Gorgie Sparkling Cranberry Party Pop Energy Drink Review

To avoid sounding like the Grinch, I do not feel all that warm and tingly inside looking at the various shades of red to Gorgie Cranberry Party Pop. The wavy pattern makes the faint white text hard to read, and there is a lot of it at both ends of the small metallic real estate on offer from its twelve ounce transportation.

A lovely shade of deep vermilion pours out, really selling its cranberry basis. First sip, however, exposes a less than convincing development. While there is a shock of acidity, a tartness that had my lips curling into my tongue, there is a harshness to it, a bitter bite that resembles munching on those crunchy crimson circles as any could. Problem is, who eats raw cranberries? The fruit hardly registers on the palate, the sparkling cocktail really not having all that much in terms of flavor, specifically very little of that wonderfully complex holiday nectar. Each gulp ends up simply tastes like dirt, every imbibe starting with an avalanche of earthiness and climaxing with a steady trickle of herbal funk. The potent potable's overall dearth of a decent sugariness does not help;  sweetened with glycosides (reb m), the experience is inappropriately undersweetened, unable to rescue poor palates from the medicinal clutches of all the crude supplements making their influence known throughout the mouth.

A cool 150 milligrams of caffeine does help soften the blow of the overall disaster that is Gorgie Cranberry Party Pop- a two hour or so long buzz that is like every other similarly sized energy drinks around. But after this, I will not be RSVP'ing to their next shindig.

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Gorgie Sparkling Paradise Punch Energy Drink Review

I love it when an energy drink has "best served chilled," or some variation of that on the can: like who is out there imbibing on warm potent potables?! In any event, Gorgie's can here is shrink-wrapped on, which feels especially cheap around the top-most lip, where it runs the risk of slicing open my poor mouth parts. Oh well.

There is hardly a flavor I prefer over fruit punch, maybe lime or perhaps pineapple, and Gorgie's scent scratches me right where I itch. But as for flavor, there is a cardinal sin committed: mouthfuls climax in a watery torrent of blandness, carbonation quickly fading to insinuate the sensation of sipping on a still flavored water. The effervescence is easily the biggest issue here, as even when you take that initial gulp, you wonder if perhaps the words "filtered carbonated water" is a misprint on the ingredients label- it is that flat. The fruit punch portion of is surprisingly good though, with all the usual suspects like cherry, lime and guava, nothing supremely surprisingly here, but it gets the job done. I cannot get over the bland finish though, knocking this drink down a few pegs below decent.

The 150 milligrams of caffeine we have here is a nice touch, granting a solid three hour long buzz. We also have various B vitamins, but I ain't "The B Vitamin King."

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