NEW Capella Flavors Reviewed by SessionDrummer -- Testing Now!

Thanks for hanging in there guys, and I appreciate your time in reading these, and I strongly encourage anyone else who gets, and/or test these to drop up YOUR thoughts on these. The word on the street it the final “approved” list is done, and Bull City Flavors should be getting these soon, and I assume other resellers as well.

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So far the custard cream prob my fav of the ones iv tried

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yeaaaaa wasnt sure if that was too far… it was meant with the best intensions!lol

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I don’t think too many of us take life too seriously. :+1: The funniest part is that you knew what you were doing beforehand. It had me rotfl when I read it that day. :sunglasses:

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Oh yeah that was totally planned as soon as I saw the cotton! Hahaha it’s just who I am I like to kid makes life light. But also through a digital text format sometimes it could be taken the wrong way nothing but respect for the drummer and all of his duty he fulfills for the masses! By the way love that mug too! I’m gonna have to get one of them

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I think this perfect cupcake is a long steeper. It has gotton better. I still get no bakery but it did turn into a pretty good sweet cheap cake icing

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Now that I’ve tested half of these…. This one made me think Kellogg Corn Pops!! I vaped the whole darn tester and got all nostalgic and what not lol I haven’t had a bowl of Corn Pops in years.

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I got Mexican vanilla. Rather spicy, a bit creamy, the vanilla seemed a little artificial. Not a certain spice like cinnamon or clove, just a spice note. Pretty underwhelming and me being a vanilla freak, I’m disappointed.

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I gotta try it again. I didnt get corn pops but i want to. Thats my fav cereal

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I didn’t get a FULL ON Corn Pops, but I could see getting there VERY easily @Lynda_Marie.

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I did 6% and steeped 8 days. It took me a while to get it, but I even had my daughter try (she only vapes mesh and commercial juice) but she got corn. Not 100% Corn Pops, but definitely leaned towards that rather than cereal 27/corn flakes. With the slight sweetness and all. Taste is so subjectively wild.

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Yea I mean not 100% but after vaping the whole tester and adjusting wattages, I got that at 85 watts. Dead rabbit v2 dual tri-core aliens. :alien:

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I can see corn somewhat because the grain is really sweet. I think we are all going too hogh on sugary cereal . I did 8 percent first and it was good initially but then steeped into horrible mildew taste. I then did at 6 and steeping better but i think its still too high. I think right around 3 to 4 on this one may be the sweetspot

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The cooling killed it for me. It’s weird and out of place :grimacing: I wonder why they used a cooling effect?

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@Lynda_Marie I’m glad it wasn’t just me, and thought I was mis-reading it somehow.

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What a weird flavor. After I tested it I had go go look at your notes because I thought I mixed the wrong concentrate up, not that I’ve really tasted anything like it before. You were gracious for the rating you gave it.

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Hehe, yeah…

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Hehehe… no one is perfect!!! :rofl:

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This one has caught the attention of my nose :drooling_face: it’s gonna get mixed before the ones I got for the contest.

I can smell it and like what I’m getting, have to try it with my other favourite flavour at the moment and maybe find another cereal to get a trifecta, getting good vibes on this one.

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Alright, NOW, onto the 3 stragglers, that I didn’t get to do in the last series. I will ADD these to the OG post.

Like the previous series, thanks out to Allan at Capella for shipping these last few out for these tests.

As always, all tested at the listed percentages, on the SteamCrave RDTA v.1, running dual 24 ga. Kanthal vertical coils, with fresh, or dry burned coils before every test, and KGD cotton. Tested using a 70v/30p/3mg baes. All tested at 65 watts.

Mint (CAP) 4% (8-12-24) – For the record (as always), I do NOT use cooling agents, and I am NOT a fan of them. With THAT outta the way, it’s no secret that Capella has some really good mints, Spearmint, Cool Mint, and Peppermint, some of which I’ve used a lot, though typically NOT for personal use. This one will probably go up there with the rest of them, BUT, there’s a but. BUT, hehe, it was almost more of a Mint Candy, than a pure Mint mint. When I first started testing, I was HIT with an onrush of what appeared to be cooling, but it calmed down after a little bit. Continued testing revealed there did seem to be some in there. Let your personal cooling preferences decide for you on that fact. The Mint itself was fairly clean, and was fairly sweetened, but it wasn’t JUST a sweetened Mint, it almost tasted candied. Not entirely, but it leaned more heavily towards that, than just a sweet mint.

Being a HUGE drinker of Mojitos, when I hear “Mint”, I’m thinking Fresh Mint. Now this wasn’t terrible, but I think it was fairly sweet/candied, so again, let YOUR thoughts on that decide for you. I can’t rate/compare the cooling in it, but from a “Not Cooler”, I would say it was fairly cool, on both the inhale/exhale, so it was in there. A nice mint, with a lot of uses, just not a pure, or completely natural mint, and with some cooling. Trying to leave my cooling feelings aside, and not rate on that aspect, it felt good at a 7.0/10, and as a somewhat sweetened, chilled mint.

Nut Muffin (CAP) 4% (8-11-24) – Cakes, muffins, or cupcakes, how DO you make them, TASTE, like what they’re supposed to ? Capella, did a pretty good job, and somehow, it seemed more like a Muffin, than either of the cakes. This presented as fairly cakey, BUT, CAP added some darker, not really burned notes, but darker, maybe similar to molasses, which really pushed this one pretty solidly into Muffin-Ville. The darker notes, persisted (in a good way), and that way, the “cakes” never came to the forefront. Still cakey, but NOT a cake, or cupcake, if that makes sense. The nut(s) profile was harder to nail down, and while obviously there, exactly WHAT nuts, remained a mystery. No AP, no Los Fritos, or any of the typical off-notes, and the nut profile was lighter, non-bitter, and made me wonder if it was Pecan. No peanuts, or walnuts, so I’ll just leave it at “nutty”.

Continuing through the test, it almost reminded me of a bran muffin, but only somewhat, not entirely. Combined the light nuts and muffin did play nice together, with no off-notes or complaints. At 4% it was very full, but not overpowered. It might even be able to be cut by 0.5-0.75% without issue. Sweetness was about two ticks past mid-level, which left it fairly sweet, but in comparison to most mass marketed “muffins” it tasted about right. About my only “want” would be just a bit more nuts. Small want, for a big, tasty muffin flavor. Right before I started working on the scoring, I decided that a sweetened, nut and bran muffin was
about as close as I could get to describing it. With only the light nuts to “want” for, I settled on a high 9.1/10 for this one.

Wafer Crunch (CAP) 4% (8-16-24) – LAST one in this (kinda) new series. This one smelled great in the bottle, and continued during testing. Even after three testers, the two main take-aways stayed consistent. It was 75% vanilla wafers, and 25% Waffle Cone. At first, I wasn’t sure about the WC, but after more testing, I think it actually DID add some depth, a little crunch, and backing to the wafer profile. The wafer profile was VERY good, and accurate, with a pretty close representation OF a vanilla wafer. There may have been some light cream in there, but it was hard to tell. Not exactly like bighting into one, but the overall effect was pretty close. It was great at 2.5%, with no off-notes, and sweetness was just below mid-level. Tasty, almost crispy, and accurate. Nothing came to mind as a “must have” or “could have” with this one. NOT a pure Wafer, but the addition of the Waffle Cone, DID work here. Leaving this one pretty high, at a 9.5/10.

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