Jam Monster Blackberry Review: Dark Jam, Buttered Bread

You will get on with it if you like dark berries and you want the bakery half of the blend to actually register. It also suits anyone who finds the strawberry and grape bottles too sweet to run all day.

Skip it if you want something bright and obvious. Blackberry is the most restrained of the nine, and restraint is not what everyone wants from a dessert.

One thing worth knowing: Dark berry blends discolour a coil faster than they taste worse, so a wick that has gone brown here is not necessarily spent. Judge by flavor rather than by looking at it.

Blackberry is a deeper fruit than strawberry or raspberry and it shows. There is a wine-like quality to it, slightly tart underneath the sugar, and the jam reads thick rather than syrupy. It is the closest thing in this line to a preserve you would actually spread.

Because the fruit is less sugary, the butter has room to show. That makes this the bottle where the toast is easiest to find, and it is why people who say they cannot taste the bread in Jam Monster are usually told to try this one.

Retailer descriptions agree on the order: blackberry jam first, buttered white toast second. The word that comes up most is sticky, which matches how thick the jam reads.

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 is a vapor-forward ratio suited to sub-ohm tanks, box mods and coils rated under 1.0 ohm. On a jam and toast blend the high VG does real work: it gives the butter and bread notes enough body to sit under the jam instead of disappearing behind it.

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 sharpens the jam. The trade is that the toast reads fainter in a 50/50 pod than it does in a 75VG tank, which is the biggest difference between the two formats here.

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 tighter draw concentrates the blend and the 50/50 mix wicks fast enough that you will not chase dry hits. 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 suits this better than a wide-open cloud setup, because big airflow thins the jam out. 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.

Blackberry holds up to a little more power than the lighter fruits, because the tartness survives heat better than delicate sweetness does. Even so, the butter is the ceiling. When the exhale turns sharp instead of rounded, you have gone two watts too far.

Opening the airflow thins the jam and pushes the blend toward a generic sweet fruit; closing it down concentrates the bakery side and warms the draw. On this family, err toward a tighter airflow than you would use for a plain fruit. The toast is the part you lose first.

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.

This is where a jam and toast blend costs you. Sweetened bakery e-liquids are the hardest category on coils, because sugar and the bread and butter notes both caramelize onto hot wire. Dark jam builds visible residue quickly. Coil life is mid-range for this family, and the wick will look worse than it tastes for a while before it actually goes. Expect noticeably shorter coil life than a fruit blend, and plan on it rather than being surprised by it. This is a general statement about sweetened bakery 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.

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.

Against Custard Monster Blackberry, the fruit is the same and the base is the whole difference. Toast gives you bread and butter with a dry finish; custard gives you cream and a rounder, heavier one. Running the two back to back is the quickest way to work out which base you actually prefer, and that answer applies across both lines.

Within the Jam Monster line, Blueberry is the nearest neighbour and slightly sweeter, Black Cherry is tangier, and Mixed Berry includes blackberry but dilutes it with two lighter fruits.

Custard Monster Blackberry is the same fruit on a cream base instead of toast, which is the cleanest way to see what the bakery half is contributing.

Fruit Monster Mixed Berry is blackberry among three other berries with no bakery at all, useful as a lighter daytime bottle.

The connoisseur’s pick of the jams, and the best of the nine if you want to taste the toast. Keep the power moderate and let the tartness do the work it is there to do.

Both formats sit on the same page, so you can pick the bottle that matches your device rather than buying twice. Shop Jam Monster Blackberry 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. Jam Monster Blackberry 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.