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Making your own e-liquid is a great way to fi ne tune your vaping experience and recently
it’s become more popular than ever. With thousands of fl avourings on the market, there
really aren’t any limitations to what you can create, which is why thousands of people share
their recipes online. In this feature we’ll be highlighting some of our favourite recipes, from
beginner-friendly mixes to advanced profi les that should satisfy even the pickiest of vapers.
Fizzmustard’s ‘Nana Cream
regarded as one of the best. Using all Capella for the more adventurous vapers but those who
flavourings, it’s easy to pick up your ingredients give it a try will be rewarded greatly.
Creator: /u/Fizzmustard (Reddit) in one go and provided you have the patience
Diffi culty: Beginner to let this one steep for a few weeks, the result
Recipe:
still holds up over four years after the recipe was Creator: Folkart (alltheflavors.com)
originally shared. You can easily add fruit layers Diffi culty: Advanced
• The Flavor Apprentice Strawberry – 7% to suit your preference, so this is not only a great
• The Flavor Apprentice Dragon Fruit – 3% custard, but an easy starting point for new mixers
• Lorann’s Banana Cream – 5% to experiment with.
Fizzmustard started posting e-liquid recipes to
Mayan Milk
is a decadent, creamy vanilla custard profi le that
Fiestas and Fiascos
Reddit over fi ve years ago and quickly gained a
Recipe:
• Flavour Art Meringue – 2%
• Capella Double Chocolate V2 – 1.5%
• Flavour Art Butterscotch – 1%
reputation for simple but delicious mixes that Creator: Concreteriver (alltheflavors.com) •
Flavorah Cream – 1%
newcomers could easily enjoy. ‘Nana Cream was Diffi culty: Intermediate •
Liquid Barn Vanilla Ice Cream – 1%
•
Hangsen Chocolate Cream – 0.75%
Recipe: •
Capella Super Sweet – 0.75%
almost perfectly balanced blend of strawberry, • Capella Sweet Guava – 5% Folkart has created something of a cult
banana and tropical fruit with a mild cream • The Flavor Apprentice Vanilla Swirl – 4% following over the last 18 months and it’s
accent. After allowing this to steep for a few days, • Flavorah Yamika Hops – 3% hardly a surprise, considering the variety and
you’re in for a treat. • Lorann’s Cream Cheese Icing – 2% complexity of their recipes. Mayan Milk was
• Flavorah Pink Guava – 1% created with the intent to conquer one of
• Inawera Cactus – 0.5% the fi nal frontiers of e-liquid; chocolate. For
intended to mimic the iconic flavour of the same
name from Bombies, though this version doesn’t
taste quite the same. The result is a simple and
Kreed’s Kustard
whatever reason, chocolate has always been
Creator: Kevin Reed AKA Kreed Concreteriver is a legend of the DIY e-liquid diffi cult to recreate in vaping but this recipe
Diffi culty: Beginner community, having shared countless recipes just about nails it. Some of these ingredients
and flavour notes over the years. Their ability to are a little harder to source, which is why we’ve
take unusual ingredients and turn them into all marked it as advanced in diffi culty. But if you go
day vapes is really quite impressive. Fiestas and to the trouble of getting everything you need, the
Recipe:
• Capella Vanilla Custard V1 – 6% Fiascos is unlike anything commercially available result is a rich and creamy chocolate milk that
• Capella NY Cheesecake V1 – 4.5% and so is a great example of the benefi ts of mixing has to be one of the most authentic chocolate
• Capella French Vanilla V1 – 4.5% your own e-liquid. A rich, full-bodied guava is the vapes we’ve tried. The original recipe uses
• Ethyl Maltol (10% solution) – 1% main note here, supported by moderately funky Super Sweet at 0.75% to capture the sweetness
hops and a milder vanilla cream layer. The Inawera of chocolate, so if mixed as intended, your coils
Dessert profi les don’t get more classic than Cactus adds a fresh juiciness to the recipe which may not thank you but this can be toned down if
vanilla custard and Kreed’s Kustard is widely makes it all the more intriguing. This may be one you wish. A stunning recipe.
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