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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Pomx Vanilla Iced Coffee Review

I like the lighter brown used to colour Pomx Vanilla more so than I did the darker shade that the previously reviewed Cafe au Lait utilized. The albino-like brown, however, does blend blandly with all the white text that's scattered across the design, so while I do like the colour I do not like the effect it has on the bottle. But regardless, although I do not enjoy either of the mentioned bottles, I would like to stress my preference towards the minor alteration, which seems to be one of the only few changes with this second variety in the Pomx line.

A smooth mouth feel that seamlessly becomes lusciously creamy as the sip inches closer towards being consumed describes what's initially tasted. The fluid depicts a rich thickness that has an almost fudge-like buttery and velvety texture that almost nears being too much. The creaminess proclaims a highly saccharine tail that's influenced heavily of vanilla. The vanilla flavour is genuine and it benefits vastly thanks to both the aforementioned sweetness and creaminess. There's a vein of butterscotch that flows underneath the surface of the flavour body, however it at times resembles nothing more than a substantially sugared vanilla. There's not much actual coffee taste, per se, however there is a noticeable aura of the morning favourite found within each sip. The inoculated suggestion creates an experience not all too different from those high calorie frappes that are known by many different brand names. The actual coffee flavour has minimum acidity and next to no bitterness, which disappoints given that the previous variety tasted so much like the popular beverage. Overall, while the taste was impressively surfeited of savoury creaminess, Pomx Vanilla surprisingly and unfortunately has little presence of the "great coffee flavour" that the bottle boasted so proudly.

The product contains an impressive 175 mg of caffeine, which is quite large for a bottle that's only ten point five ounces. I had around three hours of energy, which I began to notice fairly soon after the bottle was emptied. I had some instances of jitters but there wasn't any crash. Overall, Pomx Vanilla is certainly less impressive than Cafe au Lait before it, if only because the latter's stronger coffee flavour gave it a unique identity amongst energy coffees.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Pomx Cafe au Lait Iced Coffee Review

Pomx Cafe au Lait isn't an energy drink, per se, but with its solid content of 175mg of caffeine, I've decided that it qualifies for a Caffeine King review. Its bottle is a stout but unique looking one, and the label features a semi hypnosis effect using two shades of brown, but the aforementioned uniqueness doesn't dictate much appeal. First off, with much of the bottle consisting of only brown, it quickly becomes too much since there's nothing to offset the abundant colour. But perhaps my biggest issue is the name "Pomx." Given that most automatically relate the previous logo with pomegranates and their juice, this could easily bewilder potential buyers into thinking that this is a pomegranate flavoured iced coffee, when in reality it is just a coffee under an inappropriate insignia.

Pomx Cafe au Lait's taste, despite having milk as the first ingredient, is sodden far more of coffee than cream. The flavour begins with a pleasant and enjoyably saporous Arabican coffee that's distinct but never overwhelming or overly acidic. There's a creamy following that isn't as rich or as fatty as I'd like, but it thankfully avoids resembling skim milk. The coffee taste has a minimal quantity of blurred notes, but the most apparent is a semi sweet chocolate that chaperons its own bitterness that's more sweet than that of the prior. Nether is a faint detection of caramel, who is leaching of the previously described mild saccharinity, and as the caramel continues flavouring with the progressing experience it begins to metamorphose into more of a toffee like taste. The toffee, however, is far weaker in strength than the already infirm caramel, and by the time the sip is finished the toffee is no longer present. Brief woody notes then appear subtly and pave the path for a simple burnt flavour that's made more palatable by brown sugar taste. The just former opts to inculcate a sui generis flavour rather than do much of any sweetening, which I view a positive as the tame sugariness permits more focus on the actual coffee taste. Overall, the aspect I admired the most about Pomx Cafe au Lait's flavour is that it tastes more like coffee than most, but it's sweet and creamed enough for the mainstream to pleasure.

Yes, Pomx does contain antioxidants, but all I really care about is its suitable caffeine content of 175 mg. From this I had a decently quick energizing that lasted just over three hours and was followed unfortunately by a crash. In the end, I found Pomx Cafe au Lait at Big Lots for seventy five cents, and while I wasn't very visually impressed, the rest of the beverage was solid enough to justify what I paid, perhaps even more.

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