Shock Wave Infra Red Energy Drink Review

Infra Red, our next Shock Wave variety up for review, comes in a rather pink can considering its name. Using the basic template for the line, its generic swirls and banal texture are carried over with only the aforementioned color swap and two additional words. Here is a word for you Shock Wave: boring.

The carbonation here is fantastic; easily the best characteristic here. It is fun, bubbly as a good drink should, elevating each, otherwise gooey, sip. Fifty three grams of sugar, a bromidic ballet of dextrose and high fructose corn syrup, and they compete against the aforesaid effervescence for the levity dominance of every imbibe. The saccharinity lacks depth, pure sweetness slime without reason or rhyme. Gee, the flavor? That is a toughy, considering the potation's extreme focus on leaden sugariness. Cranberry is a definite, sporting a shocking juxtaposition of earthiness and tartness against all the empty carbohydrates creating all the empty calories. Its only real companion is some cherry, itself slightly tart but a far more sedated fruit flavor, lacking the organic zest of the berry.

160 milligrams, inositol, and ginseng make up the energy cocktail, brewing a two, perhaps two and a half, hour long kick. All in all, Shock Wave Infra Red is a bad experience, a drink less than the sum of its parts, with its parts being just as bad.