This review is a Spinfuel Team B Review – a Ginger’s eJuice Review, conducted in Concord New Hampshire – Ginger’s eJuice is the e-Liquid company that was responsible for finally moving the entire Spinfuel staff off of prefilled cartomizers and onto bigger and better vaping way back in early 2012. Had we not discovered just how much better eJuice could be when prepared by a real e-Liquid artisan, right here in the US, we would probably have stayed on cig-a-likes for several more months. So it is with a lot of pride, and respect for the artist behind the eJuice that we present the Ginger’s eJuice 2013 July is eJuice Month review.
It has been a while, a long while, since we last reviewed a Ginger’s eJuice flavor. It hasn’t been because we didn’t want to, but rather because Ginger has been so incredibly busy with the many retail outlets that sell her juice, her wholesale side, and her European market, not to mention the whole e-Liquid creating, testing, mixing, bottling, shipping, and everything else it takes to run a large eJuice company. In a very short time Ginger’s eJuice has become a major player in the e-Liquid marketplace because her e-Liquids are like little masterpieces of flavor, vapor, and luxury.
Ginger’s eJuice – There is a Method to Her Madness (Genius?)
Without an innate ability to create some of the most flavorful e-Liquids on the market Ginger’s eJuice wouldn’t be the major player it is today. Whether the eJuice is being sold under the Ginger’s eJuice label or a European conglomerate’s name, every ounce of juice is made by the same hands and created by the same artist, Ginger herself. The Ginger’s eJuice brand is sold in retail locations up and down the east coast, and select spots out west as well. To top it off, all of this success comes in just a little more than a year. Can you imagine?
Particulars
Ginger’s eJuice is available is 12ML, 15ML, 30ML, and 60ML sizes (They offer several nicotine strengths as well, 0, 6, 11, 16, 24 and 36MG.) You can buy any flavor in plastic or amber glass bottles. The plastic bottles have a drip tip nozzle and the amber glass comes with a glass eyedropper. All of Ginger’s eJuice is based on 80% PG and 20% VG. For Vapers with allergies for Propylene Glycol Ginger’s eJuice “House Blend” may not be the best solution for you, but there is an excellent reason why Ginger has chosen to offer an 80/20 PG/VG ratio.
From Ginger: “In a nutshell, PG (Propylene Glycol) is what gives you the “throat hit”, simulating the feel of smoke in your throat and lungs from a traditional cigarette. VG (Vegetable Glycerin) is what gives you large amounts of vapor, simulating smoke from a traditional cigarette. Too much PG, and you won’t get a nice vapor cloud. Too much VG, and it will clog up your atomizer. After many experiments, I found that the 80% PG – 20% VG mix seemed to be the best of both worlds. However, e-cigarettes are constantly evolving, and higher voltage batteries might require a different PG/VG formulation in the future. If you have any allergies to either PG or VG, and require a different ratio, please Contact Me. More than likely, I will be able to accommodate your requests.”
Ginger uses only the finest, purist ingredients as well. “80% Propylene Glycol, U.S.P. and 20% Kosher Vegetable Glycerin, U.S.P. I also use pharmaceutical-grade 100 mg strength Nicotine, which is lab-tested and lab-certified. The flavoring(s) that I use come from only a few select companies that are also lab-tested and certified. The nicotine and flavorings are both in a PG base, and are included in the overall 80% PG formulation. Because I make every batch of Ginger’s e-Juice from scratch, and order all the ingredients separately.”
As you can see, Ginger is very open about the ingredients used in the eJuice she creates. We’ve spoken to Ginger about Vapers that need something different than 80/20 PG/VG and she will accommodate them with specific blends, so if you are interested in any of the flavors we reviewed below but need a different ratio you can certainly ask. But, please keep in mind, our reviews are based on the “House Blend” at all times, with every brand we review, so if a flavor changes, or the throat hit or vapor ratings change for you because you opted for a different ratio, remember back to this paragraph.
Lastly, before we get to the actual review, a word about steeping. You’ve probably seen in many of our reviews that certain brands require a home steeping (not all, but most) to bring out the optimum flavor, vapor, throat hit, but Ginger’s eJuice is steeped for a week before shipping out to you. No, that doesn’t mean that Ginger’s eJuice receives your order, mixes up the bottles, and then lets them sit for a week before shipping. Orders placed before 6PM are shipped the next day. Let’s just say that Ginger is the most organized person we’ve ever met, and the system is down to a science. Over the past year we’ve vaped eJuice from Ginger right out of the mailbox, and weeks later, with absolutely no discernible difference in flavor or performance.
The e-Liquid Choice
We allowed the e-Liquid vendors to choose the flavors they wanted us to review. Ginger submitted the following flavors, all 80/20 PG/VG and 16mg nicotine.
Strawberry Shortcake
Juicy White Peach
Gingerbread Chai
Caramel Cappuccino
The Team and The Hardware
The 72-hour review period was conducted in NH and Boston. The team was free to use whatever personal vaping hardware they chose to use. This included the ZMAX, and various tanks and cartomizers (Julia), JoyeTech eVic, and Halo Tritons (Keira), Halo G6 and Tritons (Jason), ProVari and SMOKTech DCTanks (Cynthia) and more Halo Tritons and the Triple 7 Bullet (Janet).
Spinfuel Team B operates a bit differently than Team A, who are based in Florida. We meet and divide up the eJuice that is shipped up from HQ and then off we go into our separate worlds. Keira and I head back to Boston, the rest of the team stay in New Hampshire. After a 72-hour review time we meet and discuss our impressions over video Skype. The team members write up their impressions and email them to the lead writer, which is me (Julia), and then the narrative is constructed, emailed back to everyone for last minute changes or corrections, and then sent to Spinfuel HQ in Florida where it is once again read, edited (if needed) and then published.
What did we think about the four e-Liquids from Ginger’s eJuice? Read on…
Gingerbread Chai – A Spinfuel Choice Award – “Gingerbread Chai eJuice is a wonderful addition to your Holiday flavor line-up! Neither flavor is too overwhelming, making it a perfect all-day-vape!! Gingerbread is the first flavor note that takes you away to childhood memories… and then the chai tea comes in, giving it a wonderfully complex finish (reminding you that you’re a grown-up now!)” – Ginger’s eJuice
Julia: Gingerbread Chai may have started out as part of the holiday lineup but by popular demand it’s available all year round now. Why? Because it is an incredibly delicious juice that is beloved by everyone that had tried it, around here anyway. The deep rich flavor of gingerbread combined with that instantly recognizable “chai tea” notes is such a satisfying vape that it is very hard to put down. Luscious vapor, a great throat hit, and the feeling that you are experiencing something magical makes Gingerbread Chai one of the best Ginger offers. 5 Stars
Keira: The way in which Ginger has been able to balance a great gingerbread flavor with the delicate Chai Tea flavor is simply amazing. This is a sweet, gingerbread-y flavor, but the Chai pulls back just a bit on the sweetness so that it isn’t even close to being a desert-type vape,it is instead an all-day vape. Gingerbread Chai has been added to my rotation of flavors immediately.
If you want to know if this is one you might want to try, ask yourself two questions; do you like gingerbread cookies, and do you like Chai Tea vapor? If your answer is ‘yes’ then you will adore this e-Liquid. Gingerbread Chai easily stands in the Top 5 of Ginger’s eJuice lineup. More vapor than you can shake a stick at, and a beautiful throat hit, even at 16mg nicotine. A perfect 5 Stars
Jason: I remember when John vaped a few bottles of Gingerbread Chai a few months ago. I was constantly approaching him and asking for a clearomizer refill, that’s how much I loved it. Finally, I broke down and started buying it for myself. I vape Gingerbread Chai at least 3 or 4 times a week, and had just ran out a couple of days before this package arrived from Florida. Gingerbread Chai is an awesome all-day vape because it will not change into something different 4 or 5 hours later. You get the same great flavors of gingerbread and chai tea the entire time. Add to that a ton of vapor and a solid throat hit and you have something very special. 5 Stars
Cynthia: This is my first gingerbread anything, and I’ve never desired a Chai Tea vape before. So I approached this flavor with caution. I knew how Jason felt about it by the way he jumped up and down when we opened the package, and I’ve heard good things from the Florida team from time to time.
I didn’t want to use a brand new clearomizer on this flavor so instead I filled up a normal SR cartomizer and attached it to my ProVari. I found it’s sweet spot at 3.6v and from that moment on I was hooked. Before finishing off the cartomizer I ripped open a sealed clearomizer, filled it with the Gingerbread Tea and vaped for an hour straight on a borrowed Halo Triton. I’ve never done that before, and surprisingly, it wasn’t the only Ginger’s eJuice I did that with. 5 Stars
Janet: The thing I love most about gingerbread cookies is that gingerbread is kind of sweet, but not too sweet. The taste of gingerbread is very unique, so if I’m going to vape something that is supposed to taste like gingerbread it better taste like gingerbread.
Now, as far as this while Chai Tea thing goes I had no idea what to expect. To make a long story short, Gingerbread Chai is such a delicious flavor to vape I found it hard to believe. It possesses a real gingerbread essence and another flavor that is obviously the Chai flavor and it works together so well that it has become one of my favorite eLiquids. The blend that we all vaped was an 80/20 PG/VG and I cannot believe so much vapor comes from an 80/20 blend. If I hadn’t seen the label with my own eyes I wouldn’t have believed it. And with the throat hit this good, it’s just a perfect juice. 5 Stars
Gingerbread Chai – A Spinfuel Choice Award – “Gingerbread Chai eJuice is a wonderful addition to your Holiday flavor line-up! Neither flavor is too overwhelming, making it a perfect all-day-vape!! Gingerbread is the first flavor note that takes you away to childhood memories… and then the chai tea comes in, giving it a wonderfully complex finish (reminding you that you’re a grown-up now!)” – Ginger’s eJuice
