Bucked Up Rocket Pop Energy Drink Review

The Bucked Up brand is back with a particularly patriotic potable, inspired no doubt by a certain frozen ice treat popular around the fourth of next month. For what it is, the visuals are appealing, clean with only a slight buildup of text towards the bottom of the design, but hey, aside from me, what is perfect?

The flavor is dynamite, an explosion of strawberry, blue raspberry, and grape balanced in surprising harmony. You can taste the trilogy with every part of your tongue, all furthest from anything found in actual nature but immensely thirst-quenching, especially on a hot summer day; nailing both the sweet and sour profile expected from its obvious influence. But what sets the experience apart from other, lesser potations is the texture, a powdery mouthfeel that so many diet drinks are sorely missing. Is it one-dimensional? Yeah, but so what, I gulped and gulped until there was but nary a drip left inside its sixteen ounce walls, and that folks is the sign of a solid energy drink.

With 300 milligrams of caffeine, the kick is what a taste like this deserves, a rocking one. Lasting three and a half hours, the buzz is exactly what you would expect. Other ingredients include B vitamins, taurine, and others. In the end, Rocket Pop is not only the best Bucked Up, it is one of the better energy drinks in general in a long, long time.

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Bucked Up Wild Orchard Energy Drink Review

What kind of flavor is "Wild Orchard?" The can does not explain it, so what is the average consumer supposed to do? Pull out their smart-device and look it up? You had better be confident that you are a good product, or maybe you are just naive. The can, anyway, is shrink-wrapped so it feels cheap to the palm, but its design is rather clean, with its logo simple and bold.

The scent is disgusting, like dollar store perfume sparkling out to your wincing nose. But your first sip does not fare a whole lot better. How bad? Let us just say I checked the expiration date I was so confident that this had spoiled. It had not, in fact, we have over a whole year before the "best before date." Your tongue immediately leaps almost straight out of your mouth as the liquid crashes down like acid rain. I sipped and sipped but struggled figuring out what in the hell this resembled, but with an excruciating sixteen ounces to stomach, all my palate could detect was a most disturbing floral taste, like rose water gone rogue. The website claims pear and grape are involved, but there is no way, absolutely no way that can be true. Sucralose and ace-k do the sweetening but clearing are on vacation and forgot to take me along, as mouthfuls are medicinal and rotten, lacking any sort of sugariness that could have helped this come even remotely close to what humans drink. This is what aliens drink.

I feel like every energy drink today is "potent," with so many now containing so much caffeine that my body has become deaden to the effects. Sure, we have 300 milligrams of the stimulant, and yeah, it satisfied my chemical addiction, but so what? Other ingredients include vitamins, taurine, ginseng, amino acids, stuff like that. Overall, Bucked Up Wild Orchard looks and kicks OK, but the flavor is so bad, sooooo bad that I wish I could invent new words to describe just how truly, utterly, amazingly awful it is. My tongue will never recover, and if there ever was a potent potable that could make someone retire, this would be it.

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Bucked Up Gym N' Juice Energy Drink Review

I miss the early days of the energy drink boom. Red Bull was the standard flavor, and all these brands cropped up to try and take a piece of the caffeinated pie. Sure, a lot were crap, but a lot took risks, and all tried to come up with a reason to consume their product over the Austrian import.

The market is different today. Bang clones are the norm, and its unbridled amount of varieties, outrageous 300 milligrams of my namesake and diet origins means that there is no constant; gone is the direct comparison. Take Bucked Up here, what the hell am I supposed to make of a flavor labeled "Gym N' Juice?" Especially since, well, it contains no actual juice.

Citrus surprisingly swims out of the sixteen ounce can, a grapefruit base with a taunting tickle of lemon around the edges. It is not bad honestly, especially since it emphasizes sourness of blind sweetness. Why is that a good thing? The sugar free nature of Bucked Up has sucralose and ace-k in charge of the saccharinity, a familiar and sometimes balanced sweetener system that here is mild and disinterested in making your tongue soggy with their synthetic genesis. Sure, Gym N' Juice is one-note, afraid to take a chance with its fruity inspiration, leaving a funky supplement showcase in the back of your throat, but sips could have been a lot lot worse.

All the aforementioned caffeine makes for a rocking four hour long kick, what did you expect? Other ingredients include beta-alanine, taurine, tyrosine, ginseng, and a host of others. In the end, Bucked Up Gym N' Juice's mediocre looking and tasting potent potable with a rocking buzz.

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