Outlaw Fruit Punch Energy Drink Review

Outlaw returns, with a shrink wrapped can sporting a new design and formulation. Fewer calories and reduced caffeine, it is a compromise as the brand takes a complete u-turn from its heydays as a cowboy themed potable.

The fruit punch flavor, with just ninety calories, does a pretty decent job in the grand scheme of things. Your usual suspects are out on patrol today with guava, pineapple, lime, and mango; it is unsurprising company. Saccharinity is where the experience shines, twenty grams of pure cane sugar, along with sucralose, try their best within the restricted creativity of the flavors they sweeten. But the biggest knock against the potation as a whole is a two-part problem: the climax. Or rather, the lack of one. Your sips crash down without celebration, sip after sip the liquid fizzles out of memory by an overarching watery characteristic that cleans your palate of any good time your taste-buds just had. The second disappointment with the ending is the missing acidity, something your tongue pines for with each imbibe; the drink screams so loudly for a tartness that you can practically hear their cries for some sourness.

Each can contains a solid 200 milligrams of caffeine, down fifty milligrams from the product's original incarnation. Other ingredients include B vitamins, yerba mate, ginseng, and guarana. Overall, not a bad effort, but I have had better.

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Outlaw Passion Energy Drink Review

These Outlaw drinks keep appearing on store shelves, a random can shoved haphazardly next to the more popular brands across many gas stations near me. Passion is the next variety, and its deep purple is a nice change of pace from the company's ungainly bright cans, though the design remains leadened and generic.

There is no juice here, but the flavor is so full-on passionfruit you would swear the can read "NOS." Every sip is potent, an explosion of grainy sweetness and acrid acidity, but it works. It is a famous energy drink flavor, one that is almost tough to drink due to its preposterous effervescence, a coarse, heavy carbonation that drinks like every bubble is wearing a scratchy wool sweater. When it boils down to actual taste things are quite forgettable, it is your typical passionfruit flavored caffeinated potable that is every bit as sugary and tart as the potations it mimics. I wish there was something unique here, but at least they parodied something other than Red Bull.

This is where things get good- we get 250 milligrams of caffeine, along with taurine, B vitamins, ginseng, maca root, and guarana. The buzz lasts a good three hours, perhaps a few minutes over that, and all that sugar results in a bit of a crash, just like drinks did all those years ago. Overall, Outlaw Passion is an uninspired clone that remains fairly fun to drink.

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Outlaw Fruit Punch Energy Drink Review

Bright red helps the banal design of Outlaw stand out, but it continues to struggle to not look like a store-brand beverage from a decade ago. It is clean and easy to read, sure, but then again, what is the word "original" doing here? Is this the "Original" Outlaw, or are you claiming this is the original energy drink?

Sugar and glucose do the sweetening, in addition to the zero-calorie sucralose. They do an admiral job, giving the flavor a weighted mouthfeel and slightly grainy texture. Oh, the flavor, that is right, knew I was forgetting something. That is because this is the same fruit punch blend I have tasted since the energy drink since the energy drink stone age. You know the one, you taste cherry, guava, pineapple, and lime. Its acidity is a bit underwhelming but there is some sourness. It all makes for a completely generic fruit punch.

250 milligrams of caffeine top off a pretty solid kick, the best thing about this drink. Other ingredients include taurine, ginseng, guarana, maca root and l-carnitine. Overall, Outlaw Fruit Punch is as generic as an energy drink can get, circa 2005.

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Outlaw Original Energy Drink Review

This bright gold can is completely generic, its name, design and fonts are all uninteresting. This could be a good idea, a western themed potable, but there is not an ounce of personality or thematic congruence- is there any reason to have "original" written twice? Dear Outlaw, that does not make you twice as original.

Well, what a surprise, we have a Red Bull clone here, but it is not a bad one. The usual suspects are front and center, vanilla, citrus and apple all tied by a thin, slightly syrupy sweetness thanks to a blend of sugar, glucose and sucralose. It is well balanced and should appeal to those who seek out such a familiar flavor. Effervescence is unremarkable but keeps the sips from dragging, and that about sums up the entire experience.

Each can contains: taurine, ginseng, maca root, guarana, B vitamins, and 250 milligrams of caffeine. The kick is the best thing here, lasting a great three hours. To end, Outlaw Original is drinkable, but that is hardly a reason to bail this potation out of energy drink jail.

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