I felt like I needed to brush my teeth after a single drink of this noxious brew. It’s sickly sweet with an awful melon flavor that sticks to your tongue and teeth. Maybe they’re onto something with these colors.Īfter the last two pleasant flavors, this was an absolute shock to the system. It’s not overwhelming, it’s subtle and gently sweet. It has a light pineapple flavor with a slight spicy burn on the backend. But like the last taste, I think I like this one. I was scared to get a taste of this one, it looks like an angrier version of Mountain Dew. My girlfriend, who poured each of these samples out of my sight, must’ve been so shocked by the insane color of this one that she spilled it all over the plate.

It has a refreshing crisp scent and a lightly sweetened flavor that doesn’t taste like complete poison like the last few tastes. I just can’t see myself killing a whole can of this stuff, it’s overwhelmingly chemical.Īgain with the colors. It’s highly artificial, but not totally unenjoyable. From the smell to the taste, this exactly matches the experience of tearing open a fresh bag of sour peach rings. It’s strangely bitter and wince-inducing. A slight hint of chemical grape is all I taste mixed with, I want to say, water? It tastes as if you grabbed an empty bottle of cough syrup and poured seltzer water in it.Ī chemical blueberry blast on the nose with a rotten syrup flavor. It smells like grape medicine but doesn’t even pack that level of flavor. These are the best corner-store energy drinks, blind taste-tested and ranked by flavor.Īnyway, this is bad. Will I give up coffee for a can of the new Starbust energy drink C4? Probably not, but if I ever do find myself in a situation where I need the unique boost of chaotic energy that only comes from cracking a can of the strong stuff, I now know which brand to go with.

But I discovered that there is a legitimate, non-brand-loyalty-related reason to prefer Monster over BANG, or vice versa. It’s not like I was able to place which flavor belonged to which can, I definitely wasn’t. They taste like slightly different cans of chemical sludge! So when I set out to blind taste test every energy drink I could find at the corner store and my local market, I was shocked to find that all energy drinks do not, in fact, taste like virtually identical cans of chemical sludge. I’m not an energy drink guy - I’m more likely to grab an espresso or black iced coffee (hell, sometimes just a Coke) when I feel sluggish. Or, I should say, as far as I was concerned. As far as I’m concerned, all energy drinks essentially taste the same: awful.

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