Code Mix with Guarana Energy Drink Review

Code Mix with Guarana comes to us thanks to Big Lots, and its unremarkable design and name are only fitting; for over a decade, the discount retailer was the place to find energy drinks for review, but with stores closing, it seems that this red and green can is the end of that chapter in The Caffeine King's life. What an awful, yet appropriate, way to go out. I will miss scouring your messy aisles for some misbegotten energy drink.

Pouring out from this sixteen ounce can is a golden elixir, one that reeks of chemicals; ah, just like the good old days. The flavor, however, is a bit more interesting than its "Red Bull scent' would lead you to be believe, though do not for a moment think this domesticated blend of vanilla, granny smith apple and bubble gum is anything but one. Crashing down on your unprepared palate is an acidic harshness, like a sour candy and cleaning product rolled into one. It immediately taints your tongue with the tartness, but fifty six grams of sugar is an amount too grandiose for even this pungent potable. With the swiftness your taste buds are slammed with this sticky saccharinity, the kind that keeps dentists up at night with nightmares of filling entire mouths with cavities. If you can somehow get past all the textural cacophony, you are met with a brief bitter climax, no doubt from what the ingredient list claims to be the flavor of guarana. Is it, er, nice? I am not sure; it is the only thing here that colors outside the lines.

The 230 empty calories are justified with just ninety five milligrams of caffeine, along with some extracts like ginseng and, of course, guarana. The sub-two hour long buzz really could have used, like, twice the amount of my namesake chemical, but alas, perhaps that was the reason this energy cocktail lived on the shelves of my local liquidation sale Big Lots.

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