Red Bull The Spring Edition Grapefruit & Blossom Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

The blue belt belting out "sugar free" at the top of this little can just pushes it way over the edge of being cluttered. There is text of different sizes, colors and fonts flying at you in all different directions that your eyes quickly go "eh, so what?" I do like the purple and it works well with the silver bulls and wording, but there is just too much reading to be done here.

Compared against the original, 2025's diet "Spring Edition" lacks the gusto that crashed down through the wall onto my excited palate, instead knocking at the door and waiting nervously to be invited in. Grapefruit remains the priority but is disorganized and disturbed this time around, tasting cloudy and obtuse, and is quickly overtaken by the product's sourness. I do like the sourness here however, an acidity as perky as it is pleasant, but lamentably results in the "blossom" characteristic hardly seeming to matter in the overall experience. My palate spent far too long searching for that funky floral flavor focus, but found nothing of the sort. Instead, sips climax with a bit of an artificial sweetener aftertaste, expected when you have sucralose and ace-k working for you. This impacts the texture as well, which is thinner and less substantial than before; my tongue ended up becoming a bit bored, noticing how little stimulation the carbonation inspires. It is not unpleasant, but damn it, where is that herbal aftermath I was promised? The original was not afraid to get freaky, and this is just so disappointingly sterile.

Just eighty milligrams of caffeine are offered and my body simply pined for more. The hour long buzz is exactly what I remember experiencing for over the past decade consuming these soft drinks: I am not the same person I was then, and I would hope Red Bull would evolve too.

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Red Bull The Spring Edition Grapefruit & Blossom Energy Drink Review

Instead of something like chocolate bunnies or jelly beans, Red Bull decides that this year's "Spring Edition" should take the form of the familiar "grapefruit," bundled with the nebulous "blossom." It makes even less sense when you remember that the company had previously produced a grapefruit potent potable. The colors do not exactly make sense with the purple of the can, but it would look right at home in my Easter basket.

Leave it to Red Bull to make one of the best tasting grapefruit energy drinks on the market. The tropical fruit is clean and uncluttered, unbothered by all the supplements it is supposedly suppressing. But for every moment you sit back and enjoy this clean piece of produce, there is this funkiness nearby, this earthy aftertaste that would have been the experience's downfall had the liquid not been properly honeyed. The choice of sugar and glucose for its sweetening gives mouthfuls this wonderful mouthfeel, one that is ever-so slightly toothsome but never too heavy or ultimately gummy on the tongue; we get real carbohydrates, and this thusly sips like a champ. But this lauded saccharinity is not enough to destroy this plucky little tartness that snuck up on my tongue, the kind that both citruses and candies dream of providing. This is a weird little soft drink: a little different, a little unusual, but the more I gulped the more I wished it was not so little.

The eight ounces on offer here muster up only eighty milligrams of caffeine, but my body pined for more. More! I need more of my namesake stimulant! Oh sure, vitamins of the "B" variety, taurine and such show up, but come on, just an hour long buzz? Both the flavor and I deserve better.

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Rockstar Revolt Killer Citrus Energy Drink Review

Visually congruent to both Lime Freeze and Punched Citrus, Revolt Killer Citrus represents Rockstar again stepping on its own toes. Available exclusively at Speedway Stores, yes the same gas station who brought us Shock Wave, its camouflage colored can just has too many fonts, too similar colors, and too much text.

Diluted effervescence stunts the super sugary experience here, a completely stock citrus cocktail of lime, grapefruit, and orange. The former two are braided with one another, a fairly thoughtful blending shocked into dullness by each fruit's dimensionlessness and general blandness. The latter adds the only zest to any of the too many sixteen ounces, giving each imbibe some must needed intricacy on the tongue; saving every sip from the sixty four grams of saccharine syrupiness. Its only acidity is additionally found here, a lamentable omission from a potation that truly pines for a fun tartness.

Each can contains: caffeine (240 milligrams), taurine, inositol, ginseng, guarana, milk thistle, and B vitamins. The buzz is a blast, all of the bitter chemical and excess sugar really kick it old school; crash and all. But hey, that comes with the territory. All in all, Rockstar Revolt Killer Citrus is not quite as revolting as it could be, but this "killer" could not hurt a fly.

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True North Grapefruit Lemonade Energy Seltzer Review

True North energy seltzer hails from Michigan, so at least the name makes sense from a geological point of view. But as a potent potable? Less so. Its appearance, textured and twelve ounces, looks more like an alcoholic spritzer than anything caffeinated.

Upon cracking open the can, a wonderfully scent seeps out; an odor free of chemical influence and instead like something fresh from the farmer's market. The flavor is, well, it is a seltzer that is for sure, but it is impressive once we look at the facts. Most important is how there are no sweeteners, diet or otherwise; all the supplements inside are kept in-check, never sullying sips with its herbal funk. Perhaps any nasty aftertaste is lost in the sea of harsh bubbles that cascade onto the tongue, beating and bruising your palate as it makes its way down the hatch. You know, like any seltzer. As for flavor, well it is allegedly grapefruit lemonade, but anyone who frequents such soda substitutes should be instantly familiar with its overall mildness. The only way to properly describe it is containing the essence of the fruits, both present but combined with the aforesaid terse effervescence and the experience's aquatic torrent, your tastebuds have little to actually work with. The nectars bring some welcome acidity but little else, like, well, you know, a seltzer.

With 125 milligrams of caffeine, the buzz here is just OK. Considering the flavor was generally genial, I am OK with it being so OK. Other ingredients include guarana, B vitamins, and ginseng. On the whole, True North Grapefruit Lemonade should be just fine for those waiting for LaCroix energy.

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Phocus Grapefruit Caffeinated Sparkling Water Review

With its corrupt spelling, "Phocus" has all the staples of a bad energy drink. Only this is not an energy drink, at least according to the can. What gives? Its caffeinated nature, in addition to its familiar can size and fluff text, this fits the bill dead on. Unfortunately, its shrink-wrapped label does not fit the aluminum as well, with pockets of air lining the metallic circumference, feeling cheap in the palm an explaining why a four-pack was found in my local store's clearance rack.

I am a pushover for grapefruit drinks, and Phocus is a pretty good one. Perhaps it is the seltzer nature, which gives an earthy chew to each sip, or perhaps it is the absence of sugar, letting the distinct sourness crawl through the herbal grasp. What ever it actually is, it is a good time. Carbonation is curt and aggressive, a raspy texture that destroys all commercialism the eleven and change ounce container could ever dream of distributing. Your tongue will no doubt come unprepared for the imbibes on display here, a wake up call to palates accustomed to the more mainstream examples of sugar-flavored potations. It demands smaller mouthfuls than normal, forcing you to sit back and consume without pressure, a peculiar product that refreshes especially well if you review energy drinks. Not just one or two, but thousands, for well over a decade. You deserve a break.

With only seventy five milligrams of caffeine from green tea, in addition to some l-theanine, expect an hour long kick. It is not much, no, but hey, remember, this is not an energy drink. Only it is, so the kick disappoints.

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Xing Grapefruit Energy Drink Review

The can to Xing Grapefruit is cluttered, for sure, but it is an organized mess, with text zooming in various directions and textures busying already hard to read text. The promised flavor is a welcome one too, as the humble citrus is a flavor hardly played with in the world of energy drinks.

Another non-carbonated surprise, I just cannot help but we surprised on first imbibe when the sweet nectar lacks that expected effervescence. But it works here, a lot more effective than the company's Tangerine offering. Fifty two grams of sugar, all of it from the cane, offer just enough sweetness; no one imbibe overwhelms as other drinks can sometimes do. It is a saccharinity that truly understands the fruit it is paired with, one that intensifies as gulps are gulped, clumping slightly in the back of your throat as the can is quickly emptied. That flavor itself is only faintly acidic, benefiting more from the honeyed ingredient than the tart aspects. Overall, a tasty little grapefruit drink.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, inositol, and 160 milligrams of caffeine. The buzz is the most stock aspect here, lacking the personality of the can as well as the plucky energy of the flavor- it is just "meh." In the end, Xing Grapefruit is a fine example where doing nothing particularly exceptional can craft a fairly good product.

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Hi Ball Ruby Red Energy Drink Review

It has been a long time since a Hi Ball brand drink crossed my desk (thank you, hipster "organic" grocery store chain); bright pink does not do the cozy little design much justice, but it is serviceable. Things are cleaner than all the text and patterns suggest, but the large brand name struggles with its undercase typeface and identical coloring to the rest of the can.

A mere five percentage of juice wrestles the rest of the ingredients as it tries to influence the experience, but it never rises above every sips bitter influence. It lacks the freshness the juice should have imbued; imbibes are listless and tired, more alike your usual macro canned energy drink than what the can suggested it contained. The grapefruit itself its leaden, its fragile intricacy often lost in a sea of acrid aftertastes of organic ingredients. Everything is one-note, no one gulp offers anything unique, just flat sameness that wears down your tolerance for mediocrity. Saccharinity, forty grams of cane sugar, combats the astringents and never wins- it is sixteen ounces of undersweetened miscalculations.

Each can contains: B vitamins, guarana, ginseng, and 160 milligrams. The buzz is the best thing here, lasting just under three hours and never jittery. To end, Hi Ball Ruby Red is a disappointment when you consider all this unusual company could have done with such an unusual flavor.

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Red Bull The Summer Edition Grapefruit Twist Energy Drink Review

Another summer comes another "Summer Edition" from the Red Bull family, this time grapefruit. Its can is quite attractive; it is simple, easy to read, and has a good balance of colors. But this naming convention, the whole "summer" thing gets confusing when you remember that the company has used this nom de plume in the past, only to change its name once the season ends.

The actual grapefruit flavor here is light, an ulterior taste that is never on the forefront of your tongue during the few gulps the twelve ounce can offers. The morning favorite fruit is shrouded behind the sweetener system, one that is at the same time syrupy and grainy. Thirty seven grams of sugar, sucrose and glucose, the saccharinity here builds in the back of your throat, clamming it to a saccharine halt where the sugariness is swiftly knocked aside by the potation's acidity. This tartness is otherwise understated throughout the experience, but it comes close to climaxing here, its potency augmenting until it collapses without much of a payoff- but that works here in cementing the beverage's reticent disposition. I liked every sip this Red Bull offered, an explorative take on a flavor not often experimented with.

Power is this drink's biggest flaw, a taciturn kick that stumbles on itself with only 114 milligrams of caffeine, B vitamins, and taurine. This produces only an hour and a half long buzz; tomfoolery I cannot sanction at its retail price of three plus bucks.

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Monster Mutant Soda Review

Monster's new product its most unique and its most uninspired; Mutant Super Soda. Separate from any in the brand, this neon green potation is an obvious attempt to knock Pepsi's Mtn Dew out of first place from caffeinated soda market. But the bottle here is so brazen, from its curvy bottle to its coloring, not just of Mtn Dew but also of the effervescent relics like MDX or Vault, with their promises of feeling "energized" and all that corporate puffery.

First sip is astonishingly familiar, an initially refreshing but entirely trite cross between Mtn Dew and Coca-Cola's Sprite. Grapefruit and lime are the dominates here, with an underbelly of lemon and a touch of pineapple. It is a less congruous potable than its adversary, with each fruit tasted after one another, instead of as one, with the blunt seams holding the flavor together by a threadbare thread. Sweetness, seventy grams of it, all high fructose corn syrup, is overbearing, establishing an egregiously syrupy experience that only thickens as sips are taken. There is actually less sugar here than its main competitor, seven grams less, but with the same amount of calories, Mutant stands as a missed opportunity to create a gut-friendly Dew corrival.

Each twenty ounce bottle contains 290 calories and 115 milligrams of caffeine, more than Mtn Dew's 91. But it is far from a noticeable bump, and just makes you wish you had drank an energy drink over this retread energy soda.

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E-ON Grapefruit Punch Energy Drink Review

E-ON Grapefruit Punch comes in a surprisingly polished can, looking very modern with its tiny grid background of silver and seemingly bare aluminum, with only a few yellow boxes of text. Its svelte twelve ounce can aids in its mission to look sleek, however it is extremely hard not only to read the words in the image to the right, but also real life. A slender stroke would have gone a long way.

A loud crack as the can opens, the aroma is striking and continues to hype up the expectations for this skinny drink. Its first sip is equally striking, an effervescent elixir transporting the eventually bitter taste of grapefruit across the palate, with a splash of lemony tartness. Initially, every imbibe is mature yet playful, a breezy rendition of the morning favorite fruit, with a slight edge of simple orange, a very welcome addition who is unfortunately comparatively dimensionless. As the syrup travels your tongue, its acerbity blazes up from the otherwise vivacious vegetation; the thirty eight grams of cane sugar appearing only to keep the acidity at bay, while the astringent flavor burns unobstructed with each sip. Its climax is welcome but underwhelming, with a dying of the acridity, leaving only a slight bluntness to the remaining sourness. E-ON Grapefruit Punch is an experience I will not soon forget, and whether or not it is any good is irrelevant; it is daring and different, and for that, I appreciate it, even if I do not like it.

Each can contains: B vitamins, taurine, guarana, and 142 milligrams of caffeine. There is also 150 calories and is three percent juice. The kick is nothing spectacular, actually it is on the verge of poor, lasting just under two hours. To end, E-ON Grapefruit Punch is unusual, and in a sea of predictability, that is refreshing. Especially when the drink itself is made by the same people who bottle the terrible and trite Tornado drinks.

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Thunder Healthy High Voltage Energy Drink Review

Thunder's can never makes me think of actual thunder. It is black with a lot of silver and some grey, but what does that have to do with the sound caused by lightning? Rain drops pepper the aluminum, with what I guess is a lightning bolt interior, but that is just speculation.

Our first sip of this flippant elixir is predominately passive tastes of grapefruit and lime. They are neighboring flavors tasted parallel but are never braided, each aromas its own and saves the experience from succumbing to the common indistinctness of your usual punch. A subjacent pool of raspberry complements the skyward citruses, perhaps with some cranberry approximately present, fruit providing a little more depth to all the sourness than anticipated. The puckering produce is almost awkwardly tart despite their sufficient sugariness however. Sucralose and ace-k promote one of their better showings, a sweetness assiduously attempting with every sip to fool the palate that the simulacrum saccharinity is honest cane sugar; an effort unsuccessful but appreciated. Overall, Thunder's flavor is a frequent flavor done decently here.

Each can contains: ten calories, caffeine (eighty milligrams), green tea, and B vitamins. The kick is debatably "healthy" due to artificial sugars, and is far from "high voltage" with an ingredient cocktail like this. If you have ever had a similarly sized drink, you should be familiar with its hour long buzz. To end, Thunder shatters no expectations, but fortunately not your waistline.

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Archer Farms Sugar Free Grapefruit Energy Drink Review

Two colors with an uninteresting bottom texture, Archer Farms Sugar Free Grapefruit Energy Drink is hard on the eyes. Despite losing weight since we last met, the can is no more sleeker, an almost parody design that most definitely struggles appealing to drinkers.

The palate tastes nothing until you force the platitudinous potation down, when meager mentions of grapefruit shine past the watery cascade not unlike the cheapest of economy adjunct beers. Effervescence is stock and sweetness is archaic, both brightening, but never for the better, with each of the too many sips to this twelve ouncer. I originally pleasured the taste here, back in '08. I guess my standards have risen since. Risen damn high.

The kick is not helped by the product's wight lose, kicking like anything clocking in below 100 milligrams of my namesake stimulant. There is also ginseng, B vitamins, and guarana, but you have probably already thrown the can back on the shelf. To end, Archer Farms Sugar Free Grapefruit sucks.

Kronik Low Carb Blue Citrus Review

Replacing the main colour with silver is common for sugar free energy drinks, and Kronik Low Carb Blue Citrus works this typicality extremely well. The blue would look inappropriate in combination with the former and the meager usage of black, if largely used, but since it's featured sparingly, it prefers to complement instead of clash. And actually, the multitude of colours is balanced and honestly appealing, and it ends up being more visually attractive than its sugared brother.

Mango is a prolific example of the general flavour, though it's muffled majorly and is more artificial than palatably pleasing. Grapefruit adorns the antecedent though it too is spayed of it's authenticity and tastes suppressed of the anticipated crispness. They invalidate any tartness, sourness, and really any sort of vibrancy from relieving the two from their ever constant state of boredom. Neither fruits inherently require a pronounced sweetness, especially with their numb representation of their nature inspiration, which thankfully prevents the exclusive exercising of synthetic sugars from ever really tasting improperly done. This doesn't, however, keep the counterfeit honey from leaving a rather thick aftertaste, and with the actual flavourings being stupidly mild, it becomes an unnecessarily enunciated feature of the experience. Overall, though it isn't abhorrent or anything, Kronik Low Carb Blue Citrus just doesn't taste very good, but in its defense, it really didn't have a good flavour to interpret.

Each can contains: various vitamins of either B or C, caffeine(150mg), taurine, guarana, ginseng, and ginkgo. The prior ingredients kicked me decently for above two hours, and while the myriad of different ingredients was impressive, the amount of each wasn't anything special. In the end, the original Kronik Blue Citrus wasn't very good, and neither is the sugar free variety.

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Monster Heavy Metal Energy Drink Review

I've held off reviewing Monster Heavy Metal for a few years now for three reasons, the first being that it typically sells for an upwards of three plus dollars. The second is that it has been extraordinarily difficult to find up until its recent attack of Big Lot shelves. And the third is that other reviews of the drink have been unanimously unfavourable, which particularly made me reluctant of investing more than a buck fifty for. Its can, however, is actually quite nice, though the line has a sort of tradition about doing so. There is a lot of real estate to work with, but thankfully it was chosen not to jam the design with visuals or text, but there is just enough interest to prevent optical boredom.

The flavour is far more clement than anticipated, with large disclaimers of sour candy apple and vacuous grapefruit, but while the former does indeed taste familiarly honeyed, it isn't nearly as sugary as expected. It actually feels as if it's a confection representation simply because it disregards any honest sense of authenticity, and chooses to rather intensify the aforementioned sourness. But if we focus on the grapefruit, whom which is less arrant than the apple, we notice that it sort of deepens the flavour profile of the stronger fruit. The two taste surprisingly harmonious, even though they're not exactly publicized for doing so, and the citrus dually lays nether and abaft to the granny smith. And while it's trailing behind, the grapefruit leaves an unusually satisfying bitterness that's rather mild but kindred to that of its peel. Overall, Monster Heavy Metal's unparagoned exegesis of the two illustrated fruits is initially aberrant, if not unsettling, and while most will certainly denounce, I at least really started to enjoy each of the many sips the large thirty two ounce can offers.

Each can contains: caffeine(320mg), taurine, several B vitamins, guarana, ginseng, and inositol. The brand's average blend of ingredients kicks well, when there is four servings, and the buzz lasted a good five hours if wholly consumed. There were jitters, unsurprisingly, but not much of a subsequent crash. In the end, the large quantity of animadversion for Monster Heavy Metal's taste is justified, given the flavour's obvious niche quality, but this individuality was personally appreciated and pleasured.

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Rage Inferno Grapefruit Citrus Energy Drink Review

Rage Inferno Grapefruit Citrus was sent to me without any information on the drink itself. What I mean is that there wasn't any mention of the flavour, and since the bottle doesn't have the luxury of a flavour indication, I couldn't pinpoint any difference(other than colour) from the previous Inferno. But I have now since confirmed that both are different products. But honestly, the lack of any suggested flavour could easily discombobulate potential drinkers, because if they saw both Inferno varieties, they could very well not know the difference. But moving onto the actual bottle itself, I have to say that while that I really like both twenty four ounce beverages and those that have resealable caps, the design looks only decent at best and the fire extinguisher top is still just a useless piece of plastic.

Opening the yellow bottle ushers a scent strongly alike that of fresh grapefruits. Its taste begins with a high tartness that acts in garnishing the namesake fruit, the likes of which is extremely realistic to the tongue. Adding in authenticity is a slight spike of tartness that gains an earthy attribute; this experience could easily be described as bitterness however I feel the surge is simply a disguised, if not confused, tartness. The taste of the grapefruit retains an admiral sense of legitimacy through out the duration of the twenty four ounces, and perhaps the most complementing facet is the surprisingly decumbent sweetness. The stunted sugariness respects the factualness presented by the fruit and although it has a insubstantial syrupiness, it isn't overt nor does it damage the otherwise absoluteness of the liquid. Mild sourness partially appears stitched to the latter half of the grapefruit and as the fruit lessens greatly to permit the growth of additional flavours, the sourness disconnects from the decaying and sycophants onto the more recent. The supplementary flavours include mango and peach, and the two are exposed in that order. Both fruits thrive with the decrepit saccharinity, and the mango taste is heavily vibrant despite its late surfacing. The peach, unlike the former, doesn't provide much actual taste and instead it just stings the fluid with a sharpness distinct to that of the fruit. In the end, the overall taste was pleasurable and the unorthodox focus on the seldom used grapefruit gives the flavour a stark uniqueness that was not found in the past Inferno variety.

Rage Grapefruit kicks just as strongly as I expected. I had slightly above five hours of mildly jittery energy, however I did crash once it was over. Each bottle contains: taurine, caffeine(375mg), and a few B vitamins. All in all, my only real problem with Rage Inferno Grapefruit Citrus is the fire extinguisher artifice, though I can see the gimmick causing a chuckle or two between caffeinated consumers.

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Ol' Glory Energy Drink Re-Review

Ol' Glory's current can has been rearranged since since I last held it in my hands. I say rearrange because while the design is still vastly similar to the previous one, the layout has changed and several graphics are missing. The patriotic theme still used full force, and the American flag and colours remain, but some text is gone(like the "Americans Best" line), and eagle is now nowhere to be found. But enough describing the differences, and lets move on to how it looks now. It clearly isn't hiding the fact that it's patriotic, and although I don't like how it looks, the drink has no shame in displaying it. It's a very self aware can that doesn't care whether or not you have as much American pride as it does. Everything is appropriate, the colours background flag pattern, the whole can, and it's actually fairly easy to read, something that couldn't be said about its past design.

The flavour reminds me much of what I remembered it to taste like. It begins light and crisp reminiscing a soft lemon tailored to an understated grapefruit. The lemon plays nicely with the drinks mild sweetness, and doesn't lay emphasis on tart or sourness. The grapefruit is realistic but disregards any bitterness in favor of balanced levels of sweet and tartness. The latter fruit has a distinct zest of ginger to it that deepens its complexity. The zest never goes under the microscope and never is focused upon. The flavour as a whole is aloft an arcane lime who's authenticity is obstructed by the fruits it supports. However its sweetness is slightly syrupy, which doesn't go unnoticed and gives the drink a bit of a syrupy finish. The carbonation is refreshing and uplifts the experience by being mellowly sparkling. Overall, Ol' Glory's taste reminds me quite a bit of the original Pit Bull, which is far from a bad thing as Pit Bull's taste was thoroughly enjoyable.

Ol' Glory's energy cocktail has been modified(I believe) since I last had it, resulting in a greater though still middling buzz. I had a decent amount of energy which lasted for two and a half hours. I had jitters to a mild degree, and I did crash slightly. Each can contains: caffeine(160mg), inositol, taurine, guarana, ginseng, and several B vitamins. In the end, for its suggested retail price of $.99, it will probably be one of the cheaper drinks at your typical convenience store, and if you stubborn and won't take a trip to where the better deals live(such as Big Lots and Dollar Tree), then you're likely to get your moneys worth.

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Pit Bull Cranberry Pink Grapefruit Energy Drink Review

While essentially the same, Pit Bull Cranberry Pink Grapefruit's colour scheme of pink on black is far worse than Cherry Lime's neon green. And while I've never thought the design was intimidating or anything, it's intended to be, so why they chose the colour pink is beyond me. Another problem with the can is the sub name and flavour indication "Cranberry Pink Grapefruit." It's much too long and it's a bit awkward to say and write. Dropping the "pink" from the label would be a start in the right direction, but it would still end up being too long.

Pit Bull Cranberry Pink Grapefruits taste is light on your palate, and begins with a soft, refreshing grapefruit that's married with a quiet raspberry. The first half of the raspberry is candy-like, but the second half is realistic in both texture and level of sweetness. There's then a lingering hint of cranberry that's positively, though slightly earthy, and while its tartness is not strong, it is detectable. There's a slight cherry taste seamed with the cranberry, but it's even more of hint than the cranberry. The carbonation is bubbly and the overall liquid is incredibly smooth. All in all, while a more appropriate name would just be "Grapefruit," Cranberry Pink Grapefruit tastes great, and each sip eagerly makes you desire another.

Pit Bull Cranberry Grapefruit provided only a modest three hour buzz, with no jitters but ended with a slight crash. Each can contains: several B vitamins, taurine, caffeine(160mg), guarana, inositol, and ginseng. Overall, Pit Bull Cranberry Pink Grapefruit should be bought purely for its delectable taste, and not for power or appearance.

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Pink Energy Drink Review

One of the last varieties left that Beaver Buzz sent to me is Pink Energy, and though, to my knowledge, it's not part of the line, it is made by the same company. Like the name suggests, Pink Energy's can is pink, and to further stereotype women, there's a lip stick kiss mark towards the bottom of it. Is that really necessary? The name and colour scheme are both obviously intended to attract females, which in my book is okay, but it goes a bit overboard with the lips. But aside from that, the design is clean and the text is to the point, so aside from the mild sexism, the can actually looks good.

Pink pours out a slightly lighter shade of pink than that of the can, which I guess makes sense because if it was too dark, it would look unnatural. The flavour begins tame, but as it moves across your taste buds, a rather realistic grapefruit taste appears with a mild note of sweetness that matches the sweetness found in a real grapefruit. This ends up being the major focus of the experience, which is a good thing as grapefruit is rarely associated with energy drinks. There's a small amount of a tart lemon that develops near the end of the experience, but there's a slight sugar free aftertaste that overshadows it. The overall flavour to Pink is actually quite good and refreshing, but it's not very complex, which in itself isn't a bad thing, it doesn't help prevent it from eventually becoming boring.

Pink Energy not only contains a healthy amount of sugar(none), but also a healthy amount of caffeine(120mg), Taurine, ginseng, guarana, and A, C, and B vitamins. This ingredient cocktail provided me with a decent buzz. It lasted a bit over two and a half hours, and once that was over I didn't crash. All in all, while I applaud Pink for its thirst-quenching grapefruit taste, there are just too many problems in the overall product that prevent it from standing out amongst the other sugar free energy drinks.

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Archie Farms Energy Drink Sugar Free Grapefruit

Am I losing my touch with the name parody's?(Not that I had much of a touch before) Should I continue the (un)clever titles or stick to the real drinks name? Anyway... It looks like Target has its own energy drink now(and for about 3 years now...) so I bought one, just for all of you readers!(I don't need to say another lonely joke, Its all been said and done before... but has anyone ever committed suicide whiling reviewing an energy drink...?)

FIRST IMPRESSION: Okay, where do I begin? Paying $1.49 for a generic energy drink, a sugar free one at that, and all they can do for a can design is this? Who do they think they are? A name brand? Hell no! Anyway, I think the designers of the can were going for the "simple equals attractive" thing here, like Guru Lite is and was. It just doesn't work well, but somehow, it memorizes me... like a old electronic handheld game...3/5

TASTE: Now, being the big fan of Fresca that I am, the flavor "grapefruit", doesn't scare me. And neither does the "sugar free" thing. Its like Fresca, so I'm expecting a "Fresca-like" flavor. So I pour it out and see that its a very, very light pink color. Upon first taste, your hit with a not-to-sweet grapefruit flavor that's tart and fresh-ish. Just like Fresca. This really surprises me, I was expecting them to screw up a simple flavor(like Stacker 2 Pounding Punch). If you like Fresca, then definitely give this baby a try. But that's if your a soda drinker, a type of drinker not usually know for there loving of caffeine kicks, like us energy gurus... 4.2/5

KICK: Well, there's a pretty stranded energy mix present. Its 2000 mg of taurine, aspartame, inositol, caffeine, acesulfame potassium,, and B vitamins per can. Same old same old. Not to much of a kick present. You do feel a small, short jitter buzz, but it goes away soon enough. But in a side by side comparison, the caffeine does add to the grapefruit flavor, so I'd say its more enjoy-able than just plain old Fresca. But it still doesn't have that "Fresca" charm. Maybe if Fresca made an energy drink...2.9/5

FINAL WORDE: While I was skeptical at first, I have to say the taste impressed me. While its not gonna win awards in the "kick" department, its still a pretty unique drink. I haven't seen many grapefruit energy drinks before, but, let them know, I'm looking for them...3.9/5

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