Adrenaline Shoc Sour Candy Energy Drink Review

Adrenaline Shoc really is an awesome name for a power potable, and its simplistic visuals really stand out. Problem this time around was that it caught my eye on the shelf of my local dollar store, home of forgotten brands and discontinued drinks. What does this say about the company's "Sour Candy" offering? Nothing good I am afraid.

Ultimately, this is nothing but an apple adventure, the misleading moniker saddening my palate with its complete creative insufficiency. The fruit impersonates the Granny Smith cultivar exclusively, reducing the rendition to mindless mimicry that simultaneously bores your tongue as well as overwhelms it. Another variety, perhaps Red Delicious with its distinct sweetness, could help soften the otherwise stagnant experience. To its credit, sucralose and ace-k, the drink's diet sugar duo, produce something without any hit of artificiality, no doubt aided by the spirit's incessant acidity. The tartness does remind me of, well, apples, which is about the nicest thing I can say about it.

300 milligrams of caffeine provides a rocking buzz, one that lasts approximately three and a half hours. Other ingredients include amino acids, B vitamins, guarana, yerba mate, electrolytes and BCAAs. On the whole, Adrenaline Shoc Sour Candy satisfies better than its nearest competitor, Bang Candy Apple Crisp. There, I said it, now get outta here.

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Adrenaline Shoc 04 Fruit Punch Smart Energy Drink Review

This can to our right is quite the looker, free of clutter and embracing the art of simplicity. Your eyes are given room to soak in the starkly uninterrupted red backdrop, unsure how to handle themselves without the usual busyness. Spot this in your local store's chill chest however, and a problem emerges; the edge holding the cans in place can completely obscure the logo here, as it did for me, so at first glace this is just an empty piece of metal.

The flavor is most certainly fruit punch, but not for the better. The produce at play today are a most generic bunch, mostly cherry, apple, and lime, with a slight undercurrent of guava. Absent are many of the usual suspects, such as pineapple and passionfruit, making for an experience that just tastes "off," a simple dish mislaid of crucial ingredients. What is most missed is the acidity those pieces of nectar would introduce, resulting in a sourness that crumbles beneath the imposing weight of the artificial saccharinity combatting the herbal grossness of all the supplements inside. Sucralose and ace-k, the default diet sugar duo, have their work cut out for them but fail, focusing not on correctly sweetening the flavors. Instead the team fights a cascade of caffeine, amino acids, and other additives, disregarding how it impacts the drinker's appreciation of the vegetation just as long as they do not notice any bitterness. It is a strange mix of ideas, as it ignores the drinker while simultaneously trying what is best for them.

The energy here is probably why anyone would pick up a can; 300 milligrams is a cool amount, and the buzz received is no slouch, lasting three hours. Overall, Adrenaline Shoc 04 Fruit Punch works against itself and the consumer. The drinker ends up losing, but not by much.

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Adrenaline Shoc Cotton Candy Energy Drink Review

These newfangled "workout" energy drinks, you know, the ones that insinuate that exercise and excess caffeine really do mix, are a confusing bunch. Despite being sugar free, they often feature flavors based on foods that are, well, pretty much all sugar. Adrenaline Shoc is a line of this soft drink genre, and today's drink is "Cotton Candy." Its can is stoic and proud, but seems to think that the fairy floss favorite comes in only one color; obviously, they have never seen the teeth-rotting treat in its real world habitat.

There is something wrong here. No, not the aforementioned dichotomy of sweet inspirations and diet reality, but instead something that rears its ugly, unpleasant head with every imbibe. My tongue determined after a few investigational imbibes its origin, the potable's vanilla intent. A key characteristic to the experience, it is criminally undersweetened despite the drink's sucralose and ace-k involvement. This duo is disinterested in combatting its chemical cocktail of amino acids and caffeine, instead allowing for a metallic sting to remain on the palate well after you swallow the mildly effervescent elixir. All these aberrations distract from the actual cotton candy, which also includes an indeterminate blend of berries. If I were a betting man, I would herald the engagement of blue and raspberries, but who knows? I certainly cannot tell, and frankly, I am not too beat up about it.

Your body should expect a three and a half hour long buzz, thanks to all the aforesaid supplements. Other ingredients include B vitamins, electrolytes, guarana and yerba mate extract. To end, Adrenaline Shoc should leave cotton candy to the confectioners.

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Adrenaline Shoc Smart Energy Drink Review

Adrenaline Shoc is an interesting Big Lots find as it was not heavily discounted- I paid full price here! It is another entry in the growing field of "workout energy drinks," made popular, and butchered, by the Bang brand. The can stimulates mixed feelings- although refreshingly clean, my eyes nearly passed over this barren bunch of aluminum as my eyes scanned over the discount store's ice chest.

The flavor is a pleasant surprise, taking fewer cues from Red Bull and Monster and going for something more inspired, rather than "inspired by" another drink. Passive passion fruit is the main attraction here, a fruit almost solely exploited had it not been for unconfident observations of guava and apple. It adopts an aggressively artificial characteristic with a strong dose of chemical aftertaste, but your tastebuds are wisely distracted by the athletic acidity that dominates the second half of every imbibe. It is this tartness that is the real winner here, one that is just enough to make your lips pucker ever so slightly. Sucralose and ace-k are given charge of sweetness, and is ceremony here treads the line between clogging your palate with intense synthetic sugariness and keeping the 300 milligrams of caffeine in check. Unfortunately carbonation is the loser here, an apathetic effervescence that has ounces sipping as if they were flat; we have a full-sized drink here, we need the excitement!

The buzz, thanks to all that sweet aforementioned caffeine, is a rocking four hours in length. Other ingredients include: electrolytes, BCAAs, B vitamins, ginseng, and guarana. To end, Adrenaline Shoc looks, tastes, and kicks better than it really has any right to.

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