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Gorilla Custard eJuice by E&B Review!

Gorilla Custard eJuice by E&B Review!

Disclosure: The Gorilla Custard eJuice line was sent to me without purchase from E&B for the purposes of review. For a limited time, you can use coupon code “ENBSPRING25” to get an extra 25% off your purchase (expires 5/3/20). I will endeavor to provide a fair, unbiased, and comprehensive review, while also giving my personal thoughts and opinions. All products described in the review below contain nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

Monkey Business

There are…a lot, a LOT of eJuice lines out there named after primates. Thr33 Monkeyz, Silverback, Gorilla Vapes, Vaping Monkey, Twelve Monkeys, Gorilla Warfare… It’s hilariously easy to get lost in the shuffle, merely working off brand recognition alone. In order to stand out, you gotta do something to hook people in. And in the case of E&B’s Gorilla Custard line, they do that by making some damn fine, tasty liquid. Having started in 2013 in California, E&B produces thirty different lines of freebase and salt nic eJuices, and are sold at a multitude of different online vendors and retail vape shops. That being said, what I’ll be reviewing today is Gorilla Custard, their flagship line of eJuice.

Packaging and Presentation

The Gorilla Custard line of eJuices comes in clear 60ml or 100ml Chubby Gorilla bottles. They’re available in 0, 3, and 6mg of nicotine, all in 70/30 VG/PG. All of the bottles feature a satin finish label in a lovely cream color. The logo (a gorilla blowing a plume) is front and center, beneath the name of the juice line. Underneath this is a stylized image of the dessert the eJuice is meant to resemble, along with the volume of liquid and nicotine levels.

Turning the bottle to the left, you will see a full-sized Nicotine Warning. Turning it to the right, you will find a Prop 65 Warning, along with various other warning statements (skin contact warning, eye contact warning, keep out of the reach of children warning, allergy warning). Also included is a list of ingredients, a UPC, Origin of Manufacture, and a link to E&B’s website. Additionally, there is also a Batch Code, A VG/PG Ratio, and a Best By date. While there is no date of manufacture, that information can be inferred from the expiration date. All in all, everything that needs to be on a bottle of eJuice, along with all the additional information one could possibly want. Why other, larger companies can’t do the same thing is a mystery to me.

Gorilla Custard – The Rundown

 

[Original Custard]

Generally, unless you were to sit someone down with two bowls of pudding, one of vanilla and one of custard, and have them taste each one independently, most people normally wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the two. However, a good custard flavor will hit your nose with both the scent of vanilla and also an underlying aroma of egg, as custard is an egg-based dessert.

With that said, Original Gorilla Custard delivers realistic custard flavor in spades. Cracking open the bottle and getting a good hard sniff of this eJuice, you’re immediately hit with the waft of vanilla and egg that are the hallmarks of proper custard. Tasting it is just as good, but an order of magnitude stronger as the flavor washes over your tongue. And that’s a trait that every flavor in this line shares—a strong, solid base of realistic custard flavor and aroma.

Vaping this juice, on the inhale your palate is hit with the flavor of custard right away. What else needs to be said? That’s the intended flavor and it delivers. While other custard brands I’ve had add too much vanilla to the ratio, this eJuice balances it out properly. It allows you to get the full round richness and velvety taste of the real thing. On the exhale, the egg comes on just a bit stronger, but not enough to make you feel like you’re eating an omelet. The aftertaste is almost powdery like your custard had been dusted with confectioner’s sugar. It leaves an intriguing mouthfeel to ponder on before your next puff.

If I were to have one complaint about Original Gorilla Custard, it’s that it lacks complexity. But that’s a terrible hill to die on, considering that’s exactly what it set out to do. It isn’t fancy, hard to figure out eJuice; it does what it does and does it admirably. I also think this eJuice would be a prime candidate for flavor mixing. I hesitate to call it ‘plain,’ but it’s a perfect platform upon which to layer other flavors. Practically any fruit eJuice would be a perfect compliment to add on top of it. But, if DIY mixing isn’t your thing, E&B just so happened to make three other flavors in this line so you wouldn’t have to.

[Banana Custard]

I’ve lived in the south long enough to consider myself a true and proper southern gentleman. And true and proper southern gentlemen have but one lifelong love (aside from their mamas and Jesus). That love is banana pudding. The combination of sliced bananas, banana pudding, whipped cream, and vanilla wafers is such a ubiquitous dish at the end of a meal that if you eat a big dinner and don’t have a serving, you feel an aching emptiness in the pit of your soul.

Beyond strawberry shortcake, beyond peach cobbler, beyond ice-cold watermelon with a sprinkle of salt, banana pudding is THE dessert of the south. So it comes as no surprise that I love Banana Gorilla Custard.  And just go ahead and forget the Custard part of the name; this eJuice is stone-cold nanner puddin’ that your Me-maw made a fifteen-pound container of for the church potluck.

When you crack open the bottle and take a deep whiff, the first and only thing you smell is custard. Putting some on your hand and tasting it, however, you get a smack on the tongue of rich, ripe banana and vanilla. But that’s just the first course.

Bleh some of this juice into your atomizer and hit it. The first thing you taste on the inhale is that banana flavor, slightly toned down from the finger-taste by way of vaporizing it. Then rides in the vanilla custard, solid and dependable, rich and creamy. Exhale that big fat fluffy white cloud of vapor, next. The flavor doesn’t diminish or vanish. It stays just as potent from beginning to end, until at the last second the banana does a disappearing act, leaving you with the vanilla custard aftertaste lingering momentarily on your palate before you’re compelled to take another toke.

Okay, so maybe you don’t get any vanilla wafer in this eJuice. Maybe you think it taste more like a slice of banana cream pie. Maybe it reminds you of the banana Runts candy. Or maybe a banana milkshake instead is the image that pops into your mind. In any case, what you’re left with is a craving for more of this eJuice. Make sure your batteries are charged, friend, because you’re gonna be chain vaping Banana Gorilla Custard all day long.

[Tobacco Custard]

I was a bit hesitant about Tobacco Custard, as tobacco eJuice is not one of my favorite flavor profiles. But I can’t simply ignore a sample just because I might not enjoy it, so off I went. Starting off, the scent right out of the bottle is straight custard. This juice encapsulates that odor quite well. You’d be hard-pressed to know it was tobacco simply from the scent alone. Tasting it is a slightly different matter. You get that custard note right up front, layered with the earthy, funky base note of the cured tobacco beneath.

When you vape Tobacco Custard, the first thing you get is the approximation of licking the inside of a humidor. That earthy, cedary, spicy top note of a fine Connecticut wrapped cigar. Riding side-saddle with that cigar flavor is the sweet, warm, eggy flavor of the custard, hinting at vanilla and spices like nutmeg and mace but not dominating the flavor profile, rounding out the eJuice with a complexity that compliments the tobacco, as the peppery tickle of nicotine at the back of your throat lingers through the exhale.

Interestingly, as the juice is depleted, the tobacco flavor gradually dissipates, until you’re left with just the custard flavor. That was unexpected, as most tobacco eJuices punch you in the face with that flavor from beginning to end. This one just seems to taper off. I kind of like that, as for me, tobacco is a very hit or miss sort of flavor. As a former menthol cigarette smoker, most tobacco eJuices I find are either way too sweet or chemically tasting. This one strikes a nice balance. It lets me down gradually until I’m either ready for a different juice or another strong slap to the face with tobacco.

Tobacco Custard will appeal to those vapers who like a sweet tobacco flavor, as opposed to dry tobacco. It reminds me a lot of VGOD’s Cubano line, in that it tastes more like cigar tobacco than a cigarette or even pipe tobacco, despite the image of a pipe front and center on the bottle’s label. But where Cubano has a stronger emphasis on the tobacco, replicating the taste of a cigar with a strong whack of vanilla. Gorilla’s Tobacco Custard, on the other hand, has a stronger eggy, custardy flavor, coming close to an equilibrium of 50-50 in the flavor profile.

While I often find tobacco flavors, not to my liking, I can definitely say this one is pretty good. If E&B were to combine their tobacco flavor with menthol, I think I’d probably be able to use it daily, rather than once every few days as I do with this eJuice. If you’re the type of vapor that likes tobacco flavored eJuice, I don’t think you’d go wrong with Tobacco Custard.

[Strawberry Custard]

Strawberry Gorilla Custard is a bit hard to pin down, and not for reasons of complexity. Quite on the contrary, it’s a relatively simple flavor blend. The part that makes you scratch your head is because it tastes like something you’ve had before. But for the life of you, you cannot place it. It’s not quite a traditional custard flavor to the base, and it’s neither a strawberry candy nor a fresh strawberry flavor riding on top. It’s a delicious eJuice, but if you’re like me, it’ll puzzle you to no end trying to dredge up just what dessert exactly you’ve had in your life that it most closely resembles.

Taking in the aroma, like its siblings before it, the first thing you get is a custard smell. Taking a taste of the juice, you get a strawberry taste that is neither candy nor real strawberry. Wracking my brain about what this tasted like, I determined that it tastes almost like a strawberry glaze. The fresh fruit, mashed and cooked with sugar, then strained so it’s nothing but smooth and viscous, with the consistency of honey. The glossy, translucent sauce that you use to finish the top of a strawberry pie or tart. That’s exactly what this juice reminded me of.

That same taste continues on into the actual vaping of Strawberry Gorilla Custard. Any sort of sharpness or tartness you might associate with other strawberry flavored eJuices is simply not present. It’s just a sweet, succulent treat laying decadently over top of the custard base flavor like a warm blanket and helping to bring forward the vanilla notes while downplaying the egginess of the dessert. The exhale continues the two-part harmony of the taste, until at last, the strawberry gently fades away, leaving a hint of vanilla to finish off your puff.

There’s no question in my mind that the flavor creators at E&B know what they’re doing. I sometimes feel like I’m going to exhaust my thesaurus for adjectives to describe all the wonderful eJuices I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing over the past year. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but Strawberry Gorilla Custard is simply amazing. It manages to remind me of both Freeman Vape’s Homecoming and Johnny Creampuff Strawberry without being a copycat of either.

I find it very difficult to not vape this particular eJuice all day long. I only reluctantly swap to a different bottle just for variety’s sake, and not because I’ve grown tired of it. If you have even a passing interest in strawberry eJuice, you ought to pick up a bottle of Strawberry Gorilla Custard at your earliest convenience. I guarantee you, you’ll be glad that you did.

Conclusions

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the folks over at E&B for sending over the review samples in such a timely and organized manner, as well as the extra goodies they threw in just because. That being said, I didn’t let a little extra swag color my impressions of their eJuices. If they hadn’t been to my liking, I would have gone the extra mile to express this sentiment. Thankfully, everything they sent has been to my genuine liking so far.

I’d also like to point out that this is review is the first of three of E&B’s product lines. Coming up next time, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at their Gorilla Fruits and Fruits Iced lines. Here’s a teaser: they’re all really good as well.

As always, I wish my readers the very best. I pray that you continue to practice safety and discretion during the ongoing crisis that the world is currently undergoing. Wash those hands, don’t touch your face, wear a mask, practice social distancing, and don’t hoard essential items.

As I’ve had time to stand back and witness the genuine, heartfelt kindness and altruism that our fellow man has shown in these past few weeks, it’s touched me deeply and gone a long way to restoring my faith in humanity. We can come together and put aside our differences when it really matters, and help our neighbors like the brothers and sisters they truly are. We didn’t ask for this catastrophe, but I honestly believe it’s bringing out the best in those who will allow it to. Stay safe, everyone.

Lukas

Having started vaping as a way to stop using cigarettes, Lukas metamorphosed into a regular vape enthusiast over the past seven years. Utilizing his extensive knowledge and problem-solving skills as a regular at his local vape shop, it only made sense to parley that, along with his writing skills, into making vape juice reviews. While conspicuously absent from social media, the 35-year-old former chef now uses his free time by making spectacular home-cooked meals, reading voraciously, and dabbling in multiplayer computer games. Oh yeah, and he vapes too.

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