Inawera Creme Brulee, absolutely disgusting

Ok, I really think I gave this one a fair shot. I believe they must have changed their formula. Or SOMETHING. It’s absolutely disgusting. It tastes EXACTLY like cheap, flat beer. Steep hasn’t changed anything! I mixed at 1.5% there is nothing creamy about this.

Tastes like the end of a warm bottle of piss-weiser that someone left out in the sun for 12 hours.

All the reviews, tons of them say how delicious it is. I don’t get it.

Another thing, the mix smells like a creamy caramel in the bottle, but the second it makes contact with my coil it turns into beer. Wth? Is this flavor reacting with Ni80? And the taste it sticks around. Ill continue to taste beer hit after hit.

Has anyone used this recently? Did inw change the recipe so people would stop vaping it?

Yes this so bad that I actually had to make a post about it. I can’t find any info on it tasting this bad.

I have found the INW apparently reformulated all their flavors. It makes sense then.

UPDATE: ok, I did find this in the notes.

“My heart is broken…I just bought a new bottle, made my favorite mix, 1.5% used in the mix, and it taste like vomit…it’s been reformulated for sure…buy vape train creme brulee instead… today is octobre 26 2021…sad sad day…just bough a 60ml fml…”

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2% 70/30

More on point of a brulee. Definitely getting a dark thick caramel on top of their custard. Steeped 2 weeks. It’s a little weak. It’s ok. Getting a floral (?) note or some weird note on the exhale. I’m sure that could be easily covered up in a mix I’m assuming?

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You mean INW creme brulee? I’m very curious, when and where did you buy yours from?

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they didn’t reformulate ALL their flavors

I don’t think Inawera ever wants to reformulate
they make flavors specifically for shisha, tobacco and by extension vaping

there was some political tobacco directive BS and some of their suppliers did not want to comply

there can also be supply chain issues forcing reformulations

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That makes sense.

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Two things I can think of, if indeed the formula is still the same… INW makes a dark lager flavor, bull city doesn’t sell it but maybe there was some kind of mix up or cross contamination somewhere along the line.

I also noticed that recently bull city doesn’t really publish bad reviews, especially if the flavors aren’t being used for culinary. All of the reviews on their website are old, 2015-2019… I’m willing to bet there have been people trying to post 1 star negative feedback that just didn’t get published.

I’m not lying though guys, the stuff I got tastes exactly like beer. I don’t think it’s my taste buds this time. It smells pretty nice like caramel creme in the bottle, it’s just the second it hits my coil it turns into beer! It’s very bizzare.

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im making a shopping list and found

creme brulee was reformulated

ID10-T on reddit says
“this used to be perfect, but they reformulated it and ruined it and now it tastes like vomit”

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/15dpmln/getting_rid_of_most_of_my_flavors_part_54/

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Detective warkwarth has solved the mystery. Since this Reddit post is more updated than many reviews, this seems like a good list for reference. Thank you.

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I want to add, I just tried to directly taste the flavor via drip on the back of my hand… And it tasted like beer. The smell, there is a nice creamy caramel smell… That gets murdered by gross stale beer. See, I don’t really get “vomit” from mine. It’s straight beer! I really have to wonder if someone at the manufacturing place accidentally mixed creme brulee with dark lager and they just were like “oh well. Too late.” I even smell a note of cat piss, like some spilled a cheap beer and it got dried up.

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lets debate all day whether it tastes like beer or vomit

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Well to be fair, a couple days after I mixed it it tasted like both beer and vomit.

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Well @Mediocre_Remedial at least you gave it a few days before trashing it LOL. Sounds a lot like my “sideways” mixes, “Burnt Tires and Assholes”.

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Just out of a weird twisted curiosity what exactly does asshole taste like in a tank?

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@Letitia, we go back a long ways. Sadly I cannot answer that, because the lawyers say so. :slight_smile:

Let’s just say, “Worse than imaginable” !!!

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Understood. Likely a blessing eh…

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Hehe, for every GREAT final recipe, there can be many, many NOTS !!!

:slight_smile:

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Sometimes a painful truth. That’s what make you special as a reviewer, you’ll try them all. Thanks for taking on that load for those of us who aren’t willing to. I’m way to selfish to try what I know I won’t enjoy.

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That… Is so true!

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Well, you’re very kind @Letitia. I will admit, hehe, that SOME-times, when I have a massive series to get through, and I’m looking at the names, and all of the bottles, I DO kind of dread some of them, hehe.

I mean, I’m not doing CRAB, or HOT SAUCE, but, yeahs, I’ve done some, that weren’t in my wheelhouse.

I gotta look it up, because I can’t remember the flavor brand, but I did a few from them, and OMG, absolutely terrible. NOT FOR VAPING !!! Hehe, I think I blocked it out because it was soo painful to witness. I gotta look it up @Letitia. It’s going to drive me crazy until I find it.

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Well, now I’m curious too!

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