Monster Ultra Peachy Keen

July 13th, 2024

Another cracker from Monster. I hate peach, but I like this! As (almost) always they’ve made it super smooth tasting and have got the balance of flavouring just right. It’s sweet enough to overcome the tartness of the peach and overall quite refreshing.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: B&M
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Virtue Clean Energy Orange

July 6th, 2024

Another orange energy drink for 2024. This time it’s a lot more ‘healthy’ tasting, and by that I mean it’s a bit sharp and tangy, in my mind I’d call the flavour ‘bare’! It’s sweet, but not overly, and certainly tastes more like a raw fruit flavour than a sugar-laden cordial.

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(2.8/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Ocado
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Monster Reserve: Orange Dreamsicle

June 29th, 2024

Orange seems to be making a bit of a come-back for 2024 and I’m seeing a few new orange-flavoured drinks around. This Orange Monster is really quite a smooth tasting drink. The orange flavour is mellow without any sharp edges but not weak – it’s almost like a slightly creamy tasting orange (weird, huh?) but it works well.

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 27kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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Monster Reserve: White Pineapple

June 22nd, 2024

I’m not usually a fan of pineapple. Don’t get me wrong, I love the flavour it adds to the lemon chicken sauce at my local Chinese takeaway, but on its own as a single flavour I’m not that keen. But… Monster have taken just the sweet top-notes of pineapple flavouring for their White Pineapple drink. This drink is sweet and smooth with no tangy or bitter taste at all. The description says it’s “white pineapple” also known as “sugarloaf”, so perhaps it’s this particular type of pineapple which gives it this smooth flavour rather than the regular varieties I’ve tried as actual fruit? I don’t know, I’m not a pineapple expert. Anyway… really worth a try if you can find a can of this.

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(3.9/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 27kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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Let’s Get Ready To Rumble Sugar Free

June 15th, 2024

In a surprise twist the sugar free version of this drink tastes totally different to the full fat version! It’s still quite watery, but instead of the tangy caramel, it’s a more subtle fruity flavour. Sweet, but no dodgy aftertaste and very drinkable.

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(2.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Iceland
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Alani Nu Breezeberry

June 1st, 2024

Breezeberry??? Nope, BLUE RASPBERRY… please, Alani, put the actual real flavours on the can somewhere! I’d have still bought it, but your mysteriousness is just annoying. Yeah, it’s nice, it’s very sweet and it’s packed full of caffeine.

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(2.8/5)
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Caffeine: 42mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Sainsbury's
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Alani Nu Cosmic Stardust

May 25th, 2024

You’ve got to love the marketing people for not actually telling you what the drink flavours really are… Cosmic Stardust???? Nope, it’s grape flavour! I do love grape soda so for me this is lovely, but I know a lot of people find grape drinks too sickly which I get. Anyway, loads of caffeine in this one, no sugar, so a decent fake-energy kick without as much tooth-rot 🙂

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 42mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
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Alani Nu Kimade by Kim K

May 18th, 2024

What would an energy drink taste like if Kim Kardashian decided to make one. Well, that answer is ‘pink’ apparently. The can itself doesn’t say what the flavour actually is but looking on Alani’s web site it reckons it’s lemon and strawberry. Yeah, pink lemonade. It doesn’t taste like normal pink lemonade that I’m used to, I’d say it’s far more on the strawberry side than lemon. It’s nice, but quite sickly!

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 42mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
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Reign: Mang-o-Matic

May 11th, 2024

It’s the “health” brand of Monster back again with a new tropical-style drink flavoured with mango. Yeah, it’s a large can, tastes of mango, gives you a big hit of caffeine. Sadly nothing more special than that though – a premium prices tropical energy drink.

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(2.4/5)
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Caffeine: 40mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Asda
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