In my prize-winning review of Monster Hydro's Tropical Thunder I said "if it truly wishes to due battle with sports drinks... the lack of a screw off cap limits its mobility." And somehow, they listened! Maybe not to me, but to their consumers, as the product's transport now has resealable top! Sure, it is far less interesting than the "plastic can" of their earlier efforts, but it shows progress, and I am touched.
The flavor is complete candy gobbledygook, tasting like melted purple popsicles. At a tall twenty five plus ounces, its basic profile is too much, overwhelming the palate with its deceptively destructive primitiveness. There is zippo in the way of nuance, red and green grapes tasted in tandem but without candor, they are sweet for the sake of containing calories, 160 to be exact with a total of thirty seven grams of sugar and glucose. Sucralose is also present, but it is buried and bruised by the stronger sugars, and does little to help the experience from being too sweet. For every decent mouthfeel the carbohydrates provide, they work without acidic supervision, making mouthfuls cloying and not particularly refreshing. The bubbly absence does increase drinkability, especially since this is basically a energy sports drink, but the serving size is too tremendous, and the sips too saccharine.
190 milligrams of caffeine offers a pretty decent kick, lasting about three hours, increased if you take your time suckling from the non-carbonated elixir. Other ingredients include B vitamins and electrolytes, the latter of which should have improved the flavor. But it did not, and Monster Hydro Purple Passion is just a big dopey purple mass of disappointment.
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