G Fuel Snow Cone Energy Drink Review

It has been a few years since I have been to a fair or festival, but snow cone itself is not a flavor. So what does G Fuel here expect customers will surmise this potent potable tastes like? Should I keep it in my freezer? This is such a silly little drink.

There is a brief, solitary moment to G Fuel here, several seconds in, that had me smiling, shocked at my own low expectations the visuals help establish and looking forward to another gulp. Cherry, lime and blue raspberry all appear in their most childlike expressions, pounding the palate with zero understanding of how produce works in the real world. (And, I hear one of the three is not even a real fruit!) But soon, it would happened. This is an unpleasantly still beverage, despite carbonated water being marked first in the ingredients, as if a melted mouthful of snow cone dripped out of one of those paper pyramid cups and onto my trepidatious tongue. This means sixteen ounces of underwhelming textural stimulation, which would not be such a big deal if "it" was not still to come. If you in the audience were thinking "sweetness," then gosh darn it, you were right; sucralose and ace-k are simply not up to the challenge of crafting a competent saccharinity today, instead tasting like chemicals and falsehoods. And it is here where the artificial turns into the aggressively unpleasant, taking over the fruity fun from before. Any competent cocktail would have given us some acidity to help distract from how lousy it really is, but alas, this is no such sufficing soft drink.

300 milligrams of caffeine!? That is a lot and my body was all for it, even if the journey was a vulgar one. But it did not need to be this way; does G Fuel not want to look good and to taste good? Do they want to suck? Because this one does.

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Monster Zero Sugar Ultra Red White & Blue Razz Energy Drink Review

Maybe we need some patriotism in this day in age, but Monster here is playing with fire. Its can is about as obvious as any using the American flag as its basis, calling to mind Ol' Glory, which I am not sure is what any energy drink wants to do. Still, there is some undercaffeinated person for whom this just tickles their eye balls; I am not that person.

Crystal clear in color and smelling sweetly, our first sip errs on the flat side, which is a disappointment. Thousands, if not millions, of little bubbles look enticing, calling my tongue forward only to be crestfallen by the cocktail's muted effervescence. The flavor profile is vague but not terribly complex, blue raspberry surrounded by highlights of lime and cherry, though I cannot help but shake a touch of grapefruit lurking in here too. Things are sugar free, obviously, erythritol, ace-k and sucralose taking up the job from honest carbohydrates, but this kid-inspired experience cries out for real sugar to really drive home its sweetmeat influence. Oh well, at least things are sour, easily the best part, which creeps in slowly as the boringly bubbly beverage first hits your taste buds, but grows in intensity as it makes its way across your palate and finally goes down the hatch. It remains well after you sip, a tingly tartness that is so pleasant I kinda wish it went a bit harder; really sell me that blue raspberry impression. 

The buzz is not all that wonderful either, 160 milligrams of my namesake chemical launching a two hour long kick of average strength. Being Monster, taurine, inositol, vitamins, etc., are also here, but they do not often get my engine purring. This is a mediocre energy drink, yet there is a part of me that is just giddy at the prospect of such a proudly American energy drink predominately flavored after something not found in nature, and who's origins can be laboriously traced back to the Great Depression.

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Black Rifle Ranger Berry Zero Sugar Energy Drink Review

Black Rifle Coffee Company comes to The Caffeine King, not as a coffee but rather an energy drink. Whether I am excited depends on if I read about all the controversies the company has had. I did not have a politically-charged potent potable on my "2025 bingo card," but here we are.

Anyway, the can is alright here, cleaner than it probably has any right being, but the dual "C's" in the logo only make sense for the brand's coffee varieties. Unless this is some berry flavored coffee, in which case I am going to seriously regret what I am about to taste.

Despite its blue and black can, this pours out crystal clear and reeks of artificial sweetness. First mouthful is not much better I am afraid, sipping like a sluggish seltzer with about as much actual flavor. The carbonation is caustic, as if all those little bubbles were wearing spikes, abusing your poor palate as you send this disappointing drink down the hatch. There is minimal actual flavor, berry being a misnomer for the faded flavors of blue and raspberry, fruits so distant and so disinteresting that you find yourself checking the "best before" date by your second or third gulp. The one in my hand, somehow, has not yet expired. There is hardly any acidity and the sweetness (all from sucralose), something I feared would become the whole experience, is as muted as the sourness. No, the entire sixteen ounces' primary characteristic belong to the antagonistic effervescence. What a, er, choice?

The buzz is good though, thanks to the 200 milligrams of caffeine, lasting a solid three hours. Oh sure, you get some B vitamins too, but no other supplement; guess amino acids and herbal extracts are not "tough enough" for people who purposefully imbibe something with a gun in its name.

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Celsius Essentials Blue Crush Energy Drink Review

According to the interwebs, this is not "Celsius Live Fit," despite how the can reads, or even "Celsius Live Fit Essentials." It is instead just "Celsius Essentials." See kids, this is why you should not have superfluous text all over your design.

And we have a lot of design here, thanks to the tall sixteen ounce metal transport, and despite the occasional swoosh in either white, blue or silver, it is just words, words and more words. Oh wait- no never mind, that is just more words. And none of them seem to explain how this is any different from the brand's earlier blue raspberry potent potable.

A crack of the can and the liquid within these thin aluminum walls almost geysered out all over my desk; would somebody please think of my cheap plastic writing surface! First sip is a lot less enjoyable then the initial effervescent explosion would suggest, the elixir landing on my tongue with minimal bubbles, becoming a still experience almost immediately, and no, this can is not expired (I checked). And I would not have that much of a problem with that, but the package here reads "sparkling." What a misdemeanor! The flavor is blue raspberry at least, but the sucralose and ace-k used here lack the verisimilitude to drive home the impression that this is anything but a diet soft drink and not, in fact, well, anything else. Candy, fruit, something- this is a sugar free energy drink and damn it, that is what it tastes like. And that is a shame, because the poor, lone piece of make-believe produce lacks the complexity required to properly sustain the entire pound of product on offer today. It has all the personality of confections but without the mouthfeel to back up that impersonation, the synthetic honeys instead adding a chemical climax that lingers a bit too long. It is drinkable, yes, but only just.

The 270 milligrams of caffeine here is impressive and does the job, with a three and a half plus hour long buzz resulting, I sat back in my chair, thinking to myself "was it worth it?" The flavor really is not all that good, the visuals just as dire, my body pining for something consistently adequate.

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Prime Blue Raspberry Energy Drink Review

The brand Prime showed up not just at my local Walmart but also my local Target, its stark logo reading very well off of an otherwise empty design. I like that- you can clearly recognize this among the energy drink crowd, and although it sounds like a silly thing to specifically call out, but having a can that makes sense with the flavor is always appreciated and is something others have a surprisingly difficult time doing.

This is sugar free, with old familiars sucralose and ace-k running the party, but the flavor is an explosion in "how" to manufacture a blue raspberry flavor. Mouthfuls are loud, sour like a child's candy but not errantly so; the synthetic sugars provide a bit of balance to the acidity, but this is still tart city. It mimics the non-fruit fruit flavor so well that you hardly notice the absence of any actual carbohydrates. But what makes this experience such a, well, experience, is the powdery texture, a carbonation that is simultaneously cozy and combative. It is encouraging of your next sip, and pretty soon you are shaking an empty can over your head looking for the last few drops. That, my friends, is the sign of a good energy drink.

What I care about is the 200 milligrams of caffeine. Oh sure, we have some vitamins and electrolytes, but my namesake stimulant is king, with the buzz lasting a very nice three hours. Overall, Prime Blue Raspberry makes quite a nice debut here, an imperfect but very, very solid product.

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Ghost Blue Raspberry Sour Patch Kids Energy Drink Review

Sour Patch Kids are for kids- I mean, it is right in the name! Yet that did not stop Ghost from licensing the brand for a blue raspberry flavor. The can is bright and cheery, very appropriate for the namesake, but please, would somebody think of the children!

The flavor is exceptionally sour, which makes sense with regards to the company crossover, but it does not mean that my palate ever wanted to sip something so egregiously acidic. The problem has less to do with respecting the fruit it impersonates; "blue raspberry" is not something found in nature, so the experience becomes sixteen ounces of liquid candy. A citrus drink would work here, but that is not what we taste. Instead, sips resemble raspberry and blueberry if they were born in a lab rather than from soil. A proper sweetness could have helped, but with only sucralose and ace-k, diet sugars that cowardly bow to the tartness' relentless grasp.

Ghost offers 200 milligrams of caffeine, which is enough for a very respectable three hour long kick. Other ingredients include vitamins, taurine, extracts and others. I wish it contained better taste, but alas, I do not see that listed on the back of the can.

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Rockstar Xdurance Blue Raz Energy Drink Review

What is going on here; did we not just review Rockstar Xdurance Blue Raz last week? Gotta love their insistence on constant tinkering. Their ingredient list is a bit modified this time around, but is there any more caffeine? Nope. Fewer calories? Actually there are more here, ten to be exact, so we know this is not just a minor can revision. What gives? Where they unsatisfied with the drink? I know I was.

Blue raspberry (oh I am sorry; raz) is not an actual fruit, but in the world of energy drinks, it means one thing: sweet and sour. Rockstar Xdurance gets one of those two things done, an saccharinity that would make even the most overzealous sugar(free) supporters wince at is overload of artificial ingredients. The flavoring is an indistinct hodgepodge of miscellaneous fruitiness, mostly raspberry and blueberry but it moves across the tongue without motivation or direction of its own, lead by the diet carbohydrates into the excess abyss. Sucralose and ace-k, the diet sweeteners in charge today, are not on the top of their game, fumbling the experience without acidic backup; they simply cannot handle the supplements they are expected to conceal, a duo who screams for a more potent tartness to combat the potables', well, potentness. The big question is how this version of the previously reviewed cocktail compares, and the answer is simple: Rockstar, try again.

But that kick! For three hours and some change, you almost forget the unpalatable journey you took to get there. Aside from 300 milligrams of caffeine, there are electrolytes, amino acids, B vitamins, and others. In the end, Rockstar Xdurance Blue Raz's awesome buzz cannot wipe clean the bad taste it leaves behind.

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Rockstar Xdurance Blue Raz Energy Drink Review

Rockstar sure does love making Blue Raspberry drinks, having reviewed drinks back in 2013 and 2009 with the exact same flavor written on the front of the can! But the design today lines up with other variants in their Xdurance subline, one who's biggest achievement is having the words "300 mg of caffeine" written in super chunky text on the front of the aluminum. Sure it is a bit on the nose, but it is at least proud of the artifice.

Since my 2009 review of the brand's aforementioned Rockstar Zero Carb, I have grown an appreciation to that drink. How it balanced tartness with artificial sugars, it is always a tasty delight. Which is why the company's latest diet blue raspberry drink is such a disappointment! There is simply too much sweetness, your palate not just stained but sodden of the synthetic sweeteners sucralose and ace-k. They prevent any detection of the namesake fruit, a spoiled, unripe demonstration of the candied produce product- imagine if they started making fruit-flavored packets of Splenda, and you just dumped two in your mouth. The only light in the tunnel is some acidity, a deafened but still present tartness that can only break through the false sugar exploits every few sips. It is not much, but it is something.

If there is one thing this drink gets right, it is the kick. 300 milligrams of caffeine provides an awesome four hours of energy, a bit of a reckless kick that of course ends with a bit of a crash, but what did you expect? Other ingredients include: B vitamins, BCAA amino acids, and CoQ10. On the whole, Xdurance Blue Raz may be pretty terrible, but it is far from the worst energy drink, this year, of all time, or even from the Rockstar branding.

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Beyond Raw Lit Jolly Rancher Blue Raspberry Energy Drink Review

Sugar free energy drinks have a fetish for candy flavors, however none are as brazen as Beyond Raw Lit, which has the actual Jolly Rancher license! Why a children's product is featured on a very caffeinated, very adult drink is beyond me, pun intended. The can fails to make much of an impression otherwise, with a large block of huge text that read without visual flair. The background is a murky swirl of blandness, and despite its potent ingredients, it uses the term "dietary supplement" instead of the more common "energy drink." Sure, it fits both descriptors, but let us be honest here, no one ever says "I'm tired- I really need a dietary supplement right now."

The flavor surprised me, honoring its sweetmeat branding with a sourness that touches every part of your tongue. The lower right of your lips curl slightly with every imbibe, a joyous exercise in acidic involvement. Things do in fact taste of blue raspberry, that false fruit flavoring dominating the experience with zero interruptions from the zillion of supplements buried beneath; you really do feel like you are sipping candy. For sweetness all we get is sucralose, missing-in-action is its usual ace-k brother, but it is never missed. Gulps are tart for the sake of the characteristic, and no amount of sugariness, sincere or substitute, could ever change that. Is that good or bad? Does it matter? Beyond Raw excels in its niche category occupancy, never regarding your palates tolerance for such a thing.

250 milligrams of caffeine, l-alanine, l-citrulline, and extracts make up the energy cocktail, crafting a three plus hour long buzz. It is a brutish, ungraceful kick that hits fast and hard, and leaves your body as quick as it came. Overall, Beyond Raw Lit Jolly Rancher Blue Raspberry skates by on its relentless dedication to its core principles that defies opinion.

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Shock Wave Blue Rush Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

Shock Wave Blue Rush Sugar Free.... wow, what a mouthful! Its can is textured and depicts the familiar blue and silver swirl, as we have seen in the past. The text presents itself as the transport's biggest issue; at least three fonts, inconsistent italicization, capitalization, and general loquaciousness.

Sparkling effervescence tickles the fun flavor of cotton candy-sweet blue raspberry, a powdery sapor naively simple; every sip is unpretentious and chaste, drinking as any cheap, childish thrill should. There is an insipid acidity present to this neon blue beverage, unfortunately mellow for a credulous potation. Ace-k and sucralose do the sugaring here, achieving the lusted zero calories, but at the expense of a more saccharin experience; each imbibe lacks the extreme saccharinity passioned for the innocent inspiration, and the weight is uncharacteristically gossamer. Blue Rush is an inexpensive potable, one also good on the waistline, however, too many corners were cut in too many places.

Each can contains: B vitamins, inositol, ginseng, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. It is a weak buzz, lasting two hours; a most generic kick. In the end, Shock Wave Blue Rush Sugar Free is decent considering its inexpensiveness. Any more expensive, and it would be less decent.

Peak300 Blue Raspberry Energy Drink Review

There is no way around it- I get all giddy when a new energy drink shows up at a random location. Picture it, yesterday, my local Lidl, when next to some pulled pork and a refrigerated pizza sits a Bang clone, Peak300.

The can is practical but perfunctory; caffeine amount present, beverage genre there, and alleged flavor featured. This is no doubt a generic offering, and it is about as visually stimulating as one expects, but why? Just because it is not all that interesting to look at- why is that an excuse? Store brand potables do not have to sacrifice looks for the sake of price. At a buck and change, Peak300 runs a bit more than the seventy nine or so cents of their Red Bull clone; their $.99 Monster clone "Mega" is now nowhere to be found.

Full disclosure here- I have never had inspiration Bang's blue raspberry variety. In fact, the only reason I knew that drink existed was thanks to my friend the interwebs. This is a blessing for Peak300, which gets to splash down on a palate unfamiliar with its indisputable inspiration. Problem here is that "blue raspberry" is not found in nature- no sir and no ma'am, this flavor is will inspire images of other fruit at your grocer's produce section, namely blueberry and, strangely enough, grapefruit. The initial member of this unadulterated duo brings the sweetness, but what this ends up resembling is cotton candy, thanks to its powdery mouthfeel giving imbibes a light, sort of airy texture. The second member of the party bears the sourness, but it is the sort of acidity that has a dairy tang to it, like something out of a yogurt. Is it good? Is it bad? Ultimately none of that matters- there are 300 milligrams of caffeine here, along with a host of other supplements, and so the fact that this tastes like anything but chemicals, is a feat in and of itself. Remember, this is not some mega-million dollar energy drink label- this is a Lidl branded product that has no right being this inoffensive.

Boy howdy does this sixteen ouncer have some kick, a three and a half hour long one in fact. Although I remain unconvinced of additives other than caffeine contributing much to the potency of such potations, there are a lot here, including BCAA amino acids, coq10, and B vitamins. Overall, Peak300 Blue Raspberry is cheap, doesn't taste like complete crap, and if you squint your eyes hard enough, it sorta, kinda, almost looks like Bang.

G Fuel Ragin' Gummy Fish Energy Drink Review

G Fuel Ragin' Gummy Fish is weird. Featuring a shrink-wrapped label, the sixteen ounce can has a cheap quality in the hand as you find your fingers picking at the packaging. On the side it proudly declares it is the official esports energy drink, and although kids often play and watch others play video games, the 300 milligrams of caffeine here is most certainly for adults only. Then there is the flavor, "Ragin' Gummy Fish," a candy-based allegation that goes against its sugar free nature. Its design is a mess, with no clear focus, just a handful of half-baked ideas tossed into Photoshop.

The flavor is downright unpleasant, and I wish that was all I needed to say before moving on. Sweetness pounds on your poor tongue as soon as you first tilt back the aluminum transport, ace-k and sucralose taking too much control over mouthfuls. It subjugates with its surplus of strangling saccharinity, suffocating everything else with a sardonic sting of synthetic sugars. Once your palate moves past the aforementioned malaise, you find an injured blue raspberry definition, lacking acidity to brighten it beyond just tasting "sweet." Carbonation is equally deaf, a flat effervescence that bubbles just enough to keep quaffs from resembling tap water. It is completely one-note experience, with no sense of momentum; sips crash onto your tastebuds only to immediately die and rot through.

The buzz, however, is spot-on. Thanks to 300 milligrams of caffeine, with several vitamins and amino acids, the kick lasts just over three and a half hours. In the end, G Fuel Ragin' Gummy Fish demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how to construct a competent energy drink. Sure, it is potent, but at what cost? Awful visuals and an even worse flavor.

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Rockstar XDurance Smashed Blue Energy Drink Review

I do not love the Rockstar line, hell, often their drinks downright suck, but they take risks you do not see Red Bull or Monster taking; sometimes they are brazenly self-cannibalizing. Now on store shelves sits XDurance Smashed Blue, a super-caffeinated and probably blue raspberry flavored diet drink, is one of the company's better visual offerings, refreshing the long-in-the-tooth look with a honeycomb background and non-symmetrical design.

Cotton candy, bubble gum and blue raspberry take center stage at this Rockstar rockshow, a completely unnatural tasting experience loaded with feigned fruit flavors and an artificial sugariness  so potent you would swear you are sucking on those little blue, pink and yellow packets on a coffee shop's counter (though technically this can contains just the yellow packet- and whatever color satchel ace-k comes in). Drinking like something created by a twelve year old who spends too much time outside ye olde candy store, Smashed Blue is overwhelmingly fake on the palate, from sweetness to flavors, every aspect is an assault on your senses. There is hardly any acidity, which could have cut through the paralyzing saccharinity- even the effervescence is at home bring just enough bubbles to justify the "lightly carbonated" declaration on the bottom of the can.

Each can contains a rock-solid 300 milligrams of caffeine, giving more than enough kick and almost justifying the rather rotten taste. Other ingredients include B vitamins, taurine, carnitine, creatine, and arginine. On the whole, Rockstar XDurance Smash Blue is a far more enjoyable beverage than any of the Bang drinks, despite similar four hour long kicks, and is 100% drinkable- which is exactly what I want in my energy drinks.

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Bang Cotton Candy Energy Drink Review

Another Bang another day, I suppose, this time Cotton Candy flavored. Its can suffers from the same misfires as the earlier Sour Heads variety did, with a largely boring black can and a sterile design. Sure, it is easy to read and all, but at what cost?

Well, it certainly tastes like cotton candy, for better or worse. It has that familiar blue raspberry and vanilla flavor down to a "t," with its sweetness and almost powdery mouthfeel allowing passive sips to resemble the spun sugar confection. What works particularly well, if not surprisingly, is the saccharinity; sure, it is purely synthetic, but the sham sugars, the familiar cocktail of sucralose and ace-k, lack the weight of true carbohydrates, giving every sip an airy, weightless texture that bodes oh so well to the novelty taste. Still, sixteen ounces is a lot to stomach for such a gimmicky flavor, and unless you are a professional energy drink critic, you probably will not finish an entire can.

Each can contains: creatine, B vitamins, coenzyme Q10, vitamin C and 300 milligrams of caffeine. The buzz here is rocking, lasting around three and a half hours, with some jitters- surprising, considering the lack of sugar. On the whole, Bang Cotton Candy is a peculiar drink, and if I used both thumbs, one would be up with the other the other way.

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Mega Man E-Tank Energy Drink Review

Mega Man E-Tank is another one of those Boston America Corp. products, and its can is another shrink-wrapped one that still feels super cheap and unimpressive, considering its $3.50 plus price tag (with prices like that, you understand why there are ads on the site now). At least the design is decent and clean, but it feels as if they just tossed Mega Man and his logo on a blue-gradient background.

Lots of blue raspberry here, a puckeringly tart and nearly comically artificial, each sip has a murky lime bite and bubble gum stained sweetness. There is a distant, lingering cranberry fullness to the body, an unexpected richness to the mouthfeel and the experience's only nod to anything natural. The saccharinity, twenty seven grams of inexpensive high fructose corn syrup, distances itself from its usual syrupiness, but its texture remains uninteresting and dimensionless. Carbonation is another surprise here, a mild effervescence that helps solidify the potation's playful poise.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, caffeine, guarana, ginseng, and inositol. The buzz is banausic, lasting an hour and certainly not enough to refill Mega Man's health bar. Overall, this is a licensed drink. Nothing more, and unfortunately, sometimes less.

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Stacker 2 Enraged Raspberry Review

For a raspberry drink, there is too much focus on other colors, namely the gross gold. The baby blue never reminds me of its suggested flavor and is inappropriately childish for anything with caffeine. The the original was untidied and ugly can, but one with something of a personality. Now it is a bit more organized, but is completely generic.

The ice-pop stable interpretation of raspberry is present here but splashes the tongue with more restraint than it should. It is only slightly sweet and even less tart, concocting this maladroit but wholly humdrum hybrid between a child's sweetmeat and the actual fruit. My tongue declared some cranberry suggestions, an anemic note who's presence provides distraction instead of depth. Some metallic staining perverts the water of each gulp, an ugly underbelly to the vitreous blue nectar. The subsequent layer almost resembles cotton candy if not for the deadened saccharinity, an ambiguous taste that ends every sip with an almost powdery bite. Its lack of commitment is a shame, especially considering how unvaried the raspberry behaves during the perfunctory eight ounces.

Each can contains: 112 calories, B vitamins, taurine, caffeine and inositol. You are lucky to get an hour and a half buzz out of this puny potable, a kick as potent as Sanka. Overall, Stacker 2 Enraged Raspberry has caffeine and is drinkable. Those are about the only things it gets right.

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Hydrive Blue Raspberry Energy Drink Review

Easily an improvement, Hydrive Blue Raspberry is eons kinder on the eyes than it was back when we met last in 2011. The aforementioned color truly shines thanks to the ample amount of contrast, although the baby blue belt does obscure most of its white text at a quick glance.

The ice cold juices splash my palate with initially nothing, that is until it washes further down my tongue. Now there is an acute tartness to the expected blue raspberry flavor, sovereignly sweet but not quite confectionary. The fruit plays alone on the palate, a solitary flavor that crumbles in an aquatic cascade as one generously sips. Neither commandingly candied nor natural, the experience is incessantly interesting, one that makes you think while leisurely indulging. Its texture is disinteresting however, thin and watery with none of the grainy goodness of the original. But still, this quiet revision of perhaps the line's greatest product is nevertheless enjoyable.

The buzz here lasts under three hours, mild and nothing either the line or other drinks have not seen before. Each bottle contains: caffeine (195 milligrams), B vitamins, yerba mate, and taurine. On the whole, Hydrive Blue Raspberry as good as its predecessor, but never significantly better.

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Rockstar Punched Blue Raspberry Energy Drink Review

This rather sharp can surprises me from a brand commonly confused and crowded. The sultry black truly allows the bright pink and baby blue to pop off the can without ever cluttering it. It may be essentially the same basic design recycled for years now, but it is starting to get good.

With an unsurprising juice content of less than a single percent and with sixty eight grams of sugar and 280 calories, the astonishing stupidity to the flavor here really is not all that surprising. What could you expect? With all the empty carbohydrates, the bare-bones berry taste blasts your palate with a strength indescribable, so dimensionlessly sweet and so indolently elementary that the experience becomes a rigorous exercise in trying to stomach an entire sixteen ounces. Each sip burns with an inescapable no-frills quality that only the worst energy drinks possess, and only the worst brands release. In other words, I do not think highly of the flavor here.

Each can contains: caffeine (240 milligrams), B vitamins, taurine, guarana, inositol, and L-carnitine. The kick is easily the best in a while, and with out a doubt this variety's best trait. And although the can and kick are outrageous, the flavor will test your patience.

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Pac-Man Power Up Energy Drink Review

Shrink wrapped with a cheap design, this bizarre Pac-Man vendible ran me two bucks. Purchased out of pity instead of purpose, this inappropriately childish label is clean and easy to read, but looks hastily made without interest. And actually, it resembles the third game by Namco more than any other.

This blue bubbly beverage has a blue raspberry and bubble gum taste. There is some sourness to the fruit and super sweetness from the other, fantastically false flavors in this innocent energy drink. The tartness demonstrates a surprising ounce of depth with deadened red rasp and cranberry nuances. But that about makes up every sip in only a few brief sentences, an otherwise ineffective experience brought to higher grounds thanks to its refreshingly simple and unassuming balance of tastes.

We have caffeine, taurine, guarana, inositol, guarana, and B6 and 12 vitamins present, providing the kick standard of eight ounces, perhaps weaker. There was an absence of jitters and no crash, but the strength was mediocre and lasted only an hour or so.

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Double Kick Energy Candy Line Review

Alright, we get it, your product is a candy, but that is certainly no excuse for the unattractively childish packaging, especially if it is an adult energy candy. The name “Double Kick,” complete with a cartoony donkey, is painfully trite. It is not original, it is not fun, and with a solid eighty milligrams of caffeine per small tab, its potency should be demonstrated by a more serious, or impressive, design.

When you crunch down on any given tablet, the sorbitol based bite breaks without a satisfactory snap. Instead there is an ungainly grind of grains and grit, tasting little of the fruitiness promised (allowing the candy to dissolve is thus recommended). This is how each of the candies physically preform in the mouth, but the following explains the individual flavors in more depth:

Green Apple: The little piece is appropriately green and smells wicked of green apple, like any good candy would. But this is not a good candy; your first encounter with the tablet is disrespectful, tasting very mildly of green apple with a consistent synthetic sweetness.

Grape: The next flavor is grape, but we are actually exposed to a decent fruit flavor. Sure, it is more alike grape medicine than any other application, the tartness is good and the sweetness is superior.

Watermelon: The red fleshed melon is naturally tame, unforced and laid-back, but without real sugar and without a large size to properly convey the flavor right, we instead suffer through a synthetic moment of ineptitude.

Strawberry: Tasting very little like the vibrant perfection of the outwardly seeded fruit, this piece is unapologetically unpronounced, ignoring everything down to the hush idiosyncrasies in favor of ignorant sweetness. It was actually quite difficult to differentiate from the watermelon's equally unelaborative flavor.

Orange: Scented strongly and pleasantly, this flavor preforms rather well, at first; the fake sugars sweeten just enough, and there is a touch of tartness that really approximates the fruit. However, the sorbitol and sucralose do eventually and unfortunately burn and clog your palate with its artificiality.

Blue Raspberry: Sweetness subdued and without any tartness, this blue raspberry imitation is bland and unexciting. It barely resembles the candied fruit flavor, let alone demonstrate any depth, however the absence of any artificial aftertaste is worth noting.

Black Cherry: A naturally pronounced and complex flavor, neither of which the small size is capable of. The resulting candy is artificially harsh and entirely unappetizing despite the pleasant aroma. It may have been the last flavor tried, but it was the first that needed a chaser.

There are five calories, eighty milligrams of caffeine, some B vitamins, and taurine per piece. The quick-hitting energy was of decent strength, however it lasted only an hour and a half before I was considering another. But then I remembered the unpleasing taste, and reached for something else.

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