Bar Juice is the bottled nicotine salt range built to taste like the disposables people used to buy. Since single use vapes were banned it has become one of the most practical ways to keep a familiar flavour while cutting your running costs. This page covers the Bar Juice line we stock at Vape Superstore UK.

Contents

• What Bar Juice is and who it is for
• The Bar Juice 5000 range
• Flavours in stock
• Why nicotine salt, not freebase
• Choosing your strength
• Which devices Bar Juice suits
• The cost case against prefilled pods
• How to fill a pod properly
• Making your coils last
• Troubleshooting
• UK rules on e liquid
• Bar Juice FAQs

What Bar Juice is and who it is for

Bar Juice is e liquid in a bottle, not a device. You buy it to refill a pod kit you already own, which is the cheapest legal way to vape in the UK now that disposables have gone.

The flavours are deliberately modelled on the bar style disposables that dominated the market before the ban came into force on 1 June 2025. If you had a favourite disposable flavour and have been unable to find it since, this range is where to look first.

The Bar Juice 5000 range

Most of what we stock carries the 5000 name, which refers to the puff count of the disposable each flavour was modelled on rather than anything about the bottle. Every bottle is 10ml, the UK legal maximum for nicotine containing liquid.

A 10ml bottle fills a 2ml pod roughly five times. That single fact is the whole argument for moving from prefilled pods to bottled liquid.

Flavours in stock

The range splits cleanly into four families, and knowing which family you belong to saves a lot of trial and error.

Berry and red fruit. Strawberry Cherry Raspberry is the best seller and the safest first choice. Strawberry Sour Raspberry adds a sharper sour edge. Cherry Ice pairs cherry with a cooling finish.

Citrus and sharp. Lemon and Lime is clean and bright, and the one to take if sweet fruit flavours cloy on you after a few days.

Tropical and soft. Pineapple Coconut is the closest thing to a holiday drink in the range. Pear Banana is the softest and roundest, with no sharp edge at all. Blueberry Watermelon sits between the two.

Menthol and cola. Menthol is a straight cooling flavour with no fruit, which suits ex menthol smokers. Cherry Cola is the outlier, a proper soft drink flavour that people either love or avoid entirely.

If you are switching from cigarettes rather than from another vape, start with Menthol or a single fruit rather than a complex blend. Palates that have been smoking for years pick up simple flavours far more clearly.

Why nicotine salt, not freebase

This matters more than the flavour choice, and it is the thing most new vapers get wrong.

Freebase nicotine is harsh in the throat at high strengths. Nicotine salt has been chemically adjusted so it is far smoother, which means you can run 20mg comfortably in a small pod device where 20mg freebase would be unbearable.

That smoothness is exactly what an ex smoker needs. You want enough nicotine to feel satisfied, delivered gently enough that you can actually take the draw. Every bottle in this range is salt based for that reason. Browse the wider nic salt range to compare against other brands.

Choosing your strength

UK law caps e liquid at 20mg per ml, so every decision sits below that ceiling.

A twenty a day smoker usually needs 20mg to feel properly satisfied. A ten a day smoker is normally comfortable at 10mg. Someone who has already been vaping for a while and is stepping down might want 5mg.

Two signals tell you it is wrong. Headaches, nausea or a scratchy throat mean it is too high, so drop a step. Vaping constantly and still wanting a cigarette means it is too low, and that is the more dangerous error because it is what sends people back to smoking.

Which devices Bar Juice suits

Any refillable mouth to lung pod kit. That covers our Vaporesso XROS range, the OXVA Xlim range, the Aspire Gotek and most similar devices.

It does not suit sub ohm tanks. High vapour devices at 20mg salt would be genuinely unpleasant and wasteful. If you run a sub ohm setup, you want 3mg or 6mg freebase instead.

It also will not work in a prefilled system such as Elf Bar ELFA Pro, because those pods are sealed and not designed to be refilled.

The cost case against prefilled pods

A 10ml bottle fills a 2ml pod about five times. A prefilled pod gives you 2ml and then becomes waste.

For anyone vaping daily the difference compounds quickly across a year, and it is the single strongest reason to move from a prefilled system to a refillable one. The trade off is roughly fifteen seconds of filling every couple of days. If that genuinely puts you off, a prefilled kit is the honest recommendation and there is no shame in taking it.

There is also less plastic. One refillable pod lasting a fortnight replaces about seven prefilled pods, which was much of the point the disposable ban was making.

How to fill a pod properly

Wait until the pod is genuinely empty rather than topping up early, because mixing old and fresh liquid muddies the flavour.

Open the fill port, insert the nozzle and squeeze slowly. Fill to just below the maximum line, never to the very top, because the small air gap is what stops liquid being forced into the airway. Close the port firmly, then stand the pod upright for three to five minutes before vaping.

That final wait is the step people skip, and skipping it is the most common cause of a burnt first puff on a freshly filled pod.

Making your coils last

Your e liquid choice affects coil life more than anything else. Clear fruit and menthol blends are gentle. Sweet dessert, cola and heavily sweetened flavours caramelise onto the mesh and can halve the life of a pod.

Cherry Cola is the one to watch in this range for exactly that reason. It tastes excellent and it is harder on coils than the fruit options. That is chemistry rather than a fault.

Troubleshooting

Burnt taste. The wick dried out, usually from vaping immediately after filling. A scorched wick cannot be recovered.

Leaking after filling. Overfilled. Fill below the line and leave an air gap.

Flavour fading after a few days. Usually vapers tongue rather than a fault. Switch flavour family for a day and it resets.

Liquid tastes wrong in a new pod. Residue from the previous flavour. Rinse and dry the pod fully, or start a fresh one when changing flavour family.

UK rules on e liquid

Nicotine containing e liquid sold legally in the UK is capped at 20mg per ml and bottles at 10ml. Products must be notified to the MHRA before sale and carry child resistant, tamper evident packaging with the required warning. The MHRA guidance sets out the full requirements, and everything we list is compliant UK stock.

If you are switching from smoking rather than already vaping, the NHS guidance on e cigarettes is the best independent starting point, and NHS Better Health runs free local stop smoking services worth combining with a device.

Bar Juice FAQs

What does the 5000 in Bar Juice 5000 mean?

It refers to the puff count of the disposable each flavour was modelled on. Every bottle is 10ml regardless.

Which devices can I use Bar Juice in?

Any refillable mouth to lung pod kit. It is not suitable for sub ohm tanks or sealed prefilled pods.

How many pod fills do I get from a bottle?

About five fills of a 2ml pod from a 10ml bottle.

Is nicotine salt better than freebase?

For small pod devices and higher strengths, yes, because it is far smoother in the throat. For sub ohm setups at low strength, freebase is the right choice.

What strength should I start on?

20mg if you smoked around twenty a day, 10mg if you smoked less. Adjust rather than giving up if it feels wrong.

Do you deliver across the UK?

Yes, tracked UK delivery on all orders. You must be 18 or over and we verify age at checkout. See our returns and refunds policy.

PG, VG and why Bar Juice wicks well

Every e liquid is built on two carriers. Propylene glycol is thin, carries flavour sharply and provides the throat sensation ex smokers look for. Vegetable glycerine is thick and sweet and makes the visible vapour.

Bar Juice is blended around 50/50, which is deliberate. A thin liquid wicks quickly through the small cotton opening in a mouth to lung pod, so the coil stays wet and you avoid dry hits. Push a very high VG shortfill through the same pod and it cannot keep up, producing burnt tasting draws that people wrongly blame on the hardware.

This is why bottled Bar Juice suits pod kits so well and why you should not put it in a sub ohm tank, where the opposite blend is wanted.

Your first Bar Juice order

Buy two flavours rather than one. Palates fatigue on a single flavour within days, and having a second bottle to rotate into is what stops people getting bored and drifting back to cigarettes.

Buy spare pods at the same time. A pod is the consumable, and a device running a tired pod tastes worse than the disposable it replaced. Ordering liquid without pods is the most common gap in a first order.

Pick one simple flavour and one more complex one. Menthol or Lemon and Lime as the everyday option, and something like Strawberry Cherry Raspberry or Pineapple Coconut as the change of pace.

Storing e liquid properly

Keep bottles upright, sealed and out of direct sunlight. Nicotine oxidises slowly when exposed to light, heat and air, which darkens the liquid and dulls the flavour. A bottle left on a sunny windowsill will taste noticeably flatter within a few weeks.

A cool cupboard is ideal. Unopened Bar Juice keeps well past a year stored properly, and every bottle carries a best before date on the label.

Keep it away from children and pets. Bottles are child resistant by law but that is a delay, not a guarantee, and concentrated nicotine is genuinely dangerous if swallowed.

Why flavour rotation matters

Vapers tongue is the term for the way a flavour seems to fade after several days of constant use. It is not the liquid degrading and it is not the coil failing, it is your palate adapting to a repeated stimulus.

The fix is rotation. Keep two or three Bar Juice flavours from different families and switch every few days. Drink more water, since a dry mouth flattens taste considerably. Most people find the original flavour returns within a day of switching away from it.