Today, we have a review of numerous Halo E-Liquids that were sent to us by Halo themselves, and as many Good News! readers know, our experiences with Halo in previous times were not good, to say the least.
However, do these new rounds of E-Liquids change our opinion?
Read more to find out!
However, do these new rounds of E-Liquids change our opinion?
Read more to find out!
Today, we'll be reviewing a number of flavors from Halo, and we'll also be throwing in a re-test of a few flavors we've also had in storage for awhile, to see if a steeping process has helped.
We'll be reviewing Tribecca, Torque 56, Captain Jack, Prime, Longhorn, Cafe Mocha, Turkish, and Mystic!
To head straight into the review, we'll break it down in short segments. We do have to say that an insider has hinted to us that Halo had changed their formulas around the end of 2013, and, to put it lightly, we believe it.
Tribecca - We had previously sampled this flavor long ago, pre-2014, and received a strong, throat-hit inducing, very full flavor of a stout tobacco with "dirty-ish" caramel tones that replicated something very satisfying for a tobacco smoker... when sampling it previously, it was a top contender for a great tobacco E-Liquid, one of the best we had ever tried.
However, a new bottle we received from Halo is presenting an extremely weak, extremely watered-down flavor of Liqua's French Pipe, with hardly any vapor or throat hit - something about the liquid seems defective. And what little flavor is there only developed after about a month of steeping; before this, it had a watery, chemical flavor. Even after the month steep, the effect is only barely improved - the liquid still tastes very bad.
(P.S. This bottle's lot number is TRIB1001815, and another user on ECF had the same issue with this same lot number's batch - link: Here)
Torque - While Torque is touted as a strong tobacco E-Liquid, this bottle is presenting itself as a stark, chemical flavor, much like Windex or a chemical cleanser. There is simply nothing about this blend that begins to suggest professionalism, and without a doubt, it is not a pleasurable vape.
We also sampled this flavor pre-2014 at a different time, from a different batch, and back then, there was indeed a stout, dirty tobacco flavor that replicated a cigarette so well, much like a good, old-fashioned electronic cigarette E-Liquid. It really packed such full-bodied, pleasurable, tobacco flavors, back when the batches were the "old Halo recipe".
Prime - This flavor is also said to be right down a cigarette-smoker's profile, however, we're getting an extremely soft blend of what tastes like a bit of menthol and chemical powder. It's a very strange vape, but may be slightly better tasting than the other two bottles thus far. Nothing about this bottle tastes like it's supposed to, though, and would certainly be a waste of money.
Captain Jack - This E-Liquid straight up tastes like a latex glove, there's no beating around the bush about it. The latex, rubber flavor is so chemical-like and almost vomiting. Something is extremely wrong with this blend, and the flavor suggests there could be unsafe elements that made their way into the mix. There are no other flavors found here, just a sharp, latex flavor.
Longhorn - Even after a month of steep, this flavor also presents itself as a sharp, Windex-like flavor that also ever so slightly resembles new car leather, mixed with baby powder. This blend is truly pretty bad, and just showcases no amount of real flavor, throat hit, or vapor... much like the others. Again, something is significantly wrong with the blend.
Now, we're getting to the round of Halo E-Liquids we bought ourselves, at a slightly earlier date (but not pre-2014) and have been steeping for much longer.
Turkish - This E-Liquid was one we also tried prior to 2014, with a different batch, and it held an extraordinary flavor of dry, sandy, desert tones mixed with such an authentic tobacco experience. It was hands down one of our favorites at the time!
However, a new bottle is just so strange - it's completely colorless, unlike the pre-2014 blend, and tastes just like strong, watery, bitter baby powder... absolutely nothing like the Turkish we tried previously. It's as though they put pure PG and Barbisol in a bottle! It has been steeping for about 3 months, both with caps on, caps off, and shaked.
Cafe Mocha - This is one of the flavors we've had for probably over 6 months now (the rest above were just sent to us about a month back), and it still continues to taste like charcoal in any atomizer - simply because the coffee elements seem to severely burn, and don't seem made for vaporizing. The effect is an acidic, burning, dead-animal flavor that is truly vomit inducing.
Mystic - This is the 2nd storage flavor, and we've also had this one for months. Thankfully, this is the one Halo flavor we've been able to vape; it has presented a soft, quite full-flavored peppermint flavor since the beginning, and we've vaped the entire bottle. This one was indeed very nice!
That's really it for the Halo review, and you can take from it what you will. Halo seems to have gone through a severe, and horrible, change in formula since 2014, and we suspect their company will truly suffer for it. Not only is the E-Liquid horrible, we tried working with their customer service before they knew we were reviewers (trying to exchange a few of the previous E-Liquids that we bought) and they were some of the most rude, stubborn folks we ever met. Refused a return, exchange, or any remedy whatsoever.
Yet, low and behold, much later on, at a much later date, we emailed them one day out of the blue, with our alternate email address used for the blog, telling them about the Good News! Blog and asking to conduct a review, not mentioning that we had such a horrible previous experience as actual customers, and they sent us a TON of E-Liquid for free just because we had a blog!
Shows just how much Halo cares about their "customers" versus "reviewers", and we here at Good News! exclusively went undercover to provide you the most honest review, both of the E-Liquid, and that of the customer service. However, Halo didn't even manage to send us a "reviewer" E-Liquid that didn't taste toxic... so, whatever floats their boats. We were completely willing to forgive them for our previous purchases if the reviewer samples that sent us were heavenly - we used to love Halo's E-Liquid as much as anyone else, and we'd have still supported this company, no if's or but's about it, if the E-Liquid proved to recoup the standard it had in 2013. At this point, we simply want to review and recommend good E-Liquid - the customers service can be rude all they want to be as long as the E-Liquid doesn't taste toxic.
They had the best in the business in previous years. We're craving to experience the batches we tested back in 2013, and we're actually in contact with a few vendors as the moment who may send us bottles from those years so that we can compare. But as of right now now, Halo's 2014 formula tastes toxic, most of the E-Liquids taste like Windex, and we don't know why in the world they'd sell this stuff.
Halo has horrible E-Liquid now, it's some of the very worst and most toxic tasting (next to Johnson Creek), and really, they horrible customer service. They throw free E-Liquid at reviewers by the pound - they sent us over 50ml's for free, not knowing I had previously been a customer who had tried to get an exchange/refund on a horrible bottle I had previously bought. They had no clue I was "that guy", and as soon as they heard the word "reviewer", they became Santa Claus willing to send barrels of the nasty stuff my way. Yet, as a "normal customer", they practically cussed me out in those previous months, refusing even the simplest of refund or exchange on a single 7ml bottle, despite multiple calls and emails to them as a company.
Yes, I'm still quite upset with that previous experience as a real customer, and since I have my own blog, then well, guess what, as George W. Bush once said, "Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice, and ya ain't gonna fool me again." I would have sat here and sung praises galore if the this new round they sent us was good, just like old Halo, but this E-Liquid literally has some of the most toxic tastes of any E-Liquid I've ever vaped!
In our opinion, Halo's a sham company now, created on the foundation of what used to be the absolutely best E-Liquid on the market. In my opinion, they've probably have gotten new leadership, new chemists, and new employees, and that the whole new slew of folks do not care about their product, or their customers.....oh, wait, unless that customer builds their own reviewer website months later!
Do not waste your money on their new formula, or you'll be severely let down... I wouldn't give this E-Liquid away! There are reports all over the world of users now experiencing the 2014 formula and almost puking... don't fall for the same trap! Steeping does not help - we've steeped all of these juices with caps on, caps off, and shaking, for about a month, some over a month, and there's no excuse for that. They taste like Windex and doctors' gloves, and simply put, something tastes both wrong with the ingredients, and wrong with mind of whoever tried to pass this stuff off as "E-Liquid". My opinion? Halo has practically created a "Liquid-Gate" scandal, and are selling faulty E-Liquids on purpose, knowing they are not correct formulas, and adamantly refusing the returns or exchanges of anyone who pukes on the stuff.
I say that somewhere down the line, Halo can not longer get ahold of the same ingredients they used to use, and are simply scared to admit that they can no longer create E-Liquid as they did in 2013 and before, and are now riding on a famous name until everyone realizes the batches are awful. We suspect that Halo simply will not be in business much longer, and remember, when that time comes, you heard here first, at Good News! Vaping Reviews!
Go ahead readers, call us everything under the sun for dissing every fanboy's favorite E-Liquid company (and previously my favorite too!), but it's time that someone in the reviewer world fought for vapers, not corporations or companies. We here at Good News! aim to help vapers' keep money in their pockets, not in the pockets of scam artists, and if you happen to be a vaper that gets aroused by receiving fraudulent E-Liquid, if you happen to be a vaper that supports fraudulent business standards and behavior, simply because "you want to see electronic cigarette businesses thrive", then we here at Good News! may not be the ones writing articles that suit you!
We've always been the "vaperblowers", and we always will be.
If you have any enemies out there, you can buy them some Halo E-Liquid at this link: Here
We'll be reviewing Tribecca, Torque 56, Captain Jack, Prime, Longhorn, Cafe Mocha, Turkish, and Mystic!
To head straight into the review, we'll break it down in short segments. We do have to say that an insider has hinted to us that Halo had changed their formulas around the end of 2013, and, to put it lightly, we believe it.
Tribecca - We had previously sampled this flavor long ago, pre-2014, and received a strong, throat-hit inducing, very full flavor of a stout tobacco with "dirty-ish" caramel tones that replicated something very satisfying for a tobacco smoker... when sampling it previously, it was a top contender for a great tobacco E-Liquid, one of the best we had ever tried.
However, a new bottle we received from Halo is presenting an extremely weak, extremely watered-down flavor of Liqua's French Pipe, with hardly any vapor or throat hit - something about the liquid seems defective. And what little flavor is there only developed after about a month of steeping; before this, it had a watery, chemical flavor. Even after the month steep, the effect is only barely improved - the liquid still tastes very bad.
(P.S. This bottle's lot number is TRIB1001815, and another user on ECF had the same issue with this same lot number's batch - link: Here)
Torque - While Torque is touted as a strong tobacco E-Liquid, this bottle is presenting itself as a stark, chemical flavor, much like Windex or a chemical cleanser. There is simply nothing about this blend that begins to suggest professionalism, and without a doubt, it is not a pleasurable vape.
We also sampled this flavor pre-2014 at a different time, from a different batch, and back then, there was indeed a stout, dirty tobacco flavor that replicated a cigarette so well, much like a good, old-fashioned electronic cigarette E-Liquid. It really packed such full-bodied, pleasurable, tobacco flavors, back when the batches were the "old Halo recipe".
Prime - This flavor is also said to be right down a cigarette-smoker's profile, however, we're getting an extremely soft blend of what tastes like a bit of menthol and chemical powder. It's a very strange vape, but may be slightly better tasting than the other two bottles thus far. Nothing about this bottle tastes like it's supposed to, though, and would certainly be a waste of money.
Captain Jack - This E-Liquid straight up tastes like a latex glove, there's no beating around the bush about it. The latex, rubber flavor is so chemical-like and almost vomiting. Something is extremely wrong with this blend, and the flavor suggests there could be unsafe elements that made their way into the mix. There are no other flavors found here, just a sharp, latex flavor.
Longhorn - Even after a month of steep, this flavor also presents itself as a sharp, Windex-like flavor that also ever so slightly resembles new car leather, mixed with baby powder. This blend is truly pretty bad, and just showcases no amount of real flavor, throat hit, or vapor... much like the others. Again, something is significantly wrong with the blend.
Now, we're getting to the round of Halo E-Liquids we bought ourselves, at a slightly earlier date (but not pre-2014) and have been steeping for much longer.
Turkish - This E-Liquid was one we also tried prior to 2014, with a different batch, and it held an extraordinary flavor of dry, sandy, desert tones mixed with such an authentic tobacco experience. It was hands down one of our favorites at the time!
However, a new bottle is just so strange - it's completely colorless, unlike the pre-2014 blend, and tastes just like strong, watery, bitter baby powder... absolutely nothing like the Turkish we tried previously. It's as though they put pure PG and Barbisol in a bottle! It has been steeping for about 3 months, both with caps on, caps off, and shaked.
Cafe Mocha - This is one of the flavors we've had for probably over 6 months now (the rest above were just sent to us about a month back), and it still continues to taste like charcoal in any atomizer - simply because the coffee elements seem to severely burn, and don't seem made for vaporizing. The effect is an acidic, burning, dead-animal flavor that is truly vomit inducing.
Mystic - This is the 2nd storage flavor, and we've also had this one for months. Thankfully, this is the one Halo flavor we've been able to vape; it has presented a soft, quite full-flavored peppermint flavor since the beginning, and we've vaped the entire bottle. This one was indeed very nice!
That's really it for the Halo review, and you can take from it what you will. Halo seems to have gone through a severe, and horrible, change in formula since 2014, and we suspect their company will truly suffer for it. Not only is the E-Liquid horrible, we tried working with their customer service before they knew we were reviewers (trying to exchange a few of the previous E-Liquids that we bought) and they were some of the most rude, stubborn folks we ever met. Refused a return, exchange, or any remedy whatsoever.
Yet, low and behold, much later on, at a much later date, we emailed them one day out of the blue, with our alternate email address used for the blog, telling them about the Good News! Blog and asking to conduct a review, not mentioning that we had such a horrible previous experience as actual customers, and they sent us a TON of E-Liquid for free just because we had a blog!
Shows just how much Halo cares about their "customers" versus "reviewers", and we here at Good News! exclusively went undercover to provide you the most honest review, both of the E-Liquid, and that of the customer service. However, Halo didn't even manage to send us a "reviewer" E-Liquid that didn't taste toxic... so, whatever floats their boats. We were completely willing to forgive them for our previous purchases if the reviewer samples that sent us were heavenly - we used to love Halo's E-Liquid as much as anyone else, and we'd have still supported this company, no if's or but's about it, if the E-Liquid proved to recoup the standard it had in 2013. At this point, we simply want to review and recommend good E-Liquid - the customers service can be rude all they want to be as long as the E-Liquid doesn't taste toxic.
They had the best in the business in previous years. We're craving to experience the batches we tested back in 2013, and we're actually in contact with a few vendors as the moment who may send us bottles from those years so that we can compare. But as of right now now, Halo's 2014 formula tastes toxic, most of the E-Liquids taste like Windex, and we don't know why in the world they'd sell this stuff.
Halo has horrible E-Liquid now, it's some of the very worst and most toxic tasting (next to Johnson Creek), and really, they horrible customer service. They throw free E-Liquid at reviewers by the pound - they sent us over 50ml's for free, not knowing I had previously been a customer who had tried to get an exchange/refund on a horrible bottle I had previously bought. They had no clue I was "that guy", and as soon as they heard the word "reviewer", they became Santa Claus willing to send barrels of the nasty stuff my way. Yet, as a "normal customer", they practically cussed me out in those previous months, refusing even the simplest of refund or exchange on a single 7ml bottle, despite multiple calls and emails to them as a company.
Yes, I'm still quite upset with that previous experience as a real customer, and since I have my own blog, then well, guess what, as George W. Bush once said, "Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice, and ya ain't gonna fool me again." I would have sat here and sung praises galore if the this new round they sent us was good, just like old Halo, but this E-Liquid literally has some of the most toxic tastes of any E-Liquid I've ever vaped!
In our opinion, Halo's a sham company now, created on the foundation of what used to be the absolutely best E-Liquid on the market. In my opinion, they've probably have gotten new leadership, new chemists, and new employees, and that the whole new slew of folks do not care about their product, or their customers.....oh, wait, unless that customer builds their own reviewer website months later!
Do not waste your money on their new formula, or you'll be severely let down... I wouldn't give this E-Liquid away! There are reports all over the world of users now experiencing the 2014 formula and almost puking... don't fall for the same trap! Steeping does not help - we've steeped all of these juices with caps on, caps off, and shaking, for about a month, some over a month, and there's no excuse for that. They taste like Windex and doctors' gloves, and simply put, something tastes both wrong with the ingredients, and wrong with mind of whoever tried to pass this stuff off as "E-Liquid". My opinion? Halo has practically created a "Liquid-Gate" scandal, and are selling faulty E-Liquids on purpose, knowing they are not correct formulas, and adamantly refusing the returns or exchanges of anyone who pukes on the stuff.
I say that somewhere down the line, Halo can not longer get ahold of the same ingredients they used to use, and are simply scared to admit that they can no longer create E-Liquid as they did in 2013 and before, and are now riding on a famous name until everyone realizes the batches are awful. We suspect that Halo simply will not be in business much longer, and remember, when that time comes, you heard here first, at Good News! Vaping Reviews!
Go ahead readers, call us everything under the sun for dissing every fanboy's favorite E-Liquid company (and previously my favorite too!), but it's time that someone in the reviewer world fought for vapers, not corporations or companies. We here at Good News! aim to help vapers' keep money in their pockets, not in the pockets of scam artists, and if you happen to be a vaper that gets aroused by receiving fraudulent E-Liquid, if you happen to be a vaper that supports fraudulent business standards and behavior, simply because "you want to see electronic cigarette businesses thrive", then we here at Good News! may not be the ones writing articles that suit you!
We've always been the "vaperblowers", and we always will be.
If you have any enemies out there, you can buy them some Halo E-Liquid at this link: Here