Big Bold Menthol 100ml Shortfill

The cooling in a menthol e-liquid comes from a cooling agent added to the flavour, most often menthol itself or a synthetic koolada-style cooler. It does not change the taste so much as add a physical sensation: a crisp, cold feel on the throat and a refreshing finish on the exhale. In Big Bold Menthol the cooling is tuned as a finish rather than the main event, so the berry and fruit notes lead and the chill closes each puff.

That balance matters. A heavy-handed menthol can flatten the fruit underneath it and leave the liquid tasting mostly of cold. By keeping the menthol as a layer rather than the whole flavour, these blends stay fruit-forward, which is why they read as iced fruit rather than straight menthol. If you want pure ice you would look elsewhere, but for fruit with a refreshing edge this is the intent.

Menthol juices tend to come into their own in warm weather and for vapers who find plain fruit blends a little flat. The cooling sharpens the flavour and makes a big sub-ohm cloud feel cleaner. If you already vape and enjoy Big Bold Fruity, the Menthol range is the same fruit character with that extra frosted finish on top.

A short fill is a bottle of 0mg e-liquid sold deliberately under-filled, with space for you to add nicotine via nic shots. The format exists because UK and EU rules limit nicotine-containing bottles to 10ml, so any larger bottle has to be nicotine-free. The short fill gets around this: you buy a big 0mg bottle and small high-strength shots, then combine them yourself.

Big Bold Menthol holds 100ml of liquid in a 120ml bottle, sized for two 10ml nic shots. Nic shots are usually 10ml at 18mg or 20mg in a 50/50 base. Add one 18mg shot and you get 110ml at roughly 1.5mg; add two and you have 120ml at roughly 3mg. Most sub-ohm vapers run 3mg, because high-power DTL gear delivers plenty of nicotine per puff, so two shots making 3mg is the usual choice.

Buying flavour and nicotine separately works out cheaper per millilitre than buying the same volume in 10ml nic-salt bottles, which is why high-volume vapers favour short fills. The only cost is a small mixing step and, ideally, a short steep. The how-to below covers it. If you would rather skip mixing entirely, a ready-made nic salt is simpler, but you lose the saving and the larger bottle.

Because it is a high-VG 70/30 liquid, Big Bold Menthol needs sub-ohm gear. High-VG juice is thick, so it wants a low-resistance mesh coil with good wicking and airflow, the kind found in a sub-ohm tank or a direct-to-lung pod-mod, usually below 0.5 ohm. In that setup it produces the dense, cool clouds the range is built for.

It is not suited to a small mouth-to-lung pod kit. A tight 1.0 ohm-plus coil cannot wick a 70/30 liquid fast enough and will give muted flavour or dry hits. If your device is a discreet pocket pod made for nic salts, choose a 50/50 e-liquid instead; a high-VG short fill like this will underperform in it.

For the best results, run it in a dedicated sub-ohm tank on a box mod or a powerful DTL pod-mod. If you need hardware to match, our sub-ohm tanks and replacement coils sections cover suitable options. The menthol can feel even crisper at the cooler end of your coil's wattage range, so it is worth experimenting within the recommended limits.

The Menthol range is three iced blends, each 0mg before nicotine, and each built on a bold berry or fruit core with a cooling finish. Here is what to expect from each so you can pick by taste.

Blackcurrant is the deepest of the three: a rich, jammy dark berry given a frosted edge that keeps it from feeling heavy. The cooling lifts the tartness and makes it taste fresher than the un-iced version. Blue Raspberry is the sweet, candied one, the familiar blue-razz flavour with a sharp, sherbet-like fruit note and a clean menthol close that stops it cloying.

Cherry Blackcurrant Ice is the most layered: ripe cherry and dark blackcurrant together, the two berries playing off each other, with the ice running through the middle and finishing cold. It is the pick for anyone who wants a fuller, more complex berry blend rather than a single fruit. All three keep the menthol as a finish, so the fruit always leads.

Iced short fills add one extra variable to the usual list: the cooling agent, which can taste harsh if a mix has not had time to settle. Beyond that, the niggles are the standard high-VG ones, the wrong gear or a tired coil. None are faults with the juice. The quick fixes below cover what comes up most.

Big Bold Menthol is the range to pick when you want bold fruit with a clean, cold finish rather than a face full of ice. The three berry blends lead with the fruit and close with the chill, which keeps them refreshing without turning into pure menthol, and the big 100ml short fill keeps the running cost down for sub-ohm vapers.

The trade-offs are minor but worth naming: three flavours is a short list, menthol is a love-it-or-leave-it thing, and like any high-VG juice it needs sub-ohm gear and gets through coils a touch faster. If you already enjoy Big Bold Fruity and fancy a frosted version, weigh the pros and cons below.