Wired Strawberry Lemonade Energy Drink Review

Pathetic flames bore the generic text on this stock red can. It is Wired Strawberry Lemonade but you would not give this a second look based on its looks. Its brand is admittedly an adequate name for an energy drink, but the painted aluminum is cold, corporate and implores personality.

A trepidatious crack of the can unleashes a pleasant fragrance. But first sip is a categorical disappointment, stiff imitation of strawberry with no body or verve. The lemonade half of things fares worse, with accidentally insufficient sweetness and sourness. I regret the use of the word "lemonade," as each ounce is painfully bereft of any citrus, artificial or otherwise. Vivid effervescence tries madly to give the experience some identity, but cannot campaign against its leadened fruit imitations. Here we have a beverage of diluted taste and nugatory meaning, a flavor feckless and absurd.

An hour long kick is impermissible from a can this size. Ninety four milligrams of caffeine is far from enough. Also contains: inositol, taurine, and B vitamins. Overall, Wired Strawberry Lemonade is a fustian energy drink.

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Wired Passion Fruit Energy Drink Review

This is a pretty stock looking energy drink, but there is no denying how well the pink pops off of the blackness, as do the otherwise insignificant flames. But being identical to every other member of the line has this can falling to the same issues, namely the prolix name and other pleonastic text.

The can cracks open without hesitation, reeking of NOS' trademark stink. Taste-wise, there is the artificial passion fruit promised, with the expected synthetic sweetener bite, but also some unanticipated chalky tartness. It is nothing offensive, but the calcium provides that latter unpleasantry that proves too much in anything but small sips, inhibiting one from really noticing the otherwise mundane fruit-esque flavor. Wait, did I not just initiate that sentence by declaring the taste as being not that bad, only to close with jeer? I must be going crazy- oh wait, no, I am just tippling Wired Passion Fruit; the drink that makes no sense to the palate.

To an energy-junkie, there is nothing exciting here: caffeine (ninety four milligrams), aloe, inositol, taurine, green tea, and B vitamins. The kick is next to none-existent, perking up only the easily influenced for less than an hour and a half. To end, Wired Passion Fruit is a dry, wry, and bitterly boring beverage.

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Wired X344 Energy Drink Review

Wired X344's can is incredibly similar to that of X505, but its exact relation is unknown and the latter is believed to be discontinued. Its can has not been improved since it lifted its appearance, with the flames still adding nothing but distraction to an already distracted design. The logo itself, however, is not all too bad, with the varying fonts, sizes, and colours never feeling inorganically organized.

Ever still is this a Red Bull clone, albeit one with something of a personality. Fifty grams of HFCS and dextrose are not as sweet as you may imagine, with the large caffeine content certainly biting the experience with its bitter teeth. Every sip is rather syrupy but many are refreshing, and the initial taste is a thick uniting of vanilla and blueberry, with bubble gum and vague notes of apple eventually coming into play. Both fruits liquidate their natural qualities and all the flavours are medicinal and chemical, casually resembling any of the multifarious knock offs available. Wired X344 does not ever wander far from its stale heritage, though its insouciant attitude is guiltily enjoyable.

Caffeine(344mg), taurine, guarana, inositol, and several B vitamins make up the energy cocktail, an expectedly potent blend that kicks for four and a half hours. All in all, Wired X344 is a bit more than the sum of its shamelessly unimaginative parts.

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Wired Diet X B12 Rush Energy Drink Review

Wired Diet X B12 Rush doesn't make a good first impression for several reasons, but namely it's the name. It's long, choppy, and doesn't really make all too much sense, given using vitamin B12 as a selling point is entirely pointless, as your body just flushes out any unneeded amount through your urine. It's can, however, isn't as problematic as its name, but it still isn't anything to get excited about. The white symbolizes its lack of sugar, and the thin lacing of green does look rather good, but one does wish for more of it, and explicit word "diet" isn't normally used on energy drinks for a reason, and that's to keep stereotypical men from avoiding the product because they still associate the word with the opposite sex and/or with actual dieting.

The taste is initially lost within the walls of harsh carbonation, and as the punishing bubbles subside, the bland outlining of cheap citrus comes to attention. Lemon is noticed, but it's such a rough sketch of the oft zested fruit that its presence isn't appreciated. There is also a slight mentioning of lime, but it's just as an inept of a detailing as was its yellow sibling. Grapefruit then appears, and its natural mildness makes one not surprised with its etiolated existence, and as your palate remembers Fresca and Squirt because of the just prior, a bit of sourness dilates, and this bridges the near closure with the much earlier lemon and lime. It gives the experience the pleasing sense that what was begun is now closed; an organized sense of completion. Overall, Wired Diet X B12 Rush's taste is boring, and the sixteen ounces begins to become a chore on account of how uninteresting each sip is.

Ninety four milligrams of caffeine isn't anywhere impressive for a drink this size, and while there is also taurine, inositol, and obviously B vitamins to boot, the energy forerunner's meager quantity is lamentably low. All in all, Wired Diet X B12 Rush is drinks like an off brand soda, and kicks like an eight ounce energy drink.

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Wired X505

Earlier this week when I was at my local Big Lots, I was looking at their growing selection of energy drinks, when one caught my eye, Wired X505. Wired X505 is part of the Wired line of energy drinks, and comes in the same twenty four oz. can that Berry Rush did before it, but with one major difference, Wired X505 has 505 mg of caffeine. That is right, 505 mg of caffeine. The moment I saw this I new I had to review it. Not only does Wired X505 contain 505 mg of caffeine, but also 4400 mg of Taurine. So, I have to say that I am extremely excited to try Wired X505, even if I think the flavour will be mediocre.

FIRST IMPRESSION: The can of Wired X505 uses the same design that Berry Rush, which I think is a bad decision on Wireds part. Though the flames don't add much for the can, I feel that the orange fits the design better than purple did. I'm guessing the flavour will be of the orange variety, on a count of the orange can. Though orange has never been my favorite flavour in energy drinks, it is far from my least.

TASTE: I opened the can and took a sip. The flavour starts out a thick vanilla and syrupy mixture, that quickly fades, leaving some mild bubble gum and citrus hints behind. The vanilla only lasts for a short time, where as the syrup lasts through out the whole flavour. Surprisingly Wired X505 is not all too sweet, which helps given its large twenty four oz. size. Though Wired X505 won't be winning any awards for its flavour, it is still a pretty good Red Bull clone.

KICK: As I stated in the introductory paragraph, Wired X505 contains a whole heck of a lot of ingredients. Each can contains: 505mg of caffeine, 4400 mg of Taurine, 300% of your daily intake of Vit. B3, 150% of your daily intake of Vit. B5, 375 mg of Guarana, 750% of your daily intake of Vit. B6, and 240% of your daily intake of VIt. B12. This really potent blend of ingredients gave me one, freakin', wild, kick. For over six hours I felt jittery, jumpy and was full of energy, but let me tell you, after the six+ hours I got hit with such a crash. I felt groggy, and tired. But I expected as much from an energy drink with 505mg of caffeine. Overall, definitely one of the most powerful kicks I've ever got from an energy drink.

FINAL WARD: From beginning to end, Wired X505 is an above average energy drink. Though the can was pretty bad, the taste was decent and the kick was impressive enough to save it from failing. I can't say that Wired X505 is the best looking or best tasting energy drink I've ever had, but I can say that it is definitely one of the most powerful energy drinks I've ever had. Though the kick was really impressive, I feel that Wired X505 is kinda a one trick pony, as all it can do is deliver a great kick. I have to say that from an overall perspective that I'm disappointed with Wired X505. It seems that the company only cared about was delivering a powerful kick, and that the can and taste were more of an after thought. All in all, if your looking for a cheap way to get a long and powerful buzz, definitely pick up Wired X505, but if your looking for really anything else, I say save your money and avoid...3.2/5

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Wired X Berry Rush

On my latest trek to Big Lots, I wasn't expecting much, as it has been rather slow lately, so seeing Wired X Berry Rush was surprising. Wired X Berry Rush is made by Unique Beverage Company, who also makes Twisted Chopper energy drink. The Wired line of energy drinks has been around a decent amount of time, and one look at there website reveals that they have one whole lot of varieties. And that means I've got a lot of drinks to review. I haven't had any drinks in the Wired line, so I'm rather excited to see how the first in the long line that I'm gonna review, Wired X Berry Rush, turns out.

FIRST IMPRESSION: The can of Wired X Berry Rush looks like it took five minutes to make by a slacker in a high school graphic arts class. The purple would have been more fitting for a grape energy drink than a berry drink. The weird flame things don't add much to the already boring can. I do like the twenty four oz. size of it though, as I've only reviewed energy drinks in six teen oz. cans lately. Overall, other than the size, the can just looks like an afterthought and doesn't leave me with high expectation for the taste and kick.

TASTE: I opened the can and took a sip. The flavour starts out a tart fake blue raspberry flavour, that sits in your mouth for a little while then fades away leaving a slight syrupy feel in your mouth. The tartness comes in more towards the end of the blue raspberry flavour, which I thought was kinda unique, as you'd expect if to be more towards the beginning. There really wasn't anything else to the flavour other than the blue raspeberry flavour. Overall, Wired X Berry Rush's flavour is pretty generic and doesn't bring anything new to the table of energy drinks.

KICK: Each can contains: high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, inositol, caffeine, niacin, taurine. At first, as any energy guru would, I thought I was in for a wild ride. But then I found that the entire 23.5 oz. can contained only 150 mg of caffeine and only eighty mg of taurine. My mouth dropped to the floor. Only fifty mg of caffeine per eight oz.? This really disappointed me. amp has more caffeine per eight oz. than this. Moving on, the kick I got from Wired X Berry Rush was pretty decent, giving me a good three and a half hour buzz. During the three+ hours, I felt some mild jitters and twitches, but once the three+ hours was done I was hit by a hard and sudden crash. I felt groggy and just moped around the house til I went to bed.

FINAL WARD: Overall, I feel that Wired X Berry Rush is a below average energy drink. The can was poor, the flavour was mediocre and the kick was fair to middling. I didn't have the highest hopes for Wired X Berry Rush, so while I can't that I'm disappointed, I can say that it doesn't encourage me to try the other thousands of energy drinks in the Wired line. All in all, if your looking for a cheap, run of the mill blue raspberry energy drink, give Wired X Berry Rush a try, but if your looking for anything else, its best to only buy at discount or avoid completley...3.1/5

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