April 28, 2005
FUZE Energize
FUZE Energize
Cost: $2.00 18 oz
Active ingredients: Ginseng, Guarana, B3, B12
Rating: 6 out of 10
Alright I actually really liked the taste of this drink. I mean it actually has fruit juice and it is all natural and stuff. Fun fun... Anyways it has a great berry flavor and tastes kinda like the mystic coolers from back in the day. Anyways I really liked the taste and it really tasted nothing like any other energy drinks. It isn't carbonated so it is really smooth and good. The problem is while it doesn't taste like energy drinks it doesn't give a whole lot of energy either. It gets you going a touch but nothing more than a cup of tea or something. It is really delicious though, if you don't need a entire pump up of energy this is a tasty way to go. It mixes pretty well to, not as strong as things like redbull, but it still mixes well and tastes good. So Anyways this would be a great fruit berry flavored drink to go for, if your into that kinda of stuff.
Web site: Fuze Energize
April 26, 2005
H20 Blast
H20 Blast
Cost: ?
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Cinnamon Bark?
Rating: 5 out of 10
Alright I might be biased against this one. I will warn that I am not a big fan of cinnamon so I had a hard time with this drink. It is a fruity cinnamon flavor, which I will give it mad credit for being unique. It definitely has a taste like nothing else I have ever had before. So did it pump me up, yeah... it wasn't over the top but it was a nice pick me up that got me going again when I was tired. So that was nice. Seriously thought it could cover the taste of alcohol pretty well because cinnamon is such a strong flavor on its own so that helps. Over all though I just thought there were bettered powdered drinks out there. This is just another one and there isn't anything that really stood out so I say try something else, unless you dig cinnamon in which case you have found your new favorite drink.
Web site: H20 Blast
April 16, 2005
Kombucha Wonder Drink
Kombucha Wonder Drink
Cost: 2.00? 8.5oz
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Tea, Kombucha
Rating: -1 out of 10
This is the WORST tasting drink I have ever had the displeasure to write about. I could barely manage two sips. No one else could do more than one. It tastes like cow piss that had been molding over in the warm sun for over a month. It was server chilled and gross. Seriously if you see this drink i might stop shopping at what ever store carries it as the flavor is so bad it could infect the flavor of other drinks near by. Even the sent was horrible. If you want an honest account of the flavor it had a really bitter prune like flavor that remind me of the scent of vomit. Seriously NO don't drink this don't make this. I hate myself for drinking it. I am sorry to the company which at some point will read these and perhaps realize they are sending poison out to people. It is supposed to be some weird mystical unsweetened tea, but it was a mistake gone horribly wrong.
Web site: Wonder Drink
April 14, 2005
Energy Fizz Citrus
Energy Fizz
Cost: 2.00 a tube
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, Ginseng, B6, B12, Green Tea
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
Alright the energy fizz which comes in 4 different flavors fizzes your drink up. The difference between this powered energy drink and many others i have had would have to be in the flavor. It is actually really good. Many others tasted like cheaper knock offs of tang and kool aid, but this was actually a very good tasty flavor. So good that it actually mixed pretty well which was also something many of the other powders had a hard time with so this may just be my favorite powdered energy product. It is pretty small and can be quite portable. You don't need a juice to mix with cause it has a good taste, and most importantly... this PUMPS YOU UP. This has a good dose of everything cause this kept me going a long time each time i had it. It was more effective energy wise than other things like Umph. Now I still prefer the flavor of many of the regular energy drinks, but this is definitely worth a try. So yeah i am giving this a thumbs up and saying give it a shot. I don't know where to find it in stores, but I know you can get a sampler of each of there flavors pretty cheap off there website if your interested. So go get your Fizz on.
Website: Energy Fizz
April 12, 2005
Source Burn Energy Drink (Dan's Review)
Source Burn
Cost: 2.00? 8.3oz
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, Ginseng, Guarana, B6, B12
Rating: 8 out of 10
Alright Source Burn Energy Drink, or as I think sounds cooler, Source Energy Burn. Anyways this drinks has a similar taste to Sobe adrenaline, which is good and bad. It is good because i like the initial taste and it hides booze very well, but it is bad because it has that sweaty aftertaste that I am not such a fan of. So if you like some of the more musky after taste drinks, which is probably better stated as a smokey after taste then you might like this, it is a very different flavor than red bull and hides booze well. BUT THATS NOT ALL... haha like old school announcers... Anyways it also pumps you up hard core, it has the same amount of taurine as redbull and it has 30 mg more caffeine, which is a bunch more. So for those that only believe in caffeine this one will have you riding high. It also has the same amount of taurine not to mention things like guarana and ginseng. Overall the flavor is what doesn't do it for me, but a lot of people hate the flavor of red bull. Some people didn't notice or mind the aftertaste that I noticed so this varied with my friends. So this is at least different for that group of people... Now cost wise it doesn't help as much as going to a big can soda like rockstar or monster, but this is definitely worth hitting up and packs one hell of a punch for a small energy drink can. So hit it hard feel the burn, and try one out.
Web site: Source Energy Burn
Rhino's Energy Drink
Rhino's Energy Drink
Cost: 2.00? 8.3oz
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, B6, B12
Rating: 7 out of 10
I liked the Rhino drink the taste is very much like the taste of red bull. It seems like it is a little more citrusy. It was pretty good didn't seem to pump me up as much as a red bull though. It mixed just as well. The best part for me though was they offer a can that is carbonated and a box that is not carbonated and it is larger than the can so it has more of the drink, and I really liked the non carbonated version. I kinda thing it tastes smoother and it is pretty tasty that way that being cold is just more refreshing. Anyways it was pretty good it is probably pretty hard to find in the US though, so if you see it give it a try. Also they have another product that is kinda fun that I will review shortly.
Update: This has kinda grown on me, I like this stuff more and more especially the non carbonated stuff, which I really liked.
Web site: Rhino's Energy Drink
April 7, 2005
Mad Croc Energy Gum
Mad Croc Energy Gum
Cost: 1.40 10 pieces of gum
Active ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, B6, B12
Rating: 4 out of 10
Yeah it is officially a strange time in the world when there is energy gum with caffeine and taurine. So this was horrible. It tasted very much like partially chewed cigarettes. It is amazingly bazaar that this even exists, but at the least i guess the next company that makes a energy gum cant do a worse job. So yeah unless your really desperate you can avoid this one much like something else. This stuff tastes like burning. This didn't pump me up really at all. Not to mention how bad it mixed with alcohol, every time i tried i was just pouring more vodka on the ground. So that was a waste... hehe... yeah just don't get this.
Web site: Mad Croc Gum
April 3, 2005
Pollen Burst
Pollen Burst
Cost: Less than 2.00 a pouch
Active ingredients: Caffeine, SOD (Superoxide Dismutase), Glucuronolactone, Inositol, B1,B6, B12, Inositol, Green Tea, Pollen Extract
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Pollen Burst is a power that you mix with water to make an energy drink. It tastes a little like Tang, but not as sweet. I didn't get that pumped up from the energy drink, it has a little bit less caffeine than a cup of coffee. The taste is kinda weaker and watery compared to normal energy drinks like red bull, so it obviously doesn't mix well with booze, Don't even try it. The big difference though was that it claimed it suppressed appetite. That seemed odd to me cause many people seem to get hungrier from energy drinks. So i tired that out having one of the pollen bursts about 30 minutes before lunch... This actually worked I would eat smaller lunches or not even get hungry for hours. It was pretty nuts. So if your into energy drinks for the diet parts that make you burn more calories and such, this is definitely a product for you. I was very surprised that it suppressed appetites. Anyways since I am not really into energy drinks for diets this really isn't for me. I like my stuff to pump me up strong and mix with my vodka. So that is the part that lowered the review. If your more of a healthy person looking for energy drinks this might be great for you.
Web site: Pollen Burst
April 1, 2005
Google Gulp
It looks like Google will soon be joining the energy drink market..
If you don't get it realize this is April first... pretty funny though....
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