Stay Drippy Juice Co...A man with a dream for his Mom makes it a business and makes it delicious!10/9/2016 Lucas Allinger and Stay Drippy's Beginning...
A few months ago I sat down with Lucas, the owner of Stay Drippy Juice Co, at a Starbucks here in Spokane to get a couple samplers not knowing anything about Stay Drippy Juice Co or him; I left there that day with a smile because Lucas was what I love about vapers, they are legit and caring and just want to help people find flavors they'll like so that they can choose a healthier option to smoking. I could tell Lucas picked me the flavors he thought I would like the best, and I poured a tank in the parking lot of that Starbucks and with the first hit of his juice "Dream" (a orange creamy treat) I was hooked! Since that day I have had nothing but wonderful things to say about Stay Drippy. There is something so important about not only a great product but a great owner that makes you loyal to the core with those companies and here in Spokane we are blessed with a handful of those and that's what the point of this is, to show you, my readers, who may not be from Washington or Idaho and don't know what these smaller juice companies are about. No they don't do big advertising because word of mouth is their advertising, so they are kind and nice and passionate as hell about what they do. I asked Lucas to answer some questions to have you get to know him the way that I do.... here's what he had to say:
What made you want to start making Ejuice? I began crafting E-liquid in 2012 to help my mother quit smoking, as the juice that was availible in stores at the time was too expensive, and contained high amounts of Propylene Glycol (PG). After making e-liquid for some time, i became infatuated with the challenge of creating unique flavor varieties that would blend well in a 100% vegetable glycerin base. How did you begin this company and does the name mean anything personal to you? The company slowly began after several years of crafting for my close friends and family. Contracting an FDA-approved manufacturer to re-create our recipes was the first and most important step to launching the official business, and after that we were able to begin working with the community on a much deeper level. "Stay Drippy" means a lot to our team. The name was created as a take on the pop-culture term "Stay Trippy", as i wanted the brand to embody the creative, loving, and psychedelic energy from the Pacific Northwest. Furthermore, "Stay Drippy" also reflects the goal of the company, to promote the use of vaporizers over conventional tobacco, and to keep our customers satisfied with the tobacco-alternatives availible from the brand. Who are the founders? I'm the founder and sole proprietor, but the venture would not have been possible without the support i've received from Spokane's community, and local businesses. When did you start doing this? I began crafting e-liquid in 2012, but the official brand did not hit stores until February of 2016. Which of the juices you make is your personal favorite? My personal preference is dependent almost entirely on the season. Our aromatic fruit blend, "Summer's Haze" is my top pick for the warmer months, and i tend to gravitate toward our Apple Crumble flavor, "Afgoo", as it starts to cool down during the fall and winter. Which flavor is your best seller/customer favorite? β"The Ice" has been one of our best sellers this year, and it's best described as a unique combination of strawberry, tropical fruits, and icy throat hit! What percentage of PG and VG are your juices? All of the juices from our company are 80%+ VG, with the lowest VG content sitting at 82/18 (VG/PG), and the highest VG content at 90/10 (VG/PG). How many locations are your juices in and what are those places? The brand is currently availible at "Wicked Glass" in Spokane, and the four "Sublime Vapor" locations throughout Spokane and Oregon. Can customers purchase your juices online, if so what is the web address? Our products are currently availible online at www.sublime-vapor.com/products/stay-drippy-juice-co-30ml-e-liquid As a small business owner and entrepreneur in the vaping industry what advice would you give to someone thinking of starting their own business? The greatest lesson i've learned is that a starting business will take all of your time, and energy. While this would seem grueling to most, the experience is truly priceless. To prospective entrepreneurs, be prepared to make this investment, and let your love for the industry be your motivation. There were countless days where i felt like i had to give up, but focusing on my love for the community never ceased to drive me through the worst of it. What is the most important part of selling a vaping product to you? The most important part of working in this industry is the impact we're making on the community. Anyone could sell any product and call it a business, but it's truly a blessing to be able to provide products that are helping individuals change their lives for the better. What's your vision for your juice line in the future? I try not to let my vision get too far ahead of the current state of affairs, but i hope that i'm able to continue evolving the brand to better suit the needs of our community.
Besides being a great guy, his juices are amazing! They are great for people who like to do smoke tricks and also have a wonderful unique flavor. Sometimes a lot of juices taste like another more popular one, that's not the case here. All of Stay Drippy Juice Co's juices are not something you've ever had. My personal favorites are Trainwreck and Dream, both a fruity vape and I am actually more of a dessert vape lover, but these are all so good that I can't put them down. The will to want to save his mothers life became a passion and company that very well could be what saves many lives as Lucas continues to listen to the vaping community and doing what he can to advocate for the vaping industry... you owe it to yourself to grab a bottle, I guarantee that there will be something that you like because he has something for everyone. A perfect example of "The Inland Northwest's Best".
UPDATE: As of October 14th Stay Drippy has released a fall/winter set of flavors and a new label. The flavors are out of this world and will not disappoint! Keep an eye out for this up and coming vaping company!
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I posted this months ago but apparently I never hit publish so I cropped out the 213 that was once in the photo lol. Anyhow, 75 watts is more than enough on this sweet little device. The RX75 not only has a cool design it performs like a CHAMP! Let's start with some photos to show how to operate the doors on this device. The front screen has a protector over where you adjust the wattage, I upgraded my stock black one to the see through black one that comes in the kit. This allows you to see through to the screen easily. I also use the Wismec Theorem in rotation with the great Armor sub ohm tank that came with it. The device fires by squeezing the back battery plate and also has a switch that can be flipped to prevent accidental firing if you wanna carry it in your pocket. It takes one 18650 and does good on battery life at about 55 watts, which powers the Armor tank included in the kit perfectly. The tank has great flavor and looks great on pretty much every mod I own as well. This device is great for people who are notoriously dropping their mods, its beyond durable. I've dropped it on asphalt and cement on accident so many times and the picture above I took last week and I got this the week Wismec released it back in June. It's a great mod!
The DripBox 160w is the sequel to the popular DripBox...However the original was known for misfiring issues so it scared a lot of consumers. The DripBox 160 is a DRASTIC improvement on Kangertech's part. It runs in temp mode and power mode. It's very easy to use with its premade build decks for those that can't build coils or don't know how...or heck even when I'm just feeling lazy lol. It's a very easy concept, you fill the black bottle with your favorite ejuice and replace it into the reservoir and simply give it a squeeze , the juice rises up to the deck where the cotton absorbs what it needs and the rest drains back into the ejuice bottle attached to the mod. It's a very clever idea. No more carrying around bottles of juice, spilling them in your purse and crying because now you've ruined your favorite handbag and lost your favorite juice. Kangertech really knocked it out of the park with this one. I'm not a huge Kangertech fan, but this one may have me on the dark side lol. It's a perfect device for those who don't want to subohm but don't know exactly what ohms law is either. It stays in my collection permanently. Especially since they seem to have resolved all misfire issues. This is a must have! ❤️
The SMOK Cube2 is a very nice device! With so many options and colors it's a quick fan favorite. The most notable feature is the lights that light up when the fire button is pressed. The link has a video to show what it looks like: https://instagram.com/p/BHSkEIEAnNI/ The Cube2 can sync to your phone thru Bluetooth using the Smok app where you can control the device if all those menus confuse you. It feels very high tech! It's a little larger mod but feels very sturdy in your palm. At 160 watts with upgradable firmware it's a heavy hitter for any of the builds you may put on it. With features like stealth mode, screen time out and the ability to turn the Bluetooth feature off it also does wonderful on battery life. It has an external micro usb charging port for easy charging. It takes two 18650 batteries and has a nice sliding magnetic battery door that's very sturdy. It has a sturdy 510 connection for all types of atomizers. It's a very durable mod although the stainless steel shows a lot of fingerprints, so I'd recommend a silicone sleeve. Smok really impressed me with this mod! Can't wait to see more from this great company.
So I want to talk about some shit going on in the vaping world that maybe consumers like myself might have missed.... on the 18th planned to release my overall review of the Sigelei 213. As stated in my caption under my unveiling video, I like to write my review after I have used and feel very comfortable using a mod. Now that being said, I got use to this mod faster than the one I reviewed prior to it, but the one thing I wasn't too sure of was using the mode that changes the temperature PPR correctly.... so like any normal vaper I Googled it and because I am a better visual learner with mods I selected the video tab to see who I could watch that I already subscribe to on YouTube and to my pleasure the first video that is displayed is from one of my favorite reviewers, Daniel or Djslvape, his YouTube channel name. I quickly learn that not only did I just wipe my ass with a hundred dollar bill, but that I COULD HAVE wiped my ass with less money and gotten a higher watt product... what the what?!?! So I continue on to SuckMyMod's 6/14/16 blog and learn that Daniel/Djsblbvapes was accosted (along with other social media users) for his honest, scientific review of the Sigelei 213 (both the carbon fiber higher priced mod and the Fuchai twin) and I was just floored by this. So then with my intrest peaked and I started trying to see what was said by Sigelei employee...long story short I ended up releasing the unveiling video and leaving the review out because I really wanted to see what was going to happen with this. I wanted to do unveiling and immediately add the review to the clip and use it as 1 video instead of 2 (which would make me behind most reviewers, but my subscribers and viewers would probably be happier that it was all together)... so I knew at the point I posted the unveiling that Sigelei had come out and said that they have no youtube channels and it was not one of their accounts, yet there were plenty of other accounts that appeared to belong to Sigelei so they ended up writing Daniel a letter and I put a link to Djsblbvapes blog where he has the screenshots showing what ultimately feel Sigelei should just own and apologize for, and maybe Song (what a name!) should be fired... I also think that because the 213 only tested to 155 (I dont remember the exact number the cheaper Fuchai tested at but it definately tested HIGHER than the more expensive model) that as a customer we should be able to return the product as it was purchased with the promise of certain things and neither work the way they claim...its like false advertisement. If you false advertise a meal at McDonalds to have 2 cheeseburgers and when customers go to McDonalds and buy the meal it has one and a half burgers, NONE OF US WOULD BUY THAT MEAL! Not to mention if we complained to the company and had their sales person yell at anyone who was mad, and then ALSO didn't give you back your money...how often would you eat there...YOU WOULDN'T. You wouldn't have their cheeseburgers, you wouldn't have their chicken...shit you wouldn't even get a soda there! For me personally this was my first and LAST Sigelei mod. Since I have never owned one, I hadn't ever watched any reviews of the companies actual products... but I have now....and as an educated woman, vaper and consumer I can see that this is way more common than I would have ever known. Some people would say our opinions don't matter but that is not true... I watched the KBOX 200's technical review and it was only hitting around 160, and now we obviously have the DripBox 160, so obviously some companies are showing that not only do they care about the people who buy their products but that they take pride in their company and products enough that they want to advertise 2 burgers and sell 2 damn burgers! Also I want to know why these companies aren't doing these tests themselves...on every single unit sold...its called quality control where I come from. I also would like to know why more of us don't say something so that other vapers know it is not something that they want to buy. Obviously not all of reviewers have the technology or technical talent to do these tests, but WHAT IF REVIEWERS didn't put a review out the day the pull the mod out of the box. Maybe then when vapers Google the mod they've been eyeballing at their local ejuice store they would find out that it wasn't awesome, that it doesn't do what it claims to do and to eyeball something else... because unlike these huge reviewers the rest of the vape world isn't getting a mod the day the company sends out a sample... we purchase them out of chronigical order ya know... I know I am gonna get a lot of hate from reviewers now, but come on, don't we all have a duty to each other as members of the vaping community to spend some time with a mod before reviewing it. Its like everyone (myself included) that reviews has to be the 1st person to review a product when in a normal vapers world chronigical doesn't matter at all, what matters is if its good...and I think too many people say its good before having the right to judge that. Its a chain reaction in a way because if reviews were more than "hey this just came in the mail and i just used it for a couple hours (maybe even less in some cases) and its awesome" maybe companies that produce more bad mods that just over charge would not be what vapers consider the cream of the crop anymore. After this I know for myself I wont ever watch just any old review or read any old video... I will be making sure I make more educated purchases. Prior to this I always thought certain products were super great but I definitely re evaluated how I am going to look at vaping companies and products from now on. I hope that people who vape will take the time to click the link I put to Daniels blog and take a little to read it all and then watch his video... we have to make this unacceptable to vape sellers internationally. I also hope Sigelei learns from this and in the future listens more to consumers, because I know it took way too long for the battery door thing to get changed. Also thank you Daniel and SuckMyMod for being a couple good example of vapers helping vapers. Afterall we all love the same thing, so we cant do a disservice to each other by reviewing upon opening or for consumers, purchasing without researching. I wish I personally had waited, no one knows what bugs anything will have till its been around the block. That's my opinion. Happy vaping bitches! ????
Daniel/Djsblbvapes blog post that has video link & screenshots of how vapers were treated. Link posted below. *McDonalds is only a example of a company who does not false advertise. No statements made ever took place at any of McDonalds locations and was made up for sake of comparison.
One plus is that it is a very gorgeous mod, even though the temperature doesn't read correctly?
The RX200 may be one of the best devices we have seen in a long time. At 200 watts it's a heavy hitter, with the ability to fire builds as low as .02! It's a heavier mod due to being powered by three 18650 batteries, but the weight is what adds to the durable feeling it has in your hand. Wismec also came up with interchangeable plates that can be swapped to create a more personal look for your mod. This is what the plates come in and by simply looking up a YouTube video I was able to easily change out the white plates to pink. This is a durable device that can take a few drops and not go to mod heaven. It also has upgradable firmware that allows you to change the font on the screen as well as add any new features that Wismec and JayBo decide to release. This is currently my daily mod because of its ability to stay charged all day without losing any power on my vapes. This one gets 5 stars from me! ❤️❤️❤️
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