Just like the mixed berry flavour, this strawberry one is also unpleasantly medical tasting. Nope, I can only deal with a few sips of this just to give me enough of a taste to be able to review it. The strawberry flavouring is nicer than the mixed berry one, but over all it’s like trying to choose between which urinal you are going to lick… one might look slightly cleaner than another but, well, you’re still about to lick a urinal. Anyway, sorry… you might quite like it – they wouldn’t be selling it if it wasn’t to at least someone’s taste I guess so don’t just take my word for it. Again, like the mixed berry flavour, this strawberry one is infused with the gunky resin of Himalayan Shilajit, green tea, saffron and water from the holy Meccan Zamzam well.
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| Caffeine: | 42mg/100ml |
Tags: Saffron, Strawberry, USA, ZamZam Water |
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| Calories: | 42.25kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 355ml | ||
| Sold By: | Local Shop | ||
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This is another concentrated energy drink for use with SodaStream machine and is the sugar-free version of the already lower-than-normal in calories full fat version I reviewed previously. Make it up in a ratio of 1:23 with fizzy water and you should get an energy drink with 32mg/100ml. Compared to the full fat version, this version is slightly tangy in flavour, slightly more sour, but still a very nice bog standard energy drink – refreshing and drinkable!
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Tags: Clone, Concentrate, Low Calorie, SodaStream, UK |
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| Calories: | 1kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Amazon UK | ||
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I know what cherry is, but I had to Google “sakura”. Turns out sakura is cherry blossom – the actual flowers of the cherry tree. Well, I would describe this drink as a delicate cherry flavoured beverage. It’s certainly not “Haribo” cherry, not synthetic cherry like you get in sweets and most cherry flavoured drinks, but if I had to actually describe the flavour then I’d say it’s something in between Burn and Red Devil. It’s not your typical Red Bull flavour that’s for sure, although there is still that trademark smoothness.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Cherry, Cherry Blossom, Sakura, UK |
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| Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
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Normally energy shots are quite bitter and unpleasant, but this one is surprisingly sweet. As always with shots though, it is jam-packed with caffeine – 200mg which is more than two cans of Red Bulls contains so just be warned that it’ll hit hard! As far as flavour goes, I’d say this is probably one of my favourite shots that I’ve ever had.
It’s WKD Blue! Pretty much exactly the same flavour spot on… so that’s blue raspberry I believe. It’s really nice when cold, refreshing and of course overly sweet as you’d expect.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Blue Raspberry, Large Can, UK |
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| Calories: | 17kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Local Shop | ||
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It says it’s “Strong” watermelon flavour and it’s not wrong! The flavour is not subtle at all, very much in your face and attacking the back of your throat! If you like watermelon flavouring then this is certainly for you. I found it perhaps a little bit strong for my liking which made it sickly by the end of the can, but that could be just down to my own personal taste because the flavour itself was nice.
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| Caffeine: | 38.4mg/100ml |
Tags: Cyprus, Watermelon |
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| Calories: | 46kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Cyprus | ||
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This is very much like the original Hell flavour – so a tangy and fruity drink, not quite like Red Bull at all but closer to a generic supermarket brand with a slight Hell twist on the flavour that is recognisable to the brand. But, they’ve upped the caffeine to 38.4mg/100ml rather than the regular 32mg/100ml and added a whole bunch of extra vitamins and things. It’s almost like it’s a half-way house between a regular energy drink and a pre-workout drink. Thankfully the caffeine content is much lower than pre-workout drinks are!
I was expecting just some sort of bog standard clone energy drink and I was very wrong. There’s no clue on the can really as to what the flavour is, it doesn’t even say “mixed fruit flavour” or anything similar. All it says is it’s a “Sparkling guarana energy drink” and when I opened the can I caught a sudden whiff of what I think is blackcurrant. The colour of the drink is the usual expected yellow-tint, but I’m pretty certain this is a blackcurrant flavoured drink, along the lines of Ribena. That might make sense actually because the manufacturing company is called “Lucozade Ribena Suntory Ltd” so perhaps they have plenty of blackcurrant flavouring to spare. It has a bit of a tang to it compared to a blackcurrant squash, so you do get a slightly more bitter note at the back of your throat by comparison so perhaps that’s the guarana doing that.
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| Caffeine: | 31mg/100ml |
Tags: Blackcurrant, UK |
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| Calories: | 22kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
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Yup, berries. It’s the usual deal with an energy shot – you take a decent gulp and then a deep breath as the bitter flavour kicks in. It was on the sweeter side of things, but still pretty synthetic tasting. So far I’d say the blue raspberry one tasted nicer.
