Tornado Ice Energy Drink Review

Back is the gnarly plastic bottle with a replaceable cap, but that continues to be the only area the Tornado brand succeeds: too much real estate is black, empty space fitted with a tiny logo and an underwhelming twister theme. Do tornadoes exist in winter time? The answer is a quick Google search away, but I should not be asking myself that when there is an energy drink in hand.

There is a lot of citrus here, an experience considerably more unique than its Red Bull pretending predecessor- unique, but not tastier. Grapefruit and lemon dominate but disappoint in this fruit salad, flavors fuliginous with little in the way of honesty. Lime, melon and orange join the umbrageous union, produce pushed into the darkness by a diet-destroying fifty nine grams of sugar; giving each already confused sip a heavy and gooey lamination of unsought saccharinity. Undesired dulcitude quickly cloys and clumps together in the back of your throat, further dissimulating the shoal salmagundi. Effervescence is equally mundane, a flat carbonation that engenders the existing stagnant mouthfeel. Overall, Tornado Ice may not be a lamentable Red Bull clone like its relative, but it is lamentable.

Each bottle contains: some B vitamins, taurine, and 142 milligrams of caffeine. Any energy lasts no longer than two hours, an uninspired and unimpressive buzz for something with so much sugar. On the whole, Tornado Ice is almost "so-bad-it's-good." Right now, it is just "so-bad."

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X-Drinx Orange Rageous Energy Drink Review

X-Drinx Orange Rageous, according to my automatic spell checker, contains two misspelled words, both of which are purposely constructed in such a manner. The reasoning behind the improper wording is beyond me, and personally I find they're incorrectness to be difficult to type and to first learn. But enough focus on the name; let us move onto the rest of the bottle. Like in the previous X-Drinx review, I wholeheartedly enjoy the quality that's brought about by of the use of glass, although I may only have this appreciation because energy drinks scarcely come in such a medium.

Upon first sip it is evident that Orange Rageous doesn't have the same excellent caliber that I praised so much with the previous X-Drinx. It begins with a thin syrupy enamel that quickly cannibalizes the tongue, and the coating tastes highly of candied oranges. It's most closely alike the common navel variety, but it's hyper saccharine to the point of disgust. Distinct flavourings of both clementine and blood orange are noticeable within the sweet varnish, however they're not nearly as pronounced as the earlier citrus. There's then a proceeding faint creaminess that tastes richly of vanilla, and this accession creates a similar flavour to your typical store-bought orange creamsicle. Following the actual taste of the liquid, you are greeted by a bitterness that's slight and is reminiscent of unripened fruit, and accompanying its arrival is a sourness that tastes equally callow, however the experience benefits nothing from this organic raw characteristic. Nearing the aft, the sweetness becomes almost grainy to the taste, but the actual texture remains smooth and each sip swallows with great ease. Overall, my reaction to X-Drinx Orange Rageous's taste is split, as while it could be defined as a guilty pleasure, it was all too evident that the flavour was overly sweet and that the sugar glazing was unnecessarily present.

X-Drinx Orange didn't create much of a buzz, which was expected. I had no more than two hours of middling energy, and it ended with noticeable reduction of the aforementioned, which could qualify as a mild crash. Each can contains: caffeine, ginseng, and guarana. In the end, for its lack of redeemable aspects, I'd say that X-Drinx Orange Rageous wholly deserves to be a member of a discontinued line of energy drinks.

Game Juice Energy Soda Review

Game Juice markets itself as being the gap between soda and energy drinks, which is something Mtn. Dew did with MDX, and something Coke has with Vault. So it's safe to say that Game Juice isn't alone, and despite MDX not being around anymore, Vault is sure to be tough competition. And with a name like "Game Juice" and a bottle like this one, I'm betting on Vault. The name implies the content of juice, but there's none, so we're left to assume that it implies that this is the juice to gamers, which I'll admit is clever in that sense, but it is sure to scare off some with the latter of the name. Its bottle is a slender sixteen point nine oz., and its label isn't very tall nor is it very good. The bare gray looks decent enough with the green and black, but other other then some text and some guy wearing a hoodie, there's nothing exciting and makes you wish the company licensed some video game properties to feature.

Apple with Ginger is the alleged flavour, and upon first sip that's somewhat confirmed. Initially, the liquid is watery and syrupy sugary, vastly similar to those cheap Kool Aid Burst knock offs. A lightly tart apple is the only flavour to the sugar water, and it's kept overly syrupy to the point where it goes beyond possibly being a guilty pleasure. The apple is highly artificial tasting and it lacks any sort of crisp nature or sourness in favour of focus on the sweetness. The experience goes on not much longer once it gets overbearing(which is quick), but it ends so thickly and cloyingly syrupy that each sip becomes more and more of a chore. There's a sugar enamel left coating your teeth, tongue, your entire mouth, and within the walls of the glaze is a heavily compressed form of what we had previously worked so hard to get down. Overall, while Game Juice really wasn't that bad, taste-wise, its syrupy sweetness was so exhausting and unbearable that I kept getting flashbacks to drinks like amp Tradin Paint.

Game Juice isn't an energy drink, but instead an energy soda(and last time I checked soda is a drink), so less ingredients and amounts was expected, but I would have never expected the caffeine content to be so low. Eighteen milligrams per eight oz., which factors to be thirty six per bottle, which is low for a soda in general, not to mention an energy soda. Putting into perspective that Diet Coke contains thirty one milligrams eight oz., it really makes you wonder why they even bothered adding caffeine in the first place. Other ingredients include: taurine, inositol, and B vitamins. In the end, there are far better, and by better I mean better everything, energy sodas available for less than what I paid for Game Juice; $1.98.

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