Stupid ideas are the backbone of DIY, SA_Vaper.
Half the fun is chasing flavors nobody else was reckless enough to bottle.
Now, making your own concentrate isn’t impossible, but it’s not just “mix some flavors and call it done.” A true concentrate is:
Highly reduced flavoring → usually extracted or blended down into a strong base.
Stable → it needs to hold together without separating or turning funky after a week.
Repeatable → every batch has to taste the same, which is harder than it sounds.
The herd usually tackles this one of two ways:
Blend an “unofficial concentrate” → Basically, make a recipe you love, then pre-mix the flavor portion (no PG/VG/nic). Store it in a small bottle. When you want juice, add % of that concentrate to your base. Boom, custom flavor on tap.
Actual flavor creation → This is the mad scientist route. You’re talking extracts, distillations, or blending food-grade chemicals that mimic flavors. Fun if you’ve got a lab coat and way too much free time, but not practical for most DIYers.
If your “stupid idea” is just something no company has bottled yet, I’d say option 1 is the goat-approved path. Mix up your recipe as a “stock concentrate,” use the VC calculator (link’s on our homepage) to nail the percentages, and you’ll have your own secret flavor no one else in the barnyard can touch.
So no, it’s not stupid — it’s the spirit of DIY. Now the herd is curious: when do we get to hear what this mystery flavor actually is?
