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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Red Bull The Spring Edition Sugar Free Cherry Sakura Energy Drink Review

The white can, the silver bull, the blue boxes and the red text- there are just too many colors here for it to gel into a cohesive look. I am unwilling to forgive the silliness of a drink calling itself "Red" Bull, only for the cattle to be rendered in bare aluminum. Nor can I ignore just how hard it is to see the damn thing.

The transition from honest carbohydrates to the likes of sucralose and ace-k does not hinder the overall experience as much as I feared: this is still a fun, if cockeyed, little energy drink. Cherry remains the dominant flavor, but it is neither sweet nor sour: instead, it is earthy, as if the fruit was soaked in rose water and rolled in grass. This disheveled diet drink demands a very specific kind of palate to fully enjoy, and my tongue spent much of the twelve ounces distracted, rather than drooling. The bright red elixir is just as heavy on the almond as its calorie-full friend, but the nuttiness it brings to the party ends up as distant intricacy to the existing funk. Red Bull has seemingly gone out of their way to prevent their 2026 Spring Edition from achieving any commercial appeal, filling it with way too many nuances, detours and surprises that you need to have a good sense of humor to make it to the bottom of the can.

The buzz is easily the least interesting thing here. 114 milligrams of caffeine just barely gets my motor revving, and the other supplements like taurine and B vitamins are just things I have learned to spell by memory. Overall, Red Bull The Spring Edition Sugar Free is one of those rare potent potables that is better in hindsight.

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Joker Cherry Lime Energy Drink Review

Joker Cherry Lime is a flavor created specifically for its exclusivity to Circle-K, however, its can is nothing more than a palette change different from the rest of the line. That is a good thing, as the can remains remarkably clean and easy to read despite its swirly backdrop and the large chunk of writing at the bottom left.

An airy effervescence ambushes the palate with a languorous lime conglomerated with an exiguous cherry taste. The deuce of sapors are absent of any chemistry, both egregiously without the anticipated sourness. Sweetness is a triune of modified sugars, HFCS, sucralose and ace-k, an unfortunate triptych with the artificial honeys lacking the grandiose of the true carbohydrate, and what there is of honest calories approaches its job with too much trepidation to ever be convincing. Every sip lacks the substance of sincere sugar the flavors beg for: you should feel the heft from the sugar, but somehow diet wins out. With the carefree carbonation playing ignorant to their lusts, the whole thing just sorta collapses under its own weightless weight.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, caffeine (160 milligrams), and inositol. The buzz is mediocre, lasting about two hours and ends without any crash. In the end, the Joker line has never been the greatest line, but even with that in mind, this Cherry Lime variety still leaves you crestfallen.

Red Bull The Spring Edition Cherry Sakura Energy Drink Review

Silver and white are not exactly the colors one associates with the vernal season, but that did not stop Red Bull from featuring them on their annual Spring Edition. The purported flavor too, Cherry Sakura, is a bit of a deep cut that surely is to raise eyebrows instead of wet palates, but so what? Curiosity is something so often absent in energy drinks, so let us crack open a can and see just what the brand has in store for us this year.

Cherry has a nasty habit of resembling medicine when not crafted carefully in these common caffeinated cocktails, but not Red Bull here. The flavor is another knockout, sweet when you expect it and sour when you need it. The drupe is robust and nuanced despite all thirty eight grams of sugar working overtime to convert it into candy store fodder; if you close your eyes, you can almost taste the earthy pit and sylvan stem as the vivid vermilion medley navigates past your tongue and down the hatch. The fruit is not so honest that you can detect individual varieties, however, but this is about as far from the pharmaceutical hodgepodge as you can get. There is a refreshing herbal finish as the saccharine syrup makes its closing arguments, an almost woody aftertaste that lurks just far enough out of sight that you struggle to pinpoint just what the heck you are tasting so late into the twelve ounce offering. And that is a good thing, because I cannot remember the last time I finished a potent potable and kept thinking about it. This is a brooding, interesting experience that proves not all energy drink drinkers pine for mainstream mud.

Yet this is where the wheels fly off, the kick. Just 114 milligrams of my namesake stimulant appear here, concocting a disappointing two hour long buzz that the brand should be better than. But this is such a wild tasting product that, you know what, who cares. I liked it regardless.

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Alani Nu Cherry Bomb Energy Drink Review

Who needs those heart-shaped boxes of chocolate when you can have Alani Nu Cherry Bomb, the romantic energy drink. Or so I am assuming, considering its appearance on store shelves this Valentine's Day. I do enjoy the brand's visual energy, hesitant with text but heavy on the personality, your eyes could spend days soaking up each element individually.

The Caffeine King's Law states that, what smells like medicine will taste like medicine, and that is exactly what happens here. The caramel colored cocktail had never seen nor tasted a cherry before, be it from nature or candy store; the fruit deconstructed and destroyed so brutally that the usual features we look for, like sweetness or acidity, are nothing but words in my review. With zero total grams of sugar, it should come at no surprise that sucralose and ace-k are the experience's sweetener system, but they prove no match for the overwhelming taste of chemicals inside this pretty can. Effervescence is another sore spot, sips sipping like the thousands of little bubbles that should be present peaced out in protest. As I suffered through ounce after ounce, my tongue became so deadened to the antipathetic astringency that things almost resembled a lousy cherry cola. There is no vanilla here, no spice and certainly nothing I would ever willingly drink again, but somehow, the essence of the fleshy drupe sneaks its ugly head in, like a seltzer on a bad day. This is an anti-energy drink.

We at least get 200 milligrams of caffeine, as well as ginseng, taurine and vitamins, but did you not just read what this tastes like? You should run, far away, and just get yourself some Peeps instead. This potent potable just sucks, I would rather be alone on February 14th than suffer through this again. Thank you Alani Nu for getting the "worst energy drink of 2026" out of the way for me just two months in.

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Phorm Screamin' Freedom Energy Drink Review

We do not get all that many patriotic energy drinks here on The Caffeine King; perhaps the American way to get buzzed is with some coffee? But I digress.

Phorm is the name and I am a bit ashamed to admit it took a good few seconds before I could pronounce it- the can is otherwise pleasantly clean, but as I verbally struggled, all I could think about was my time in grade school. That is not exactly what energy drinks should remind one of.

A pet peeve of mine is when a colorful can, and flavor like fruit punch, pours out crystal clear. I am sure food dyes are unhealthy, though I am no doctor, but the little kid in me, hooked on bright shades of my favorite primary and secondary colors, takes over sometimes despite my best efforts. Cherry, lemon and blueberry are listed in silver text on the white portion of the sixteen ounce can, and one certainly does taste that, but things are slightly off-centered. There is an acidity here that is just wrong here, a lactic tart tang that hits your taste buds like a watery yogurt. And this perplexed puckering do those fruits dirty, quickly becoming all you can think of when this bubbly beverage rests on your palate- all this ultimately ruins what could have been an enjoyable, if ordinary, caffeinated fruit cocktail. It is really a shame too, because the carbonation is terrific, an airy, almost foamy effervescence that elevates every imbibe to textural ecstasy. And the sweetness, the familiar duo sucralose and ace-k, while lacking the physical weight on your tongue, never feels synthetic. This is a conflicted, confused potent potable that fails to properly represent its country.

With 200 milligrams of caffeine, the buzz is easily the best thing here. But a three hour long kick is only "so" nowadays, with many others offering more of my namesake chemical. But this is 'Merica, where our energy drinks wear our nation's flag and are made with domestic and international ingredients.

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JST WRK Icee Cherry Energy Drink Review

"JST WRK?" Yeah, I sure hope it does.

I have had a lot of energy drinks, more than I am comfortable talking to my doctor about, but the design here lacks absolutely any personality, unless huge, disemvoweled text is one. I do not think so, so we sit here at our desk chair, almost flabbergasted at the gall this energy drink has for reducing its Icee license down to the smallest size possible for a logo. Why bother even paying for one if you can barely see it!? Because this is an energy drink review site, don't cha know?

The sharp red liquid hit my tongue and it immediately curled back in sure disgust- this is not a pleasant potation. The primary problem with this potent potable is its approach to cherry: it takes more inspiration from the black cherry variety than something out of a candy shop, its tangy acidity all wrong budding aside an overwhelming synthetic sweetness of sucralose and ace-k, completely stomping out any semblance to verisimilitude that this twelve ounce product possible hope to produce. Mouthfuls are awkward and jarring, with elements all over the place that work disparately and not as a team. The carbonation is perky at least, probably the only thing that kept me consuming, but not at a rate that could make gulping on this unmitigated disaster worth another imbibe. Then I remember who I am, and I press on; we believe in full-service reviews, don't cha know?

There is a cool 200 milligrams of caffeine here, so the best thing here is its three hour long buzz. Oh sure, B vitamins, taurine, etc., also show up on the ingredient list of this shrink-wrapped can, but I am The Caffeine King, don't cha know?

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NOS Cherried Out Energy Drink Review

With a name like "Cherried Out," you would be right to assume that this NOS variety is a refurbishment of their earlier offering "Loaded Cherry." However identical, well, nearly identical, a quick glance at the list of ingredients divulges a massive disappointment; the caffeine content has been reduced by 100 milligrams, down to 160 mg. With such minor alterations to the can (namely shifts in text), it is a shame that the company diluted one of the brand's strongest selling-points.

The flavor is a friendly reminder as to why I liked the aforementioned "Loaded Cherry" variety all those years ago- Cherried Out tastes largely the same. There is still that potent flavor of cherry, deeper than a macro energy drink has any right tasting. It is a deep, dark venture into the vigorous and nuanced world of the stone fruit, but it grows bogged down in its own intricacy, a cocktail of sweet and black cherries, but it is a mixture far from balanced. For every sugary sip is a devilishly tart undercurrent, where the ugly characteristic of high fructose corn syrup, fifty three grams of it, alongside sucralose, rumbles through the otherwise velvet mouthfeel with the gritty, syrupy texture of the caloric sweetener. It is a flavor on the cusp of a recommendation- there is a lot to like here, but too many other cherry drinks have success where this NOS struggles.

Each can contains B vitamins, taurine, inositol, guarana, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. I have already expressed my disappointment in the stimulant's reduced presence compared to past varieties. The buzz lasts a generic two hours, a kick that you have been kicked by countless times. On the whole, NOS Cherried Out is an average cherry energy drink with muted ambitions and an even less rewarding execution.

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Bing Crisp Energy Drink Review

After the svelte black can of their last variety, Bing Crisp is a lot more kid-friendly, though that is not what you want your energy drink to be. Still, the can is a marginal improvement over the original can, visible if you know how to Google Image search, but text today remains a tad too high.

The apple and cherry here are like the characters in a buddy-cop movie who have chemistry; they play off of one another and never let the other become the star of the experience. Granny Smith and McIntosh are what my palate detect, their saccharinity in wonderful contrast to the curt sourness the stone fruit introduces. There is only five percent actual juice but your tongue calls your eyes a liar, with a weight and heft rivaled only by the flesh of the actual fruits. Sweetness comes from cane sugar, sucralose and the nectar itself, but there is only eight grams of the stuff, with any potentially nasty aftertaste lost deep below the pungent acidity; the equally persuasive effervescence is another helpful distraction.

Each can contains: B vitamins, vitamin C, ginseng, guarana, and 100 milligrams of caffeine. Buzz has never been what Bing does best, but the kick is your average two hour long one, usual for a twelve ounce potable. On the whole, Bing Crisp is a visually perfunctory exercise in flavor over functionality.

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Shock Wave Infra Red Energy Drink Review

Infra Red, our next Shock Wave variety up for review, comes in a rather pink can considering its name. Using the basic template for the line, its generic swirls and banal texture are carried over with only the aforementioned color swap and two additional words. Here is a word for you Shock Wave: boring.

The carbonation here is fantastic; easily the best characteristic here. It is fun, bubbly as a good drink should, elevating each, otherwise gooey, sip. Fifty three grams of sugar, a bromidic ballet of dextrose and high fructose corn syrup, and they compete against the aforesaid effervescence for the levity dominance of every imbibe. The saccharinity lacks depth, pure sweetness slime without reason or rhyme. Gee, the flavor? That is a toughy, considering the potation's extreme focus on leaden sugariness. Cranberry is a definite, sporting a shocking juxtaposition of earthiness and tartness against all the empty carbohydrates creating all the empty calories. Its only real companion is some cherry, itself slightly tart but a far more sedated fruit flavor, lacking the organic zest of the berry.

160 milligrams, inositol, and ginseng make up the energy cocktail, brewing a two, perhaps two and a half, hour long kick. All in all, Shock Wave Infra Red is a bad experience, a drink less than the sum of its parts, with its parts being just as bad.

3D Liberty Pop Energy Drink Review

If you are going to name your energy drink "3D," then I expect to get a pair of those cheap cardboard polarized glasses with each can. 3D's flavor today is "Liberty Pop," a mystery flavor that hides beneath its patriotic visuals. What kind of taste is it? Why should I, the consumer, plop down several bucks just to find out? Because I review energy drinks, that is why.

The base of the experience is white grape, a budding taste adjacent to the stronger pineapple and cherry notes. It is a trilogy in the loosest sense, as neither nectar is particularly potent on the tongue. Instead, the core characteristic is its sourness and powdery texture; your lips pucker up to a point only to be caught off-guard by the slight chalky mouthfeel. It is a dynamic who's dual purpose is to achieve a level of playfulness and help to mask any diet sugar fogginess introduced by the sweetener blend of erythritol, sucralose and ace-k. Oh trust me, your palate could tell this was low carb from first sip, but its not aggressively so. Gulps wash down with minimal struggle and without any aftertaste, a sixteen ounce potable that fills you with encouragement not regret.

200 milligrams of caffeine powers a solid three hour long buzz, but let us face it, it has a third less than the similar Bang brand. That is OK with me, since those drinks have never tasted as adequately as 3D.

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Dr. Enuf Cherry Herbal Review

What is this in the photo to the right: an energy drink? I do not know, it lists itself an "herbal beverage," cherry flavored too but let us not get ahead of ourselves. The original Dr. Enuf proudly called itself "the original energy booster," but that line is missing here. We still have caffeine and B vitamins, so what gives?

The glass bottle has a wonderful feeling in the hand, sturdy like it could break your toe if it were to slip from your hands by the dewy condensation on the container. Flavor-wise however, this is a pretty unpleasant potable, leaning far too heavily towards the herbal rather than the cherry. It has a bite that immediately clamps down on your tongue, wringing it unconscious by the time you head for a second mouthful. The earthy funk does not linger however, resulting in something of a clean aftertaste, but look, we have twelve ounces to go through, and I do not think my poor palate can make it. The sweetness, forty five grams of pure cane sugar, cannot handle the experience, beaten and bruised by the time you ever can notice any actual saccharinity. This is a shame to drink.

The internet continues to not offer much information on how much caffeine we have here, but my body did detect a buzz, so that is something I guess. On the whole, Dr. Enuf Cherry Herbal, if that is your real name, is not something I could or would recommend.

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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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Coca-Cola Energy Cherry Drink Review

Coca-Cola Energy Cherry is the clumsy official spelling here, rolling off of the tongue ungracefully compared to, say, Coca-Cola Cherry Energy, but I suppose it is not the end of the world. But it is a small part of the product's overall misguided misfortune, as the can does not quite grasp what makes that famous red can so legendary. The pink hues do not lithely bring images of the popular cola to mind, and the funky script backdrop feels more corporate than it does sophisticated.

The flavor does in fact taste like "cola" and "cherry," but it does not taste like "Cherry Coke." The cola flavoring is is reduced to mentions of vanilla and citrus, suffering from a salvo of candied cherry flavor. The onslaught destroy any nuance the caramel colored cocktail could compete with, leaving your palate remembering only that something cherry washed across your tongue. Sweetness, thirty nine grams of high fructose corn syrup and glucose, sips more aggressively here than traditional branded offerings, sipping with a teeth-rotting pleasure that feels more on par with something competitor Pepsi would produce. But all this sugariness only goes so far in masking the taste of guarana, which gives every imbibe a medicinal bite that gets more tolerable as sips commence, but not any more enjoyable; what ever is washed away by one gulp is replaced by a fresh coat of acrid earthiness. The front of the can glows with its mention of the herb, but it only takes a few sips to realize Coke wants to use the stimulant, but does not know why or how.

Each can contains 114 milligrams of caffeine, which is a good start but does not have a lot of support from other supplements. Only two B vitamins and guarana are along for the party, the generally subpar two hour buzz of a party. In the end, Coke Cherry Energy (a far better name, for what it is worth), is just OK. Not bad; not great; just, OK.

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Garbage Pail Kids Adam Cherry Bomb Energy Drink Review

Garbage Pail Kids is far from the first media tie-in I would want to drink; they are nasty little things! Though the parody series picked a pretty generic one for their energy drink expansion, "Adam Bomb," now appropriately (and cleverly) named "Adam Cherry Bomb," the packaging remains pretty unappetizing- mmm, don't you want to sip on something with an exploding kid's head?

The flavor is, well, surprisingly decent. Cherry is the star of the show but zealously idles on the rocky cusp of being shadowed by the sweetness, forty grams of high fructose corn syrup (for those of you watching your intake this Holiday season, that is 80% of your suggested daily value). Things are sweet, but the stone fruit rolls over and soaks in the glory of the gummy, viscous saccharinity; it loves it, like a flower in the sunshine. Acidity is somehow able to break through the the combative sugariness, granting imbibes a blunt but brief burst of tartness. It is an experience that almost does not gels, but somehow ends up being very drinkable.

In addition to 100 milligrams of caffeine, B vitamins, guarana, taurine, ginseng, and inositol making up today's energy blend. It is a complete waste of ingredients, a mediocre chemical cocktail crafting a mediocre kick, lasting an hour and a half at most. To end, Garbage Pail Kids Adam Cherry Bomb is a roller coaster of good and bad. Mostly bad, but unpredictably adequate when good.

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Hype Cherry Blend Energy Drink Review

There have been a lot of cherry drinks reviewed here at the Caffeine King, suffering from something of a turbulent history. Oh sure, for every fabulous "Bing" there is a terrible Rockstar Revolt Cherry, and do not even get me started on the Hype brand. The can here is a unique sixteen point nine ounces, with the vertical text really giving this design a slimming look. And, before you ask, yes, that little fifty cents sticker is a Big Lots price-tag. Cross those fingers, ladies and gentlemen, we have a crapshoot on and in our hands.

The flavor is underwhelming, although not entirely without merit. Most interesting is the diluted carbonation, an effervescence that almost seems to struggle pushing bubbles into the five percentage of juice. Speaking of which, yes, we do have five percent juice here, but I should have known better- it hails mostly from apples, the third ingredient; "sweet cherry juice concentrate," as it is written on the back of the can, is deep in the ingredient list, even appearing after caffeine! The flavor itself does not necessarily suffer from this misguided nectar focus, but even the untrained tongue can detect something detracting from the cynosure of every imbibe. That something is the bulking, routine tastes of the sweet autumn favorite fruit. And sixteen point nine ounces offers a long time to be reminded of what could have been.

The energy roll call is a familiar one, with caffeine (160 milligrams), taurine, and plenty of B vitamins. The buzz, no doubt aided by the fifty five milligrams of sugar, is packed with jitters and ends after two and a half hours with a touch of a crash. In the end, Hype Cherry Blend should be better than it ends up being; resting on the cusp of goodness lies mediocrity.

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Mati Cherry Healthy Energy Drink Review

Mati has had some work under the hood, as well as on the hood, though visually things are much less significantly redone. There is a little less to look at, but that is for the better, with the fruits more naturally drawn than before, not much else is different.

The flavor is far better rounded than in the past, the increase from thirty to sixty three percent of juice lends to a sweeter and more passive mouthfeel. The cherry taste is more pronounced here, only slightly acidic but far more mainstream, for better or worse. The lauded bitterness of the original formulation collapses underneath the increased saccharinity, which although coming all from the fruit nectar, is completely listless. It lacks the heft I wanted in such a sugary cherry experience, as the sweetness becomes part of the flavor.

Each can contains 115 milligrams of caffeine and that is about it. Sure, there are mentions of potassium, vitamin A and vitamin C, but what do they do? The kick lasts an hour, perhaps a few minutes more, but that is it. Overall, Mati Cherry is ultimately less interesting with this remake.

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Mtn Dew Holiday Brew Review

After the mediocre critical success of their last holiday beverage, Dew-S-A, Mtn Dew comes down the chimney with Holiday Brew, a blend of the popular Code Red flavor and the trademark variety. The bottle is festive, I like how the green label and cap contrast with the nuclear red liquid, but boy, is there a lot going on in the design.

The flavor tastes exactly like it is supposed to, like Mtn Dew regular and Code Red, for better or worse. It is a potently sweet mixture of cherry, lemon, lime and melon, no one sip reveals the lazy fruit stitching, all tasting congruous as if this is how the flavors were always supposed to be experienced. But the problems of the Mtn Dew brand shine through the crimson cocktail, most notably the lack of acidity and a relentlessly syrupy saccharinity. You taste nothing but sugar by the last few ounces, but if that is how you like your soda, then happy holidays.

There is ninety one milligrams of caffeine to be enjoyed, but the tradeoff is seventy seven grams of high fructose corn syrup. It is a lot of calories for such a small kick, leaving me wonder why you would not just crack open one of those reduced calorie AMP drinks. In the end, Mtn Dew Holiday Brew is a smaller lump of coal than expected.

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Mati Cherry Energy Drink Review

Mati Cherry comes in a nearly identical can to the brand's Citrus version  from months past, save for some text changes and a swap of the little illustration of fruits. It is amazingly easy to read, a clean can that gets everything across, save for the hearty thirty percent of juice. To me, I would sell that point up.

Your first sip is bitter, barely tasting of cherry or much of anything else. Eleven grams of sugar never influence the experience, nor does the thirty percentage of juice. The initial few gulps are a poor introduction to what the potation eventually tastes like, though that will take an iron palate and the patience to make it through at least half of the twelve ounces. Imbibes eventually give their acridity for acidity, a pleasant, puckering tartness that yields to the saccharinity, which by now is showcased by the collapsed bitterness. The actual taste of cherry never becomes the focus of the experience despite being nearly half juice, but perhaps that is because the fruit cocktail is apple, then cherry, then lime. Overall, while the title "cherry" may be something of a dubious nom de plume, but those with some patience should find a lot to enjoy here.

Each can contains something around 150 milligrams of caffeine, though I cannot call that official; the internet told me. In the end, Mati Cherry is about as good as their Citrus variety.

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Rockstar Revolt Killer Black Cherry Energy Drink Review

Rockstar Revolt Killer Black Cherry is a joyless looking energy drink, using the same template the company has used for years. At this point only some text and colors change between releases, leaving me jaded of a design that was unappealing to begin with.

The taste here is a massive misfire, surely one of Rockstar's least successful beverages. Or at least, it is one of their worst drinks that have a normal flavor (remember, this is the company that makes a cucumber drink). Nothing works here, every aspect operates independently from each other, an under-oiled machine where flavor, sugar, acidity, and carbonation work as individuals and not as a whole. Sweetness proves to be the experience's biggest flaw, sixty eight grams of pure sugar, causing the calorie count to be a completely inexcusable 280. But it is a saccharinity that tastes dull, never quite sweet enough to combat the potation's piercing acerbity- and it is a tartness that is painfully incomplete without a harmonious sweetness. Effervescence is another downfall, slumberous bubbles barely lift the drink from feeling flat on the palate.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, inositol, ginseng, guarana, milk thistle, and 240 milligrams of caffeine. That last part is the only reason to drink this trash, as it births a wonderful three and a half hour long kick. To end, Revolt Killer Black Cherry should be killed off the Rockstar line.

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