Mtn Dew AMP Game Fuel Charged Original Dew Review

Mtn Dew and AMP are once again appearing on the same can, after about a decade of brand segregation. This flavor also resurrects the "Game Fuel" moniker, used in the past to promote a new video game launch, though this time there is no advertisement in sight. The design is busy, with way too much text, from generic puffery such as "alertness" and "accuracy" to the unnecessary tutorial on how to open the transport's gimmicky top, which slides up and can resealed.

The flavor feels ripped straight from a can Mtn Dew Kickstart Original, right down to the eruption of effervescence as the first sip splashes down on your tongue. It is lacking acid, potency, and personality, a disappointing hodgepodge of lemon, melon, and lime, tasting like a sort of hipster's version of the famously sugary Pepsi product. The sweetener system is a predictable high fructose corn syrup, sucralose and ace-k, which does a decent job never tasting too artificial or gummy, but it is lacking punch. Maybe it is the scant five percentage of juice, but there is a rough edge to every imbibe, something almost earthy that pokes its unpleasant head onto your palate. The saccharinity certainly is not capable of controlling this anomaly, a sugariness that sips far too passively with twenty three grams of sugar for an audience OK with the original Dew's seventy seven grams per twenty ounces.

Considering the AMP so proudly displayed on the can, I was hoping for more than just ninety milligrams of caffeine and an hour long kick. Ginseng, yerba mate, ginseng, vitamin A and B vitamins make up the remainder of the energy blend. Overall, AMP and Mtn Dew's reunion is a misfire.

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