Rockstar Recovery

Rockstar Recovery you are a strange beast. Lemonade flavoured energy drink huh that's pretty weird I guess but whats that you're also non-carbonated? Shut your mouth.

That's right peeps Rockstar Recovery is a non-carbonated lemonade inspired energy drink. Run for the hills as the day of reckoning is upon us.

This is great. Seriously.

It tastes fantastic, it's quite understated but there is a genuine lemonade taste (they have added real lemon juice here so thumbs up) the only small problem was I did feel it sticking to the back of my throat a few times.

Heres the big thing though, this is hangover recovery fuel. It's not carbonated so if you're feeling a bit suspect the bubbles don't have to upset you too much. The flavour itself is sweet but not too strong and the energy kick isn't really there as the flavour is smooth and syrupy that the energy kick itself just kind of gets swallowed up.

This gets 5 Alans out of 5. As it's the perfect hangover fare

RockStar Punched

Apologies for the sporadic reviews last week, I have been in the throws of a release process for the company I work for so this has lead to a few late nights recently which has in turn allowed me to sample a couple of Energy Drinks.

First up is Rockstar Punched

From the can you can tell this isn't subtle. It's an energy drink though it shouldn't be. It's got kind of a forest fruit flavour going on for me (yeah I know Guava isn't normally included in that but thats what it tastes like to me) and it's got a hell of a kick. I would say the after taste and kick off it is a lot stronger than the energy cola produced and from a personal point of view I preferred the way the energy cola kind of rode out on the flavour.

You know forest fruit five alive? Imagine somehow that it has been cast as Jason Statham in Crank 2. Rockstar Punched would be the result. If it helps I imagine the purple colour to be something akin to one of those velour tracksuits Chev Chelios wore in the film.

It's a powerful energy drink with a strong taste but an interesting taste. Not quite as good as the energy cola but a decent effort plus it's made me think about Crank II which is never a bad thing

Rockstar Energy Cola

Rockstar energy cola. It looks like this

I'll be honest this is a cool looking can and it's a 500ml can so it towers above most others. It's the kind of thing that a designated driver you could get away with drinking at a house party without looking like a dick. That's a good thing, a really good thing.

Now onto the important bit how does it taste? Well that's hard to say, do you judge as a cola or as an energy drink?

As a cola it's maybe a little soft tasting. It tastes like a carbonated tip top or big time cola drink carton. Remember those things? Amazing. So it's not a bad taste, far from it it's nice and as an energy drink it's quite good that it doesn't slap your face about in an effort to gee you up. So we're kind of in a quandry as a cola I think you could do better for an impactful cola taste but as an energy drink it's mild enough thats its genuinely drinkable without face contrortions on every sip.

It's probably fairest to stand it up against Red Bull Cola, and whilst the flavour isnt as strong as the Reb Bull version it's preferrable. At a time were Red Bull are pulling their Cola from the US market we have a drink that's maybe found a way to make an energy cola a realistic drink.

That's pretty cool. This drink is pretty cool and I think I might be starting to change my impression on Energy Drinks