Zombie Blast Wild Berry Energy Shot Review

Resembling a child's novelty candy more so than an energy shot, this packaging is gimmicky with a forced personality. It tries way too hard, and is impossible to take seriously, and it does not help that the guy behind the counter actually warned me about the flavor.

The cap unscrews and exposes a bottle made of plastic so cheap it would make dollar store toys jealous. Warning in mind and chaser in hand, the first sip is actually a whole heck of a lot better than expected. Granted it is nothing you would want sixteen ounces of, but there is not any bitterness and the flavor is remarkably palatable. The berry here is more mild than wild, tasting distractedly of blackberry with shallow nuances of tart cranberry. Perhaps there is some blueberry as well, even some pomegranate maybe. The argued depth is pointless in a product designed to last two sips, a refreshingly unremarkable experience to this thickly novel product.

The caffeine content is disclosed but compared to a cup of coffee; eighty to 120 milligrams is an educated guess. There is also B vitamins, taurine, guarana, yerba mate, ginseng, and others. The kick lasted two hours or so and satisfied my lust for the bitter stimulant, but was nothing to survive a zombie apocalypse with.

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Tweaker Pink Lemonade Energy Shot Review

Everything went wrong with this label: even on the small retail space of a shot nobody wants to read vertical text. And pink on pink for the logo is too much despite decent readability, and come on, can a pink energy product be any flavor other than pink lemonade? Oh, and do not forget that this is "with calcium," because that is apparently just so important.

The sweaty stench of fake lemonade escapes from the thin bottle, warm and grossly dense with a tartness that would make Greek yogurt jealous. The sweetness is... sweet, tolerable but boring and dispassionate. Things are supposed to taste like lemon, lemonade rather, and for two ounces it does, but to sit here, sip and sit back and reflect, you expose the beverage's heavily abridged and impartial impersonation of a fruit deserving more. But for a shot, a shot strictly, this is not all that bad.

Each shot contains: caffeine, ginseng, yerba mate, and calcium of course. And there a three hour kick too, give or take, one without a crash or jitters. Overall, Tweaker Pink Lemonade kicks decently, which being the entire point of shots, makes this only a decent shot.

Xenergy + Hydration Tropical Punch Review

Huh? What the hell am I writing about this for? I review "energy" drinks, not these stupid hydration- huh, what, it says "energy" at the top?! Oh, um, well, uh, yeah. A misguided entry into the hydration and energy market, containing no caffeine will help avoid dehydration and escape controversy but also elude energy. And ignoring the boring aluminum color, being a can means you cannot just throw this into your gym bag or sip at your leisure, an dire citation of the early All-Sport (only this is smart enough not to be carbonated).

The aroma is pungently vitamin-esque and grainy, off-putting and discouraging. The flavor showcases red and blue raspberry, artificial and alkaline with a hollow saccharinity that has little interest in self control. There is guava and passion fruit as well, perhaps a touch of lime present additionally, but none demonstrate even the slightest realism; forcefully fake with listless progression. Each sip is exhausted and vacuous, an experience with no dynamism or excitement, only bland distractions. Far from ever thirst quenching although never a struggle to drink, Xenergy + Hydration Tropical Punch proves the company released too many with too little R&D.

B vitamins and electrolytes make up the kick here, or what ever you could call this. There was little energy, a feeling of only mild refreshment or rejuvenation if anything, and even then it is a stretch.

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AMP Active Orange Energy Drink Review

The original orange Amp, Relaunch, was one of the better in the original line, visually and flavor-wise. Sadly the can here is vacant and uneventful, a jejunely bright orange color too cheerful for energy drinks. The bottom design is appealing but not balanced with the hollow top half, a can that might be clean and easy to read, but is so relentlessly unremarkable.

230 calories really help this astute, if modest, orange soda-esque experience. There is the very pleasant flavor orange and tangerine here, sugary but glorious glorifications of the fruits with nothing even remotely realistic. It basks in this strict artificiality, each sip unadulterated and tastes only of the expected. Sweet, simple, and pellucid, every sip is stripped of frills but still adventurous and enthusiastic. This is a zealous beverage overall, conventional but so enjoyably so.

Each can contains: caffeine (160 milligrams), B vitamins, guarana, ginseng, taurine, and fifty eight grams of sugar. The kick lasts nothing over three hours, and that is being generous, a buzz without jitters or crash. To end, AMP Active Orange may or may not be the same as the original years ago, but it is equally adequate.

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Runa Berry Clean Energy Review

Purple text is about all that is different on this variety in the Runa line, the last at this moment. The can remains as clean as ever, bare aluminum with conservative gradients, and a leaf hardly distinguishable thanks to a similar paint job. But this is a nonetheless an upgrade from the former flavor, albeit a mild one.

Now this is more like it! Although the sugar soaked sodas of my childhood have shaped my tastes as they are today, Runa Berry's animated effervescence launches a flavor so chimerical and contrastingly soft with only a gentle touch of earthiness. It is a bite so well controlled by the beverage's outrageous sweetness, saccharine but balanced so perfectly to the experience's elemental motif. Each sip is refreshing and refreshingly refreshing, a drink that understands what is means to be "natural," and has what it takes to be so. The carbonation does die within minutes of opening, an airy and ebullient beverage flattened into a more syrupy solution. But trust me, unless you must taste, reflect, write, and revise after every few sips, you will not have this problem.

Consistent with the aforementioned variety, the only real energy comes from the moderate 120 milligrams of caffeine. The buzz was stronger with a shorter duration however, perhaps an hour and a half to two hours in length. All told, Runa Berry is damn good tasting with a damningly small can.

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Xenergy + Lemonade Raspberry Energy Drink Review

The fashion in which this variety is written insinuates towards "Lemonade" being sub-line, this being the Raspberry flavor in that line. That being true of course, but "Lemonade Raspberry" is an awkward read, and the way the top text is written pretends that lemonade is more than just lemony sweetness.

This fifteen and a half ounce can presents a playful aroma, and although the fruits are sweet with adequate realism, both begin with mild blandness and collapse in watery disappointment. The sourness is initially obtuse but sharpens as the sip is sipped, a performance so honest you can almost feel the pulp as the drink splashes between teeth. But with a berry consistently understated and a citrus so decidedly sober, these unfortunately underemphasised flavors are stark contrasts to the potent tastes of Xenergy's of years past.

There is a decent little kick here, something around two and a half, maybe three hours long, jitter free and without a crash afterward. Each can contains: caffeine (155 milligrams), inositol, guarana, ginseng, and B vitamins.With a standard buzz and difficultly deadened taste, I cannot recommend this even if sampled for free (as in my case).

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Lighter Spider Widow Maker Energy Drink Review

Pink with contrasting blackness creates perfect ambiance to this clean and sharp can. The text is balanced with knowledge of what is important; the slogan up top is ignored in favor of the darker logo, feeding your eyes down into its diet declaration and flavor, or variety name rather.

Pomegranate tops off the gentle flavors of raspberry and acai, faded and mispronounced juxtaposed to the former. They have the combined texture that is both powdery and mossy, a playful but dimensionless presence on the palate. Lamentably the experience overall is the same; the precedent tastes are shoal and shallow, forcibly false flavors who sit static on the tongue. The saccharinity is impressive however, so dynamic without even a hint of artificiality that it is a shame it is stuck sweetening such a stagnant drink. Every sip is indistinguishable from the last, a monotonous experience that tastes darn good. Does it make sense? It does not have to, and it does not.

Each can contains: caffeine (240 milligrams), taurine, ginseng, guarana, l-carnitine, and many B vitamins. The kick is four hours strong but induced jitters, but fortunately no crash. Drinkers: this is a really decent drink, potent, great looking, and good tasting. But I would never drink it again. Conflicting? Yes it is.

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Java Monster Kona Cappuccino Energy Drink Review

This golden can is striking and stark, with tribal details and heavy on the personality. It found no problem standing out against the flooded shelves of Monster drinks, even in the top right hand corner, my eyes still went straight to it. Just what is so special about this flavor is unascertained and avoided in the loosely unique and completely cliche text that the company always forces onto the back of every variety.

For a cappuccino, the coffee is mild with etherized notes of nothing, drowned in a sea of puissant sweet creaminess. There is at least traditional fattiness to each sip, an impressively unyielding lardaceousness that bodes nicely if unoriginally to the sinewy saccharinity. The latter is derived both from glucose and sucralose, a blend balanced so well with absolutely no syrupiness or artificial aftertaste. The persuasive aroma of actual coffee catches you by great surprise, so it is unfortunate that even the nitrogenated artifice goes unnoticed, and that the flavor is ever so routine.

Now an energy drink instead of an energy "supplement," we now can see the caffeine content: 188 milligrams. Each can contains taurine, ginseng, guarana, inositol, l-carnitine, and B vitamins also. In conclusion, Kona Cappuccino tastes just like every other Java Monster, and is worth purchasing only for the admittedly cool can.

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Runa Original Clean Energy Drink Review

There is not much here, a clean can for sure, but one that has a passive interest in keeping you interested. Contrary to most drinks these days, the small eight ounces has a belligerently interminable look who's visual disinterest loses to any other drink on the shelf. Their efforts are appreciated, but there is such a thing as excessively modest.

Remember how I just criticized the drink for its diminutive serving size? With the first sip, well, I am singing a different tune. Flavored with Amazon guayusa, this coarsely carbonated experience drinks with pungent nuance of earth and vehement bitterness. Like black black tea, i.e. black tea without sugar or cream, there is a total truancy of sweetness and any real flavor. Refreshingly brisk and thick with risk but far too niche, drinking Runa is like having a mouth full of plants and soil.

Each can contains only a few ingredients: carbonated water, guayusa, flavors, citrus acid, and 120 milligrams of caffeine. The latter is all I care about, producing a feeble kick that lasted three hours- only because it takes so long to stomach something so its own.

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Xenergy + Tea Honey Ginseng Energy Drink Review

Being a sixteen (or fifteen and a half rather) ounce can immediately tells you this is an energy drink, so beginning at the top, there is no reason for the first word to be "energy"; we already know that! "Green Tea" is fine but the brand should come first, as it is often the reason why people choose one drink over another (unfortunately it is rarely taste). Then we witness this little yellow ball and then giant green one. It does bridge the two strips of color together, but the chunky and minimal text looks empty inside. Now we are looking at the flavor, "Honey Ginseng," but this is where the tea should now appear: tea is a flavor ya know! We get also a UFC sponsorship and tons of text incorrectly emphasized; there is a lot of retail space on a can, use it wisely.

Sweet honey brightly introduces the polite taste of green tea, earthy and weakly bitter in only the best possible way. You can almost feel the leafs pass your tongue as you sip, an effulgent experience that shames similar efforts from Arizona and Snapple. There is depth here, honest complexity to both the tea and honey, an unrefined elegance with notes of nature and forgotten candor. Gulps (they are gulps, trust me) are effervescent despite being noneffercescent, and are pounded back one after another in perhaps Xenergy's most mainstream flavor to date, if not one of their best.

Taurine, B vitamins, carnitine, inositol, guarana, and 155 milligrams of caffeine are included per can. Oh, there is also green tea and ginseng, but ya already new that. The kick lasts something under three hours, a mild kick after its refreshing flavor.

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NOS Active Fruit Punch Energy Drink Review

From a visual standpoint, NOS Active Fruit Punch generalizes sports drinks into one incredibly bland and bombastic bottle. The logo is hardly distinct from the miscellany of words cluttering the small retail space, and the shape of the plastic container is nothing we have never seen before.

The saline solution is an uninteresting assumption of what fruit punches taste like. Drinking like something out of a kid's lunch box, cherry is predominate but vague and absent of quality; sweet but uninterestingly so, without any nuance or tartness. There is some citrus zest unsuccessfully distinct, is it lime or lemon or who knows! It is tergiversatory and improvident about it. We receive some sourness eventually, 'bout half way through the bottle, but the aforeknown brackishness battles it for dominance. It wins, but as the drinker, we lose.

Each bottle contains: caffeine (221 milligrams), taurine, vitamin B6, B12, guarana, and electrolytes. The kick lasts a stretch over three hours, not particularly potent but consistent without a crash. On the whole, NOS Active Fruit Punch may hold the attention of caffeinated muscle heads, but that is because they are stereotypically not smart.

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Rockstar Super Sours Green Apple Energy Drink Review

Trippy with a deep individuality, lines of psychedelic colors fly every which way carefree, without caring to keep your eyes from following them right off the can! But it is this outlandish appearance that keeps you coming back, completely unique from anything else the company or the competition has put out.

An easy crack of the can releases a disappointingly usual apple taste. It is sour but hardly super; more super sweet if anything. It is an imbalanced saccharinity with the strong personality of Granny Smith, but without any of the nuance or depth of the variety; what we have here is just scarcely carbonated Green Apple Jolly Rancher syrup. Not a single variety new plays at grandma's during the relentless sixteen ounces, a flavor without divers tastes. The first sip analogous to your last, with far too many in between of consistent commonalty. In the expanding world of energy drinks, there is far worse than this, but not in the world of those flavored "apple."

Each can contains an impressive 240 milligrams of caffeine, with a kick lasting something four plus hours. Other ingredients include: taurine, B vitamins, inositol, ginseng, guarana, and 280 calories. All in all, Rockstar Super Sour Green Apple is optically amiable with a stalwart potency, it is just such a shame the flavor here is so monotonous.

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Eternal Energy Pomegranate Energy Shot Review

A considerable improvement over the brand's other (previous?) design, Eternal Energy Pomegranate comes to us in a clean two ounce bottle despite the bountiful lexicon at the bottom. It is more elegant, more balanced, although the mysterious photographer struggles not to appear in the reflection.

Knowing better, chaser was in hand at first sip. Fortunately, this thing does not require something strong to wash it down, at least not exactly. Things are a tad amaroidal but not specifically bitter, resembling pomegranate partially with a mossy mouthfeel and pungent tartness. It is not as sweet as it should have been, a predominantly sour experience with gross highlights of the earthy sharpness. Alright, halfway through with the bottle and ya remember that formerly unnecessary chaser? Well, it has becomes necessary, but does at least drown well under the tasteless brown sludge that is Caffeine Free Diet Coke (hey, I do not like it, but it was on sale...). With the bottle now empty, the repulsive flavor did wake me up, and I do feel great about finally finishing this shuddersome shot, although I am not so sure I will live too much longer with this battery acid in the stomach.

Each bottle contains: guarana, amino acids, vitamin C, green tea, taurine, B vitamins, and a mess of others who's names are too big for the lazy. Oh, and after a bit of fiddling on the web, we now know there is something around 222 milligrams of caffeine as well. The kick still does not push past two and a half, perhaps three hours, but it is nevertheless diligent and draconic. Overall, Eternal Energy Pomegranate preforms rather impressively, for what a shot is usually drank for, but goodness, two ounces is not small enough.

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Monster Ultra Blue Energy Drink Review

Sure, the textured matte can is indulgent on the paw, but we saw almost the same design, save for the baby blue, with Zero Ultra. Now we have an equivalently diet drink with an identically inexplicable name. With absent indication as to what this drink is, what can the user expect here? What does Ultra Blue have over the company's endless other low-calorie offerings?

The frosty can cracks open and sips super smoothly, exposing a flavor plagiarized from the business's Zero Ultra mediocrity. With the first carbonated splash comes a predominant but indistinct citrus taste with healthy notes of blue and blackberry, enjoyably tart with sufficient sweetness. Grapefruit is present but this takes it to the next level; there is a pinch more honesty to it here, with a considerably candid saccharinity and exaggerated personality. How Zero Ultra should have been, Ultra Blue drinks like the aforementioned after an energy drink; more energetic, more playful. I take it as the company's formal apology.

Each can contains: caffeine (140 milligrams), taurine, inositol, guarana, ginseng, L-carnitine, and B vitamins. There is no crash but not much of a kick either, lasting in the ballpark of three hours. On the whole, Monster Ultra Blue is as pointless as Zero Ultra, albeit better tasting.

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NOS Active Raspberry Lemonade Energy Drink Review

Just so you ladies are not left out, NOS has conveniently followed the market and has a pink flavor just for you! Because ya know, energy drinks, and especially sport energy drinks, are not unisex; unless it is pink and some sort of lemonade flavored, you girls are gonna look ridiculous with this in your grip. But I digress, the label is as busy as the Berry version, and my eyes jump to the drink next door thanks to the directional arrow on the logo.

The first sip illustrates a major problem with sport drinks: its hearty eighteen percent of sodium makes for a saliferous distraction. The actual flavor is actually fairly content, the lemonade depicting little citrus but bringing successful sweetness despite its spuriousness with quite a tasty tartness. The raspberry itself is unobjectionable, not particularly complex but not as perfidious as predicted. The two are complementing, but nothing ever excites the drinker. Sips pass and all the sudden the bottle is empty, but you would never crave the flavor again. There is nothing necessarily wrong here, but there is nothing necessarily to recommend.

Taurine, B vitamins, electrolytes, green tea, and 221 milligrams of caffeine make up the ingredient cocktail, one from a newbie mixologist (bad joke; sorry for that one). There is three and a half hours to do energy heavy things, but the quantity and quality is lacking for a twenty two ounce beverage.

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