Wired X Berry Rush

On my latest trek to Big Lots, I wasn't expecting much, as it has been rather slow lately, so seeing Wired X Berry Rush was surprising. Wired X Berry Rush is made by Unique Beverage Company, who also makes Twisted Chopper energy drink. The Wired line of energy drinks has been around a decent amount of time, and one look at there website reveals that they have one whole lot of varieties. And that means I've got a lot of drinks to review. I haven't had any drinks in the Wired line, so I'm rather excited to see how the first in the long line that I'm gonna review, Wired X Berry Rush, turns out.

FIRST IMPRESSION: The can of Wired X Berry Rush looks like it took five minutes to make by a slacker in a high school graphic arts class. The purple would have been more fitting for a grape energy drink than a berry drink. The weird flame things don't add much to the already boring can. I do like the twenty four oz. size of it though, as I've only reviewed energy drinks in six teen oz. cans lately. Overall, other than the size, the can just looks like an afterthought and doesn't leave me with high expectation for the taste and kick.

TASTE: I opened the can and took a sip. The flavour starts out a tart fake blue raspberry flavour, that sits in your mouth for a little while then fades away leaving a slight syrupy feel in your mouth. The tartness comes in more towards the end of the blue raspberry flavour, which I thought was kinda unique, as you'd expect if to be more towards the beginning. There really wasn't anything else to the flavour other than the blue raspeberry flavour. Overall, Wired X Berry Rush's flavour is pretty generic and doesn't bring anything new to the table of energy drinks.

KICK: Each can contains: high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, inositol, caffeine, niacin, taurine. At first, as any energy guru would, I thought I was in for a wild ride. But then I found that the entire 23.5 oz. can contained only 150 mg of caffeine and only eighty mg of taurine. My mouth dropped to the floor. Only fifty mg of caffeine per eight oz.? This really disappointed me. amp has more caffeine per eight oz. than this. Moving on, the kick I got from Wired X Berry Rush was pretty decent, giving me a good three and a half hour buzz. During the three+ hours, I felt some mild jitters and twitches, but once the three+ hours was done I was hit by a hard and sudden crash. I felt groggy and just moped around the house til I went to bed.

FINAL WARD: Overall, I feel that Wired X Berry Rush is a below average energy drink. The can was poor, the flavour was mediocre and the kick was fair to middling. I didn't have the highest hopes for Wired X Berry Rush, so while I can't that I'm disappointed, I can say that it doesn't encourage me to try the other thousands of energy drinks in the Wired line. All in all, if your looking for a cheap, run of the mill blue raspberry energy drink, give Wired X Berry Rush a try, but if your looking for anything else, its best to only buy at discount or avoid completley...3.1/5

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