DIY eJuice thread

It is weird that it happens with strawberry, where most other fruits are good to go after a quick steep, if you don't use certain creams or custard. I made a blueberry yogurt recently, and a pineapple/mang coconut one. They were popping with flavour after 2 days.

I have a good stock now of juices steeping at various stages. I test random ones daily, and give all of them a bit of air, a sniff, and good shake and put them back to bed.

I have found that basic fruity mixes are best for 'shake'n'vape' [without any stubborn creams or custards] - but have found this with some yogurt/cheesecake mixes too. One that I make, that I named 'Long gone day' - is a peach-mango greek yogurt cheesecake. Sounds like it would need a right good long steep? It's great after a couple of days, just to let everything settle in. It just works. I've made over 200ml of it to date. I have a bottle almost a month old with some left in, and a bottle I mixed up 2 days ago. Hardly any difference.

Some other mixes I've tried are still very bland after almost a month. I did a blackcurrant/strawberry cheesecake and that's not bowling me over. I have mixed a couple of raspberry mixes, and none of them are great yet after 12 days. Could be just certain flavours? I know I won't buy Capella raspberry again at least. It was their sweet raspberry I was after but nowhere had it.

Hazelnut is another that is just bland ... I mixed up one with that and maple pecan, with some custard and other bits and bobs ... bland .. added some double choc and butterscotch, stuck it in a spare brown bottle and forgot about it. Now it's tasting pretty good!

It's all an interesting learning process. And according to E-LR, and the loose numbers I threw at their calculator, I'm making 50ml of finished juice for not much over €3. So I don't mind some trial and error for it

I've read some people on the mix forums steep custards or heavy creams separately for weeks, then add in strawberry or whatever so it doesn't get lost during steeping. That's not a bad idea.

I'm thinking of mixing up a good custard base, [say cap custard v1 and bav cream] put it away at the back of the press and forget about it for weeks. Then split it into smaller bottles and add whatever. I'm thinking if I mix at 4mg, then adding other flavours later on will round it down closer to my usual preferred 3mg.

I love TFA Greek yogurt, it is becoming one of my go to flavourings. I love that it's good after a couple of days, I love that sourness, it's got a 'muskiness' about it. Paired with the right fruits, and a lick of cheesecake for extra body, it's amazing. Honestly, you could just fire a fruit and a bit of NY cheesecake with some sweetener at it, and you're getting a lovely juice. You do need to kind of like yogurt though

I like that idea of a lick of strawberry to boost the raspberry. I'm actually going to add some to a couple of the ones I have steeping, because even smelling them is boring me atm lol

I have that second link bookmarked a few weeks now someone posted it somewhere or other, nice quick guide. Of course you can stray from it too. But that's more trial and error.

You definitely begin to learn what goes with what the more you mix. Blueberry is one I'm finding tough atm. Or rather, the blueberry I have [FW] as it's a very sweet, blue slushy type taste. It doesn't want to get along with certain other fruits I have. It's mucked up a few testers. But on it's own it makes a great mix with yogurt [I do honestly thing any fruit type concentrate will gel with that Greek yogurt] and it's working with vanilla cupcake/sugar cookie mixes too. But it's one I really need to watch what I'm adding to.

Might check that blueberry out next order so.

I mixed up some Bounty last night. Or my attempt to replicate it at least. So far it's smelling just like the bar, the coconut is a bit artificial-ish atm, but I imagine that'll pass after some steeping. I let it air out over night.

My DarkStar order took 3 days to process, but I know they were backed up on orders with the bank hols and they also had a 25% code on the go. It's nic and VG, which I'm not in any panic for, but also my Cap VC V1 ... I need that!!!

My prize from fresh03 arrived this morning



I initially won 30ml of pre-made addy's yogurt, but I cheekily asked Fluent vapors if I could have the concentrate instead. they obliged, and they threw in 15ml of their Appalachian delight concentrate too

Just mixed up 50ml of the addy's yogurt at 20%, gave it a quick hot bath to give it a good shake up, and right from the off it's bloody good. Mostly kiwi I'm getting with the blueberry and strawberry just sneaking about in the background. I'm sure they'll come through with time. Will make 100ml with the rest and let it steep away.

I will definitely have to try FW Kiwi at some point. It's seems pretty good.

Yeah I wouldn't mind trying some sorbet type juices for when[if] the weather gets a bit sunnier. Just forthat fruity, summery feel goodness.

Seen people mention sherbet for flavouring somewhere?

j26m wrote: »

So I ordered a starter kit from picknmix to see what this mixing lark is about...

I'm gonna have loads of questions, hope ye don't mind.

The first is regarding existing juices.
I have about 200ml Liqua juices, mainly Vanilla, but either the nic is too high, or the PG is too high as I'm getting a reaction so I'm moving to lower nic/higher VG liquids.
Can I use the Liqua juice I have as a base, and add VG and maybe a wee bit of flavouring to make up for the dilution? What I have is 18mg and 70% PG My target is about 10-12mg and over 50% VG.

Probably the easiest way to do it is like this.

Say you have a 30ml 18mg liqua vanilla at 70pg. Mix up a 30ml 0mg max vg (only pg is in the flavouring) vanilla at say 15%. Mix the two in a larger bottle to get a liquid that is 9mg and very approximately 42pg/58vg. Can't say what it would taste like though!!

Thecageyone wrote: »

Yeah course it can be done. igetcha69, famous vaping reviewer, buys cheap Titan fluid tobacco at 18mg and tones it down with VG, as his ADV.

You will reduce the flavour though, but it might actually be nicer.

So, the kit arrived this morning in work, and me being me had to go at it straight away Syringes all over the desk.....

I had half a bottle of Liqua Blueberry (18mg) in my desk, which I doubled up with VG and a wee bit of TFA Vanilla Custard, so I now have a quite acceptable juice at 9mm. A bit of time steeping and this could actually be quite nice.