Tuesday, October 9, 2012

rumba energy juice

now juice energy drinks are not by any means new to the market. after all, monster makes like 5 of them, so juice must mask the taste of caffeine and b vitamins right? this has all the EXACT same chemicals printed along the top of the can as monster. the part of this that makes it so much different from the other juice energy drinks is that this is actually 100% juice. the highest monster goes is 80%. from the design on the front of the can, you would think this is orange juice, but its actually a mishmash of 7 different fruits.



smell: reeks of orange juice, and i mean just orange juice and nothing else.



taste: not bad! like orange juice but a little sweeter and a little different. also not carbonated which makes it much easier to chug. i am not the biggest fan of orange juice, but this is okay.




kick: pretty good nothing special though loses points for no listed caffeine content, and upon looking for that, i also noticed this is made by the same company as monster, and has all the same amounts of b vitamins and energy blend.




overall: try a can! not the best energy drink ever, but its caffeinated orange juice. how original is that? if you like orange juice you will love the hell out of this, and if your like me and dont, give it a try anyway because its sweeter.

Monday, October 1, 2012

rip it tribute active mandarin live wild lime

the name is quite a mouthful, and i have no idea why they have to mention that the mandarin lime is live and active. this seems to be paying tribute to us soldiers, but doesnt mention why. what i love about this drink is that it looks NOTHING like a dollar store drink, unlike the rest of the rip its. there is already a lime rip it called lime wrecker, but maybe there will be a noticeable difference since this uses mandarin limes. after all, mandarin oranges are like a completely different fruit than american oranges. but my biggest question is that if this is paying tribute to us soldiers, then why the hell does it use CHINESE limes?



smell: mountain dew!!!! this smells exactly like mountain dew!!! i really like mountain dew, but its caffeine content is way too low for me to drink as an energy drink, but high enough that i wont be able to sleep until 2:00 am if i drink it later in the day. i generally dont drink any soders until later in the day, just an energy drink in the morning.



taste: wow that is great! its like mountain dew, but even better! i have come to have high expectations from rip it, but this really blows away any energy drink that isnt a coffee monster. this is a terrific energy drink, and drink in general, and i really hope this isnt a limited edition flavor. this may be trying to rip off amp, but this doesnt have the flintstone vitamin taste that amp has.



kick: same awesome kick as all the other rip its. but this one is the best tasting yet.



overall: buy a palette! this is one of the best energy drinks in existance, and is the best value for an energy drink to exist. there is no energy drink you can get for 1$ that is of higher quality than this. every rip it i have had was not only good, but surpassed the drink it was ripping off. this has an unusually high caffeine content of 200mg, and its still only 1$

Monday, September 24, 2012

starbucks refreshers raspberry pomegranate

i walked by the starbucks in the mall, and saw their line of uncanned refreshers. the canned flavors are limited to red fruits like raspberry, pomegranate, and strawberry, but the cool lime refresher looked pretty delicious. of course that one you cant get in a can, and i would never even consider paying 5$ for anything like that.  so this flavor of refresher is raspberry pomegranate, but like the other one i am sure its completely unrelated to coffee, and starbucks should take its big fatass logo off the front. this is just an energy drink, and it doesnt matter that the caffeine comes from unroasted coffee beans.



smell: exactly the same as the strawberry lemonaid. not great, but its a pleasant smell. kind of like beer actually, but no bitter alcohol scent. it has that wheaty smell.




taste: well for starters this has almost no carbonation at all, and the flavor is terrible. its kind of like actual fruit at first, then everything blends into an artificial candy sweetness that tastes terrible. first of all i hate real fruit, and also the artificial candy sweetness is on the back of your tongue making you gag.



kick: i cant even drink the whole thing, so refer to my previous starbucks refresher review because it probably has the exact same kick.



overall: do not buy! energy drinks may not be famous for tasting good, but a LEAST most are drinkable. i couldnt even drink this whole thing. this is really awful tasting, and a feel sick not only from drinking it, but the fact that starbucks made 3$ off me with this piece of crap.

Monday, September 17, 2012

jamaican country style cream soda

jamaican country style is the brand, and this is reggae style. last i checked, reggae is a type of music, but is being used to say this soda is jamaican. i have never had a "reggae" style soda, so i have no idea what to expect. this is clear so it might be like jones cream soda, but who knows. you still have to pay a deposit and the bottle is returnable in the us, meaning this is not imported like it makes itself out to be.



smell: oh no... insanely hard to twist off cap..... yep its rusted. this is a very common problem with non proffesionally bottled drinks, and i have run into it three times now. it makes the cap hard to remove, and it makes your drink taste like blood if you drink it from the bottle because theres rust all over the top of the bottle. anyway this smells like cream soda but with actual cream in it. and the cream part doesnt smell very fresh either.



taste: crap. pure crap. this is like the crappiest of the crap cream soda you have ever had, plus extra sour and less carbonation. this tastes more like flat sprite with vanilla syrup added to it. i actually tried that once, but vanilla syrup is made to taste good in coffee, not soda so it tastes horrible, and this is extremely reminiscent of it. i at least avoided the rust by pouring it into a glass, but this is still terrible.



overall: buyer beware!  this is pretty bad, but the only reason it doesnt get a worse rating is that i could still drink this, and its a lot better than a lot of other drinks i have had.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

vegasfuel energy drink experience

sorry for the delayed review. i had a bunch of crap to do but theres probably nobody waiting so who gives a crap. so this is a very bland can, with only a red dot on a bunch of black. also it appears they trademarked the phrase "put a little vegas in you" which is severely disturbing and makes me not want to drink this. i would say this is a red bull ripoff, but then again, this is 16oz and black. maybe its a rip off of something else, or maybe its even a unique drink of its own!



smell: fruit punch, but like real fruit punch not hawaiian punch. unfortunately i strongly dislike real fruit.




taste: well i have had much better, but its like real fruit punch and the aftertaste is LITERALLY MINT TOOTHPASTE. this is troubling to drink, for some reason i dont hate it very much.



kick: crappy. kept me going for about an hour and a half, but during that time i could honestly fall asleep if i wanted to.



overall: do not buy! this is a very crappy tasting energy drink, and the kick is very poor, making this not worth the trouble it is to drink this. so dont put any vegas in you. its a terrible idea, and will leave you dissapointed. ( okay i said it. happy?)

Sunday, September 9, 2012

warning to other blog users!

this post will be about illegitimate pageviews. if you have a blog, you most likely have looked at your stats and seen how many people have seen your blog, and the websites they used to get to it. if you havent noticed there are probably a missive amount of pageviews coming from a weird website that isnt google. these are just people that want you to notice that and visit their site. strangely if you just click on the link it leads to a "cannot display this page". many people complain about this and google just says ignore them. one website i got a bunch of views from was "pregolom" to i used google translate to find out what the hell it was. guess what? its a russian porn site! yep this kind of crap happens on pretty much every blog so be forewarned. and guess what? RANDOM PICTURE!!!!!

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

old fashioned moustache elixir

i really really love the packaging for this. unfortunately, there is a 99% chance it will be a red bull clone. seriously, almost every energy drink this isnt a big brand is a red bull clone, but even more so with novelty energy drinks. the top of can is also covered in fuzz for some reason, maybe it made the can grow a moustache. i think i would have plenty of moustache  if i wanted it without this though.




smell: actually not red bull. something like lemonade but also something else sweet in it.




taste: actually, its like mountain dew believe it or not. its also mtn dew colored as you can see in the picture. well actually its even more atomic piss colored than mtn dew. quite a good flavor. the corn syrup makes it pretty syrupy and gives it a bad aftertaste though.



kick: small red bull kick. no jitters, just a bunch of focus. which i guess is a desirable trait in energy drinks, although if i was doing anything other than sitting in front of a computer and typing, i would opt for something stronger. i am typing this unusually fast with no typos at all, so this does make a great focus drink.




overall: buy a palette! very nice tasting for an energy drink, and incredible for a novelty energy drink. plus it has the best name ever. it also has a nice focused kick. i really expected crap from a novelty energy drink, as their focus is not to be a good drink, its to laugh at the name.