NOS Turbo Energy Drink Review

Returning to the energy drink ring is NOS with their new Turbo variety, a welcome throwback to the brand's early days of high caffeination (we have 300 milligrams here). The potent artifice is front and center, but what makes this entry unique is poorly visualised; the can's real estate is cramped and what this will actually taste like is nowhere to be read. Is it orange flavored or does it feature the classic NOS taste? A two-something dollar exchange with the local gas station clerk is the only way to find out.

Was there any doubt this was not going to taste like classic NOS? This is passion fruit flavored through and through, an aggressive flavor that wastes zero time waking up your taste buds. Its effervescence is equally testy, as if the thousands of little tiny bubbles all wore cleats. Each time you toss back the can for another imbibe, the coarsely carbonated cocktail crashes onto your palate with an immediate taste of nasty chemicals before succumbing to the hostility of the company's trademark fruit. It tastes like plastic, as if the liquid was quaffed from a bottle, not an aluminum can, that had been rotting in a store's backroom shelf for years. But this drink is all-new, and the antagonistic taste of treated compounds and polymers kicks and bruises your tongue before collapsing into frothy familiarity. Perhaps it is the artificial sweeteners here, sucralose and ace-k, or even all the amino acids and other supplements? Who knows, but I do know that it just does not taste very good.

Each can contains that lovely 300 milligrams of caffeine, but there is also several B vitamins, inositol, and the aforesaid BCAA's. The buzz is pretty great, lasting almost four hours and thanks to having no sugar, there is not much of a crash. Overall, NOS Turbo's fatal mistake is not taking its flavor seriously.

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