Nitrous Monster Anti Gravity Energy Drink Review

Where as Nitrous Monster Super Dry cost me $3.49, Nitrous Monster Anti Gravity only ran me $3.29! Am I a lucky dog or what? Anyway, Anti Gravity's can uses the original Monster can design as a major influence, but the web-like background and the black/orange colour pattern help the can become one of the better in the line recently. But there is one thing that bothers me about the can; its name "Anti-Gravity." It doesn't give a clear understanding to what the flavour is supposed to be, and it really doesn't fit with the rest of the design. It's not like they went for a space theme or something.

The flavour begins as a soda-like orange flavour that's sugary sweet but not syrupy, and it's fittingly citric. Then the flavour transitions to a much less sweet and more full bodied mango. The mango taste is soft and has a faint amount of a temperate sourness underlying. There's a dim grapefruit note followed by a stronger melon that's unpleasantly sour. The sourness is almost like that of a sour dairy product, which is not only repugnant but also unnecessarily present. The experience ends smoothly with no aftertaste. Nitrous carbonation is the gimmick Anti Gravity uses, and it's what gives the liquid an almost non existent, airy feel on your tongue. But this carbonation wasn't able to recreate the classically strong and rough carbonation common with orange soda, so it felt forced upon the initial flavour. And it really didn't enhance the mango or the melon taste, so it also felt unnaturally bound to the latter part of the flavour. So overall, I feel that Anti Gravity was a flavour Monster knew wasn't anything special, and so they tacked on a the pointless nitrous artifice in a failed attempt to change it from conventional to unconventional.

Monster Anti Gravity's energy blend consists of: caffeine(160mg), ginseng, taurine, guarana, inositol, L-carnitine, and several B vitamins. Once I finished the entire can, my energy level increased for two hours then it stayed steady for another hour or so. I didn't have any jitters, but the kick did end with a crash. Overall, Nitrous Monster Anti Gravity is nothing but an overpriced, underdeveloped gimmick of an energy drink.

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