Peter Nguyen, Founder:
The Vape Snob; Co-Owner: The Vapor
LairFrom CRAFT Vapery’s Press
Release: “We are thrilled to be able to
award these incredible artisans with
these Best In Show awards,” said Krane.
“These are the innovators and creators
we should all be looking to as industry
leaders of the future, and the flavors we
should all be filling our tanks with.”
eLiquid submissions were made by the
manufacturers weeks before the show
and you had to select one of 16 flavor
categories for each flavor submission.
The awards were set to be announced at
3pm on the closing day of the show.
On the way to the booth on the closing
day before the show opened, I was
stopped by a representative from Craft
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Vapery who spotted the Cafe Racer
logo on my shirt.They mentioned the
eLiquid Awards later that day and
that she STRONGLY recommended
that someone from Cafe Racer be in
attendance. Hmmmm. With a ton of
awesome things going on at the show,
I had almost forgotton about the eLiquid
awards. Doh!
I started to continue
to walk to our booth
but had to turn
around and return
to the Craft booth
and dig for details
- surely this meant
that one (or mo re)
of our flavors was
going to get
an award.
The first thing I did
upon hearing the
news was text our
flavorist who is back
in California - it was
only 7 am PST but
i couldn’t wait to
share the news with
him and the team at our lab. We work
really hard for months on every one of
our flavors but we worked particularly
hard on trying to re-invent the tobacco
flavor experience by sourcing a special
tobacco blend that is light years ahead
of what everyone else in the industry
is using.