Pure Fuel

Another twin lab drink. Lookin a little more hardcore.

Taste-At first Im thinking like a 1 or 2, it tastes like grapefruit juice mixed with battery acid. Then it gets a little better upon drinking, but barely. The flavor is "energy" so that makes me think, oh this drink must have a really good blend because of the bad taste, but nope.

RATING-3/10

Buzz-Same exact drink as the other fruit punch twinlab, just with a more ballsy can so you dont look like a puss at the gym and a horrible taste to fit it. 365 mgs gaurana, caffeine, taurine, ginseng, eleutherococcus root, green tea and ginko biloba. Plus 100% of your b vitamins and c. Eleutherococcus (say that ten times fast) is a new one. Lets do some research huh? I see its just the fancy word for Siberian ginseng which is the ginseng berry from Asia. Well these are defiantly the ingredients for a good energy drink, but like I often say there should be more of them.

RATING-6/10

Total amount of mgs-464.7

Over all rating-4.5/10

Organic Energy: Lite

The can is sweating.

Taste-Just like it says its a "lighter" version of the original. Nothing really much else to say. Nothing much else really to say about it other than they gave up the agave syrup.

RATING-7.5/10

Buzz-Contains organic ginseng, 135 mgs organic gaurana, green tea and green coffee bean. Plus something called "organic energy TM" strange they don't say what it is.

RATING-4/10

Over all rating-5.75/10

Joltin' Joe

This fucking drink. Purchased right in the heart of times square and poured out in the same drain.

Taste-Not this again. I hate these drinks, bad move Arizona what were you thinking? All it is, is strong (COLD BLACK) coffee sweetened with sugar and brown sugar. That sounds bad enough, try adding carbonation to it. When you drink something with carbonation you expect yummy tasty sugar pop flavors, but instead here you get smacked in the face with disgustingess. And I was going to try and finish it but I started eating pizza and the sabaro in times square and just the though of drinking this with pizza made me want to puke. This is easily one of the worst things Ive ever tasted, so here you go Joe Dmaggio you get a 1. BOO!

RATING-1/10

Buzz-Caffeine equal to two cups of coffee. Because it is two cups of coffee.

RATING-2.5/10

Over all rating-THE WORST EXCUSE FOR AN ENERGY DRINK EVER! 1.75/10

Buy This Energy Drink Help Kids: Sugar Free

Taste-Just like the original with a bit of that can taste. This usually happens when drinks come in silver cans, but its probably just my head telling me that.

RATING-6/10

Buzz-This shocked me, these drinks have a really efficient blend that will work! 2805 mgs taurine, caffeine, inositol, choline, bitartrate, glucuronolactone and EDTA. 122 mgs vitamin C. 41 mgs niacin! 8 mgs vitamin B6! and 21 mgs vitamin B12! Suprisingly you cant even tast all the vitamin powder in here. BUT! We have some false advertsing here. Bitartrate is a white powder used for tuxture purposes in food and soft drinks and has no energy benifits what so ever. No clue why they would put it in the blend.

RATING-8.5/10

Total amount of mgs-2,997

Over all rating-7.25/10

Organic Energy

Another drink from the health food store.

Taste-Apparently this drink has a gold taste award that looks very unofficial, lets see if it deserves one.. Not so much but its still pretty good. Its flavored with agave nectar, pomegranate and elderberry juice. Elderberry is a berry from the northern hemisphere that's poisonis if eaten raw. he shrub is know to ward off evil spirits. It makes a good syrup and berry for wine and fanta also makes a flavor based off the syrup called shokota. I have to give this points for using the berry and being organic and all that.

RATING-8/10

Buzz-Contains organic ginseng, 135 mgs organic gaurana, green tea and green coffee bean. Plus something called "organic energy TM" strange they don't say what it is.

RATING-4/10

Over all rating-6/10

Buy This Energy Drink Help Kids: Orange Mango

This company ever so generously saves 25 cents from each can sold to be given to a children's hospital. Gotta help the kiddies!

Taste-Orange mango is usually always a great energy drink flavor. Unless it tastes like orange juice with imitation mango flavor thrown in over some carbonation.

RATING-6.5/10

Buzz-This shocked me, these drinks have a really efficient blend that will work! 2805 mgs taurine, caffeine, inositol, choline, bitartrate, glucuronolactone and EDTA. 122 mgs vitamin C. 41 mgs niacin! 8 mgs vitamin B6! and 21 mgs vitamin B12! Suprisingly you cant even tast all the vitamin powder in here. BUT! We have some false advertsing here. Bitartrate is a white powder used for tuxture purposes in food and soft drinks and has no energy benifits what so ever. No clue why they would put it in the blend.

RATING-8.5/10

Total amount of mgs-2,997

Over all rating-7.5/10

Hi Ball: Grapefruit

Ive had this drink in a glass bottle before but didn't review it because it wasn't in a can. Although I knew they made them in cans I had never seen one.. Until the other day.

Taste-This drink is completely unsweetened and raw with just purified carbonated water and grapefruit juice. The grapefruit flavor is barely there but I couldn't drink it even though it has some great energy ingredients. Gotta give this a one because I rate the drink as the drink. The one I had before was sweet and had a citrus taste.

RATING-1/10

Buzz-50 mgs gaurana and ginseng and 160 mgs caffeine. All organic, even the caffeine. Not sure what they used for it. 150% rda niacin, vitamin B6, B12 and B3.

RATING-6/10

Over all rating-3/10

Buy This Energy Drink Help Kids: Original

I saw these on energydrinksare us.com's facebook page a week or so ago and thought I would never see them because they were at some weird gas station /coffee shop called sheetz thats only on the east coast. Little did I remember that I was going that way later that week and I actually found them all in Pennsylvania.

Taste-This is a red bull clone with a slightly sweeter taste and hints of sweetarts, accourding to my friend Dan. But thats what all energy drink n00bs say when they drink red bull. Others wise its pretty decent.

RATING-7.5/10

Buzz- This shocked me, these drinks have a really effciant blend that will work! 2805 mgs taurine, caffeine, inositol, choline, bitartrate, glucuronolactone and EDTA. 122 mgs vitamin C. 41 mgs niacin! 8 mgs vitamin B6! and 21 mgs vitamin B12! Suprisingly you cant even tast all the vitamin powder in here. BUT! We have some false advertsing here. Bitartrate is a white powder used for tuxture purposes in food and soft drinks and has no energy benifits what so ever. No clue why they would put it in the blend.

RATING-8.5/10

Total amount of mgs-2,997

Over all rating-8/10

Guru: 2.0

Went out to the new york city area with my friends these past couple days and you know my main goal was to find some awesome new drinks. I especially thought I would find some downtown in all those convenience stores but I really didn't. Although I found quite a few at all the health food stores they have, including this one of course.

Taste-Very very earthy tasting. My friend absolutely hated it but its actually kind of good in a bad way. Its only flavored with organic evaporated cane juice so the flavor is pretty much from the rest of the ingredients which are for energy. I like tasting what you're really drinking, and you can only get that in energy drinks.

RATING-5.5/10

Buzz-I LOVE organic. If I had the money I would buy everything organic. And when you see that seal it mean everything in the product is completely organic. This drink contains. 1350 mgs gaurana (equals 125 mgs caffeine) echinacea flower, ginseng and ginko biloba. Now much but a solid 4 ingredients. They don't even bullshit around and add pointless B vitamins. Points for being organic and having a solid blend.

RATING-8/10

Total amount of mgs-1350

Over all rating-6.75/10

Celsius: Iced Tea - Lemon

These have to be the ugliest cans ever. I think that's what makes me not want to drink them, because they really arnt that bad.

Taste-Not bad, I actually prefer this to the rockstar tea + lemonade. It has a better tea and lemon balance without the "powder" taste or palliate feel. My only complaint is the vitamin taste at the end. Just make sure you give it a little shake before you drink.

RATING-7.5/10

Buzz-Apparently according to studies this drink burns 100 calories or more per can thanks to a formula called metaplus which contains 100% rda of all your B and C vitamins of course and 1,810 mgs taurine, gaurana, green tea, caffeine, glucuronolactone and ginger. I really didn't know energy drinks really raise your metabolism that much. Probably not mine though considering I'm prone to these drinks. So its like my metabolism wont be normal unless I keep drinking them. Maybe that's why I'm still chubby.

RATING-8/10

Total amount of mgs-2,399.7

Over all rating-7.75/10

Celsius: Sparkling Cola

I hate reviewing these drinks, let alone drinking them. Who actually wants to drink these anyway? If you want to burn fat and max your metabolism theres natural pills for that, that work a lot better.

Taste-Not as bad as I expected. Even better than diet coke. I still didn't want to drinks the whole thing because I hate diet cola with a passion but if I were to compare it I would say it tastes very similar to diet coke without that aspartame taste because, well its not sweetened with the cheap alternative like aspartame but instead sucralose.

RATING-5/10

Buzz-Apparently according to studies this drink burns 100 calories or more per can thanks to a formula called metaplus which contains 100% rda of all your B and C vitamins of course and 1,810 mgs taurine, gaurana, green tea, caffeine, glucuronolactone and ginger. I really didn't know energy drinks really raise your metabolism that much. Probably not mine though considering I'm prone to these drinks. So its like my metabolism wont be normal unless I keep drinking them. Maybe that's why I'm still chubby.

RATING-8/10

Total amount of mgs-2,399.7

Over all rating-6.75/10

Energy Fuel: Fruit Punch

She likes to be famous.

Taste-This is a drink made by twinlab and its sold to nutrition stores and pretty much and store that sells workout goods. It has a medicine taste that's easy to ignore but hard to enjoy. This is defiantly no fruit punch like you had when you were a kid, because when you get older everything has to be gross, sugar free and cant have flavor.

RATING-5.5/10

Buzz-365 mgs gaurana, caffeine, taurine, ginseng, eleutherococcus root, green tea and ginko biloba. Plus 100% of your b vitamins and c. Eleutherococcus (say that ten times fast) is a new one. Lets do some research huh? I see its just the fancy word for Siberian ginseng which is the ginseng berry from Asia. Well these are defiantly the ingredients for a good energy drink, but like I often say there should be more of them.

RATING-6/10

Total amount of mgs-464.7

Over all rating-5.75/10

Nawgan: Strawberry Kiwi

I really should do more research on drinks. I didn't even know this flavor existed or a lot of other flavors coming out. I found about 5 new drinks at a vitamin shoppe that just opened in Rockford.

Taste-Very light but still a little tasty. I have major writers block and dont know what to say. Its not artificial tasting and tastes like strawberry's and kiwis sweetened with cane sugar with only 45 calories.

RATING-7.5/10

Buzz-This drink has two things to power your mind. 100 mgs caffeine from green tea. And 250 mgs cognizin, which is the brand name for the psychostimulant Citicoline is a form of choline which is what gives your brain its memory absorbing capabilities.This drink actually has enough of that to work and I'm sure if you drank about two or three of these a day you would see extreme changes with your memory. Which is what I really need because I can hardly remember memories of my past unfortunately. This also contains 50% rda vitamin E, B6 and B12.

RATING-8.5/10

Over all rating-8/10

Rockstar: Super Sours - Bubbleberry

THIS is what I want in an energy drink! Liquid candy soda pop not being drank for any reason other than yum. Have you ever seen a bubble gum soda pop before? I know I haven't, but now we have one in energy drink form!

Taste- Maybe I'm a bit too excited but this is just so cool. I can describe the taste in two words "double bubble". Its strict bubble gum to the core. Theres not even a hint of sour, but I think that would ruin it anyway. Bubble gum should not be just gum! But it does say bubbleberry and there is a bit of roxkstar punched mixed in with the bubble gum flavor which yes, makes it even better but its still mainly the double bubble you get in the twist wrappers that are always stale. I cant wait to see more super sours from rockstar.

RATING-9/10

Buzz- Finally rockstar went out of its comfort zone for once and what did they come up with? A bad ass drink that monster cant even touch. Now for the energy part of this drink. 1000 mgs taurine. 120 mgs caffeine. 25 mgs ginseng, gaurana and l-carnitine and 20 mgs milk thistle with all 4 of your 100% RDA B vitamins. A sad realization I had about a year into reviewing is most drinks dont even contain enough of one good ingredient to do anything. Like none of these matter except taurine and caffeine. So why dont they use more? Because its not worth it to them because nobody would notice and they would loose money. Good drinks like mona vai and verve and many other drinks I cant think of off the top of my head use ingredients with purpose. But you're paying 4 or 5 dollars a can. Cant ever have both taste and touch unfortunately.

RATING-6.5/10

Over all rating-7.75/10

Rockstar: Recovery - Tea & Lemonade

These drinks came out of nowhere. I had just seen one picture last week of the bubbleberry one and totally forgot about it and them BAM! I see these at a ghetto ass gas station.

Taste-I believe this is their take on monster rehab's drink so lets see how it compares. The rockstar iced evidently fell through (I don't know why, it was better than this) and this came out. It has more of a tea taste than monsters which can be a good or bad thing because more flavor is always better but not when it tastes like nestea lemon pre mix. You can tell this isn't the real deal and its not as refreshing as monsters rehab. It isn't bad and if you like nestea's powder mix and you always make it with an extra scoop you will love this because it is the same thing in a nutshell. Also this is sugar free of course so I cant give it too much hate.

RATING-7.5/10

Buzz-Rockstar always changes it up with their drinks, but its never really ever better. This recovery drink has 1000 mgs taurine compared to 100 in the other drinks. 100 mgs caffeine compared to 80 in the other drinks 120 mgs ginseng compared to 25 in the other drinks and 25 mgs milk thistle. All 4 of your B vitamins Some electrolytes and no prickly pear. Not bad, I'm liking the amount of ginseng, taurine and just the right amount of caffeine for a "sports" energy drink. Still nothing compared to rehabs. Sorry rockstar, no matter how hard you try you will never beat monster.

RATING-7/10

Over all rating-7.25/10

Nawgan: Red Berries

Taste- Red berries huh? It tastes more like that prominent fake cranberry flavor that's been watered down, like ocean spray energy. It has two types of sweeteners with only 45 calories in the whole can. Cane sugar, erythritol (a sugar alcohol found in fruits that doesn't effect the blood sugar level) and citicoline. Its easily drinkable but nothing to enjoy.

RATING-5/10

Buzz- This drink has two things to power your mind. 100 mgs caffeine from green tea. And 250 mgs cognizin, which is the brand name for the psychostimulant Citicoline is a form of choline which is what gives your brain its memory absorbing capabilities.This drink actually has enough of that to work and I'm sure if you drank about two or three of these a day you would see extreme changes with your memory. Which is what I really need because I can hardly remember memories of my past unfortunately. This also contains 50% rda vitamin E, B6 and B12.

RATING-8.5/10

Over all rating-6.75/10

Monster: Ballers Blend

I know all the local stores in my hometown of Rockford IL that carry the new drinks first. That way I make sure I find it before anybody. At least in Rockford lol. But it feels like the few energy drink company's that are left are just going to go under because nobody buys them anymore and if they do its always a monster. I can definitely see the coca cola owned drinks going under and just sticking with one (nos, full throttle, rockstar) and it would be rockstar. I miss all the old company's like joker, ace, boo-koo, wired, kronik, no fear, jolt and so many more. Energy drink collecting/reviewing used to be way more fun :(

Taste- Practically identical to rockstar punched. So similar that I had to buy a rockstar punched to compare and its so close. They are about the same sweetness (too sweet in my opinion) this has less carbonation but the rockstar goes flat more quickly and the rest I just don't know how to describe. I like rockstar punched better though its more drinkable also even though they both are disgustingly sweet to be great drinks. I guess I'm just not a punch fan because its my friend Tyler's favorite drink. I would actually prefer a Hawaiian punch to either lol. What do you guys think?

RATING-7/10

Buzz- 8 years and we still got the same tried and true monster energy blend that never fails. 2500 mgs glucose, l-carnitine, caffeine, glucuronolactone, inositol, gaurana and maltidextrin. 200 mgs ginseng. 1000 mgs taurine and 100% of all your B vitamins. This is one reason monster is the best and most successful energy drinks companys. Because when they have a good thing, they keep it the same. More things in life should be that way, dont you agree?

RATING-9/10

Total amounts of mgs-3729.7

Over all rating-8/10