Another menthol ratio question...cherry menthol this time

[monstermash]

I've finally gotten around to knocking up the menthol crystals I bought weeks ago. Couldn't get my little digital scales working again (it's been about 15 years since they had batterys loaded!) so I took the 5gram container of crystals and whooped em up with 50ml warm PG so I have the desired 1g per 10ml ratio going on.

So, I've added 1 drop per 5ml to some IW Cherry I've had for a while and just gone down the shakey shakey route to mix them, mainly out of lazyness reasons.

It's not hitting the spot, I'm getting menthol but not really much. What I don't know, and I'm hoping someone will tell me, is this/these:

Does menthol have to steep or is it shake and go? (assuming it's added from the start)

I've read a lot of conflicting information about how much to add so given that I'm adding it to some nice Inawera Cherry, and I want a nice bit of mentholation but without frozen innards, what would you say is the way forward per 10ml?

I've gone with a couple of drops of supersweet in with a 10ml cherry and it's given it pleasant addition. I'm knocking up 70%VG generally and in fact I'm adding the menthol to some weeks old cherry juice.

I know I should do it the long way round and make a load of samples and see which I like the best but I know there are a few menthol connoisseurs here and I'd rather be guided by experience than blunder about further.

Cherry Menthol is a pretty common recipe, I have some IW Cool Mint I can't decide whether to experiment with it as an addition has anyone done similar and do you think it's likely worth the effort or is menthol enough to add to a simple sweetened cherry?

Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks!
MM

 

[rughead121]

I've finally gotten around to knocking up the menthol crystals I bought weeks ago. Couldn't get my little digital scales working again (it's been about 15 years since they had batterys loaded!) so I took the 5gram container of crystals and whooped em up with 50ml warm PG so I have the desired 1g per 10ml ratio going on.

So, I've added 1 drop per 5ml to some IW Cherry I've had for a while and just gone down the shakey shakey route to mix them, mainly out of lazyness reasons.

It's not hitting the spot, I'm getting menthol but not really much. What I don't know, and I'm hoping someone will tell me, is this/these:

Does menthol have to steep or is it shake and go? (assuming it's added from the start)

I've read a lot of conflicting information about how much to add so given that I'm adding it to some nice Inawera Cherry, and I want a nice bit of mentholation but without frozen innards, what would you say is the way forward per 10ml?

I've gone with a couple of drops of supersweet in with a 10ml cherry and it's given it pleasant addition. I'm knocking up 70%VG generally and in fact I'm adding the menthol to some weeks old cherry juice.

I know I should do it the long way round and make a load of samples and see which I like the best but I know there are a few menthol connoisseurs here and I'd rather be guided by experience than blunder about further.

Cherry Menthol is a pretty common recipe, I have some IW Cool Mint I can't decide whether to experiment with it as an addition has anyone done similar and do you think it's likely worth the effort or is menthol enough to add to a simple sweetened cherry?

Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks!
MM

I mix menthol at 5g crystals made up to 30ml with PG. I then add up to 10% of this concentrate to base liquid. For cherry menthol I usually add around 5% so you may want to try 7ish with your concentrate. I have never been brave enough to try but I have been told you can dissolve 5g of menthol crystals in 20ml of PG for a really strong concentrate.

Menthol is a shake and go, no steeping unless you add other flavours.

 

[monstermash]

I mix menthol at 5g crystals made up to 30ml with PG. I then add up to 10% of this concentrate to base liquid. For cherry menthol I usually add around 5% so you may want to try 7ish with your concentrate. I have never been brave enough to try but I have been told you can dissolve 5g of menthol crystals in 20ml of PG for a really strong concentrate.

Menthol is a shake and go, no steeping unless you add other flavours.

Wow far more than I thought or have read about up to now. By that logic 0.7ml of 10ml should have been mentholated PG. I'll add about that to 10ml I have mixed and see how it tastes though. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Carl01924]

I like you, make menthol from crystals at 10% to get my mrs off the cigs, I used this concentrate at 20% of the total flavour, which even in a bog standard tank is a punch to the face, now she's been ciggy free for a few months she asked me to knock it down, so now I do her 15% menthol and 10% capella sweet strawberry and she's very happy and cig free

 

[monstermash]

I like you, make menthol from crystals at 10% to get my mrs off the cigs, I used this concentrate at 20% of the total flavour, which even in a bog standard tank is a punch to the face, now she's been ciggy free for a few months she asked me to knock it down, so now I do her 15% menthol and 10% capella sweet strawberry and she's very happy and cig free

That's good to know I haven't really used the menthol I've knocked up I was wondering if it was going to be a bit weak but you say at 15% of the total it's still good and strong? I prefer 70% VG so that would leave up to 15% for other flavouring. I have some inawera cherry which is good at 3% so next time I have a mix-up I will have a go at the old cherry menthol