquid RY4
Esmoke4Life Riskee Yuice
HealthCabin Dekang RY4
Heather’sHeavenlyVapes Heavenly Tobacco
KickBassVapor RY4
Mom&PopVaporShop RY4
MountOlympusVapors RY4
MountainOakVapors Classic CountRY-4
PrimeVaping PV4
SpringVapor Black Label RY4 Day and Night
VaporBeast RY4
VaporStation VS4
Want2Vape Rock Star

B
AltCig RY4
BombayVaping RY4
BombayVaping RY5
ECBlend RY4
EcigExpress Tobacco Express RY4 (diy)
EcigzUSA RY4
GoodProphets GP4
Hangsen RY4
Keemer RY4 (no longer available)
LiquidXpress Taboo
Mom&PopVaporShop RYO4
Moondrop RY42
MountOlympusVapors Double Happy RY4
NiteLiteVapor Renegade RY4
ParkesVaping PV4
VapeRite VR4
VapeSales Gold Label RY4(squared)

B-
AltSmoke AltLiquid RY4
BackwoodsBrew RY4
GoodEJuice RY4
HighbrowVapor Highbrowbacco RY4
Hotvapes RY4
Madvapes Mad 4
NewEraVaping RY4
QuickNic RY4
SpringVapor Fall Harvest RY4
Sweet-Vapes RY4
TopShelfVapes RY4
Vixen Vapors RY4

C+
GreenhouseOne RY4
KalamazooVaporShop RY4
Keemer RY3 (no longer available)
SmokeForPennys RY4
SpringVapor Black Label RY4
ValueVapor Dekang RY1-RY2
TheVaporRoom Ginger’s RY4

C
Copper Creek Voodoo
Good Prophets GP4
GourmetVapor RY4
HealthCabin house-brand RY4
HoneyvilleVapor RY4
NewEraVaping New Era
VapeDoctor RY4
VermillionRiver KY4

C-
BlueMist RY4
Greenhouse One RY4
EliteVaporworks RY4
FreedomSmokeUSA RY5
HighCaliber Our4
JooglerJuice Joogler’s Blend
Liberty-Flights Hangsen RY1-RY4
ParkesVaping RY4
VapeRite RY4

D+
ECBlend RY4 with double-extra caramel or vanilla
High Caliber Our 4
Vapure VY4/Liberty-Flights LF4 (same juice)

D
CopperCreek Twisted Tobacco
Mist-Stix RY4 (no longer available)
VoidMist RY4 (all versions, no longer available)

D-
Vapemasters R4 (no longer available)
VaporRenu Re4nu

F
FreedomSmokeUSA oRYental 4
 

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I'm on my phone, so I haven't searched for this, but have any of the DIY concentrates been reviewed here? I have a few I've been trying out, but I just can't put down tobacco express' ryuan ry4.

I reviewed Tobacco Express Ruyan 4 super-concentrated flavoring from EcigExpress on July 25th in post #2187.
 
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