Lighter Spider Mimic Energy Drink Review

Lighter Spider Mimic has one of the best cans I have seen all year; it has just enough chaos without being busy, but still looks fairly svelte. The common arachnophobia gives the beverage's theme enough edge, and its slogan, "Big Bite, No Fright," is just great.

Vanilla introduces the experience, with a heavy dosing of apple and a dash of spice. The trilogy of tastes are mundane but balanced, a boring blending of familiar tastes that is nevertheless proportioned. Acidity is low key upon the initial greeting of flavor and tongue, but does pick up as the experience is experienced. Acesulfame potassium and sucralose are the sweetener system here, a tired-and-true team who do some real mediocre work here, while never tasting artificial or repulsive, never doing more than their job. Its effervescence is what kills it, it is a bland, leadened carbonation that fails to inspire and excite the experience out of its humdrum complacency.

Each can contains: taurine, l-carnitine, ginseng, green tea, guarana, lots of B vitamins, and 240 milligrams of caffeine. The last one there, ya know, the caffeine, put a huge smile on my face; it is refreshing to find a company who consistently caffeinates its drinks. (I am looking at you, Monster!) Overall, although Lighter Spider Mimic is open with its insipid inspiration, it remains very insipid.

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Spider Mimic Energy Drink Review

Spider Mimic wastes no time informing consumers that it is your classic energy drink flavor; industry term for "Red Bull clone." But hey, there is a market for drinks like this, particularly when the can is sharp. The green on black coloring is a bit bewildering however; shouldn't a Red Bull clone use the famous Red Bull color-scheme?

It has been a long since I had actually had a can of Red Bull; its price tag remains far too steep to ever persuade me to take the nostalgic plunge back to the energy drink stone-age. Even the Austrian beverage seems to be distancing itself from its archaic flavor with the fruit-flavored varieties it pumps out regularly. But the taste here is alright, your C-student cocktail of vanilla and bubble gum, drowned in saccharinity and acidity- not necessarily tartness but the kind of acridity that destroys an empty stomach. Fifty five grams of sugar, sucrose and glucose, sweeten the hell out of the experience, pardon the language, and all this makes for an energy drink that tastes too much like it is proud to be this unimaginative.

This is where things really get cooking! Each can contains: taurine, B vitamins, ginseng, guarana, green tea, and 240 milligrams of caffeine. Overall, I have seen the movie "Spider" and the movie "Mimic;" both of those are more original than the energy drink Spider Mimic.

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Spider Rise Again! Energy Drink Review

Spider Rise Again! is the compulsatory "recovery" variety of the brand, a variety now found in most big and small brands alike. Its bright yellow can gets the point across and is fairly sharp, however there is too much text and too many fonts layered on the aluminum. Its name also does not make the most sense; there has not been a flavor called "Rise" or "fall," so how can this be "Rise Again?"

With all the writing on the can the word "strawberry" never caught my eyes, and they opened with surprise at the initial pink color of the liquid. First sip demonstrates the five percentage of lemon juice with a slight edge of an organic tartness. Otherwise that edge is dull, chipped and rusted, two grams of sugar uselessly attempting to thrill the flat flavor. The lemon in this lemonade remains exclusive to that paltry juice percentage, an experience that is in need of a lemon "ade" to help you finish the entire fifteen something ounces. Any strawberry taste loiters around the subfusc sourness, a fruit hardly noticeable yet screams for a more acidity, saccharinity and purpose. The Spider brand is littered with derivative but delectable flavors, but Rise Again is more than just creatively bankrupt, it is not deserving of the exclamation mark in its name.

The beverage's sole saving grace here is the nearly four hour long buzz, thanks to a gnarly cocktail of: caffeine (240 milligrams), taurine, B vitamins, l-carnitine, ginseng, green tea, and guarana. It is a great, smooth boost without any crash after. In the end, I did not like this Spider. Rise Again? This is the beverage that would have fallen the brand.

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Spider Pucker Punch Energy Drink Review

Pucker Punch is the latest flavor in this almost forgotten arachnid line of energy drinks, obviously the obligatory fruit punch variety. Its can is a bright red and fits the bill for the aforementioned flavor, but gone is the edge of the brand, the hardcore aspect is traded for its new, luminous coat of paint.

A zero percentage of juice matters none in the flavor to this new Spider variety; vibrant sweetness, a bold cocktail of vegetation, and yes, a puckering tartness. Cherry, lime, and tangerine are the forerunners of every sip, a potent opening trilogy blended almost seamlessly with no one fruit taking command. Pineapple and guava are flavors enviously tampered and tasted a notch below, a duet that brings the depth expected from any good fruit punch. Saccharinity needs to be addressed; there is (only) thirty grams of the sweet stuff to sweeten the stuff, leaving sucralose to pick up any slack. It does, the two do their job with enough pizzazz and without any syrupy or artificial bite. Overall, Pucker Punch fails to reinvent the wheel, but it did not set out to. Instead, this is a mid-calorie, tasty punch made better by its ninety nine cent price tag.

Each can contains: 120 calories, taurine, l-carnitine, ginseng, guarana, green tea, and 240 milligrams of caffeine. That last part really tickles my innards, crafting a three and a half hour buzz almost unheard of for a reduced calorie drink. In the end, Spider Pucker Punch's potency, inexpensiveness, and pleasant flavor forgive its mediocre appearance.

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Lighter Spider Widow Maker Energy Drink Review

Pink with contrasting blackness creates perfect ambiance to this clean and sharp can. The text is balanced with knowledge of what is important; the slogan up top is ignored in favor of the darker logo, feeding your eyes down into its diet declaration and flavor, or variety name rather.

Pomegranate tops off the gentle flavors of raspberry and acai, faded and mispronounced juxtaposed to the former. They have the combined texture that is both powdery and mossy, a playful but dimensionless presence on the palate. Lamentably the experience overall is the same; the precedent tastes are shoal and shallow, forcibly false flavors who sit static on the tongue. The saccharinity is impressive however, so dynamic without even a hint of artificiality that it is a shame it is stuck sweetening such a stagnant drink. Every sip is indistinguishable from the last, a monotonous experience that tastes darn good. Does it make sense? It does not have to, and it does not.

Each can contains: caffeine (240 milligrams), taurine, ginseng, guarana, l-carnitine, and many B vitamins. The kick is four hours strong but induced jitters, but fortunately no crash. Drinkers: this is a really decent drink, potent, great looking, and good tasting. But I would never drink it again. Conflicting? Yes it is.

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Spider Widow Maker Energy Drink Review

Spider Widow Maker's near excessive use of purplish pink keeps it from hitting all the right notes. Sure, it looks great off of the grim blackness, and it's wholly appropriate with the eight legged critter theme, but there is a bit too much of it, with even the newly implemented "$.99" insignia being encircled in the colour. But at least things do not appear cluttered, with the design being as clean as it ever, even with several new textual additions.

The flavour uses a sort of pomegranate base that's topped off with acai, who isn't bothered with enough silly details to match either whole naturalness or complete candying. We're instead presented this sort of cross of the two, with it depicting great robustness while being ever still nectarous. But the four lettered fruit isn't absent of an indirect blueberry suggestion that's analogously stalwart but unequally exotic. The aforementioned foundation is detailed more consistently, with it never achieving authenticity but never attempting to do so. It too is melliferous and proud of it, and shows influences of both strawberry and blue raspberry. Both thrive within the empty carbohydrates, though the former particularly proliferates because of its inexpert simplicity. Overall, Spider Widow Maker's taste is successful because the saccharinity livens the fruits so you notice them and never the actual sweetness.

The ingredient cocktail is listed explicitly, with all the amounts of everything involved cleanly stated: caffeine(240mg), taurine, various B vitamins, guarana, L-carnitine, and ginseng. The buzz lasted a tad longer than four hours, and it did call for some jitters. All in all, Widow Maker is a pleasing and logical extension of the line.

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Lighter Spider Energy Drink Review

Lighter Spider has got to be one of my favourite names for an energy drink in quite some time, but it's not just a novelty name, as it does allude to that the drink is the sugar free version of Spider. Lighter Spider comes in a can that's almost optically identical to its full sugar brother, with a few minor additions and deductions that sufficiently give it its own separate identity. One of the few changes involves the slogan, which has since been modified to read "Get Bit, Stay Fit," which while undeniably cheesy, is still appropriate with both the namesake creature and its sugar free nature.

Lighter Spider's taste begins with a muffled mango that's hollowed and filled by a blend of lemon and melon. The mango flavour feels distant and lacks any sort of stern demeanor, but it does have an incompletely developed tang that's appreciated by both me and the neighboring fruits. The aforementioned hybrid tastes much less like a synthetic crossing of two foreign flavours, and more like an inevitable pairing that's naturally caused, and as a sugar free drink, the overall taste benefits greatly by this authentic quality. The lemon itself is artificial but still blissful, and it discharges a weak sourness that isn't anemic for the flavour but is for the fruit it originates from, how ever factitious it tastes. The three fruits avoid ever becoming obsolete, and while one may be more arresting than another, never does a flavour act predominately. Implications of both tangerine and grapefruit appear incorporeal, and they really only arrive just after the climax of the previous flavours, and they last well into the drink's brief aftertaste. Carbonation was fairly brute but never overwhelming, and the experience's overall sweetness was surprisingly vibrant considering the lack of any sugar. In the end, Lighter Spider is unlike regular Spider in that it tasted much less of orange and instead more like a generalization of the broad citrus genre, which to me is fine alteration as it was done skillfully.

Caffeine(240mg), several B vitamins, taurine, ginseng, and guarana are in each can of Lighter Spider, and like its sugared cousin, I felt energized for over four hours. I had no jitters and no crash followed the multiple hours. Overall, while it lacks the ambition to do anything previously unseen, Lighter Spider is nonetheless a thoughtfully executed energy drink.

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Spider Energy Drink Review

I'll be blunt and admit that I absolutely dislike spiders all together, but my odium for the arachnid does not prevent me from enjoying Spider Energy's can. The dual outlines of the eight legged creatures give the eyes a lot to digest, but the three colour colour pattern and the lack of any unnecessary text prevents clutter and gives the design an almost sense of elegance. And unlike many energy drinks that name themselves after a member of the animal kingdom, Spider doesn't sound cliche nor does it feel overly or obviously inspired by Red Bull.

Spider's taste begins with a sparkle of carbonation that playfully leads to the introduction of a copiously complex orange. The fruit doesn't attempt to taste natural nor does it try to be candied, but rather the orange feels like a mixed breed between the two, but it cleverly takes a few aspects of each, thus bringing a sort of uniqueness and depth to a common flavour. The citrus carries a finely trim degree of tartness that doesn't wholly allow the orange to lean either way, and carried in the same hand is a joyful sweetness who's edges are syrupy slightly. This sugariness is kindred mostly to the latter of the two breeds, and it quickly glazes the orange thinly. Along with a mild sourness, there's then a sporing of a authentic lemon taste that's spiced lightly of ginger. The just prior remains mostly trivial throughout the entire experience, but as it nears its closing, the ginger is adopted into the sugary gloss where it then tickles the orange just before it bankrupts. Overall, Spider's taste was familiar yet detailed with bits of originality, and while it's not necessarily the best, it is one of the better all sugar orange energy drinks I've this year.

Spider's slogan is "Get Bit, Stay Lit," which is a witty and indirect description of its kick. I had energy lasting over four hours, and it was mostly jitter free, and I didn't crash. Each can contains: caffeine(240mg), taurine, several B vitamins, ginseng, and guarana. All in all, while Spider won't set the world on fire, I wouldn't be surprised if several small countries were set ablaze. Meaning; Spider does a lot of things well, but nothing really its own.

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