Savage Energy Drink Review

The review no one has been waiting for, Savage's diet brother battled my palate over three years ago. The bottle is a joy to hold, heavy plastic and wonderfully resealable. Its design is not so lucky; a completely corporate and borked stab at being hardcore.

Another Red Bull clone guised as citrus, your nose closes up from the relentless pungency of chemicals and dispassion. Our first sip? Not quite as pathetic. Tepid effervescence and syrupy saccharinity conflict with every gulp, cloying the palate as it smoothly passes over. The treacle is a plodding melting pot of bubble gum, vanilla and apple, a soporific trilogy that is as passive as it is poignant. Eight ounces down, one may argue some bilked blue raspberry and con cotton candy appear with each expose to the sorghum, but why would you? Adding more jejune excuses for flavor to an already inexorably exhausted experience is no recipe for success. It overcomplicates a portentously pedestrian beverage while never making it more compelling.

A kick lasting two hours or so, there were some jitters during but no crash after. Each black bottle contains: caffeine, inositol, B vitamins, taurine, choline, and ginseng. Everything considered, Savage Energy is deplorable and inadequate even as a poor man's Red Bull.

Hydrive Triple Berry Energy Drink Review

Black and red are dynamic on this resealable bottle, one free of clutter and unusually easy to read. There is some personality but it is unexciting, with generic chunky font and a depreciated dotted gradient.

My tongue finds only cranberry and raspberry, a braid brilliantly woven with passion and respect. More "Double" than "Triple," each sip is steeped in exalted complexity and is outrageously refreshing. The aforestated berry blend does not need a third to wow palates, each so remarkably rich and generously tart. The alphabetical first of the dyad holds complete control of the experience, and you could effortlessly argue it is the only fruit tasted, albeit with egregious nuance and depth. Its partner in every gulp is sweeter, more candied and less natural, but never less interesting. This contrast is nothing neoteric, but makes for fifteen and a half ounces of unmixed beatitude. Deep in each splash of this red cooler are stalwart suggestions of cherry and red grape, satisfying tastes even without top billing. Oh, and the decided absence of effervescence is rejuvenating and has this energy water drinking like the latter, which unlike beer, is a positive. Did I like this beverage? You could say so.

Each bottle contains: caffeine (160 milligrams), B vitamins, and taurine. They craft a buzz lasting two and a half hours, a pedestrian kick that should have been stronger. All together though, Hydrive Triple Berry's exquisite flavor had me forgetting its shortcoming.

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Rockstar Orange Tangerine Energy Water Review

A change from electric yellow to neon orange represents the biggest change from the last variety. The orange logo gets lost in the twenty ounces of non-carbonated stupidity, a label thirsty for balance and more color, a different color. It is busy too, but I never really minded, or at least cared enough to notice.

Flat flavors of orange are tasted, bitter with synthetic sugars and a misunderstanding of how to make a decent taste. The body is watery, obviously, but it serves no purpose other than to make platitudinousness even more platitudinous. Supposititious citrus flavors are pity falsifications of flavors deserving so much more. That, the decided lack of effervescence, and everything else, makes for twenty ounces of complete misery.

Taurine, B vitamins, guarana, ginseng, and 200 milligrams of caffeine cough up a buzz lasting four plus hours, I would almost round it to the five hour mark. The problem is that the kick just was not that powerful, and likely lasted solely because of its grossly awkward taste that forces much time to finish. Overall, of all the Rockstar Energy Waters, this is the worst of the company's worst spin-off.

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neuro Passion Energy Drink Review

Trapped in an equally vague bottle, Neuro Passion contains caffeine and claims to energize just like its "Sonic" brother did last year; it apparently makes too much sense to simply write "energy drink" somewhere on the container. It is at least a beaut to look at, curvaceous with a crimson red that makes the white text pop, although there is too much of it.

The grooves in the lid are small but conform well to your digits, and just like the aforementioned variety, this has quite the bitter aroma. The flavor is providentially palatable, roughly effervescent with distant declarations of tangerine, tenebrously tart with a just sweetness. There are cherry implications and mango nuance, with perhaps some orange as well. Dismally the dirty carbonation and distracted flavors make for an experience of unexpected chaos, one without much harmony or real reason. It certainly does not taste bad, but it is difficult to say what exactly it tastes like.

There is very little of a kick here, containing B vitamins, taurine, some hard to spell minerals or chemicals, and an unknown quantity of caffeine. Like Angles Aphroenergy, this beverage is intended also to awake your giggle stick (and hope she does not giggle). I hate to report that it was no more, um, interested, after drinking this, although it could just be me (and I am sure the Misses would agree). On the whole, this is a mess of a review, because this is a mess of a product. That is what this is, a product. Not an energy drink, not a salacious drink. A product. A product  birthed out of stupidity (probably because the parents bought this instead of a condom).

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Savage Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

My reward for exploring a dumpy convenience store, Savage and Savage Sugar Free come in awesome resealable bottles. The diet variety is bromidically light blue though, however the plastic's blackness really makes it and the albino text pop, a clean design, if not a bit of a generic one.

This rather bubbleless broth surprises no one being a Red Bull clone, but there was still a chance of creativity before that familiar scent hit you. Your palate is painted with super sugary cotton candy mutilations of apple and vanilla, with perhaps some blue raspberry. The cocktail is gummy and syrupy despite being diet, however the sips finish cleanly without leftovers. None testify any tartness or contend any complexity, a pitiful child birthed of the industry's relentless regurgitation of anything successful.

Each sixteen ounce bottle contains: caffeine, taurine, B vitamins, inositol, guarana, L-tartrate, and others. Two hours lasted the kick, impressing no one with its strength or jitters. In the end, Savage Sugar Free ran me $1.59, which is not bad if you are without taste buds.

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Nexcite Energy Drink Review

Though not explicitly an energy drink, Nexcite hails itself as an "herbal supplement," and contains caffeine, ginseng, and guarana: an energy drink in my book. Its bottle is creatively shaped but the design is anything but, with boring white text written on appealing blue background. There is a red rabbit for visual interest, but on the whole the beverage looks like a premium spring water more else than anything.

A lovely perfume splashes out of the narrow container, a beauty that does not exactly translate well into a flavour. It is a diluted elixir of powdery fruits, a punch of raspberry and passion fruit with dark traces of lemon, strawberry, and kiwi, the muted flavours tasting distant and distracted. The party is sugary like cotton candy and resembles it in the mouth, not at all syrupy and never overbearingly sweet. It is not at all bad, and with the last few sips you have full appreciation for the peculiar allure, however the wealth of the eleven ounces are spent in question of what exactly one is tasting.

Each bottle contains caffeine, guarana, and ginseng, along with some herbs and extracts not really worth the mention other than their unusualness. The buzz was unspectacular and bordered on weak, lasting an hour or two. All in all, Nexcite's marvel taste justifies the $1.05 paid, but is not worth looking hard for.

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neuro Sonic Energy Drink Review

Neuro Sonic is an energy drink, a fact obscured within the unusual bottle and confusing text. It does not explicitly claim to be such a beverage, and outside the unemphasized words "energize" and "mental performance," the common caffeine craving consumer would just pass on by looking for their kick. Its crazy atypical container is sure to gain some aroused glances, however without an univocal labeling as to what it exactly is, the curiosity will likely turn into hopeless confusion.

The pastel red nipple screws off and is actually the cap, however the scent following is wretchedly alike those chewable nausea tablets. The taste is thankfully much more palatable, a surprisingly sweet cherry who is both incompletely authentic and artificial on the tongue. The middle ground it strikes is balanced, and the fruit indicates appropriate saccharinity through a blend of actual and synthetic sugars. There is some cranberry played with, as well as notes of raspberry and lime; all meager examples broadening the cherry's profile and resulting in something with decent depth. There is only thirty five calories per bottle but it does not taste so, with the flavour's complexity mostly masking the sham sugar's slight finish who still rears in occasionally. Overall, Neuro Sonic Energy Drink is something I would drink again for its taste.

My researched tells me that each bottle contains only fifty milligrams of caffeine, a number not entirely unexpected but unfortunate nonetheless. There is also: taurine, many B vitamins, and some annoyingly lengthy herbs and extracts and stuff. In the end, Neuro Sonic Energy Drink's unanticipated impotency and ambiguous bottle outweighs its tastiness.

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Endorush Blue Razz Fix Energy Drink Review

At a local grocery store, Endorush Blue Razz Fix sits among the regular energy drinks, despite being quite visually different from them. Other than price(which is $2.99), one of the first things you notice is the odd sixteen oz. bottle, opposed to the traditional can, and this gives it an extreme supplement sort of look. But the bottle's wide red background and the absence of any graphical design creates a boring look for the drink, and other than the fairly cool font the main logo uses, Endorush looks much less intimidating that I would expect.

The scent of unmade Jello fills your nose when Endorush's cap is removed, and upon first taste the flavour begins obviously artificial, with an initial chemical sharpness that directly leads to a much more pleasant candy blue raspberry taste, who's appropriately tart and slightly sour. The fruit is saccharine with little actual falseness to taste within the sugariness, but soon a cloying cotton candy flavour arrives. And although the earlier chemical quality hollows once the raspberry appears, the new flavour accession brings its own, albeit a weaker and thus more palatable, chemical taste. The cotton candy is actually a quite vibrant flavour that acts almost like a shot of excitement into the arm of the raspberry, and it remains halfway abyssal to it and it trails entirely. The cotton candy influenced raspberry has basin notes of a confection cherry and a red grape, and the former domineers slightly over the latter. No carbonation naturally implies the ease of sipping, and aside from the mild chemical taste, the fluid is just that. Overall, the taste was similar to that of Engage Blue Raspberry, however I much prefer the more complex and ardor taste of Endorush Blue Razz.

Each bottle of Endorush Blue Razz contains: caffeine(170mg), taurine, several B vitamins, and a whole variety of miscellaneous ingredients that would simply be too much to list. I had an increase of energy, along with a bit of a heightened alertness level, and this all lasted for around three or so hours. I had jitters and a bit of a crash once the three+ hours was up, and both were kinda surprising. In the end, Endorush Blue Razz Fix looks much more like a supplement than your average energy drink, and while the steep price of $2.99 and the plethora of ingredients imply just that, the actual performance was much more akin to your pedestrian energy drink.

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NX Lean & Mean Energy Drink Review

NX Lean & Mean is the sugar free version of NX Speed Freak, and while its sub name "Lean and Mean" sounds great, it doesn't have too much to do with vehicles, like the other varieties in the line. The bottle, unlike NX Hot Fuel, is black, and it perfectly offsets the silver and blue colour scheme of the label. The design itself is busy, with text clashing against the background pattern. And while overall it remains edgy and gives of a "tough" vibe, I would like it cleaned up a bit. Some of the text is rather useless, like "Crash-proof Energy" and "with Quercetin." I believe they're intended to be selling points, but they just end up being pointless.

Continuing the tradition of strange and unsightly colours, Lean and Mean pours out a neon yellow that resembles hyper brightened banana puree. The almost harsh bubbly liquid has a vibrant mango taste as its initial focal point, with strong following notes of apple, grapefruit, and papaya. The Papaya soon blends evenly with the mango, and the grapefruit trails behinds, continually gaining strength, but never reaching its potential. The power of the flavour braid then quickly diminishes to a much smoother, albeit an abridged version of its once more complex, if not complete self. Then a fairly tangy and sour taste of guava surfaces, but it doesn't add much to the flavour. There's a mild sugar free taste that then appears, and it's cleverly intertwined with the still rough carbonation, which ends up making the experience taste like the formulators weren't limited by the sugar free marking. All in all, when compared to other similar looking lines(cough NOS cough), Lean and Means flavour is easy to drink and tastes great.

Being 300 calories and seventy five gram of sugar less than Hot Fuel, Lean and Mean didn't give me an instant rush of energy, but instead a more gradual building kick that lasted about the same amount of hours; four. Each bottles contains: caffeine(240mg), quercetin, vitamin C, and vitamin B3. Overall, I think that taste-wise, NX Lean & Mean will inadvertently draw strong comparisons to the highly regarded xenergy Mango Guava. And while it's not quite as good, being compared is an honor in itself.

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Toxic Energy Drink Re-review

As a Maine-er myself, I have a bizarre love hate relationship with the official soft drink of Maine, Moxie. Moxie is notorious among soda lovers as either a great tasting, unique soda, or the most disgusting soda out there, even beating out the Jones Holiday sodas. Now, I personally find Moxie a pretty good soda, and awhile ago, I reviewed Moxie Energy Drink in a can. I thought Moxie Energy Drink was also pretty good, but nothing spectacular. But now since Moxie is owed by a new company, Cornucopia Beverages, Moxie has a completely new design and comes in a bottle instead of the popular can. And so, because of this new bottle change, and maybe just for a little nostalgia, I've decided to re-review Moxie energy.

FIRST IMPRESSION: Moxie Energy's design has certainly improved since its original can. The giant X, the ripples of what seems to be liquid metal, and the addition of the releasable bottle really make Moxie Energy really more appealing. Overall, a surprisingly attractive can from a line of drinks not exactly known for its curb appeal.

TASTE: I opened the bottle and has hit with a vibrant orange colour. The flavour to Moxie Energy is a full on Red Bull clone. It starts out super sweet, almost like its sweetened with honey, and a strong apple taste upfront. After the apple flavour lingers in your mouth for a while, a slight cranberry-like flavour starts to develop. There's a strong tart and sour quality to it through out the whole experience of the flavour. Overall, I find that Moxie Energy is actually better in the bottle than in the can(as with most energy drinks) and is a pretty good drink. While it is by no means a thirst quencher, it would be a good drink for staying up all night playing some Goldeneye for the N64.

KICK: Each sixteen.nine oz. bottle contains: 240 calories, sixty grams of sugar, 200% of your daily intake of Vit. C, Niacin, 100% of your daily intake of Pantothenic Acid, 380% of your daily intake of Vit. B6, 360% of your daily intake of Vit. B12, Taurine, and caffeine. This mix of ingredients gave me an above average kick. While Moxie Energy is no power horse, its certainly better than many other energy drinks out there, by providing a good three to four hour buzz, which was filled with jitters, raised alertness and ended in a horrible crash.

FINAL WERD: Overall, I find that Moxie Energy is a pretty good energy drink. The kick, bottle, and taste were all at least decent, but that's were Moxie disappoints me, there's nothing that's really great. Though I can say that I might consider buying it again, I feel that Moxie will just get lost among the thousands of other energy drinks on the market. If Cornucopia really wants to get there foot in the door in the energy drink market, there gonna have to give the flavour a change into something much more unique and get more powerful ingredients. While I can recommend Moxie Energy for people who are in the need of some energy and what to show off the fact that there from Maine, I can't recommend Moxie Energy for really anyone else...3.2/5