Yes, it’s Apple, no it’s not sour. It’s quite a mild apple flavour to be honest, nowhere near as strong as an apple squash for example – more like a watered down sweetened apple juice. Plenty of caffeine so you’ll get your kick, but probably not the most refreshing flavours in the range.
It’s cherry flavoured that’s for sure, but not in-your-face so. The smell is stronger than the taste – it’s quite a mild cherry flavour and certainly not sour like the ‘fizz’ part would suggest. It’s sweet and smooth, not too sickly. I’d say they probably have the balance of the cherry flavour about right for such a large sized can.
It does the job. A large can of caffeinated tropical flavoured drink… it’s sugary tasting, quite artificial, but really very nice and not too sickly despite that. Difficult to say much more about it really, it doesn’t stand out – very middle-of-the-road, inoffensive but not extraordinary.
I 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.
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 | ||
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I’m assuming that this drink will help me drive really fast, and if combined with Monster’s Lewis Hamilton drink then all sorts of crazy shiz happens. Lando’s flavour is a very fresh and crisp melon flavour. As you would expect with any Monster drink, it’s extremely smooth and manages to balance sweetness with the tang of the fruit just right. Difficult to fault a Monster drink as usual!
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Melon, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
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It’s quite sickly, but very nice and extremely sweet. It’s undeniably a sugar-free drink, it has the usual mouthfeel from the sweeteners in it and that does detract somewhat from the strawberry flavouring. I am normally a fan of sugar-free drinks over the full fat versions but I reckon that this particular drink would have benefited from being full of sugar instead – I just think it would have been much nicer flavour-wise. As it is, it’s an easy going drink, very pleasant, would buy again, but could be improved.
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Strawberry, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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It’s another peach drink for 2025! This one does actually taste like peach to be fair and isn’t specifying that’s it’s White Peach or anything. So just normal peach. The can has been branded for the music festival season and this one is “Reading & Leeds”. It’s reasonably sweet and refreshing, but there are better rockstar flavours out there. At least this one is sugar-free though unlike most of the other festival-branded Rockstar drinks I’ve found so far.
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| Caffeine: | 31mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Peach, UK |
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| Calories: | 1kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
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This particular Rockstar variety is branded for the ‘Creamfields’ festival and they’ve gone with a Tropical Guava flavour. I wouldn’t say it’s that tropical personally, it’s more like a fruity berry drink – there’s none of that normal tropical tang you would normally get from a tropical drink. It’s really nice, but it’s not tropical.
