Exstase: Apple
July 10th, 2021Meh. Well, what can you expect for 25p? It’s slightly bitter and a bit sickly, like cheap apple squash really.
Exstase: Watermelon
July 3rd, 2021For only 25p, you can’t expect too much! This was a high calorie energy drink with a very strong flavour to it. The watermelon taste was sickly and with a slight bitter tang to it, it was quite difficult to finish the can really even on a hot day.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: UK, Watermelon |
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| Calories: | 43kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Poundstretcher | ||
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Rubicon Raw Orange and Mango
June 19th, 2021A slightly disappointing tropical drink. After trying the cherry & pomegranate flavour first, I had high hopes for this one. Sadly it didn’t live up to those expectations. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad tropical drink at all, it’s just nothing special.
Rubicon Raw Cherry and Pomegranate
June 12th, 2021The first of three new Rubicon flavours I’ve discovered – and I hope the other two are as good as this one. There’s a strong and tangy, slightly sour cherry flavour to this – not much of the pomegranate that I could tell, but overall this was a really nice drink. Not too sickly, but still very sweet.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Cherry, Large Can, Pomegranate, UK |
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| Calories: | 21kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Monster Ultra Fiesta
June 5th, 2021And the second Monster flavour of the year (2021)… this time it’s another tropical one but in sugar-free form. Ultra Fiesta is a mango flavoured beverage in a large 500ml can. It’s mild and refreshing, and easy to drink due to the lack of sugar making it less sickly than full fat versions.
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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Monster Juiced Monarch
May 29th, 2021This is the first of two new Monster flavours I’ve discovered so far this year (2021). It looks like Monster have decided that tropical flavours are the way forward – I know it officially says it’s nectarine and peach, but it just comes across as a refreshing and mild tropical drink. Loads of sugar, plenty of caffeine, a decent wake-up hit.
Dr Pepper Energy
May 22nd, 2021Take Dr Pepper, bung some caffeine in it, and market it as an energy drink… and there you go! It really is just Dr Pepper but not suitable for children. There’s nothing else quite like Dr Pepper, so it does obviously have to get full marks for originality. They haven’t skimped on the sugar either, so you get a full kick out of this can. There is one caveat here though: this is a US import and not available in the UK apart from specialist import sites.
Red Bull Summer Edition (2021) Cactus Fruit
March 13th, 2021Welcome to summer 2021 (well, at the time of writing it’s only spring!), and welcome to another Red Bull summer edition. This year they’ve given us “Cactus Fruit”. I’d no idea what to expect from this flavour at all, but it turns out that it’s just a refreshing tropical drink really. It’s smooth and sweet, but nowhere near as sickly as other tropical drinks usually are.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Cactus Fruit, UK |
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| Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Warrior – Overly Orange
December 12th, 2020Not bad, but could be better. Orange energy drinks have a habit of being quite sickly, especially when supplied as a large portion like this one. It is sickly, and could be improved by only being in a 250ml can instead, but there are much worse drinks out there! I’m not keen on their naming convention for the flavours either – Overly Orange seems a little childish compared to the more aggressive Warrior branding. I think a simple ‘Orange’ would have sufficed instead of letting the intern loose on the branding.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Orange, UK |
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| Calories: | 23kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Poundstretcher | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
