Dark Thunder Ultra Violet

November 11th, 2023

A really nice and smooth grape-flavoured energy drink. It’s lower in caffeine than many other large-can drinks, which I think is no bad thing really. You get to enjoy the drink for longer without getting too jittery by the end! The flavour isn’t too strong, but very smooth as I said and no bitterness at all. A great addition to Aldi’s line of Monster-wannabee drinks.

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 26mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 6kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Aldi
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Applied Nutrition BCAA Amino-Hydrate – Cloudy Lemonade

October 28th, 2023

Yup, it’s cloudy lemonade. There’s a slight craggy aftertaste from the sweeteners but apart from that it’s a nice classic lemonade flavour. Slightly tangy taste, on the bitter rather than sweet side but nice and unique.

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(3.6/5)
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Caffeine: 30.3mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 8kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: B&M
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Virtue Yerba Mate Peach and Raspberry

September 30th, 2023

Virtue. Clean energy. Healthy sounding. Healthy tasting. I think the peach is a bit too sharp to be nice personally, and they needed to ramp up the sweetness from the raspberry a bit I didn’t particularly enjoy this variety of Virtue due to that, but maybe it has its fans somewhere? It of course contains Yerba Mate (clue is in the name) which is a form of herbal tea from a South American plant related to holly according to Wikipedia! This is where the caffeine component of the drink comes from.

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(1.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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3D Candy Punch

September 23rd, 2023

Cherry! In fact I drank this can the day after I tried Prime Energy Tropical and I’d have to say it’s exactly the same flavour. It’s a sweet and strong synthetic cherry flavoured drink. There’s a lot of it, and I chilled it again half-way through just to keep it at optimal drinking temperature, but I enjoyed it.

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 42mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 473ml
Sold By: Cardiff
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Prime Energy Drink Tropical Punch

September 16th, 2023

This isn’t what I’d call a usual tropical flavour at all, to me it tastes a lot more like fizzy cherry. Perhaps it’s the red can making me think that, but I’m not getting any of the usual passionfruit or mango notes at all, just slightly sour cherry. That’s nice, that’s for certain – it still has the now typical strong Prime Energy flavour profile that’s common to most of the variations, and it does get sickly for the second half of the can, but it’s nice enough.

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(3.8/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 473ml
Sold By: Asda
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3D Citrus Mist

September 9th, 2023

I found this being sold at what looked like an American import pop-up shop in Cardiff and grabbed both flavours on offer. However, on closer inspection of the can whilst this is an American brand, it’s actually made in the UK for distribution here! It looks like the flavours available here in the UK are a little different to those in the US – this one is called Citrus Mist but according to their web site it’s called Citrus Dew in the US. Anyway, it’s really nice! A gentle and very refreshing lemon flavour in a large can, and it doesn’t tire the senses by getting too sickly. The balance of quantity and flavour is perfect and they’ve managed to create one of my favourite energy drinks in a while. It’s really in contrast to the strong, punchy and sickly flavours of the Prime Energy drinks that I’m also trying at the moment!

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(3.8/5)
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Caffeine: 42mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 473ml
Sold By: Cardiff
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Prime Energy Drink Blue Raspberry

August 26th, 2023

This surprised me. I was expecting a super-strong-kick-me-in-the-face-flavour like the other Prime Energy drinks, however the blue raspberry, whilst very sweet and sickly, wasn’t massively strong. It’s not quite as refreshing as I’d hoped, but it’s nice and tastes just like most other blue raspberry drinks really.

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(2.7/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Asda
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Optimum Nutrition Amino Energy Mixed Berry

August 19th, 2023

A bit disappointing really, it’s just a boring mixed berry drink. I don’t know why I’m surprised at being disappointed with it seeing as it does clearly state “mixed berry” on the can. I think because it was on sale for £1 per can making this potentially a premium priced drink even at that reduced level I was expecting a bit more from it. It has higher than average caffeine content and a ton of informative nutritional information plastered across the can, but it just didn’t taste as unique as I’d hoped.

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(1.9/5)
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Caffeine: 40mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Prime Energy Drink Orange Mango

August 12th, 2023

Once again Prime Energy like the stronger flavours in their drinks. This is a super-sweet orange flavoured drink, I didn’t really detect much mango in there but possibly it’s being lost in the overall strength of the drink’s powerful flavour. I found it quite sickly to drink personally, and not that refreshing. The can design and branding is premium though with the glossy black top and bold colouring.

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(2.7/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
Sold By: Asda
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