Rowdy Chiseled Ice Energy Drink Review

"Chiseled Ice" is a fabulously loony suggested flavor, but the can does not seem to understand its potential. What I imagine is a six-pack muscle on some frozen sculpture; instead we get text on a white background. It is so boring! Aside from some stylized wording, design elements just sit there. It is too verbose to achieve the minimalist look it so desperately desires.

What could this taste like, vanilla maybe? That is what I thought, and I am still not entire sure I was wrong. What we have here is a classic example of the vague citrus, mostly lemon but its forgotten in a sea of misty sourness. Raspberry can be found lurking in the tartness, but it amounts to nothing in the grand scheme of the potation. That is not a bad thing, but the experience is so one dimensional that you sip with a mission to find something else going on, and there is not. The most creative thing here is its mouthfeel, which has a sort of creamy texture with a carbonation that would not be amiss in an energy coffee, had this any actual cream mind you. Is it vanilla? I do not know, and frankly I am not interested in figuring it out.

160 milligrams of caffeine provides a satisfying but expected kick, lasting almost three hours. Other ingredients include several vitamins, electrolytes and others. In the end, Rowdy Chiseled Ice needed something that I cannot place my tongue on, but as of now it is incomplete.

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Rowdy Cherry Limeade Energy Drink Review

Rowdy, what a great name for an energy drink. Unfortunately the can inhabiting the branding is very average. Text just sits on the solid white background, reading without any sense of movement. On a completely other level, how could you name a power potable "Rowdy" without getting the Rowdy Roddy Piper license? Blasphemy!

I am a pushover for experiences like this, one that throws balance out the window and is tart, tart and more tart. But what really sets the potation apart is the how the acidity is handled; cherry initiates things with a subtle seeping of sourness, with a touch of sweetness keeping it from really rocking your palate. Lime then crashes the party, disregarding the soft saccharinity in favor a hard acme of additional astringency, the kind that puckers both your lips and tongue. The sip then leaves your mouth without any real trace, a surprisingly clean finish to the evolving elixir. There is only eighteen grams of carbohydrates, working with allulose, erythritol, monk fruit extract and stevia, a quadrilogy of diet sugars who's usual aftertaste is lost in the cacophonic climax. In truth, the fruits barely register as anything found in nature, but Rowdy wisely keeps your tastebuds on their toes so much that you either never really notice, or even care.

The two and a half hour long buzz is standard stuff, thanks to an entirely standard 160 milligrams of caffeine. Other ingredients include B and C vitamins, electrolytes, and l-theanine. Overall, Rowdy Cherry Limeade makes its Caffeine King debut with a bang.

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