I love coffee and I love vaping. This thread is my attempt
to document my quest for a satisfying coffee and/or coffee and cream diy vape.
I’m a total newbie, I just got my vape kit last week (I went
with Heartland Vapes DIY kit, fyi), which allowed me to pick 5 flavors as part
of the kit.
I must have done pretty well on my picks, cause I fully
expected my first few attempts to create juice to be gross and pretty much
unvapable – they are NOT! In fact, my first attempt was pretty dang decent and I’m happily vaping it now.
The flavors I picked are:
TFA coffee
TFA cappuccino
TFA Bavarian cream
TFA whipped cream
Homemade ground coffee/PG flavor
Heartland vapes Tobacco blend
The homemade flavor = two jars of coffee flavor by soaking
fresh ground 8 o clock regular red label coffee with PG – one is steeping in a
dark, room temperature closet in an amber glass jar, and the other one I did a
10 second microwave on to heat it up, and then a one hour very warm water bath on. I call it “fast coffee flavor,” just to have something to call it.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Pg + tfa cappuccino 3% is a very solid start, and totally vapable immediately. No its not GREAT, but it’s a really good starting point (I used the site’s recipe calculator 
Adding Bavarian cream to it (to taste) is definitely necessary for me. I happen to love drinking strong black coffee, but I don’t really want to vape it. The vape needs some sweetness and creaminess to it – I will figure out just how much as I keep experimenting.
The whipped cream is underwhelming. It is not bad, but is thin tasting, and a little bit un-natural tasting compared to the Bavarian cream. Just a first impression. Using it has also alerted me to just how important “mouth feel” can be to a juice. The Bavarian has it in spades, the whipped cream, basically none.
So, with a cappuccino and Bavarian cream base, I have been
adding small amounts of tfa coffee and the “fast coffee” I made, I’m not
bothering to measure, I’m just doing it on the fly, and SMALL amounts of the
tfa coffee really give it even more body and “real” coffee taste.
My fast coffee is not so good. It has the bitter coffee taste, but very little of the actual flavor. It’s actually a bit musty tasting. When you blend it in with your cappuccino base, its ok, but my initial reaction is that this is not a particularly good brand of coffee to make a vape flavoring from. Maybe something richer and darker like Bustelo will work better.
So far these juices have been almost 100% PG, which is ok with me, it vapes well, but has VERY surprisingly little throat hit. I really don’t care about vapor production, and even if I did, this is already very satisfactory in that regard.
I am testing taste with an rda dripper on about a 1ohm pure kanthal coil with organic cotton wicking. No idea how much voltage applied, this is a straight battery to coil setup.
I did fill a coupla clearos (itaste 16 with a VV battery) and ran those at about 4.2 volts. Everything worked well and I experienced absolutely NO gunk up of the clearos. Very happy about that, too.
I’m extremely happy with what I’ve produced so far, and I hope this information will help anyone else who is trying to come up with good
coffee juice!
I’ll let you know if I stumble into any other necessities while I’m pretending I don’t spend a small fortune on this stuff.
as well as some different creams [quote=“BathVaper, post:8, topic:35857, full:true”]
