Vapouround magazine Issue 02 | Page 74

THE VAPE SUMMIT HOUSTON LUCKY 13 TAKES BEST OF SHOW IN THE CRAFT VAPERY ELIQUID AWARDS T he Vape Summit is one of the longest running and best run Vape Expos in the world and it showed as they rolled out it’s 4th edition in Houston. Held from October 8 - 10 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Vape Summit was the center of the Vape world for a few days as people came from all over the USA, Europe and Asia to see the latest, greatest in hardware as well as eLiquid creations. Cafe Racer’s experience with the Vape Summit team on all back end elements leading up to the event like registration, booth assignment and set up was top notch and a good harbinger of what was to come. Houston is an excellent choice as a host city for a Vape Expo. It’s central Texas location with hundreds of vape shops within a 200 mile radius, easy 70 WINTER NOVEMBER EDITION 2015 VAPOUROUND VAPOUROUNDMAGAZINE MAGAZINE access via the International Airport and an abundance of relatively inexpensive hotels makes this an ideal city to host an event to reach the booming Southern USA Vape market. Once again our team reached out to a “We are thrilled to be able to award these incredible artisans with these Best In Show awards” local custom cafe racer builder to share their bike with fans at our booth. Big ups to Chris Hale from Blip Workshop for awesome custom bike and for allowing us to showcase another masterpiece at our booth. We landed at the The Vape Summit with our latest flavor creation - #YogurtBomb + an upgraded look on the 30 ML bottles (custom die cut label + foil effect on the label). Additionally we were rockin the newly released 15ML bottles for for Wall 3 flavors. Vape Summit eLiquid Awards put on by Craft Vapery We submitted all three of our craft eLiquid flavor creations to the prestigious Vape Summit eLiquid Awards curated by CRAFT Vapery. It was great to see this kind of event/award as part of the expo. It feels much more in-line with what you see at proper craft beer and wine festivals vs the usual Cloud Comps that usually are held at Vape expos. This year, CRAFT introduced a panel of judges with a variety of experience and flavor palates to help judge the entries. This year’s panel of judges included: Joshua Krane, Co-Founder and COO: CRAFT VAPERY Meriwether Morris, Director of Procurement & Curation: CRAFT VAPERY; @shittywether Roy Mananquil, Founder: Vaping ROYbot, ROYbot Sauce, Vaperazzi