Venting mostly. Maybe advice?

[dead not sleeping]

Is one of the ingredients extremely hygroscopic ? ( absorbs moisture readily ). Those globs you see are probably water.

You want to see cloudy? This is a bad analogy, but put some of the wonderful 10% ethanol gasoline in a glass and leave it out on a humid day. Come back to it in an hour. And you wonder why your lawn mower does not run well. Alcohol is extremely hygroscopic, alcohol and water are like magnets to each other. If any of your ingredients has a bunch of alcohol in it it may be absorbing water, but I can't see it making it taste nasty. PG is also used as a preservative, I can't see that going bad either, but after 8 months I don't know. Maybe its best to refrigerate a product that hangs around and opened repeatedly for a long time, and transfer to smaller 'working' bottles.

I have had some mixes turn cloudy while mixing, but they clear up within 10 minutes. I mix in a magnetic mixer, and find that its the VG that clouds it up, but it does not last long. You have a very strange problem. Good luck with it.

 

[Mezrein]

I WAS WRONG!!!!!!! Being that Ive made gallons of this stuff, its been driving friggin crazy not being able to make the one mix that I consider myself a master at. So I spent the last 3 hours in the garage trying different levels of different mixes. I even got to the point of looking at all my flavor bottles, pg/vg bottles, nic bottles, then I noticed something... My vanilla bottles were different. One says double strength vanilla extract. The other, highly concentrated vanilla... I noticed initially on my last flavor order that the bottles had changed, I just figured that it was because of new labels. Turns out, the vanilla I ordered was vanilla FLAVOR, not vanilla EXTRACT. Their ingredients are completely different!!!!!! So, when I had mixed those two vanillas, they had a reaction.

Now this doesnt explain why the issue was happening when I was trying straight peppermint, until you realize, that I had probably run that bad combo of vanilla through EVERY pipett and syringe that I have!!! So, after a massive cleaning, dumping and scrubbing of ALL my gear used for mixing, I made a batch of pure peppermint again and HELLO BLISS! And no more cloudy! LOL Who knew the two were so VASTLY different to cause such a major issue like this. WHEW!!!

P.S, Cinnamon oil is friggin WICKED. LOL

 

[Kabooma]

Hey, I'm late to the thread, but I've noticed when I mix straight cinnamon oil and my pg/vg/nic that it starts out cloudy, but it always clears up to a nice amber transparent state after a few minutes. Sometimes I steep it under hot water after mixing and it seems to clear up faster.

That recipe of yours sounds great- cinnamon, peppermint.. I've accidentally mixed my menthol with cinnamon (used menthol tank when my cin broke) and it tasted really awesome for half the tank until the menthol faded out. I was thinking of doing a cin/koolada attempt.

Just curious what your mix ratios are, thanks

 

[Mezrein]

This is my first go around with cinnamon oil. It was peppermint/vanilla/cinnamon roll at 4%/10%/8% respectively. Now with waiting for new vanilla and the fact that the cinnamon oil is much stronger than I thought ill probably go 4/10/2. I tried a 4/4 peppermint/cinnamon last night and the cinnamon was just way too strong.


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[Kabooma]

This is my first go around with cinnamon oil. It was peppermint/vanilla/cinnamon roll at 4%/10%/8% respectively. Now with waiting for new vanilla and the fact that the cinnamon oil is much stronger than I thought ill probably go 4/10/2. I tried a 4/4 peppermint/cinnamon last night and the cinnamon was just way too strong.


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I mix my cinnamon oil at 5%. I do like a strong flavor. I guess I would stay there and add 1-2% menthol or koolada.

I did try it once at 15% on my first attempt with the oil, not realizing how strong it was... and I'm pretty sure I coughed up blood for about 3 days Learned that lesson the hard way!