body armor strawberry banana guava

having not gone to school due to being sick, i found myself somehow desperately craving a watery juice drink( gatorate for example) and after digging through my fridge, i found this health drink i got for free at a patriots game, along with a body armor t shirt for throwing a football through a small hole. having passed by the monster booth and picking up all the monsters people left on the ground, i was extremely overstocked on monster and decided to throw this in the trunk of the car we were tailgating in. anyways, i am very thirsty so lets get on with it!


smell: kind of gross. like a protein bar and how jarritos tamarind smelled.



taste: have to say, i expected a lot better from this. its been in the fridge for a week and still isnt cold, and it tastes like twizzler mixed with banana puree. and then some coconut water.


overall: buyer beware! this is still drinkable, and a lot better tasting than many other health drinks. however body armor makes much better flavors, so i cant recommend this to any audience.

java monster kona blend

so this is the final java monster for me to review, and one of the rarer ones at that. i say this is the final because i dont expect to come across any of the discontinued ones. the rarest at least in my area, is toffee, which is even rarer than the xpressos. the description says everybody knows some of the best coffee comes from the kona side of the big island of hawaii. well i didnt know that, and i honestly dont think the source of the coffee makes a big difference, its how you roast it and what you add to it. i dont really know what to expect from this, but if the awesome looking can with tikis and palm trees are any indication, this will be great.



smell: wow thats strong for a java monster. there is a very bold coffee scent, but also that pseudo liquor smell that irish blend has.



taste: well of all the java monsters this one tastes the most like coffee, and GOOD coffee too. i like the strong coffee taste, mixed with some sort of chocolate. honestly loca moca should taste like this instead of being the exact same thing as mean bean.



kick: not jittery, but very long lasting. got me through an entire day of walking without getting the slightest bit tired. although after it wore off my feet were in pretty damn bad shape and i didnt even notice.



overall: buy a palette! this is one of the better java monsters, with a great kick too. you caqn actually taste the coffee in this one, which is something that cant be said about most java monsters. this is the 3rd best, with second being hammer xpresso, and first being irish blend. this tastes like how loca moca should taste, and that is very good.

super chill ginger ale

having recently bought an iphone 5, you may notice a sharp increase in quality of the picures compared to the old ones i took with the crappy 3g camera. unfortunately, i already have a ton of other reviews written, and to get the better quality pictures i have to either find the soders again and take a picture, or get one off google. getting to back to the soder, chill is a variety of cheap dollar store sodas, which are often sold at shaws but i have never seen them anywhere else. this is super chill, and from what i can tell is no different in any way from the rest of the flavors. being a generic brand soder, this naturally uses corn syrup. i feel kind of sick today so i figured today would be a good time to drink this since ginger is good for that. people usually think generic soders are really crappy, but honestly they are often just as good if not better then their more expensive counterparts. a great example is shasta or rip it.

smell: regular old ginger ale, but maybe a bit sweeter.

taste: not bad. this is a pretty good ginger ale, although not as good as vernors which i expected. there is very little ginger taste, which to me is not a bad thing, but not a great thing either. i would probably rather drink this than most ginger beers just because of how spicy they are though.

overall: try a can! not bad, but pretty much your average nondescript ginger ale but a little bit better. its super cheap so i reccommend it.

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.

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$

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.

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.