eJuice Review 161: Banana Smoothie – Juice by Coops
Introduction:
If you’re in any vaping Facebook groups, you’re bound to have seen these guys pop up every now and then.
Juice by Coops has been operating for a while now.
They’re based in Western Australia, and pride themselves on their 100% original, hand crafted, max VG recipes.
Today I’ll be reviewing “Banana Smoothie”!
The Review:
Banana flavours will swing one of two ways. They tend to be either realistic banana, fleshy with a touch of banana skin nuances, or very light, candied banana, very sweet and often coming across as a cream.
I’m finding that “Banana Smoothie” is more of the former with realistic banana coming through. There is a hint of banana peel, but not too much to turn me away, and rather than a full sweet cream taste, I get more of a realistic whole cream texture.
It’s a little bit like taking some steamed bananas with the richness of the pulp, letting them cool down and dolloping fresh full thickened cream cream over the top.
The inhale and exhale are quite similar with this flavour, with exception to the intensity.
Inhale is real banana first and foremost, with a touch of cream coming through.
On the exhale, I get much more flavour but following the same profile. It’s rich steamed bananas, with the thickness of the cream kicking in further through the exhale, finishing off with a lightly sweetened, full bodied creamy exhale.
Kudos to Coops for going the realistic banana route, it’s a difficult one to get right, and really easy to go overboard with the banana ending up with floral notes.
No floral notes here guys, just the great flavour that’s written on the bottle.
Nice work!
How to Order:
At the moment they only take orders via their Facebook page (http://facebook.com/groups/JUICEBYCOOPS/), so you’ll need to contact them directly to put an order in.
Colour:
Dark Honey coloured
Scent:
Banana
Coil damage:
No coil gunking, minimal darkening of wicks
PG/VG Ratio:
MAX VG
Texture:
Full bodied, creamy
Steeping:
Probably not necessary to steep this for too long, but worth doing to allow the banana to mature.
Presentation:
The Juice by Coops range comes in clear unicorn bottles, with black label, carrying the Juice by Coops logo, with skull and the name of the juice printed on the base of the label. There is no other information printed on there.
I received 10ml unicorn bottles for these reviews.
Test rigs:
Psyclone Hadaly clone with single ss contact coil @ 0.2ohms on an iStick Pico Squeeze.
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