Lucozade Energy Tropical

I generally hate tropical energy drinks. I hated this one too. It’s not as bad as some, with the usual Lucozade watered down flavour helping considerably! As for the caffeine kick, it doesn’t offer much to be honest, but the elevated sugar levels help you crash in style. Ouch. Sorry Lucozade, I’m just not a big fan.

Rockstar Xdurance Tropical Orange

Bleurgh, another tropical drink. As expected, it’s sharp and sickly. Sorry Rockstar, I don’t like it.

Emerge Juiced – Tropical

Nooo, another tropical drink! Nope, I didn’t like this much. It was sour, sharp, and everything I don’t like about tropical flavoured drinks. It was very cheap though, but even that doesn’t make up for the taste. Stick with their bog standard energy drink or if you must go for tropical, splash out on something a little more expensive.

Lucozade Energy Caribbean Crush

Oh no, not another tropical energy drink. Well, that was what crossed my mind as I opened the bottle and the smell emerged. The actual flavour, however, was quite a sweetened tropical taste, which took the edge off the usual sharpness of the fruit. They’ve also thrown in a background note of coconut which, I’m pleased to say, made it better. I really enjoyed this drink I have to say.

Blue Bolt Mango and Passion Fruit

Tart, sharp and sweet – it’s like a can of fruit juice more than energy drink. The tropical flavour is very strong and makes you draw back the corners of your mouth like you’ve sucked on a slice of lemon. It’s very sugary and I can’t say it’s one of my favourites – I do prefer a more traditional energy drink flavour if I’m honest!

KX Tropical

I’ll spare you the usual rant about tropical drinks this time. It’s not too bad to be honest but then again it is a predictable addition to the KX range. Sweet, tart, and what you’d expect… It’s a ‘tropical’ clone.

Crunk Mango-Peach

This drink is very strong in flavour and caffeine. It’s not to my taste as I found it far too fruity. It’s a tropical drink really but without the pineapple twist that you usually get. Not my favourite Crunk really but I had to try it of course! It contains the usual proprietary Crunk mix of random aphrodisiac ingredients which I’m sure they’ve invented the names of (legal disclaimer: they haven’t, the names are just strange).

Monster Ripper

I may stand corrected on this one, but I believe that this drink was Monster’s first attempt at making something a bit different. They’ve combined their energy drink formula with apple, passion fruit, pineapple and guava juice to give it a tropical flavour. Regular readers may already be aware that I’m not a big fan of tropical drinks, but this one is much more pleasant. Maybe it’s because they’ve managed to mask any sharpness to the flavour, it really is a very sweet and fizzy tasting drink.

As energy drinks go, this is quite refreshing and unique. There’s no doubt that it is a Monster drink – it still has that distinct Monsterness about it that sets this brand apart from the rest.

SoBe Pure Rush – Tropical Twist

Pure Rush is not a Red Bull clone. It tastes like pineapple, orange and fruit stuff so fits the ‘Tropical Twist’ flavour descriptor nicely. I personally didn’t like the flavour, but the concept all using all natural ingedients to provide the energy boost does appeal to me. Hopefully they’ll bring out new flavours.

Update October 2015:
The ‘Pure Rush’ name appears to have been dropped and the can now features new artwork. Other than that, this is the same product as before.