Redline
Cost: $3.50 8oz
Taste: 4
Power: 10
The good stuff: Caffeine, Evoburn, Yerba Mate, Green Tea, cAMP
So I see this can sitting with all the other drinks, and think “Hey, something new to try.” I grab it, head up to the register with my $2.25 and hear “That will be $3.78”…yeah, ouch…missed that big label on the top screaming $3.50. And here we have a PRIME example of me taking one for the team…
So taste…yeah…taste….Take a fruit flavored Freeze-Pop, melt it, and pull out all the sugar, add in a bit of crappy artificial sweetener, then let the water evaporate out a bit so that it’s all super concentrated. Not so pleasant a way to spend $3.78 on 8oz of liquid so far. Now the hook here seems to be a really cool looking can and some crap that supposedly helps you burn fat…yay. On the bottle there is a little tagline that says “*Fat Incinerator” with a label on the other side that I shit you not states “*when combined with resistance training and a sensible diet.” Now, correct me if I’m wrong here, but a god damn Twinkie when combined with an otherwise sensible diet and exercise could give you the illusion of weight loss with a statement like that….And it would taste a hell of a lot better in the meantime.
So aside from the taste, the question would have to be how does it work? Well, not bad really. After half the bottle I did get a nice boost…nothing amazing, but I would definitely say higher than average. Still, with the taste this stuff has it needs to damn near keep you going on a marathon caffeine high to counteract the misery you experience getting there. For the price and the crappy taste they really need to add more into this stuff so that you don’t go away feeling shafted. Still, at least it comes in a nifty reusable aluminum bottle with a screw on lid…and it’s just the right size to fill up with ANY other energy drink so that you can carry it around without spillage….obviously most of the R&D went into the container and stuff in the drink itself….either that or there are some REALLY overpaid taste testers out there. Christ, more effort is probably put into flavor testing dog food than with this stuff.
So anyway, I’d have to overall say avoid this stuff…unless you have a morbid curiosity, our you just really want the cool bottle….
*** Ok, so I stand corrected here. For some reason this drink took a delayed amount of time to hit me...but when it did, DAMN. I became uncomfortably jittery, nervous, and just over all felt horribly anxious. This crap is strong! Might have been the large meal I had before...I really don't know...what I can say however, is that it does work...probably the strongest drink I have tried to date...but it still tastes like crap. I can only recommend it if you REALLY need a energy fix bad...really bad.
