Shortfill E-Liquids

Shortfill E-Liquids: Big Bottles, Zero Nicotine, Total Control

Shortfills are the corner of vaping where the maths finally tips in your favour. Instead of buying your e-liquid ten millilitres at a time, you buy it in big bottles, 50ml and 100ml in this collection, sold nicotine-free with room left in the bottle to add nicotine yourself if and when you want it. The result is the cheapest cost per millilitre in vaping, complete control over your final strength, and access to some of the most ambitious flavour blending in the industry, because shortfill ranges are where e-liquid houses show off.

Our shortfill collection holds 154 bottles from twelve makers, priced from £3.95 to £19.99, with a BUY 2 FOR £14 multibuy running on selected lines that drops big bottles to £7 each. Doozy leads the wall with 54 bottles, Hayati brings 42, and IVG, Dr Frost, Kingston and Yeti fill out the heart of the range, with cult names like Donut King, Drip, Peaky Blenders, V-Blood, Bar Juice and Beard Vape adding depth. Fifteen flavour families run through the collection, from ice and mixed berries to lemonade, pineapple and mango.

Who is this page for? Three kinds of vaper, mainly. First, anyone running a refillable kit who has done the arithmetic on 10ml bottles and wants the same liquid for less. Second, vapers who like lower nicotine strengths, because the shortfill-plus-shot system naturally produces the gentle 3mg to 6mg range that prefilled products rarely offer. Third, zero-nicotine vapers, for whom a shortfill is not a halfway product at all but the finished article: every bottle here is 0mg exactly as sold.

If the system is new to you, do not be put off by the small ritual involved. Adding a nicotine shot takes under a minute, the maths is genuinely simple once someone explains it properly, and this guide does exactly that, with worked examples, brand notes, device pairing advice and the mistakes to avoid. Everything ships under the same store promises as the rest of VapeShopOnline: 100% genuine stock, free UK delivery on orders over £20, next-day dispatch when you order before 4pm, and strictly 18+ sales with age verification on every order. Big bottles, small prices, your rules; that is the shortfill deal in one sentence.

What a Shortfill Actually Is (and Why the Bottle Is Not Full)

The name confuses everyone at first, so let us define it properly. A shortfill is a bottle of e-liquid that is deliberately underfilled: a 120ml bottle containing 100ml of liquid, or a 60ml bottle containing 50ml. The liquid inside contains no nicotine at all, and the empty space at the top exists so you can add nicotine yourself, in the form of small 10ml bottles called nic shots, then shake and vape.

Why does this odd format exist? Because of UK law. The Tobacco Products Directive rules that govern vaping in Britain cap nicotine-containing e-liquid at 10ml per bottle and 20mg per millilitre in strength. Those limits apply only to liquid that actually contains nicotine. A nicotine-free liquid can legally be sold in any size, which is the loophole, entirely legal and universally used, that shortfills are built on: sell the flavoured base big and nicotine-free, let the customer add the regulated part themselves from a compliant 10ml shot.

Understanding that origin explains everything odd about the format. It explains why every bottle in this collection is 0mg: not a product decision but a legal requirement of the format. It explains the headroom in the bottle: it is measured space for the shots, not short measure. And it explains why shortfills are where flavour houses experiment most freely, because a maker blending a 100ml bottle is composing for people who take their liquid seriously enough to mix it.

It is worth being clear about what a shortfill is not. It is not a prefilled product: if you want nicotine in it, you add that yourself, and if you buy no shots, you have a large bottle of flavoured zero-nicotine liquid, which for some vapers is precisely the point. It is not a refill pod either; it is bottled liquid for any refillable tank or pod, the kind you will find across our vape kits collection and pod kits range. And it is not the same thing as the nicotine salt bottles in our nic salt collection, which come ready-mixed at fixed strengths in 10ml bottles. Shortfills trade that grab-and-go convenience for size, price and control, and the rest of this page shows you how to spend those advantages well.

Nic Shot Maths Made Simple

This is the section that turns shortfill sceptics into shortfill vapers, because the arithmetic that looks fiddly from a distance is actually primary school division. Here is everything you need, with worked examples you can copy directly.

The one rule. A standard nic shot is a 10ml bottle of flavourless 18mg nicotine liquid. When you add it to a shortfill, the nicotine spreads through the whole mixture, so the final strength is simply the total nicotine divided by the total volume. That is the entire theory.

Worked example one: the classic 100ml mix. Take a 100ml shortfill and add two 18mg shots. Total nicotine: 360mg. Total volume: 120ml. Final strength: 3mg per ml. This is the standard recipe, and it is why 100ml shortfill bottles have room for 20ml on top: the format was designed around the two-shot, 3mg outcome that suits the majority of shortfill users.

Worked example two: the 50ml mix. Take a 50ml bottle, like the Devil Vapour 50ml at £4.99, and add one 18mg shot. Total nicotine: 180mg. Total volume: 60ml. Final strength: 3mg per ml, the same result at half the scale, which makes 50ml bottles the sensible test size for a new flavour.

Adjusting the recipe. Want it gentler? One shot in a 100ml bottle gives 180mg across 110ml, roughly 1.6mg per ml, a whisper of nicotine for near-zero vapers. Want no nicotine at all? Add nothing; every bottle here is ready to vape at 0mg as sold. Chasing something stronger than 3mg from a 100ml bottle means more shots and more dilution of flavour, and at that point we would honestly steer you towards ready-mixed salts instead, because shortfills are at their best in the low-strength zone the prefilled world neglects.

The three practical commandments. First, add the shot before your first vape, not halfway down the bottle, or the strength maths stops being predictable. Second, shake properly, a solid minute of enthusiasm, because nicotine that is not evenly mixed vapes unevenly. Third, buy your shots when you buy your bottles; nothing is more annoying than a new flavour you cannot mix. Freebase shots give a firmer throat feel and salt-based shots a smoother one, so try both formats over time and see which suits. Once you have done this twice it takes less thought than making tea, and the money it saves is real and repeats with every bottle.

The Brand Wall: Doozy, Hayati, IVG and Friends

Twelve makers earn shelf space in this collection, and knowing their personalities is the fastest shortcut to bottles you will love. Here is the tour, counts and all.

Doozy, 54 bottles. The collection's anchor and one of the most respected liquid houses in UK vaping. Doozy's shortfill work spans its dessert-leaning Big Drip line at £9.99 and the self-explanatory Seriously Fruity range at £8.99, and the house style is confident flavour that does not fade halfway down the bottle. The full Doozy collection runs to 106 products across the store, and its shortfills are the heart of it.

Hayati, 42 bottles. Better known to many for hardware, Hayati's liquid arm brings the same loud, sweet-forward energy to the bottle. If you enjoy the flavour profile of modern big-puff devices and want it in refillable form, this is the wall to raid, and the wider Hayati page shows how deep the brand runs.

IVG, 13 bottles. A multi-award-winning Blackburn success story and one of the most decorated names in British e-liquid. IVG shortfills are polished, balanced and crowd-pleasing, the safe recommendation that rarely disappoints; the brand's full 540-product presence lives on our IVG collection.

Dr Frost, 9 bottles. The menthol and ice specialist. The Arctic line is the reference point for properly cold vaping, and it gets its own moment in the spotlight section below. Frost devotees should also bookmark the Dr Frost brand page.

Kingston and Yeti. Kingston's 6 bottles cover cheerful, traditional profiles at friendly prices, while Yeti's 5 are all about aggressive ice over clean fruit, a cult favourite among cold-vape loyalists via the Yeti range.

The cult corner. Donut King brings 2 bottles of unapologetic dessert indulgence, Drip and Peaky Blenders add 2 apiece of modern candy-shop blending, V-Blood contributes 2, and Bar Juice and Beard Vape close the wall with a bottle each, the latter's X Series carrying serious heritage from one of vaping's original premium houses. Small counts, big personalities, and exactly the sort of bottles the 2 for £14 deal exists to make you try. Every maker here is stocked as 100% genuine UK product, and between them the twelve cover every flavour philosophy in vaping; the next sections help you narrow it down.

Five Bottles Worth Knowing By Name

With 154 bottles on the wall, a few concrete starting points help. These five are chosen to span the collection's range of styles and prices, and every one of them earns its place on merit.

The Bar Juice Dr Frost Arctic 100ml at £9.99 is what happens when two respected houses collide on cold ground: Bar Juice's blending polish meeting the Arctic ice signature in a 100ml format. If your vape is not properly cold, it is not finished; this is the bottle for people who agree with that sentence.

The Dr Frost Arctic Edition Apple Black Honeydew Ice at £7.99 shows the ice specialist at its most inventive: dark apple and honeydew melon under a proper frost, a genuinely unusual profile executed with the confidence of a house that has been freezing fruit for years.

The Doozy Big Drip 100ml at £9.99 represents the collection's anchor brand at full stretch, dessert-leaning and indulgent, while its stablemate Doozy Seriously Fruity 100ml at £8.99 does exactly what the label promises for vapers who want their fruit loud and uncomplicated.

The Chunky Monkey 100ml at £5.99 is the value pick with personality, a banana-led indulgence at a price that makes experimentation painless. And at the very accessible end, the Donut King Bar Series 100ml at £4.99 translates the flavour language of the disposable era into a big honest bottle, one of the cheapest routes in the store to a week of vaping.

How to use this list. Treat it as a sampler menu, not a leaderboard. The £3.95 to £19.99 spread of this collection is not a quality ranking; price in shortfills tracks brand positioning and bottle size more than anything, and several of the best-loved bottles on the wall sit under £6. The smarter play is to pair one banker from a house you trust with one wildcard from the cult corner, let the BUY 2 FOR £14 deal price the pair, and settle the question with your own coil rather than anyone's review. Two of these five, mixed to 3mg with shots, represent 240ml of finished liquid for under £15 plus shots, and that number explains the entire shortfill category better than any adjective could.

Matching a Shortfill to Your Kit

A shortfill is only half of a system; the other half is whatever you vape it through, and matching the two well is the difference between a great week and a disappointing one. Here is how to get the pairing right without a chemistry degree.

The thickness question. E-liquids are blends of two base liquids, VG and PG. VG is thick and produces dense vapour; PG is thin, carries flavour sharply and gives a firmer throat feel. Shortfills as a category lean towards higher VG blends, which is why they shine in more powerful kits, but blends vary from bottle to bottle, so make the listing's stated ratio part of your buying decision rather than an afterthought.

Bigger kits and sub-ohm tanks. If you run a kit with a sub-ohm tank, the kind built for warm, airy, direct-to-lung vaping, thick shortfill blends are your natural territory, and the low final strengths of the shot system are exactly what that style of vaping wants; this is why sub-ohm vapers are the traditional heartland of the 100ml bottle. Suitable hardware lives across our vape kits range, and dense blends do ask more of coils, a point the care section returns to.

Pods and mouth-to-lung kits. Refillable pod kits, the discreet tighter-draw style most switchers use, generally prefer thinner liquid: very thick blends can struggle to wick through small pod coils, muting flavour and shortening coil life. Plenty of shortfill bottles suit pods perfectly well, but this is where checking the blend matters most. If your pod is fussy, the ready-mixed bottles in our main e-liquid collection may pair better, and there is no shame in running shortfills through the big kit and 10ml bottles through the pod.

Coils are the consumable in the middle. Whatever you vape through, sweeter and thicker liquids coat coils faster, so budget for slightly more frequent coil changes when you move to dessert-heavy shortfills, and keep spares from our vape coils collection in the drawer. A fresh coil is cheap; a great bottle vaped through a spent one is a waste of both.

The honest summary. Powerful kit plus thick blend plus low strength is the classic shortfill formula. Pod kit plus moderate blend works well with the right bottle. If you are unsure, buy one 50ml tester, run it through your current setup, and let the experience choose your next three bottles. Keep brief notes on what you tried and through which coil, because a flavour that disappoints in one setup regularly shines in another, and half of shortfill wisdom is simply remembering your own results. Hardware questions have cheap empirical answers in this hobby, and a fiver's worth of liquid is the cheapest experiment you will ever run.

50ml or 100ml: Sizing Your Bottle Right

The collection carries two working sizes, and choosing between them is a genuine decision with real trade-offs, not just a question of budget. Here is the honest case for each.

The case for 100ml. Value, first and obviously: the bigger format is where cost per millilitre bottoms out, with bottles like the Donut King Bar Series 100ml at £4.99 delivering finished liquid, after shots, at some of the lowest per-ml numbers in the store. Convenience, second: a 100ml bottle mixed to 3mg yields 120ml of ready liquid, which for a moderate refillable-kit vaper is weeks of supply from a single purchase and a single mixing session. If you know a flavour suits you, the 100ml is simply the correct buy, and the BUY 2 FOR £14 deal at £7 a bottle turns correct into compelling.

The case for 50ml. Commitment management. A 50ml bottle like the Devil Vapour 50ml at £4.99 mixes with a single shot into 60ml of finished liquid, enough to genuinely learn a flavour without marrying it. New to a brand? Unsure whether apple ice suits your palate for a fortnight straight? The smaller format answers the question for less money and less cupboard space. Flavour rotators also quietly prefer 50mls: three different small bottles beat one big one if variety is what keeps vaping interesting for you.

The mistakes to avoid in both directions. The classic 100ml mistake is buying a wildcard flavour big: a fortnight into a bottle you merely tolerate, the bargain stops feeling like one. The classic 50ml mistake is the opposite: repeatedly buying small bottles of a flavour you demonstrably love and paying the size premium every time out of habit. The system corrects both: audition in 50ml, commit in 100ml, and let each flavour earn its promotion.

A note on storage, since big bottles live longer. E-liquid keeps best cool, dark and sealed; a cupboard beats a windowsill by a distance, and heat and sunlight are what dull a flavour before its time. Mixed bottles keep well too, but the fresher the better, which is one more quiet argument for sizing honestly rather than hoarding. Between the two formats, the multibuy pricing and the fifteen flavour families in the next section, this collection is built for a rhythm of steady discovery, and vapers who find that rhythm rarely go back to buying liquid ten millilitres at a time.

Fifteen Flavour Families Across 154 Bottles

Shortfill walls reward palate curiosity more than any other shelf in vaping, because the format's economics make experimentation cheap. Here is how the fifteen flavour families in this collection organise themselves, and where different palates should start digging.

The frozen north. Ice is the single most represented profile on the wall, running both as pure frost and as a finishing note over fruit, and the collection's Dr Frost and Yeti contingents treat cold as the main event rather than a garnish. Mint holds down the adjacent territory with a leafier, sweeter coolness. If your ideal vape makes your teeth feel cold, start here, and note that ice profiles hold up unusually well across a big bottle because coolness resists the palate fatigue that can dull sweeter flavours by week two.

The berry heartland. Mixed berries, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry and blue raspberry together form the largest fruit bloc, from jammy layered blends to the sharp candy brightness of blue razz. These profiles are the natural first shortfill for vapers arriving from prefilled devices, because the flavour language is familiar; the difference is depth, since a house blending for a 100ml bottle builds profiles meant to stay interesting for weeks.

Citrus, orchard and orchard-adjacent. Lemon and lemonade bring the zesty corner, with lemonade blends doubling as brighteners inside mixed profiles. Apple runs from crisp to dark, as the Dr Frost apple and honeydew blend demonstrates, while watermelon delivers the clean summer note that suits all-day vaping. Cherry adds the deep and slightly sour end of the orchard.

The tropical and the indulgent. Pineapple and mango head the holiday wing, profiles that turn artificial in careless hands and thrive in good ones, and mixed fruit blends tie multiple families into single-bottle variety. The dessert end, led by the Doozy and Donut King camps, covers the sweet-toothed vaper for whom fruit is merely a starter.

Strategy for the curious. Buy across families, not within them: a berry, an ice and a dessert teach you more about your palate than three berries ever will. Note what you finish fastest, because your coil empties faster than your opinions form and the bottle you unconsciously reach for is the truthful review. And when a family wins, explore it in depth across the wider store, from the ice e-liquids collection to the strawberry range, because a flavour allegiance discovered in a 100ml bottle tends to be the lasting kind.

The 2 for £14 Deal and the Real Cost Per Millilitre

Shortfills already win the value argument in vaping, but it is worth showing the working, because once you see the numbers you will never unsee them.

Start with the sticker prices. The collection runs from £3.95 to £19.99, with the busy middle of the wall sitting between £4.99 and £9.99 for 100ml bottles. Straight division puts a £4.99 hundred-millilitre bottle at about 5p per ml and a £9.99 one at 10p per ml, before any deal is applied.

Now add the multibuy. The BUY 2 FOR £14 offer prices selected bottles at £7 each. Two 100ml bottles under the deal give you 200ml of liquid for £14, exactly 7p per ml, and the deal basket clears our £20 free-delivery threshold with a couple of nic shots added, which you were buying anyway. The deal structure quietly encourages the best shortfill habit there is: one banker flavour, one experiment, every order.

Factor in the shots and the final maths still smiles. Mixing each 100ml bottle with two shots yields 120ml of finished 3mg liquid per bottle, so the £14 deal plus four shots produces 240ml of ready-to-vape liquid. Even after adding the cost of the shots, the finished per-ml figure sits far below what the same volume costs in 10ml prefilled bottles, and the gap widens the more you vape. This is the structural advantage of the format: you are buying flavour in bulk and regulation-priced nicotine in exactly the quantity you need, rather than paying small-bottle premiums on every millilitre.

Translate it into a monthly budget. A refillable-kit vaper getting through around 8ml a day uses roughly 240ml a month, one 2 for £14 deal plus shots. Call it under £20 a month all-in for liquid, a figure that compares very kindly indeed with most nicotine habits, and one reason the shortfill aisle is full of vapers who used to spend multiples of that. It also explains why shortfill customers are the store's most loyal repeat buyers: once the monthly figure drops, nobody volunteers to put it back up. Heavier use scales linearly; so do the savings.

Deal discipline, briefly. Offers rotate as lines come and go, so check this collection alongside the vape deals page before ordering, and if your favourite bottle is in the deal, that is the week to stock the cupboard. The arithmetic of this section is the whole reason the category exists; the only mistake is not running it on your own numbers before your next order.

Mixing, Shaking and Steeping: Getting It Right

Nothing about preparing a shortfill is difficult, but a handful of small technique points separate a perfect bottle from a mediocre one, and the mistakes are so avoidable it would be a shame to learn them the slow way.

The right way to add a shot. Remove the cap and the nib, empty the nic shot in, and recap firmly. Then shake like you mean it: a full minute of vigorous work, not a polite wobble. Nicotine needs to distribute evenly through a thick liquid, and a half-shaken bottle vapes strong at the top and weak at the bottom, which is the most common cause of the classic complaint that a shortfill feels inconsistent. If the mixture shows tiny bubbles throughout when you stop, you have done it properly; let it stand a few minutes and it will clear.

Steeping, demystified. Steeping just means letting a mixed bottle rest so the flavours and nicotine marry fully. Most fruit and ice profiles are ready as soon as they are mixed and clear, while richer dessert blends often round out noticeably after a day or two in a dark cupboard. There is no ceremony to it: mix tonight, vape tomorrow, and if a dessert bottle tastes better on Thursday than it did on Monday, that was the steep doing its quiet work. Nobody needs weeks, whatever the forums say.

The five classic mistakes. One: vaping half the bottle and then adding the shot, which makes your final strength a guess. Two: under-shaking, as above. Three: storing bottles in sunlight or a hot car, which ages flavour fast; cool, dark and upright is the whole rule. Four: filling a small pod coil with the thickest dessert blend on the wall and blaming the bottle when wicking struggles; match liquid to kit as covered earlier. Five: letting a tank sit full for a week unvaped, then judging the flavour by the first stale draw rather than the second honest one.

Coil courtesy. Sweeter blends coat coils, so when you switch a tank between strongly different flavours, a fresh coil gives the new bottle a clean stage; there are few sadder acts in vaping than judging a delicate new flavour through the ghost of last week's custard. Beyond that, prime new coils properly, keep bottles capped, and wash hands after handling neat nic shots as a matter of basic sense. Ten minutes of good habits per month is the entire maintenance bill of the shortfill lifestyle, and the payoff is liquid that tastes exactly as its maker intended, every time.

Zero Nicotine by Design: Who Shortfills Suit and the Rules

It is worth ending on the point that makes this collection unique in the store: every one of its 154 bottles is nicotine-free exactly as sold. That fact, which begins as a legal quirk of the format, turns out to serve two very different audiences well, and it frames the rules that govern how we sell.

The zero-nicotine vaper, served properly. For vapers who have stepped away from nicotine entirely but keep the flavour and the ritual, shortfills are the best-stocked shelf in vaping: big bottles, serious blending, no compromise. Where prefilled ranges treat 0mg as an afterthought flavour or two, this collection is 154 nicotine-free products deep by construction, and it pairs naturally with the rest of our nicotine-free e-liquid range. If this is you, ignore every mixing section above; your bottles are finished products the moment they arrive.

The low-strength vaper, finally catered for. The shot system's natural output, the 1.6mg to 3mg zone, barely exists in prefilled vaping, which clusters at 10mg and 20mg. Adults who have gradually stepped down their strength, the journey many switchers from smoking eventually make, find that shortfills are simply where their strength lives. Control is the format's quiet gift: your bottle, your recipe, your pace.

The rules, plainly stated. Shortfills exist because TPD rules cap nicotine-containing liquid at 10ml bottles and 20mg strength, and the nicotine-free base escapes those caps while the shots you add comply with them. Every product here is legal UK stock from vetted distribution, 100% genuine. And although these bottles contain no nicotine as sold, we apply one policy across the entire store without exception: all sales are strictly 18+, age verified at checkout, because vaping products are for adults, full stop. We make no health claims for any product on this page; these are products for existing adult vapers, particularly adults switching from smoking who want control over what they vape and what they spend, and nicotine, where you choose to add it, is addictive.

Ordering, in one paragraph. Orders before 4pm leave the same working day. Delivery is free across the UK over £20, a line the 2 for £14 deal plus a pair of shots crosses neatly. Stock rotates as makers retire lines and launch new ones, so the wall changes month to month, and the new arrivals page is where fresh bottles appear first. That is the whole system: big bottles, honest maths, your rules, delivered next day. Welcome to the most economical corner of vaping.

Popular picks from Shortfill E-Liquids

A handful of products from this collection worth looking at first.

• Bar Juice Dr Frost Arctic 100ml from £9.99
• Beard Vape X Series 100ml from £9.99
• Chews 100ml from £7.99
• Chunky Monkey 100ml from £5.99
• Devil Vapour 50ml from £4.99
• Donut King Bar Series 100ml from £4.99
• Donut King N Shake 100ml from £4.99
• Doozy Big Drip 100ml from £9.99

The full collection runs to 154 products, starting at £3.95. Use the filters to cut it down by brand, price or offer.

Related collections worth a look

The brands you will find here:

• Doozy (103 products)
• Hayati (434 products)
• IVG (315 products)
• Dr Frost (9 products)
• Kingston (6 products)
• Yeti (5 products)
• Donut King (2 products)
• Drip (2 products)
• Peaky Blenders (2 products)
• V-Blood (2 products)

Broader ranges to browse from here: Vape Deals, Sale, New In, Pod Kits, E-Liquids, Vape Kits. Spend over £20 and UK postage is included.