My initial thoughts trying out Rowdy Energy's "Strawberry Lemonade" - Meh, no thank.
My more detailed thoughts, plus story time - So, I was at the grocery store when I saw this sitting on the shelf on-sale for 60¢. I thought to myself, "Sure, I'll try it, why not. I like Strawberry lemonade flavoring." Put it in the fridge and tried it the next day as my early morning energy drink. The result? Meh.
The flavor was just...well, off. I didn't taste any strawberry lemonade, mostly a very subtle flavor with a green tea-esque aftertaste. It felt more like a lightly strawberry flavored bubbly green tea with such minimal flavor to feel borderline like a seltzer. But the aftertaste was strong, for me at least.
Long story short, yea, I didn't like it. I finished it because I wanted the caffeine (~130 mg) and I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it.
That there was a Warheads Sour! Green Apple Soda? Neither did I until I found it at the Dollar Tree.
I mean, I just had to try it. I love gimmicky sodas, even if they end up tasting terrible. This one, though, was a big surprise.
I poured some out for myself and each of my kids. We all took a sip and, at once, recognize that it tasted like biting into a sweet, green apple. No sour taste or aftertaste. It just tasted like a sweet, green apple. Weirdly realistic flavor, even more so than a regular green apple candy.
Looking at the ingredients list, it had a all sorts of malic acid - so it SHOULD have been sour. But, to us - no sourness. Just sweetness. The kids really liked it. We may be looking for it again next Dollar Tree visit.
TL;DR - Warheads Sour! Green Apple Soda is better than it has any right to be, actually tasting like a green apple and not very sour. Would drink again.
It's springtime again and we've got two new Mountain Dew Baja variants for our drinking pleasure.
I mean, I had to try them both. I love me some Mountain Dew.
First, we tried Mountain Dew Baja Point Break Punch. Think of what would happen if you took Kool Aid Tropical Punch and transformed it into a Mountain Dew variant. That's what this tastes like. It's slightly bubble Tropical Punch. Personally, I liked it. So did all of my kids, which is good cause my wife also got us a case of the cans later.
The second is Baja Laguna Lemonade. It's a Dew infused mango lemonade flavor. You can definitely taste some of the mango with a classic Dew aftertaste. Personally, this was the one I liked better, but that's just me.
So, overall - I liked BOTH Baja variants this year, which is great!
How about you? Have you tried the two new Mountain Dew Baja variants?
Here are some unique drinks I have tried over the past month.
The first is Ghost Pepper soda. It is from the brand #RocketFizz, which I had never heard of before trying it. How was it? Imagine orange soda with a slight heat to it in the back of your throat. It was...odd. Not super spicy. If you like some heat and an orangesque flavor, may be worth it.
The next is this year's seasonal #VooDew from #MountainDew. It was sweet - flavor-wise. Very sweet. I could not place the core flavor. It did feel like a generic icee or Slurpee flavor or many mixed together. But yea, I could not guess the mystery.
So, as I had posted before, my parents got me a number of Ryse Fuel energy drinks to try for my #birthday. Let's plow through three more of them!
First, we have Baja Burst. It's called "twisted lime" in terms of what flavor it is. For me, think #BajaBlast, but better. Yes, I said it. It has a similar taste, but something about it I just enjoy more than Baja Blast. Shocked me too.
The second is Ring Pop. You know that generic "berry" flavor that candies have. It's a non-descript berry, it could be any of them if someone told you that it was a specific berry. That's what this tastes like. Which, I suppose, is fitting for a Ring Pop flavored energy drink.
The third is Tiger's Blood. It's a watermelon, strawberry, and coconut flavored energy drink. I genuinely liked this one. A lot. The coconut was subtle flavor-wise, even if my kids all said they smelled coconut the moment I opened it. I don't know, I liked it, though.
Have you tried any of these? Feel free to let me know if the comments.
So, I saw my parents recently, and they got me a number of Ryse Fuel energy drinks to try for my #birthday.
Here is the #CountryTime Lemonade one. Let me tell you...it's okay.
It tastes like fake lemonade flavoring with a subtle fake sugar after taste. It's not bad, but yea - Ryse Fuel did a better job duplicating the flavor with the Kool-Aid and Sunny D variants.