Wired Gamers – Massive energy drink review & taste-test
Gamers are getting noticed from all over recently and some of the first companies to notice us were the energy drink makers and convenience stores. How do you pick a drink though? There’s only a few brands in-stock at any store so it’s not like there’s tons of reviews an comparisons.
Not any more though, the huge review of energy drinks “Pure Energy: A Critical Look At Energy Drinks” over at (the competition) Kotaku is as complete a list as I’ve ever seen. Here’s the taste and “buzz” summary:
Author Mike Fahey likes the wickedly sweet-tasting drinks a bit more than I do (like Monster and Full Throttle) and I think he might have borderline OD’d when he gave Full Throttle a “1 of 10″ for buzz-factor. Other than those, most of his comparisons are pretty on-target and I’m sure glad that I’m not the one who got an assignment to test all these drinks and lost nights of sleep and had minor amnesia in the process.
{ 02.08.08 at 11:53 pm }
your all stupid
those things will give you cancer and heart attakcs
{ 02.10.08 at 10:12 pm }
Bah. Bah I say! He missed the best one of all: Rockstar Juiced. Plenty of buzz with no high fructose corn syrup (aka poison). It’s plenty sweet though with a nice citrus flavor (sweetened with fruit juice instead).
Prior to that, No Fear was my drink of choice. It was the only one that didn’t have that “energy drink” taste. Which is to say that it was the only one that didn’t taste like Red Bull. Which tastes like crap BTW… unless you add a shot of Jagermeister.
{ 02.11.08 at 1:56 am }
Jager + Red Bull … hmm, that’s new.
Not sure I agree it will improve the taste of Red Bull.