Xtreme Shock
Cost: $? 12 oz
Taste: See Below
Power: 10+
The good stuff: Taurine, Caffeine,
Energy drinks have different effects on each of us. Some get jumpy and nervous, others get more alert and some only feel a slightly elevated heart rate. It’s about the norm, so it’s pretty much what we all expect when we pop open a can. At this point I figured I had just about felt it all…I thought I knew exactly what to expect when I torn in to a bottle of Xtreme Shock, but I was VERY much mistaken.
Xtreme Shock comes in 3 standard flavors, Cherry, Orange, and Grape. I’ll be doing a flavor review for all three, but the power is all the same, so I won’t be rehashing that…
Mandarin Orange
Taste: 6
Ok, so I really didn’t like this flavor…it kind of reminded me of an old orange popsicle that had been in the freezer for a couple of years, them melted and mixed with a dash of powdered vitamins...seriously, I thought it was pretty nasty. Now you kind of have to take into consideration that this stuff is billed as a performance enhancing dietary supplement, and as those go this stuff is VERY drinkable….still, if you are looking for a nice drink to quench your thirst you’ll definitely want to look elsewhere. Cherry and Grape are actually a bit better…as a matter of fact orange is bottom of the list for these three…still, given the effects I can definitely look past the flavor when I am shooting for a massive energy rush. This stuff works as well as Redline (probably a bit better) and it’s definitely more drinkable.
Fruit Punch
Taste: 6
Staying with the stale popsicle theme, Fruit Punch adds a slight hint of Robitussin to it arsenal. Over all the flavor is a bit more drinkable, but it still feels like it could be refined a bit. There is a harshness to the drink that just gets pinned to the back of my mind with each sip…instead of going away a bit after each drink, it seems to stand out more and more…it’s kind of a rough sugar free thing that just doesn’t sit well with me….still, at this point I think I prefer it over Mandarin Orange
Grape
Taste: 6
Grape is my favorite of the bunch, but unfortunately that is not saying a whole lot. It seems a bit sweeter and strays away from the old popsicle theme of the previous two. Grape tastes more like an actual grape candy of some sort…maybe a grape lollipop with just a hint of Grape Nerds Candy thrown in for good measure. Actually it’s damn close to being straight up OK. With a few changes I think it could actually be a decent energy drink…and since there aren’t many grape ones out there it could almost be a trendsetter. If you are going to try one of these guys, make it grape for sure.
Now power wise is where this stuff really starts to shine…. The bottle states that you may feel a temporary flush and/or tingling sensation…and holy shit I do! As a matter of fact I had to hand out bottles to a few other folks so they could try it just to make sure I was not imagining it all…after about 15 minutes everyone could feel it for themselves. Basically what happened was this: You start out feeling a freaking rock solid energy rush…comes on faster than just about anything. From that point we all started noticing a strange tingle in our lips and skin…sort of like tiny pin pricks moving all over….after that I started to notice a strange sensation around my ears…kind of like a bit of static or something right under my skin which topped off by spreading all over my face and arms turning into something sort of like tiny pinches. It’s like my skin was crawling a bit…or shrinking in certain points causing it to pull on others.
Yes friends, what we have here is the magic mushroom of the energy drink world….it’s about as close to tripping as you can possibly get from any legal nonalcoholic beverage…hell, it actually works better than Absinthe when it comes to making you feel funky. Something that is really interesting about this stuff is that once you think you are feeling the max effect it starts hitting you stronger…the tingle/itch/shock/pinch/burn just seems to grow and grow and grow….By damn we actually have a product that makes a crazy ass claim and is NOT full of crap…it freakin works!
Party drink….Check
Pre sport drink….Check
I’m board so I want to alter my physical state drink…Double Check.
I’m thirsty so I want a refreshing beverage…..Negative on the fly by Mav.
So the taste is pretty bad…but even then the power and effect is so damn solid that this is a MUST TRY. I can actually get past the crappy taste for anything that works this good….it just rocks…it’s damn near the ultimate energy drink out there (power wise of course). If it tasted better it would probably be the god of all energy drinks….as it stands it’s more like the Lucifer of all energy drinks....not so tasty, but DAMN powerful.
**As an update, I was recently shipped another pack of the Xtreme Shock drinks. While the tastes did improve a bit (Really it was very slight when tried side by side with one of the first I received, but enough to bump the scores a bit) the biggest change I saw was that unlike the earlier ones the taste did get better while drinking it. Before the drinks were what they were...now your mouth kind of adapts out some of the strangeness to make it much easier to drink over all. While this is still not something I'd buy totally on taste, I still stand by the fact that you buy this stuff because it WORKS. You buy it because it does exactly what it sets out to do, and as I said before...it does it damn well!
http://www.nutritionresearchgroup.com/xtremeshock.htm
