eLiquid Review 469: Buzzed by Hoots Premium Blends
Apologies for the delay on this one folks, we’ve just had the Australia Day long weekend and boy was it busy! Anyway, I’m back on deck again and looking at another flavour from Hoots Premium Blends. Get ready, because this one is fruity and fizzy!
Today, I’ll be reviewing “Buzzed” from Hoots Premium Blends.
(This eliquid was supplied by the vendor for review.)
Flavour Description
Blackcurrant Soda
Packed full of Blackcurrant, with a slight fizz…….. WILL HAVE YOU BUZZING!
The Review
This one is touted as a flavour packed blackcurrant, and we all love blackcurrant right?! Blackcurrant is a fantastic flavour to vape, but, many of you might not realise that it’s actually quite difficult to mix with. It can get overpowering very quickly, and if you’re not careful, can end up soapy.
Hoots have done a great job with this one. Completely avoiding any overpowered Blackcurrant, the end result being quite a sweet and fruity blend that has lower blackcurrant notes as well as a lighter, slightly syrupy nuance from another unknown fruit. There’s a light fizz here, which provides a soft drink or soda feel, bubbly and sweet, that helps bring everything together.
Individual Notes
The blackcurrant is pretty light. I’ll be honest and say that I expected it to be a little stronger, but it is a little wavering and at times, not really identifiable once your sense of taste gets used to the profile. It’s a sweet yet rounded flavour, juicy in nature, more of a natural blackcurrant than a candy.
There is another fruit here too, it’s a great complimentary flavour introducing a lighter, more syrupy note, and really really difficult to pick. On one hand it feels like it’s a Passionfruit, and on the other a Peach or some type of stone-fruit like Nectarine.
I say Passionfruit because it has a sweet yet tropical feel, almost a pineapple, but with a fuller profile. It doesn’t have the usual bitterness that Passionfruit brings however, so I’m reluctant to say that’s it.
There is a definite syrup like nature to it, fleshy and juicy, with a robust fullness to it, that really sits in stone-fruit territory. I’m also noticing a fuzziness to the flavour, a lower note that while fleshy, also contains a skin feel.
Whichever of these that it is, it works wonderfully, and so delicately blended that it compliments without ever over-drawing attention to itself.
There is also a fizziness to this one, probably a little lemonade, or champagne concentrate, something light that adds just the smallest amount of texture to it to give that bubbly soda effect.
Inhale & Exhale
The inhale is blackcurrant, there’s no doubt about it. It’s a sweet unmistakeable blackcurrant, fresh and fruity, a very natural flavour, definitely not a candy. It starts off very sweet and light, building up a little as the inhale continues.
At the end of the inhale and beginning of the exhale you’ll notice a syrupy fruit flavour enter the fray. It’s a juicy, fleshy, fruit, a little Passionfruit, a little Peachy, with very much a tropical fruit juice feel to it. I can only speculate as to what it is, but it brings a brightness to the mix, a tropical fruitiness that warms the vape, adding a little more complexity.
You’ll notice the fizziness on the exhale too, it’s a little lemonade like, and a lovely texture that reinforces that this is a soda based flavour.
Final thoughts
I’ve really enjoyed this one, I really only have one problem with it. Unfortunately its a positive and a negative all at the same time.
The blackcurrant, I really wanted this to be stronger. More of a main flavour. With the addition of the other fruits, it feels like the blackcurrant has become a secondary flavour in the mix. The problem with this is that the other fruits are also secondary flavours. There just doesn’t seem to be a dominating note.
On the one hand it’s definitely not over-bearing, you can vape this one all day, it’s a sweet fruity mix, with pleasant tones and no nasty nuances.
On the other, it’s light, the fruits are not really distinguishable, it lacks that punch that I expected.
If you’ve got sensitive taste-buds this one is absolutely for you, you’ll appreciate the lighter tones, and delicateness of the mix. If you’re looking for a massive flavour hit however, you won’t get it with this one.
All in all, I’ve really enjoyed this one, it was an easy flavour to vape with no harsh tones, and a sweet and fruity profile.
Where to Buy:
You can purchase this flavour as well as many of their others directly from the Hoots Premium Blends Online Store or through their various stockists.
Colour:
Clear
Aroma:
Blackcurrant
Coil and wick damage:
Darkened wicks and slightly gunked coils after 3 days of vaping. Overall a pretty clean juice.
PG/VG Ratio:
70%VG / 30%PG
Texture:
Sweet, fruity.
Steeping:
No steep necessary, but a little steep might benefit.
Presentation:
Hoots Premium Blends flavours arrived in 30ml clear plastic (PET) Chubby Gorilla bottles with the standard needle tip dispenser, and a child proof snap sealed screw cap.
The labels are a professional satin finish, black background with different coloured accents according to flavour, containing all of the information you might need. This includes, company logo, juice name, flavour description (love it when companies do this), VG/PG ratio, ingredients, zero nicotine declaration and website url.
Test rigs:
Haku with slam cap running a single 0.17 framed staple coil on a mech mod.
Augvape Intake RTA with a 0.2ohm Stainless coil running @ approx 50-80 watts.
Rating overview
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