Custard Monster Mixed Berry Review: Every Berry at Once

You will get on with it if you want one berry bottle rather than three, or you find single fruit e-liquids get boring before the bottle is finished. The layered fruit keeps the palate moving in a way a single berry does not.

Skip it if you want to actually taste a specific berry. If blueberry is the thing you want, Blueberry will give you more of it than this will.

One thing worth knowing: Mixed berry blends are the hardest profile to judge from one tank. The balance shifts as a coil ages, with the tart notes going first and the sweeter ones lasting, so a bottle that tasted bright on day one can read flat by day five on the same coil.

Bold mixed berries over creamy vanilla custard. The berry blend gives you the tartness of blueberry, the depth of blackberry and the sweetness of strawberry in one bottle, which means no single note dominates and the whole thing reads as berry rather than as any particular fruit. That is the trade. You get more going on than in the single berry bottles and less definition. The custard is smooth rather than eggy and sits underneath all of it without competing.

Retailer copy consistently frames this as the fullest of the fruit custards and the one for people who cannot pick a single berry. Bold is the recurring word.

We have not tasted this bottle, so treat the description above as a reading of the maker’s own wording rather than our tasting notes.

The 100mL freebase bottle is mixed at 75VG/25PG. That ratio favors vapor production and a softer throat hit, which suits sub-ohm tanks, box mods and coils rated under 1.0 ohm. The thicker mix wicks slowly, so give a fresh coil a minute to saturate before the first pull.

The 30mL salt nicotine bottle is mixed at 50VG/50PG. The balanced ratio is thinner, so it feeds small pod coils without starving them, and the extra PG carries the custard base more directly than a high-VG mix does.

The more vapor your device makes per puff, the lower the strength you want. If you are between two strengths, go down rather than up: a strength that is slightly too low is a minor annoyance, and one that is too high will put you off the bottle entirely.

If you are moving away from cigarettes and unsure where to start, the vape quiz covers strength and device together in about a minute.

Match the format to the hardware. This is the single most common mistake made with a 100mL bottle.

For the 30mL salt version at 50VG/50PG, use a mouth-to-lung pod with a coil around 1.0 to 1.2 ohm. The 50/50 mix wicks fast enough for small coils and the tighter draw concentrates the custard. The Black Note Pod System is our own refillable and is built around 50/50 liquids. The Uwell Caliburn G3 Pro adds adjustable airflow, which is the main lever on how sweet this reads, and the Vaporesso XROS 6 Mini is the steadier choice for all-day carry.

For the 100mL freebase version at 75VG/25PG, go sub-ohm. A restricted direct-lung coil around 0.6 ohm is the sweet spot for a custard, giving you vapor without cooking the cream. The Vaporesso Luxe XR Max 2 handles 75VG without a full tank setup, and the Geekvape Aegis Solo 3 is the one to pick if flavor matters more to you than pocket size.

This is the one bottle in the range where wattage genuinely changes the flavor rather than just its intensity. Lower power favors the sweeter berries, higher power brings the tart edge forward. Worth spending a few tanks finding where you want the balance rather than settling at the first setting that works.

Close the airflow down further than you would for a fruit bottle: a tighter draw concentrates the cream, while wide-open airflow spreads it thin and the custard starts reading as generic sweetness.

Prime a new coil properly by wetting the exposed cotton, filling, then leaving it five to ten minutes before the first pull. At 75VG the liquid moves slowly, and not waiting is the most common way to ruin a coil on day one.

Sweetened custards are the most demanding e-liquid category on coils. Sweeteners caramelize on hot wire and a cream base leaves residue of its own, so both mechanisms work against you at once. Mixed Berry sits mid-range for a custard, similar to Blackberry. Coils darkening within a few days of regular use is this category behaving normally rather than a fault with the liquid or the hardware. This is a general statement about dessert e-liquid; we have not tested coil life on this bottle.

Three things genuinely help: run at the lower end of your coil’s range, avoid chain pulls that let the wick run dry, and rinse a pod between refills when switching flavors. Mesh coils outlast round wire here because the heat spreads across a wider surface.

If coil cost is the thing that bothers you, that is a real argument for an unsweetened blend rather than something to work around. Black Note Special Blend and Special Blend 3.0 are naturally extracted tobacco e-liquids made without added sweeteners.

There are three mixed berry bottles across the Monster lines and they are genuinely different products. Jam Monster Mixed Berry puts the berries on buttered toast, Fruit Monster Mixed Berry serves them with no dessert base at all, and this one sits them on custard. In order of weight: Fruit Monster is lightest, this is in the middle, Jam Monster is heaviest. If you have tried the Jam Monster version and wanted the berries clearer, this is the bottle. If you wanted them clearer still, the Fruit Monster one is.

Custard Monster Vanilla is the same base with nothing in it, which makes a useful plain bottle alongside this busy one.

Frozen Fruit Monster Mixed Berry Ice is the same berry idea chilled and without cream, for the other device.

Custard Monster Mixed Berry is the most versatile fruit bottle in the range and the best single purchase if you are only buying one berry custard.

Both formats sit on the same page, so you can pick the bottle that matches your device rather than buying twice. Shop Custard Monster Mixed Berry at Black Note.

WARNING: This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

This is an editorial product review for adults 21 and older. It is based on the maker’s stated flavor description and on Black Note’s live product record, checked on September 25, 2026. Nobody at Black Note has vaped this bottle, so it carries no tasting notes, no score and no performance claims. Where a judgment is ours rather than the maker’s, the text says so.

Written by Jon Rankin. Custard Monster Mixed Berry is made by Monster Vape Labs and is carried by Black Note; it is not a Black Note product and does not share the naturally extracted tobacco process used in the Black Note range. This review makes no health, safety or risk comparison of any kind, in any direction.