well my little journey

[SouthernVaper]

Southeast mixing club - will be holding its first meeting tomorrow

I call it a club but it is very exclusive with just the two members lol

I will let you all know how the slightly improved first mix goes down with its members, maybe the 2 days steeping isnt enough but as a trial itll do.

I also let you guys know what mad experiments we come up with

 

[SouthernVaper]

Well the first meet is over, so how did it go

First off we didnt know where to start as this is a huge learning curve, so first things first was to open all the concentrates and have a smell seemed like a good starting point.

So heres what we have to choose from (with a few new additions from the fellow member)

Liberty Flights
french vanilla deluxe
pear
maple
english toffee
Cupcake world
rum
grape
brandy
blackcurrent
cherry
Flavour West
Lemonade
LorAnn Oils
mint choc chip
chocolate
Blueberry
cola
peach
tutti-fruity
Inawera
RY4

First order of the day was to see what the "cream mi berries" was like after a two day steep. Let me just say cream as that was all ya got although not bad doesnt really go with the name.
So that aside it was mixing time as you can see with a big list a starting point may have been a issue, what to mix hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well that was the toughy and after much looking we got down to buisness on "Pearolate"

For this one it was just two flavours as a new venture we didnt want to mix things up too much.
Chocolate and pear.

So we set about it adding 8% (liberty flights) pear and 5% (LorAnn)choc to our 18mg base 70/30 mix
Had a quick test and found that the pear was way overbearing, so added more choc, still same so added a nice bit of choc making a 15% choc 8% pear...............nice wonder what it will be like after a steep. Think the main issue and why it ended up as 15% choc is that the pear was still over powering. If I make this up again which if it is as nice as the intial test I will maybe a 3% pear to 10% choc maybe the answer.

So with that one approved by us both we moved on just plain flavours next just as trials to see what works
Toffee 70/30 18mg again mixed a bit weak to begin with using you guessed it english toffee (LF) final mix was 22%

We also had a tinker with the blueberry in "cream mi berries"
Total approved mix was 3.5% blueberry (LA) and 1% vanilla(LF) in the 70/30 18mg and it was goood

Also mixed up some RY4 but for the life of me dont know to what %

Well next step is to see what happens when they steep, oh and also to get a dripper so I am not having to clean out the cleros to test (I normally use cartos but figured for testing the cleros would be better/easier to clean out of what was to hand anyway).

So that concludes all I have to say on the first mixing session other than to say I loved it and was good fun..................

 

[SouthernVaper]

Well I had a little try on the pearolate on my new dripper and I must say nom nom ill let it steep until next week then try it again

 

[SouthernVaper]

Well officially Pearolate has two more days to have its week steep and I must say smelling good. I have resisted the urge to tank it up and vape away just hope its worth the extra wait.

Ill report my steeping findings when I get vaping it Friday (i have a the feeling that it will be try and get some more mixed up straight away if my trial a few days in are anything to go by).

 

[SouthernVaper]

Well it steeped and tbh it was a dissapointment..........................someone stole the chocolate and it was so promising but alais just tastes of pear

The second meet happened and frankly to sum up

All mixes done after steeping were lacking
ry4 not caramel enough.
Pearolate distictly pear only
Cream mi berrys cream and not much blueberry
English toffee well lacked something not quite sure what

so far so bad as they say............. I did have a good vape on pearolate but not really my tang all in all added some vanilla cream to it a few drips may have been a mistake but going to give it a few days and re-try

I am a little put off at the moment but Im guessing this is where the learning comes in, some flavours just overpowered others after steeping some were lacking.

I did however mix Fruit Kick yesterday consisting of tutti-fruity, chocolate and rum intial tests were good but just after 24hrs choc has been stolen again and rum is there but tutti-fruity is dominate which is kind of the effect I was going for but more rum taste overall was wanted. Going to give it another day steeping and see what's happened my suspicions is that the tutti-fruity will overbear but time will tell.

I have learnt a valuable lesson from this and that is dont go too heavy on the fruit flavours and be prepared that even after 24hrs it may be alot different.........................Onwards and upwards as they say

So with the disasters it was back to the drawing board and off to some retail therapy so some more concentrates ordered as we have plenty of fruity flavours but fancy things to go with them, also need more choc as in intial tests its a flavour we like but need to get a good one that will hold against other flavours

 

[jrob3rts]

Isn't it amazing when something smells so good, tastes of very little. It's a learning curve as you say, and onwards and upwards.
I am still mixing some real jokey stuff.

 

[SouthernVaper]

Yeah like the one with rum in smells like rum tastes very little of it maybe thinking with the tutti-fruity being OTT too maybe a mix of 5ml with just rum in would sort that..............dulling the tutti-fruity and adding more rum.

Its a real shame that the chocolate was overpowered and pretty much vanished in all mixes as it vaped niccccccccccce the search is on for a choc that holds out under strain..... was thinking a dark choc but cant seem to find it

 

[BfcDanny]

Great to read about people really enjoying themselves vaping and mixing, in fact if you are anything like myself you will have pretty much forgot you was a smoker by now. And i hope, well tbh i imagine you will have inspired others into giving it a go. Nothing beats having done your own mix and it tasting great........might not have been what was originally in your head but, still tastes great lol

Keep up the good work sir !!! I look forward to reading about more of your mixing adventures

 

[jrob3rts]

Adrian,
Not had much of a chance to try it. Check out Double Dark Chocolate by PA.
Also, I think Capella do a couple, yet to try them personally though.

 

[ZT]

Capella's double chocolate is Excellent, requires sweetener tho