Golden Eagle
June 27th, 2026It’s a nice shiny can that’s for sure. Inside it’s VERY sweet though, like almost syrupy and it coats your tongue with sugar! It’s a clone drink and clearly on the sweet rather than sour side of things.
LT Energy Services
April 18th, 2026This is not available to buy in the shops, sorry! It was a promotional can from a company called LT Energy Services and given away on their stand at the Solar and Storage Show UK 2025 (NEC, Birmingham) in exchange for doing a few laps on their Scalextric set. As energy drinks go it’s a bog standard clone of course. It’s sweet (not sour) and very sugary. Does the job, nothing special but a nice generic energy drink.
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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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!
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 | ||
