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!
Tenzing Pineapple & Passionfruit
May 30th, 2026I really nice tropical-flavoured drink! Honestly, out of all the Tenzing flavours this is the best. There’s no bitterness, no sickliness, just a nice tangy drink with plenty of fruitiness. Very refreshing, very easy to drink.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Passionfruit, Pineapple, UK |
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| Calories: | 19kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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Frugo Energy Mango
May 23rd, 2026It’s a nice smooth tropical flavoured drink in some crazy cool artwork-laden can. A bit expensive for what it is – it’s certainly not premium tasting, but there’s nothing wrong with it other than it being a bit lower in caffeine content than most other brands.
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| Caffeine: | 15mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mango, UK |
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| Calories: | 9kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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Frugo Energy Watermelon and Strawberry
May 16th, 2026Pretty nice! You can taste the watermelon, but it’s subtly against the much stronger strawberry. Sweet, no bitterness at all, and smooth. I’d be happy getting this one again that’s for sure but it is on the lower side of strength in terms of caffeine content.
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| Caffeine: | 14mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Strawberry, UK, Watermelon |
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| Calories: | 10kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
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Let’s Get Ready To Rumble – Sour Apple
May 9th, 2026Yes, 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.
Let’s Get Ready To Rumble – Cherry Fizz
May 2nd, 2026It’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.
Rubicon Raw Energy Wave Edition Peach and Apricot
April 25th, 2026It 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.
LT Energy Services
April 18th, 2026This is not available to buy in the shops, sorry! It was a promotional can from a company called LT Energy Services and given away on their stand at the Solar and Storage Show UK 2025 (NEC, Birmingham) in exchange for doing a few laps on their Scalextric set. As energy drinks go it’s a bog standard clone of course. It’s sweet (not sour) and very sugary. Does the job, nothing special but a nice generic energy drink.
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.
