Blue Bastard
September 18th, 2013This drink is all about the name. You take a standard Red Bull clone, wrap it with an awesome name, and you have a winning product! The taste is what you’d expect from any clone: sweet, sickly, and certainly not refreshing. It gives you a kick, and you can show off the can to your mates. It was reasonably priced too as I could purchase three of these to one Red Bull. The originality rating is boosted due to branding and not for the taste.
Evolve
September 14th, 2013Too sweet, metallic tasting, and leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. I can’t recommend this brand unfortunately – it’s just a bad Red Bull clone and as it’s supplied in a large can, there’s also a lot of it to get through. Too sickly to be enjoyable.
Inca (Createam Promotion)
September 7th, 2013You won’t find this drink with this label in any shops. It was a promotional can which was produced by the marketing agency CreateamPromotion. You can effectively package a can of energy drink in any label you like, so you may come across cans of this energy drink with a different label. The flavour was a cloned Red Bull, but with a slightly burnt caramel taste poking through.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, CreateamPromotion |
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| Calories: | 50kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Not for sale | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Revive & Survive
July 24th, 2013A large silver can with writing on, screaming out at me as a budget drink. Yup, it’s another clone but a very sweet one. This one was so sweet it made my teeth feel fluffy which can’t be a good sign. Taste-wise I’d buy it again but I don’t think it’s that good for you!
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Large Can, UK |
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| Calories: | 43kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Hillend, Llangennith | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Blue Spark
April 30th, 2013Tesco Energy Drink has been rebranded as Blue Spark… see that review here.
Blue Spark Sugar Free
April 25th, 2013Tesco Energy Drink Sugar Free has been rebranded as Blue Spark Sugar Free. See that review here…
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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Guarana Force
April 17th, 2013I’d never seen this one before at all so was quite keen to sample its French delights. It has a very low caffeine content as energy drinks go, comparable to Mountain Dew Energy in the UK so I wasn’t expecting much of a kick. It is a Red Bull Clone, but on the sweet side and very watered down making it quite a light tasting drink. I’d recommend it as an energy drink for later in the day when you don’t want a full wake-up, but just have a hankering for the taste.
Shark Stimulation
April 13th, 2013Discovered at a bar of all places, I had to ask them not to open it before serving. Quite bitter in taste, very much like the European own-brands to some degree and sadly not as nice as I wanted it to be. Branding and can design is great though, and the kick from the product itself is no different to any other regular energy drink, but sadly this is just another clone of the brightly coloured horned creature.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, UK |
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| Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Dewstow Golf Club | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Carrefour Taurine Force
April 10th, 2013Without a doubt this is a Red Bull clone, but instead of taking the usual supermarket tactic of making soured and bitter version, they’ve gone down the Aldi route and made a nice sweet drink. If you happen to be near a French Carrefour hypermarket or supermarket then you can’t go wrong with trying this drink. There’s also a sugarfree version which will probably be published next… The thing is, there’s so many different drink names on the can that I’m not sure what to call it – I’ve settled on Taurine Force as it’s the most prominent label, but the confusion gets more confusing (!?) as you’ll see when I review the diet version.
