Rockstar Zero Sugar Blueberry

October 12th, 2024

Quite a light flavoured blueberry drink. It’s neither watery nor too strong, a good balance and zero calories too. Blueberry is a good flavour for energy drinks I think because it’s different enough from the regular mixed fruit flavours but doesn’t have the harshness of other berry flavoured drinks.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 31mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: B&M
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Reign Storm: Peach Nectarine

October 5th, 2024

Another one of what I think is intended to be Reign’s healthier-looking drinks with pictures of real fruit on the front. I’m not a big fan of peach drinks but this was sort of ok. I mean, it was too peachy for me but if you like peach then I guess the balance of flavour is pretty good!

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(2.6/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 8kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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Reign Storm: Valencia Orange

September 28th, 2024

Nice and fresh. The orange (I can’t vouch for the Valencian origin of those oranges) flavour is balanced well, not massively strong but not weak and watery either. Quite an interesting design for the can too, taking design hints from those other brands which are targeting the health market. You still have the large Reign logo, but you now have the silver background and actual pictures of fruit!

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(3.6/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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Hell Black Cherry

September 21st, 2024

This is more like it. After the disappointing AI flavour of drink, black cherry gives me that fizzy fruit sherbet cherry flavour from my childhood! Extremely drinkable and robustly flavoured.

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(2.8/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 21kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
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Hell A.I.

September 14th, 2024

Well I guess it had to happen eventually, the rise of AI was bound to find its way to energy drinks. If the can and web site are to be believed then this drink was at least in part designed by AI. What it’s come up with it just a red berry flavour. Quite sickly, nothing revolutionary, a bit meh. Human-based flavour creators have nothing to worry about!

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(2.1/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
Calories: 22kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
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Grenade Tropical “Sun of a Beach”

September 7th, 2024

A very interesting take on a tropical energy drink – yes it says it’s tropical flavoured, but it’s coconut! There must be some fruit in there somewhere too but it’s not anything like your typical tropical drink. I’m also slightly concerned by the allergy information saying this may contain crustaceans and fish… it doesn’t taste fishy anyway, how do those accidentally get into an energy drink mix, are they using tropical sea water?!? anyway, it’s a nice and very different tasting drink.

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(3.9/5)
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Caffeine: 47mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 6kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Asda
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Red Bull Summer Edition (2024) – Curuba-Elderflower

August 24th, 2024

As has become traditional, Red Bull have released their annual summer flavour for 2024. This time it’s Curuba and Elderflower. It’s very citrussy and fruity, but quite sickly. It’s a bit like a tropical energy drink in terms of the fruitiness but without the tang that you get from mango/passionfruit… so smoother. Certainly worth a try as it’ll only be around for a year, but probably not one I’ll be getting more cans of.

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(3.1/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 45kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Local newsagent
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C4 Millions Bubblegum

August 17th, 2024

much stronger flavour than the strawberry version, this is punchy and recognisably bubblegum flavoured, so much so that you could almost chew it 🙂 Because it’s a large can, there’s a lot of drink to get through though so it does become sickly after a while. Still, quite original and exactly what it says it’s supposed to be.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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C4 Millions Strawberry

August 10th, 2024

It does actually taste like Millions sweets! I think this flavour is basically what you’d get if you soaked strawberry Millions in water for a few ays and drained off the results. It’s not as strong in flavour as the actual sweets themselves, it’s quite watered down tasting, but the flavour is very recognisable and really nice.

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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