I am not sure how I feel about Lucky's can here: it's basic white backdrop gives way to far too much text, all of varying size, fonts, color and importance. But then there is the liquid mercury cat statue, melting in what I can surmise is this hot summer weather. Then there is the strip of duct tape, for who knows what reason. Like, seriously, what is going on here?
Despite consistent consumption of contrasting caffeinated cocktails, I have not had regular Monster in, golly, a long time. And although Lucky here is a totally different brand, that is what this reeks of. Flavor-wise, it makes the critical error in parading the medicinalness of its ingredients; sips have this chemical burn that hits the back of your throat, moving up to impact the entirety of your palate. Quickly becoming all you can taste, you are only allowed an ever so brief encounter with vanilla, bubble gum and cotton candy, a familiar trilogy here, before the flavors just give up, succumbing to the pharmaceutic influence of the stimulants inside these thin metal walls. Sucralose sweetens alone and cannot handle the stress of it all, losing the battle before the fight even begins; it is so chronically undersweetened that I found myself double-checking the ingredients, convinced the sixteen ounces had no sugar, synthetic or otherwise. I do not want to sound like such a downer, so I will end with the one positive note: while there is not all that much acidity, what little sourness that is present is puckering, pleasant and I wish there was more of it.
The brief ingredient list contains taurine, ginseng, beta alanine and maca root, so if those wet your whistle, then boy howdy are you in for a treat. I, of course, care about the 200 milligrams of caffeine, a solid amount that almost makes up for the terrible taste and confounding can.
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