Category Archives: Caffeine

Chrome Soda

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No, I didn’t get it because it had the same name as my browser of choice these days. It was one I haven’t tried yet.

“Italian Style Soda.” Red can with what looks like a white fingerprint.

“Original Citrus Blitz Flavor.”

Hooray for real sugar. 33g per serving. Other ingredients are on par with what I like normally. No taurine or any of that nonsense.

Tastes a lot like Guru Lemonade. Not as tart, if I remember correctly. Rounder taste. Maybe even a mixture of the Lemonade and the Green Tea Honey-Lemon Iced Tea… Smells very similar as well.

Clear liquid.

55mg per 16 fl oz. Not much caffeine. Reference: Bawls can of the same size has 103mg.

Paired with some fairly greasy pizza. $1.99 per can there.

3/4. Won’t go out of my way to get it, but not all that bad either.

24:7 Espresso Coffee Energy Drink Review

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When it gets late at night, and I need my caffeine fix, what’s my go to drink? Bawls, the blue bottled energy drink. Probably the easiest (but not the most cost-efficient) way to get a 4-pack is through Target. (I was sad that they stopped carrying them for a couple months, but to my surprise, I found them a couple weeks ago.)

But when it gets really late, and I don’t have a Target or a specialty beverage store to go to within a reasonable driving distance (after all, I am sane, mostly), I start perusing the gas stations and convenience marts.

Two nights ago, I visited a nearby Walgreens for a can of 24:7 Coffee Energy Drink.

24:7 Espresso Coffee Energy Drink

I remember trying out another flavor by the same brand, but I probably forgot to blog on it.

Smell wasn’t too bad. Actually smelled quite a bit like an actual iced coffee drink. I think it might have to do with the fact that it does have milk in it.

The taste was quite watery, almost like iced coffee with an ice to coffee ratio heavily in favor of ice. Sweetness wasn’t completely off, but it’s supposed to be “Espresso”, right? A bit sweeter than expected. Immediate aftertaste is a bit chocolately and very creamy, but the longer aftertaste is very akin to coffee.

It did its job as an energy drink. Pushed through a whole bunch of blog changes I’ve been working on.

Drinkable, but if I had a choice, I wouldn’t buy it again. 2/4.

Mountain Dew: Game Fuel Alliance, Horde

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Comments on two not-so-recent versions of Mountain Dew… er… Mtn Dew. Stupid rebranding.

Alliance (Boo-urns!)

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Alliance

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Alliance

I can smell the fake… sweetness. Smells like overly sweet, manufactured berries. Very akin to artificial blueberry flavoring added to medicine. And I know, it’s Mountain Dew, I should have expected such a smell, but especially for this version…

Sickeningly sweet. To me, it tasted a lot better with ice, since the sweetness is a little muted with the melting water. Nothing remarkable.

Verdict: Never again. Lame. And not just because Alliance sucks. ;-)

For The Horde!

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Horde

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Horde

Smells a lot like cotton candy.

Citrus Cherry Flavor? Eh. There’s a tiny bit of orange flavor, mixed with that fake cherry flavor. Why does everyone think that flavor tastes like actual cherries?

Definitely tastes closer to Mountain Dew than the Alliance Edition did.

It’s strange, but I thought that I had tasted this somewhere before. Turns out… it’s the same formula as the Halo 3 Game Fuel.

Verdict: Didn’t like the Halo 3 version too much either. Probably won’t be getting this one again.

Closing

Caffeine content: 121 mg per 20 oz bottle (6.05 mg/oz), which is more than a regular Mountain Dew, which is 90 mg per 20 oz bottle. So I guess there’s more caffeine, at least.

Conclusion: Bring back the Throwback. Pepsi Throwback was delicious. Mountain Dew Throwback was a bit weird at the beginning, but I grew to like it. Too bad I never sat down and did a review of those two… now they’re just memories.

Crunk Energy Drink

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If I wanted to come off a bit more extreme, I would have properly titled this post:

CRUNK!!! ENERGY DRINK REVIEW!!11!

Crunk: Can
Hey look, there’s a Benq 24″ LCD in the background.

Although, I used the larger version of the image just to be obnoxious. But seriously, naming an energy drink as Crunk?

Few comments, really. I need some more posts in the Caffeine category anyway.

  • I like the Can Design. It definitely stands out from the other brands. Monster is largely black while Red Bull is blue and “clear” (the bare aluminum). We need more yellow.

  • In the list of ingredients: Horny Goat Weed. Interesting.

  • Nose: Slightly medicinal and citric. There’s not much to it at all.

Crunk: Color

  • Taste: Lightly carbonated, and tasted very sour with no sweetness at all.

  • Finish: Clean, but with that annoying HFCS aftertaste. Slight bitterness.

  • Effectiveness: Meh. I think this was around the time I was drugged up on caffeine, so that might be why I didn’t feel any of the effects, though.

3/5. Not the best thing that I’ve tasted. Won’t be buying it again.

Bawls G33k B33r: A Review

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Summary: It tastes just like root beer, but normally root beer lacks the awesomeness that is caffeine. If you actually like root beer (not Stewart’s, because that stuff’s disgusting, but more like IBC), this should be right up your alley.

A Box? Of What?

Little Bullets of Caffeine

Oh, iPhone. Blurry. It’s like little bullets of caffeine.

A Sample

I started to miss these in bottle form. Amazon sells them as cans (Regular Bawls and Sugar Free, both which I’ve tried), but I still like them as bottles.

I also like the 10 fl oz serving size. 16 oz is a little bit too much for my taste.