GTEX Energy Drink Purple Fizz
June 27th, 2026This is the first ever energy drink I’ve seen with “Made in Wales” written on the can! Maybe I was feeling patriotic as I drank it, but it made me want to sing Calon Lân at full volume as I sipped it! The purple fizz flavour of this drink is I believe grape, so this is a nice grape soda basically. It’s also VERY high in calories for some reason so you get quite the sugar-rush from it which is unusual these days to be honest. I enjoyed it if only for the local product origin and grape soda being quite rare in the UK.
Mountain Dew: Pitch Black
June 6th, 2026I discovered this little gem in an American import shop in Cardiff… but this one is from Malaysia and bottled rather than in a can. It’s a grape soda drink but really smooth and easy to drink as you’d expect from any Mountain Dew drink. The drink contains caffeine but there’s no quantity given so I’ve made a guess… either way, I really like this drink and if I find it again I’ll be grabbing some more!
Rubicon Raw Energy Wave Edition Berry and Grape
April 11th, 2026I stumbled across a whole new bunch of Rubicon Raw Energy flavours in Home Bargains and this is the first of that bunch that I decided to try. I was hoping for a grape soda style of flavour but pretty much the only flavour I could get from this drink is the berry. It’s basically a mixed berry drink, I can’t taste any grape at all. It’s nice, don’t get be wrong, it just wasn’t quite what I was expecting. It’s very sweet, full of flavour, and hits the spot. I do wish that companies would limit the can sizes to 250ml though – any more than that is just too much to drink! I blame Monster for starting the trend of 500ml can many years ago.
Red Bull Soda Energy Drink Apple Muscat Grape
September 20th, 2025This is another Thai Red Bull made by TCP rather than Red Bull GmbH. It’s very lightly carbonated and describes itself as Apple and the very specific Muscat variety of grape. I can’t actually taste the Apple but I can taste the Grape – it’s a nice solid grape soda drink! Once again I’ve had to do my best with the nutritional information in this review because the can is almost entirely in Thai. Anyway, very different to Western versions of Red Bull, even the flavoured editions.
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| Caffeine: | 22mg/100ml |
Tags: Apple, Grape, Low Calorie, Thailand |
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| Calories: | 6kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Family Shopper, UK | ||
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Alani Nu Cosmic Stardust
May 25th, 2024You’ve got to love the marketing people for not actually telling you what the drink flavours really are… Cosmic Stardust???? Nope, it’s grape flavour! I do love grape soda so for me this is lovely, but I know a lot of people find grape drinks too sickly which I get. Anyway, loads of caffeine in this one, no sugar, so a decent fake-energy kick without as much tooth-rot 🙂
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| Caffeine: | 42mg/100ml |
Tags: Grape, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | Sainsburys | ||
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Dark Thunder Ultra Violet
November 11th, 2023A really nice and smooth grape-flavoured energy drink. It’s lower in caffeine than many other large-can drinks, which I think is no bad thing really. You get to enjoy the drink for longer without getting too jittery by the end! The flavour isn’t too strong, but very smooth as I said and no bitterness at all. A great addition to Aldi’s line of Monster-wannabee drinks.
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| Caffeine: | 26mg/100ml |
Tags: Grape, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 6kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Aldi | ||
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Hell Red Grape
October 22nd, 2022Basically a grape soda! Really nice but certainly not refreshing. Very different to the majority of other energy drinks just like the regular Hell energy drink is.
Monster Ultra Violet
March 31st, 2018As with pretty much all Monster drinks, your only clues as to the flavour of the drink are the colour of the can and the cryptic blurb on the side. This purple can (violet?? that’s purple…) describes the flavour as “crisp and refreshing, with a sweet and tart pixie dust flavour powered with our Monster Energy Blend”. I can confirm (to the best of my taste-bud ability) that this is grape flavour. Well at least it appears to evoke the flavour of grape soda in my mind anyway. In the UK, grape soda is available but it’s certainly not a common soft drink therefore the flavour is much more of a novelty to me than US readers of this blog may appreciate. BEcause of that, I found it quite different and interesting, even enjoyable!
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Grape, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Vitabiotics Wellman
September 27th, 2014I couldn’t finish this can, it’s just as flaming’ awful as the female ‘Wellwoman’ drink. This is specifically designed for men, so probably contains engine oil and sweat, although the ingredients only talk about things like green tea extract, guarana and artichoke. The main juices are apple and grape but I couldn’t taste that. Most of it went down the sink
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| Caffeine: | 0.01mg/100ml |
Tags: Apple, Grape, UK |
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| Calories: | 29kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
