The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: Vanilla Custard.

I'm sorry to say, this is the first juice I've gotten from MBV that I truly disliked. I was really looking forward to this one too, since custard flavors are all the rage these days.

I was excited when this juice came up on my random list of what flavors to order. I've been hearing left and right about custard flavors and I hadn't had any yet, plus I don't know if I've every had a really good vanilla, so hope were high. The color was pink, as many vanillas I've seen tend to be, and it smelled like, well, sweet vanilla, like I expected. I loaded up my Kayfun, took a pull, and... metal. It tasted like some kind of metal, like sucking on a penny. It was awful. I'd only experienced that once, and it was when I got a bottle of that Puro crap they sell in smoke shops. It was pumpkin pie. It's also one of the two bottles I never vaped through.

After my immense disappointment, I figured maybe I just hadn't ever had any real vanilla custard. My wife made me some to compare it to, and if it did indeed taste like what my wife whipped up, it would have been amazing stuff. I started wondering what might be in common between what's essentially pudding and a pumpkin pie, and I think it's nutmeg, which, according to my 5 seconds of internet research and the late, great Julia Child's recipe, doesn't go in vanilla custard, unless it's spiced vanilla custard. I don't think the spice flavor being used, whatever it is, translates well to a vape.

I had to be sure it wasn't just me that had an issue with this flavor, so I took it to my panel (wife, brother, two co-workers). One of them I didn't tell anything about it other than what it was supposed to be. He took a long pull, slowly exhaled, frowned for 5 seconds, and simply stated " Ew. I don't like it." No one liked this one.

I did save this one for last out of my last batch so it had about a week and a half to steep, and maybe it could have gotten better with age, but I'm not really one to want to wait that long to vape something. I tried my best to like it, but even after all 15 mL, I only occasionally tasted vanilla, and that metallic spice thing going on never went away. I did find that it was pretty good if I drank a Coke along side it, strangely enough. I have to give this one a 1/5. Doesn't taste at all like vanilla custard, and I think it would be prudent to put "Spiced" in the name of this juice. Back to the drawing board, guys. I know you could make a killer custard, but it isn't this one.

The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: White Tea

This juice had me a little curious when I received it. It didn't have any real noticeable smell, was totally clear, and if my knowledge of Snapple commercials is correct, then it was going to have a light flavor as well. I'm proud to say I was right about the flavor being light, but the problem for me was it was too light. When I first put this in my Kayfun, I wasn't entirely sure my mod was firing until I exhaled, the flavor was that light. After I knew what the flavor was, I could taste it more easily, but it was easily overpowered by almost anything with a strong scent. It's a very light, delicate tea flavor, not sweetened or anything. It's the closest thing I've had to an unflavored eliquid.

Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of this one, and would probably give it a 2/5 by itself. Now, you put in a little fruit flavor with this? BAM! Potential for a 5/5 with a cherry on top. Especialy peach, that was my favorite Snapple white tea, I may mix and match a bottle of that in the future. It's a definite background flavor and doesn't shine well on its own, but maybe if you really like white tea, would like it to mix other juices with, or are a cloud chaser that doesn't need really strong flavored juice, this one might be for you.

The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: Ocean Breeze

This is about the shortest review I think I'll ever have to do. Pina Colada. DONE. I'll go ahead and give my thoughts anyway.

 This juice, for me, started out strong as a pretty tasty, enjoyable vape, occasionally kind of suntan lotiony, but it a way that doesn't seem gross (does that make sense?) As the days wore on I started to notice a bit more pineapple than coconut. It got old pretty quick though, and by the end of the bottle I was certainly itching for a new flavor. In this case I got to try another Ocean Breeze my buddy ordered as well, but with the extra flavor shot. The pineapple was even more pronounced in his.

I noticed that my throat would begin to get irritated after a couple pulls. The same has happened to me with a few other juices, usually with a citrusy component to it, like lemonades and such. It didn't really put me off on the juice, but over the last few months I haven't had a juice that did that so I was caught off guard a little bit. Then again my friend never had an issue, so it's probably one of those person to person things.

Overall I'd say this is definitely a decent juice, I'd put it around 3.5/5. I don't know why it isn't just called Pina Colada, but maybe it's different somehow. One day I'll get them both side by side and compare. I'd also like to point out that after the full 15 mL I still had a nice clean cotton wick, so that was a nice added bonus since I am a very lazy person sometimes. Most times. Always.

The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: Blue Ice

For those unfamiliar with MBV's Ice flavors, all you need to know is MENTHOL. My God, so much menthol. I've vaped on their Extreme Ice flavor before when I had a cold and it cleared my sinuses up faster than Vicks Vaporub ever could. Blue Ice is that Extreme Ice with a touch of blueberry.

The blueberry flavor of this juice was hit and miss with me. Sometimes I could get a nice ripe blueberry flavor, other times it was more like a candy. Sometimes it was completely overwhelmed by the menthol. The blueberry really seemed to come out if I was drinking something while I was vaping, and on the first few pulls after I hadn't vaped in a while. If I had to venture a guess, I would think my taste buds just became overloaded by the menthol at times and then I couldn't taste the blueberry.

Overall I'd say the juice in general is pretty good. No weird flavors, just menthol and blueberry. If I was more of a menthol vaper and was used to it, I'm sure the blueberry would have been a refreshing change of pace from straight menthol. I think the best part of using the juice was that even after the full 15mL was run through my Kayfun Lite (clone) my cotton wick was still as white as the driven snow. I'm lazy, so this appealed to me. I would give this juice a 3.75/5. It's not quite a 4 because it's a simple blend and the flavor doesn't have a ton of depth, but it certainly isn't a 3 because it is definitely one that I would recommend for someone that likes menthol and wants a little something different.

The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: Hazelnut Coffee

Hazelnut Coffee... Sounds perfect since I use hazelnut creamer all the time, but my past with coffee juices has been less than great, with three of the four tasting like burned grounds (or worse) and the other tasting amazing sometimes and flavorless others. Needless to say I put this into my dripper not expecting much.

Surprise! This is hands down the best coffee flavor I have yet to try. It's sweet but not overpoweringly so, and the coffee flavor isn't a burnt or grounds flavor, but more like an actual cup of joe. It isn't the same as a cup with the flavored creamer in it, but more like that flavored coffee with say 2 packets of sugar in it. Overall I was pretty happy with it until I put it in my Kayfun...

Holy gunked up coils! I wish I had a pic to share of how much crap built up on my microcoil after a day of vaping in my KFL. Probably a good 2mm of char on top of the coil. Even in my dripper I could only get about 2-4 hours of vaping out of it before needing to rewick. Sure, a quick dry burn and a new piece of cotton and I was back on track, but I am a lazy man. Let it be known that the fine folks at MBV do put a Shade Rating chart on each flavor of juice to let you know how fast it can gunk up coils and such. This was a 4/5 on that scale, so no small wonder the coils gunked up. I'd like to find a 5/5 to see what happens then.

If I was a huge coffee fan it would be worth it, because as I said before, this is the only coffee flavor to not let me down. Maybe I'll get it as a standby in the future and wick my dripper with silica so I don't have to change out cotton twice a day. Overall, I'd give the juice a 4/5. Good flavor, not burned assy taste like coffees usually are.

The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review: Butterscotch

Welcome to my first installment of The Great Mt Baker Vapor Review. I'm ordering every flavor MBV has to offer, three bottles at a time (plus the freebie), vaping through the whole 15mL, and letting the world know what I think of it. I'm kicking this off with my first freebie and one of the flavors I wasn't looking forward to; Butterscotch.

I received Butterscotch as my first freebie, and it came in as a 12mg 80/20 pg/vg as all of the MBV samples do. I have never liked butterscotch anything for as long as I can remember. I figured I would just get this one out of the way immediately and move on. Luckily, either my tastes have changed or this didn't taste like butterscotch. I found it to be sweet and generally enjoyable. It made my van smell like a Werther's, which lead me to believe it tasted right. I had my brother and a friend try it out as well, and they both said it was indeed a nice butterscotch flavor.

I vaped through the entire bottle with no troubled. It didn't gunk up my coils super fast, but more often than some juices. It was a decent, caramelly sweet vape that was once mistaken for a pancake. The nic content and pg/vg ratio weren't my standard 6mg 50/50, but it's a freebie so I can't complain. Once I got used to that bigger throat hit I was almost sad to run out of this one, but then I remembered it was butterscotch and moved on. I'd give the juice 3/5 stars, not anything amazing but not bad, and 5/5 for being the first thing that was butterscotch and didn't make me gag!

Next up: Hazelnut Coffee.

Coming back!

Hello all, been a while since I've done a post, personal life caught up with me and I just let this slip by the wayside. But no more! I've still been busy vaping and trying things out, namely I've got an RDA finally, as well as a Kayfun (clone. I'm poor). I'm also going to be systematically going through everything Mt. Baker Vapor has to offer, since I can never choose a juice easily I thought I'd try them all! I'll go over that in a separate post, and it's going to keep me busy for a while. That's it for now, look for a new post in the next day or so, soon as I figure out which thing I need to write about!