I followed each and every one of your revisions very carefully. At first, I was surprised you did not include any of the floral elements i.e cardamom, jasmine, clove, etc. but I thought why not lets give it a shot. At ths point, I already made more than 10 different chai latte bottles using the recipes posted on this site. But none of them I mean NONE OF THEM came close to the this one. After only 4 days of steeping and the flavor is absolutely mind-blowing!!! Thank you so much @SlyFox and keep smashing it!

It very well could be. I am not saying Capella (CAP) is bad but each company has their own recipe. Kind of like if you go to 2 different steak houses will you get the same steak? Some flavors can be substituted (subbed) while others can not, if you want the same recipe. In this particular recipe, any sweat cream will work. Bavarian cream however is very different from one company to the next. As for the others I am not sure if other companies make those flavors or not. Just so you know I have about 100 flavors and about 20 of them are Capella. Their custard seems much better to me. Now one other thought is sometimes it takes 2 different companies to make a great flavor. My cheesecake and one other one I use both TPA Strawberry Ripe AND (CAP) Sweet strawberry. Either on it's own just doesn't do it for me, but mixed 2:1 with each other and it pops. And one last thought is the vanilla bourbon is one of many vanillas and you would only lose the vanilla flavor by not using it. If the internet was a safer place I would mail you a bottle to try. This mix too can steep for about 24 hours and you CAN vape it. It is just very strong. After a week it tames, 2 weeks tames more and after 3 weeks it is right where it should be (TO ME). So once you do get the flavors and if you like it strong, shake and vape it. (Or use less Chai) which is the ingredient I was talking about. Feel free to ask other questions. Just know I have to leave for work soon. You know, my REAL job :) lol

@UK Did you ever give this one a try? Just waiting to hear your thoughts.

@UK I have checked out your recipes and they are not too bad. The first thing that comes to mind is Sweet Strawberry is my favorite but I shoot for around 8% which I do by using 5% Sweet and 3% TFA Straw ripe. Assuming you are new to the mixing world there are a couple things to keep in mind. Less is more in many cases. Upping a flavor may mute the mix even more. I learned this the hard way trying a Blue Razz. The more I upped the flavors the less it got. Dropped raspberry and blueberry down to around 2-3% each and much better. The other thing is that what may seem like a simple recipe is probably more complex. Look at my pancake man clone. It may not be an exact clone but it is better IMHO. But one would think you just use waffles and syrup flavor and done right? No, there is no pancake in that recipe yet that flavor is achieved.
So I see you have HIC's clone making Chai by hand. Basically the Chai Tea flavor you use is many of those ingredients in one bottle. Good in you don't have to buy many flavors and mix a lot more - bad in you can't control what spice you like. I have seen some people take Chai Tea flavor and in their recipe add 0.5% of clove and cinnamon. You get the idea. I will make some more of my hits public in the coming weeks so you can follow and check in from time to time. They are done but since this is part of my income I don't publish them until their demand is on the decline. I have a few recipes with 11 flavors in them. But I do my BEST to stay under 15% total. Doesn't always happen. Some shoot for less than 10%. Again, less is more.
So how to make the flavor last longer? Well on the chai Tea recipe (mine) if you let it steep for 1 week it will be vape able. It will be strong. This one does tame down over time. That gives you 3 weeks to vape it right there. Even tame I vape it and I think it is still good. Some people like muted flavors so they pay attention to my make date on the bottle. I do that at the deli for things like Cole Slaw that are better with age. Keep in mind also that any recipe with Custards (vanilla swirl, etc included) need a couple weeks to steep as well as Chocolate CLEAR. When you stick to things like your strawberry and cream that is shake and vape. However anything with Nuts also needs a couple weeks.
You asked about speeding it up? Get an ultrasonic cleaner, fill to water line, drop your bottle in and run it. 2 Hours of doing this is equal to about 1 week of closet steeping. DO NOT let the water get warm or hot, so dump and refill every 30 minutes. I will attach a link to amazon as well as the name of about the only unit made for E-Juice as most units are heated and only run 8 minutes. This runs max 30 minutes and no heat unless you turn it on. iSonic P4810 Commercial Ultrasonic Cleaner, and the link is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GA1I3M/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I think you may have to go to amazon.co.uk if you are in the UK but the model number will get you to where you want to go. it is 80$ in the USA. This will steep about 6-8 30ml bottles at a time or about 3 120ml bottles at a time depending on how you mix. Just don't be stupid like me and stick your finger in the water as it is running. Hurts like ####! I have read that steeping this way limits the shelf life to 3-6 months but I don't know that I believe that. I think they are referencing people that use heat. Never Warm or Hot water bathe your juices and never leave the cap off for any amount of time. This will kill your juice fast. If you ultrasonic clean your juice after about 30 minutes and every 30 minutes I do take the top off and put it back on as the bottle will build up pressure. I have put plastic bottles in and not had any problems, but really shy away from that. THERE ARE cheaper smaller US machines out there just know that you can only steep small amounts like 2-3 30ml and maybe not 120ml and also most you will have to re-start every 8 minutes. If finances are an issue you can go that route.
Last thing, and if I had your email I would have send this as I hope it doesn't get broken up ... go to bullcityvapor.com . You don't have to buy anything there but look up your flavors one by one and read the reviews. You will get honest feedback and real percentages that you can use. If you have TFA Vanilla Custard and there are no reviews on it, pull up CAP or someone else. They are all at the core about the same. Yes each company is different but you will get a good idea on what % may kill a mix or find you are using twice as much as you should. This page you are on right now has some OK information but if you have not figured it out it is very skewed. One idiot puts a recipe in with 90% cream and it throws off the sites math making it useless. This site is great for some recipe ideas but any I have found here I have tweaked a lot. I will make my Horchata public so you can see that mix as I think it is really good. I use Horchata Smooth, so it is more like 3.5% = .5% of Just Horchata. I have talked enough. Gonna copy this incase it is too much for there system. Email is sly (at) realmhosting ( dot ) com

Well you have my email address as well if you want to communicate offline. I did want to mention something I had forgotten earlier. First is when you want to go sweeter I found it best to go with Bavarian or Sweet cream over using Sucralose (Sweetener) or (EM) Ethol Maltol because those 2 will do a couple of things. If you use too much, say more than 1% you will mute your flavor as well as clog your coils. Not a huge problem if you use RDA's and RBA's like I do. 5 minutes and 10 cents of cotton (after burning off coils) and your back in business. The other is Capella has some nice flavors but the other reason I pointed you to Bull City Vapes is they show if there is anything BAD in it. I try to remove the following from my recipes; Flavors with Dikatones, etc. so go with the DX or V2 when using flavors. There are times this is not an option. And you wanted to know the secret ingredient commercial companies use? SUGAR. So if you go to bull city and pull up Black Berry Mojito you will see there is Sugar syrup in it. It is DAMN good on its own. 8% and shake and vape. But it will blacken your cotten and clog your coils in 24 hours flat. So any flavor you see WARNING in red behind it means there is something to check out. If it has Acetoin or Diketone that choices is yours as they are chemicals not best to be vaped. The others have Fructose syrup or Sugar syrup in them and those clog coils fast. We all know what happens to sugar when it is burned at 400-500 degrees. And that is what happens to your coils.
For me the hardest thing was waiting 3 weeks when I started to find out my recipe sucked. I finally found that the next best thing to letting it sit was to use Ultra sound now 3 weeks is about 24 hours. As I say in a few of my recipes, run it for 2 hours in the morning. Open and close the bottle every 30 minutes for pressure. Then let it sit until night time. Run it 2 hours at night time. Then the next morning run it for 2 hours. Let it come down to room temperature (or drop it in cold water) and then you can vape. However I have found if you let the bottle sit for the rest of the day or until the next day the flavor will have fully stabalized. Then I rebottle my 120ml or 250ml bottles into 30ml bottles.

I had to go to amazon.co.uk to find it but it looks and is priced similar to what I buy which has been from Heartlandvapes.com . Their shipping got rediculous so now I order from Nicotine River. I have not tried their VG but I buy a 4L bottle at a time. I will get to theirs soon. Price was a little better and no shipping charge. Their flavor prices are better too, but their customer service is HORRIBLE. If they mess up your order, you are basically stuck with what you got. Don't know if either ships over seas. But really I think VG is VG. I know people that buy it at Walmart. Here is a link of the 3 chemicals you don't want in your flavors. I follow this unless absolutly can't be avoided. As a 20 year ex-smoker This is less harmful but the idea was to get away from all bad chemicals I inhale. 2 Years smoke free now too :) http://vapecraftinc.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-diketones-and-e-liquid-ingredients/

Sounds good and congrats on the 2 months! Problem in our country is they are trying to shut down the entire vape community, products, etc. That was what really kicked me into being self sufficient. Nothing illegal about the individual components. We have until August 2018 I believe. Big Tobacco and greed runs our country so I am sure they will win over vaping.... Don't know what Donald Trumps view is on it. (Or anything else for that matter) lol

Hi, what % do you suggest if I subbed chai to capella? I've already blown my budget on concentrate before finding this recipe.. I don't have bourbon either. I can swap out for holy vanilla,, shisha, madagascar what do you think?

@Alcheval - So this one should be pretty easy. You can sub the Vanilla bourbon for the Madagascar even up. In fact I have thought about tossing a bottle on my next order. The purpose for this is to add vanilla as we know in Latte's and there are 4 different vanillas in that catagory that all have their pluses and minuses but at the end of the day, you probably won't notice. Let me know your thoughts on that one. NOW on the (CAP) Chai? I have not used it. I see it gets worse ratings and is not used nearly as much as (TPA). I would also start even up as for % and see what you get. Here is the rule of thumb though. And can save you money depending on how much you vape. Steep it for at least a weeek as this is a bit more complex but you can shake and vape if you REALLY want. The Bavarian creme is the trouble maker here. (IN fact 3 days may be enough). Just know the CHAI will be STRONG. Less strong after 2 weeks and less strong after 3 weeks. At this point it won't get any weaker. So if you don't care for it strong, cut back on the percent, start vaping at 3 day steep and finish it off over the next few days. I use the percentage I use because I do 2 things. I make at least 250ML at a crack now, steep for 2 weeks, and the (8) 30ml bottles are gone in about a week. Damn Griffin 25 Plus :) I hope that helps but short answer, which as you can see for me is impossible is, an even up sub should work. If it tastes (BAD) my guess then is simply the Chai (CAP) and go buy a 2$ bottle of Chail (TPA). (Or hell, I will mail you one, buy the stuff by the quart, I can spare 10ml. :)

Looking for some advice/reassurance as I'm new to mixing. The Chai Tea (TPA) that I have is espresso coloured and tastes like burnt, stale espresso. After 10 days steeping I find that is still the overpowering flavour (in this recipe and as a single flavour mix). Am I just being too impatient and need to let it steep for a further 10-14 days?

@PK42 I remembered.... it was FA Tiramisu that tasted like expresso.

@PK I have a few out there and they are a little more on the complex long steep time side. I don't put the simple recipes out there that most people can figure out on their own as well as the shake and vape flavors. I believe my pistachio torte as public and Not only was that my largest accomplishment but I have yet to see anybody else would done it before. S4 this recipe you have me interested in trying Capella version of this.

@RoryG thank you for your feedback and to be completely honest to you and anyone else making this I actually made the recipe using the DX versions. I probably should correct but it really doesn't make a difference flavorWise between the regular and the DX versions. I have made it both ways and they're both just as good.

Hiya Slyfox. I mixed up a second 120ml a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't have any more of the Chai Tea flavor (waiting for my new order to arrive now). In the meantime, I'm thinking this might be a good base (minus the Chai) and wondered if you had any suggestions. I'm thinking some berry flavors might be good...

I have everything right now except the vanilla bourbon. I'm going to order it because id love to try it your way. In the meantime I'm going to try Shisha Vanilla and see what happens. Thanks for the recipe! I cant wait to try it!

So fully steeped this is pretty good, but I wanted just a touch of sweetness to it to round off the spices, so I added 4 drops of tpa brown sugar & 2 drops of cap supersweet to my 30ml. It worked out pretty well.
Another thing I'm thinking of trying on my next batch is adding a bit of FA black tea as TPA chai is pretty heavy on the cardamon and clove at this percentage, but the Tea aspect gets a little lost. The cream base is totally on point though. This tastes frothy and latte-esque. First chai vape i've been able to adv :) Thanks for all your hard work and great job!

It's great even without steep indeed.

I made this about a week and a half ago. absolutely incredible! what an amazing juice!

It's really delicious - not overly cinnamon-y and easy on coils using 1:1 original recipe! To adjust for my taste and add an extra creamy vanilla layer I've made these (very small) adjustments:

Slid chai down to 5.5, corrected accidentally overpouring Bavarian from 4.5 to 4, increased malted milk to 1.25, sweet cream to 6.5 and added vanilla shisha at 0.25 (can increase later but can't remove it). I have not steeped' or tested with the adjustments but I can't imagine not liking it. I use shisha vanilla in a lot of recipes because its a solid full bodied vanilla and only have to use a few drops per ml

Wanted to keep this comment section alive. This is a top shelf recipe.well done, @slyfox