Sting Energy
March 28th, 2026This was discovered in Trinidad by a family member and brought home for me to try. It’s made by PepsiCo in Vietnam by the looks of the blurb on the can and the nutritional information is, well, relaxed to say the least. There’s no indication of caffeine content although it is declared as an ingredient so I’m making a guess that it’s a standard 32mg/100ml strength. The calorie content is also declared to be between 166-256 calories per can! This is the first time I’ve ever seen calorie content declared as a range. Taste-wise though the drink is a definite clone, it’s sweet and a bit sickly, but does the job.
Best-in Energy Drink Classic
March 21st, 2026This is sort-of an own-brand from Spar. It is most definitely a clone but there is something slightly less usual about the flavour. It’s on the sweet side of things really but it does still taste pretty cheap – and it is at only 45p for a can! You get what you pay for I guess…
X Energy Drink
March 13th, 2026Possibly taking inspiration from Mr Musk’s obsession with the letter X, this drink also suffers from similar over-hype and eventual disappointment. Lots of flashy branding, a single-letter product name, but inside it’s a watery yet sugary nondescript energy drink. It’s very sweet, but there’s not really much flavour to it… it just tastes of ‘being sweet’.
X Energy Drink Sugar Free
March 7th, 2026Pick a letter, X will do, that looks cool, and stick the words “Energy Drink” after it. That’s a winning brand name of course! The drink is a clone of course, but a very light and delicate one. It’s carbonated, but there wasn’t much of a hiss when I opened the can and the carbonation is very slight. The flavour isn’t strong, but it is quite nice and sweet. Worth a try for certain, but it might not become a staple of your diet! (which reminds me, it’s low calorie too!)
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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FruttaMax Thunder Max Energy Drink Syrup Original Zero
February 21st, 2026This 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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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Concentrate, Low Calorie, SodaStream, UK |
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| Calories: | 1kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Amazon UK | ||
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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 Diet CHRG Energy Drink (2025)
August 16th, 2025This is probably my favourite of all the own-brand clone drinks. Asda’s own-brand ‘Diet CHRG’ is smooth and tasty, exactly what you want from a bog standard ‘mixed fruit’ sugar free energy drink. No fancy herbal infusions, just a great taste at a great price. There’s no bitterness, no nasty aftertaste… it does the job well. Asda has been through a number of branding exercises with their energy drink ranges, originally calling it ‘Blue Charge’ and offering dozens of varieties over the years. This appears to now have matured into three flavours that I can find: original; diet; and summer fruits.
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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