Bad tasting Eliquid

[seanchadwick2k3]

Hello there

My name is sean and ive been vaping for a few years now. I started making my own liquid just before the TPD rulings came into play. Just before the ban on nicotine sales I got myself a litre of 100 VQ nicotine from Darkstar.

The Nic from Darkstar always had a slightly yellow colour to it, it has been stored in the freezer still in the plastic bottle with all the air squeezed out.

since googling my issue I now know that ideally I should have split my litre out into smaller glass bottles and allowed them to come to room temperature before opening, I haven't done this in the last 12 months.

I recently purchased some concentrates from vapable and they both came out awful, the flavour was very muted and it left a horrible slight burning taste on my tongue. I assumed this was down to rubbish concentrates so I recently bought myself a bottle of T Juice's Green Kelly. I mixed up 200 ml with 15% flavouring and 6mg nicotine. I gave it a good shake several times and left the bottle bathing in warm water with the lid off.

The liquid tastes awful again, muted flavours and a horrible taste on my tongue.

any ideas what my issue could be? Im pretty sure its something to do with the nicotine as Tjuice flavours where always spot on in the past and my base is from juice cabin and never had a problem with their stuff either.

Has my nicotine gone bad? I hope not as I still have about 3/4 of a litre left and don't fancy getting ripped off for nic shots.

Thanks people

 

[zouzounaki]

Mix up some liquid with just nic and your base mix, and see how that is.

 

[MrDJ]

hi and welcome to the planet

10ml tester bottles is always best first, one with nic and the other without.
as you say you have a burning maybe your coil has burnt out.

 

[seanchadwick2k3]

Thanks for the replies really appreciate your help

@zouzounaki good plan I'll give that a shot tomorrow

@MrDJ I could do with investing in some more equipment I gave ghe bare minimum right now. I thought it may have been my coil but I've tried a different liquid in (store bought) and that was fine.

I did mix a tiny bit of the store bought stuff with mine and it did mask some of the harshness on the tongue.

I've been trying to find some different t flavours I like because so far only vamp vamp vaoes Heisenberg and t juice red Astaire have worked without issue. I never learn either and jump straight in to making 200ml which I'm then stuck with

 

[seanchadwick2k3]

Hi

So I've had a go of vaping my base mix alone. What should it taste like? Its nothing id enjoy vaping and has a sort of dry musty taste to it. I really hope it's my base and not my nic as I've still got about 800ml of Nic in the freezer.

 

[Leni]

Is your base mix PG & VG only? If so, it shouldn't taste of much: maybe a slight sweetness from the VG. If you're not getting the same harshness, Sherlock would rule that out as your culprit. What you really need to try is base & nic, without flavours, as @zouzounaki mentioned. Also, nic that's been standing needs to be given a damn good shake before use - you don't want all the nic to have settled. I think the nic is the most likely problem unfortunately.