Steeping Question

[LordOdin]

I would still leave it for a month, as you don'r know when it was bottled.

So the Best Bet is to Steep anyway even if you have added Nicotine or not. And does it matter if the bottle has been opened or not ?.

 

[DMAN]

So the Best Bet is to Steep anyway even if you have added Nicotine or not. And does it matter if the bottle has been opened or not ?.

You're overthinking it mate. Try it and if it isn't the best, leave it for another week and repeat.
I've got litres of juice in my stash, so nearly everything is at least a month steeping when i get round to it. I've had some juice that is 3 years old by the time i got around to vaping it.

 

[Crispycritters]

So the Best Bet is to Steep anyway even if you have added Nicotine or not. And does it matter if the bottle has been opened or not ?.

I'd just do a taste test, I think it's 99% chances it will be fine. When it comes to buying pre-made juice, even if you don't know when it was mixed, there's a good chance it will have gone through a distributor type middle man and a few legs of courier delays before it actually gets to the shop so even if you buy something 'freshly made' it's probably at least a month old. I bought a set of 4 'Untold' flavours when it was just released and got it next day delivery - all 4 flavours were totally smooth and I couldn't detect any hint of harshness or chemical taste/aroma even though I was vaping it within 3 days of release (2 days of that delay was due to me leaving it to steep after adding nic shots)

 

[Digbys]

So technically the Steep period is for after you have added Nicotine. So in theory i could buy a Custard and vape straight away if i wasn't adding Nicotine.

yes

 

[zouzounaki]

@LordOdin if you test a wee bit and it is good in your opinion, just puff it and be happy. there are not any rules, and different people do, and believe, different things. some folk even mix a custard liquid and puff it straight away after a shoogle, i’ve been known to do it myself when i was running low and hadn’t mixed any on time.

 

[vapervince]

As Zou says if your juice tastes right, it is right. Thinking logically the aim is to get the flavours combined in the carrier in the ratio as you mixed them, so if you mixed favours 2:3:5 then they vape in the same ratio, if you count the nic as part of the carrier.
It would be interesting to hear from one of the commercial mixers who use a homogeniser, whether they age their juices after homogenisation.

 

[LordOdin]

The question wasn't entirely for me, my friend has buying Liquid, steeping it for a few weeks and then adding Nic Shots and vaping it straight away, I will do what i have always done which is add nic then steep depending on the liquid for the length of time. Thanks for all your replies, i will let him read them and make up his own mind. I asked on here because of what he had been told and i didn't want him to take my advice till i had heard what you guys did so Thanks Again i appreciate it.

 

[zouzounaki]

it’s not just combining flavours either, the flavour molecules and compounds in concentrates can be unstable and some will react with others, and with nic and vg. and we’re usually mixing several concentrates which themselves are mixes of various ingredients themselves. there is a lot going on.

 

[LordOdin]

I don't mix my own and leave it to people who know what they are doing. I tried a couple of recipes a while ago which were supposed to be really flavoursome, but when i made them they were awful.

 

[vapervince]

Amen to that