Hell Focus+
January 24th, 2026This 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!
Kick Energy Drink
December 6th, 2025I found this at a local pub and got strange looks when I asked them not to open the can because I wanted to take it home… anyway, this Kick Energy Drink brand is a sub-brand of “Globalbrands” who are better known as the distributors of Hooch – the alcoholic lemonade loved by teenagers from the 1990s everywhere, Reef – the alcoholic orange drink, and VK, which is like totally not a WKD rip-off. Anyway back to Kick… it’s not bad at all. It’s a Red Bull clone of course, but it’s sweet although on the watery side. It’s essentially designed as a mixer I guess and in that respect it’ll work perfectly. Not sugar-free or low calorie, but slightly reduced in sugar I guess to avoid the sugar tax, but to be honest it tastes nice as a basic energy drink.
Wicked N Bad Energy Drink
October 11th, 2025I found this one at a music festival and subsequently paid a whopping £3.50 for it! If you take a look at the Wicked N Bad web site though (www.wickednbad.com) you’ll see that they aren’t an energy drink company at all – they are actually a “sports and entertainment management” company mainly concentrating on boxing promotion. A bit more digging discovered an old Instagram page @wickednbadenergy with no activity for a couple of years, so quite how this music festival ended up with thousands of cans of this product is intriguing! Looking at the best before date underneath the can, these were past their best two months before I purchased it so I’m guessing they have a lot of stock left over from previous years! It’s a clone, clearly, but it’s a smooth and very sweet one packed full of sugar so clearly pre-dates any attempts to meet the sugar tax requirements.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, UK |
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| Calories: | 47kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | In It Together Festival | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
FruttaMax Thunder Max Energy Drink Syrup Original
August 30th, 2025If you have a SodaStream machine or similar carbonated water maker then you’ll know that the syrups you buy can make this a fantastic factory of fizzy wonder. I’ve reviewed SodaStream’s own-brand energy syrups before but this is a third-party offering from FruttaMax. When made up in a ratio of 1:23 with fizzy water you end up with an energy drink packing 32mg/100ml of caffeine according to the bottle. By my calculations for a smaller 450ml SodaStream bottle that requires about 20ml of syrup, or about 4 teaspoons. That isn’t very much at all, less than you’d typically use with genuine SodaStream syrups so I was concerned it might be a bit watery. Well, no, I was wrong! It’s spot on! What you end up with is a very passable ‘clone’ energy drink. It’s crisp and caramely, just as good if not better than most cheap clone cans. What’s even better is that this is the original full sugar version but only has 8 calories/100ml. The sugar-free version has got to be amazing if it wants to beat this. The concentrate will provide about 12 litres of diluted energy drink at a 1:23 ratio with water. You can of course mix this with still water if you don’t have a SodaStream machine but that might taste a bit weird.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Concentrate, SodaStream, UK |
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| Calories: | 8kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Amazon UK | ||
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Asda CHRG Original Energy Drink (2025)
July 26th, 2025This is Asda’s own brand energy drink and is very different to the old Blue Charge from a decade ago. Gone are the fancy ingredients of carrot and hibiscus and we’re just back to a regular list of artificial things of dubious origin. Similar to the Sainsbury’s own brand energy drink this is also like a bitter and less pleasant version of Red Bull, but it’s smooth and drinkable – go for the sugar free version though is my advice, it’s smoother.
Guru Good Energy Original
December 28th, 2024This was brought back for me from Canada and the can proudly declares its Canadianness in many places! Taste-wise it’s basically what you’d expect from a generic-brand energy drink – sweet, tart and sickly. What I do find very interesting though is the use of grape juice listed in the ingredients. It’s not often you see actual fruit listed in the ingredients of what is usually a “mixed fruit” flavoured drinks so it has got me thinking, is the main fruit used in other generic energy drinks actually grape?? This might be a mystery solved here…
Let’s Get Ready To Rumble Sugar Free
June 15th, 2024In a surprise twist the sugar free version of this drink tastes totally different to the full fat version! It’s still quite watery, but instead of the tangy caramel, it’s a more subtle fruity flavour. Sweet, but no dodgy aftertaste and very drinkable.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Iceland | ||
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Let’s Get Ready To Rumble
June 8th, 2024Helping Michael Buffer (famed ring announcer) earn a bit more cash from his famous catchphrase, Let’s Get Ready To Rumble Energy is a licensed product which is sadly nothing more than a cloned energy drink underneath. The flavour is watery with notes of caramel. Perfectly nice to drink but it’s the same as many other promotionally branded drinks. In fact it’s made by RBM who also manufacture Furocity.
Kong Strong Colossus Sugar Free
April 20th, 2024Yup, the same as the non-sugar-free version really. Sweet, slightly tangy, and quite close to Monster in its flavour really.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Lidl | ||
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