Jolt Cola Review

Welcome back into my life Jolt, it has been too long. A staple of the nineties, this soft drink with, as the clean can reads has "all the sugar and twice the caffeine," has been absent from my greedy grubs for nine years. The can is just as any fan remembers it, albeit six ounces larger, but thanks to its large logo, clutter-free design and nostalgia, this is a packaging far more successful than many today (and certainly more so than its awkward "energy drink" days).

Taste-wise, you are welcomed to faint nuances of cinnamon, lemon, and vanilla, a completely stock experience for your tastebuds that is as obvious and corporate as any canned mass-produced cola. Yet, the lack of high fructose corn syrup (and use of plain ol' sugar) gives every imbibe a thicker, slightly grainy mouthfeel that outshines your usual mega-brand beverages. There is not much in the way of complexity, each sip sipping without much pizazz or precaution, but it is prideful of is traditional trappings as in, it drinks as any cola should, which must have been all I was thirsty for today.

Fifty grams of sugar and 200 calories brings us 160 milligrams of caffeine, and that is all. There are no other supplements here to potentially pollute the flavor, no hard-to-pronounce ingredients from some foreign land, just good old caffeine. And it works, providing a solid two and a half hour long kick that is slightly jittery, but what the hell, let us all be sentimental today and forgive such a minor blemish.

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