Flavour profile
A mixed-berry blend, described everywhere as sweet with a tangy edge, and never as a single fruit. Read it as closer to a berry sweet than to fresh fruit off a bush, which fits the rest of the picture.
The tang matters here more than it would elsewhere in the range, because this is one of only three flavours on the Sour slate with sharpness of its own before you touch anything.
The three dials, and what they do to a berry blend
The Trio’s defining feature is that three things are adjustable on the device, at three levels each. On this Sour edition, they are sour, icy and sweet. The Sweet edition swaps the sour control for an adjustable nicotine one. ELFBAR’s European storefront describes a three-in-one tuning system, but documents only the sour version of it.
On a blend that is already tangy, the sour dial has real material to work with, which is not true of every flavour here. Start it low and move up, because the tang already there gives it something to work with.
Sour the slate is not sour the dial
This is the confusion worth clearing before anything else. ELFBAR sell the Trio as two listings, a Sour slate of ten flavours and a Sweet slate of ten, while every unit, from either slate, carries a sour dial. The two are not the same thing, and it is easy to read one as the other.
What ELFBAR do not publish is any definition of the slates. Nothing anywhere states that Sour-slate liquids are acidified, and the slate contains flavours with no sour character in their names at all. Treat it as a catalogue division, not a promise about taste.
Two other ELFBAR berry blends, one spelt differently
Two close relatives sit elsewhere: Mix Berry ELFBAR Ice King Pro Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs and Mixed Berry ELFBAR Ice King Disposable Vape 30000 Puffs. With this one, that is three berry blends across three ELFBAR devices, two spellings, and nothing published about whether any two share a recipe.
The carton settles it where the listing will not: this is the Trio; it has three dials on it, and the others do not.
What ELFBAR publishes about the Trio
Almost nothing. The device does not appear on ELFBAR’s global site at all: their product index runs to fifty-seven entries and the Trio is not among them. There is no capacity figure, no battery figure, no coil, no dimensions and no per-flavour description for any of the twenty.
Practical notes
None of the berries in this blend is grown at any scale in Kenya, so unlike the mango and watermelon flavours on this shelf there is no fresh version to hold it against. Worth knowing before the first draw, when you can still judge it as a flavour, not as fruit.
Where it sits in the range
One of two multi-berry flavours across the two slates, with Blueberry Raspberry Ice ELFBAR Trio Sweet Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs on the Sweet side, which names its berries where this one does not. For a single berry instead, Blueberry Ice ELFBAR Trio Sweet Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs is the direct one, and Pineapple Passion Fruit Guava ELFBAR Trio Sweet Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs is where the Sweet slate puts three fruits together. See all twenty in the ELFBAR Trio 40000 range.
The other 40,000-puff ELFBAR in this catalogue is the ELFBAR Ice King Pro 40000, and the two are constantly confused.
Buying considerations
One of three on this slate with sharpness of its own. Vapesoko Nairobi delivers the same day inside Nairobi and the towns around it, and in 1 to 2 business days elsewhere in Kenya by courier.
Best for
- Sweet berries with a tang already in them
- The sour dial has real material here
- A berry sweet, not fresh fruit
- Three ELFBAR berry blends. Check the carton
- Sour edition: sour, ice and sweet dials
Specifications
- Category: Disposable Vapes
- Flavour family: Berry blend
- Cooling in the liquid: Not published
- Base character: Sweet with a tangy edge already in it
- Same name elsewhere on the shelf: Yes, the Ice King Pro 40000
- Suggested dial settings (our recommendation): Sour low to start; the berries already carry tang
- Puff rating: Up to 40,000 (manufacturer rating)
- Nicotine strength: 50mg/ml (5%) nicotine salt, as declared on the carton
- Who it is for: Adult smokers and vapers, 18+. Not suitable for non-smokers.
- Rechargeable: Yes, via USB Type-C
- Battery capacity: 1000mAh (carton)
- Dimensions: 106.3 × 28.2 × 51.2 mm (carton)
- Turbo mode: Yes, marked on the device. ELFBAR publish no rating for it
- Ingredients: Vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, natural and artificial flavours, nicotine
- Once opened: ELFBAR advise using the device within 15 days
- Adjustable dials: Three, at three levels each: sour, icy and sweet. This is the Sour edition
- Refillable: No, sealed device
- Figures ELFBAR do not publish: E-liquid capacity, coil type and resistance, charging time, charging input rating, weight, wattage, airflow adjustment, what the Turbo mode is rated at, and any description of any of the twenty flavours. Retailers widely list 20ml of liquid, but no ELFBAR source states a number.
- Display: A smart screen with a puff counter, per ELFBAR’s European storefront; absent from their global site
- Brand: ELFBAR
- Range: Trio 40000
- Sold as: A sealed international-market disposable. The format is not permitted for retail in the UK or the EU
