Realtree Outdoors Hydration Pink Lemonade Energy Drink Review

This dull pink can is one of the better in the line since the redesign that shucked the unique twist-off top for a conventional pull-tab. But one cannot help but wonder if this is simply a repackaging of their previous Pink Lemonade, though with all the misfires of that drink I surely hope they modified the flavor. But instead of reading "not for city girls," this new design reads "I love country girls;" finally, something I can agree with on one of these imbecilic outdoor beverages.

There is slightly less sugar than the previous variety, though just two grams, but being all high fructose corn syrup the reduction is welcome (sucralose is on backup). The saccharinity is strong but never overwhelming, and although its syrupy mouthfeel leaves much to be desired, its slight thickening in the back of the palate give the illusion the pulpy textural nuance of home-squeezed citrus summertime favorite. Its tartness is another element to praise, a sharper acidity than most canned lemonades, a sourness almost overwhelmingly puckering. Whether or not it is any better than the brand's previous attempt is irrelevant; it still tastes good.

Each can contains: taurine, caffeine, and B vitamins. The kick is woeful, lasting two hours, though if there was a bright side, it would be the lack of a crash. In the end, Realtree Outdoors Hydration Pink Lemonade did not leave me hydrated, pining for the outdoors or on the hunt for real trees, but it did taste like pink lemonade, and for that I commend them.

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Tweaker Pink Lemonade Energy Shot Review

Everything went wrong with this label: even on the small retail space of a shot nobody wants to read vertical text. And pink on pink for the logo is too much despite decent readability, and come on, can a pink energy product be any flavor other than pink lemonade? Oh, and do not forget that this is "with calcium," because that is apparently just so important.

The sweaty stench of fake lemonade escapes from the thin bottle, warm and grossly dense with a tartness that would make Greek yogurt jealous. The sweetness is... sweet, tolerable but boring and dispassionate. Things are supposed to taste like lemon, lemonade rather, and for two ounces it does, but to sit here, sip and sit back and reflect, you expose the beverage's heavily abridged and impartial impersonation of a fruit deserving more. But for a shot, a shot strictly, this is not all that bad.

Each shot contains: caffeine, ginseng, yerba mate, and calcium of course. And there a three hour kick too, give or take, one without a crash or jitters. Overall, Tweaker Pink Lemonade kicks decently, which being the entire point of shots, makes this only a decent shot.

Monster Rehab Pink Lemonade Energy Drink Review

Monster must not know that they have something like thirty drinks on any given gas station shelf, because while they may be trying to keep relevant, they are more accurately flooding the market. Does it matter even what the can looks like at this point? No; drinkers will anything that holds the fatigued 'Monster' crest, if they can find this beverage through its Brobdingnagian brethren.

Take a pound of water and a pound of that pink "lemonade" powder and mix the two. Take a sip. How's it taste? Unless you are already on your second glass, there is little to recommend here. There is apple and lemon juice making up a paltry five percent, a fraudulent flavor cloying taste buds with a consternating commensurate constraining counterfeit confectionary characteristic (welcome to the Caffeine King's "Fun with Alliteration"). The texture however, has an unexpected honesty to it, as does the experience's tartness, but those alone cannot save this strangely sapless affair.

What huh? Monster is actually letting the public know its formerly furtive caffeine content (I actually knew this; I am playing stupid for effect). This drink clocks in at 161 milligrams, with ginseng, taurine, guarana, B vitamins, inositol, electrolytes and some others also involved. The buzz lasted the usual three or so hours, nothing of particular interest here. On the whole, Monster Rehab Pink Lemonade Energy Drink is in fact an energy drink that tastes like pink lemonade, but it is not particularly good at either.

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Team Realtree Outdoor Pink Lemonade Energy Drink Review

"Not for City Girls" reads the back of this hick and sexist pink can, nicely resealable but its theme is far from my cup of tea. The background color does makes sense considering this is a pink lemonade, but with the attitude of marketing to women alienates men from comfortably enjoying the flavor.

The lemon tasted is fairly bland to this non carbonated elixir, but its tart pulp-like texture and refreshing sweetness give it life. There are forty two grams of the sweet stuff, in addition to sucralose, and the once thirst-quenching saccharinity coagulates with a slippery smooth mouthfeel. There is no depth, to either the sugariness or the citrus, but that works well here. It is everything we anticipate and enjoy from a pink lemonade, although it is a shame they did not exceed those expectations.

B vitamins, caffeine, and taurine are all that make up the ingredient cocktail, one that gives three hours or so of energy. In the end, Team Realtree Outdoor Pink Lemonade gets a, admittedly mild, thumbs up.

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her Energy Drink Review

According to its can, her stands for "healthy energy revitalizer," which to me is questionable, as they use the unnatural high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener. Don't get me wrong, I do realize dozens of energy drinks use HFCS's, it's just that they rarely claim to be healthy. Anyway, her's can, like its sugar free sibling, is cleanly simple and while I prefer the darker pink of regular her, it does result in the heavy text being far more visible. The dark pink also makes seeing the basic background graphic hard, however when seen, the pattern doesn't add anything positive.

her's flavour is far more bold and exciting than her sugar free. The taste initially opens with a ginger zest that abruptly thins, permitting a jovially sweet lemon with an authentic sourness to rest above. There's a duplication of the past ginger to whom pinches the flavour and relieves focus off the fruit yet at the same time enhances it. The pinch is sudden and short lived, but produces a mild sting aftereffect that lasts well long after. The embellished lemon continues, now with an increased strength and an impotent pulpiness that enriches more naturalism into the fruit. The pulp collects mostly towards the back of your throat, and it's pleasant even if a bit of a tart sweetness convenes along with it. The fluids carbonation light yet bubbly, and is wholly appropriate with the rest of the experience. Overall, when compared to the sugar free version, her's flavour is certainly worth its 130 calories.

Caffeine, taurine, vitamin C, inositol, ginseng, and several B vitamins are the notable of the ingredients, and the blend does what you'd expect from a drink of its size; a two or so hour kick. I had no jitters, but I did get a mild sugar crash. All in all, her looked and tasted better than her sugar free, both of which were pretty good to begin with.

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her Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

Job Lots only rarely supplies me with new drinks, and their latest was her and her Sugar Free. But even the clearance price of fifty cents couldn't make buying such a pink feminine drink any easier. her Sugar Free's can uses a colour scheme of two colours; a white base and pink layering of text and patterns. Both are appropriate with the drinks theme and its sugar free nature. The writing is a bit heavy towards the top and bottom rim, but it uses a small font and does minimal distracting and cluttering.

The flavour begins with a bland dry ginger ale who's sweetness is weak and slightly artificial tasting. But brought along is a fizzy carbonation that breaths excitement to the ale and the proceeding. There's then a welcome growth of an understated lemonade that masks the falseness of the sweetness to the prior taste. The lemonade's sweetness is stronger and less synthetic, but it does have a mild chemical quality to it. Thankfully though, there's a trivial pulp texture and a coy tartness that help dull the previous. Following is a brief emerging grapefruit and a reappearance of the aforementioned lemonade, however it's a bit altered since we last saw it. The grapefruit is sweetened to that of its natural state, and although the lemonade now lacks focus on sugariness, it's a bit syrupy and justly sour. There's then a billowing of a vivid lime that ends the experience. Overall, her Sugar Free's taste often stepped on familiar territory, but I enjoyed each sip regardless.

her Sugar Free doesn't do too well on the energy side of things. I had a kick lasting under two hours, during which I had no jitters, and following I had no crash. Each can contains: caffeine, vitamin C, taurine, inositol, ginseng and several B vitamins. All in all, her Sugar Free tasted and looked better than it kicked, and for such a niche drink, two out of three ain't that bad.

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