How to use E-Liquid Calculator when using Alcohol based Flavors?

[Kiaya611]

Hello,

I am pretty new to DIY e-liquid and I made a "newbie" mistake by trying to used double or triple strength e-liquid from an e-liquid maker. It produced just a very "watered down" tasting e-liquid. I am looking to get pure flavor concentrates to sue instead, but I am finding that most of them use alcohol as the carrier. I like using either the ecigvape or ejuicemeup calculators so I can keep track of what I do and also be able to repeat the one's I like, but I don't know how to compensate for the use of an alcohol based flavoring. Do you treat it like a PG based flavor and make up the difference by adding that much more PG (based on what the calculated recipe comes out as since most, if not all of the alcohol will evaporate off during the steeping process. Or is there a place where I can get good concentrated flavorings already in a PG base?

I would really appreciate your help with this.

Thank you,

Steven

 

[Smoky Blue]

what flavoring do you have now? which brand and flavors?
it would help to know what you have first and see about making something from that for you to vape while learning about others

 

[BigNasty]

I have some booze based extracts I have played around with.. great for cooking and drink making, but suck bad for eliquid. the booze part fucks up the juice more than adds anything to it, at least for these flavors.

 

[The Vape Space]

Honestly, I've always treated alcohol like other flavorings. The only difference is that they tend to be super concentrates, because alcohol is an amazing solvent, so I would end up using less, and then I just made up the difference with my base.

When you go to calculate the mixture, it does add a monkey wrench into the equation, because even as the alcohol evaporates, what it was transporting stays. The amount evaporated is very hard to determine without a somewhat expensive analysis, so for the sake of efficiency I would treat it like PG.