A drink so strong it can be smelt(felt?) across the other side of a room!
I've been keeping my eyes peeled for energy drinks on the cold shelves of the local shop, and first had a look at a can of LOL - now it's canned chilli.
In the usual 250mL can is a fruit-juice based energy drink just like the LOL, but this one actually has 80mg of caffeine too, just the same as your average can of Red Bull or V.
It's made by Spring Valley, but even their product page seems to deny its existence (our guess is that it's too hardcore to put there).
This is one drink that isn't afraid to poke fun at you either, proclaiming on the very front of the can:
Look at you, you're so mentally dishevelled you're reading the tiny, pointless blurb on the front of an energy drink can. Luckily, we can help.
I grabbed the Blood Orange & Chilli flavour (yes, it has real chilli juice in here) to test simply due to the fact that there isn't any other chilli drink out there we've seen yet!
The first sip gave a very strong impression of blood orange (it actually is a fruit!), and was quite carbonated. It was nice and smooth, light and sweet without any hint of chilli - until I swallowed.
A warm tingle at the back of my throat and the tip of my tongue was all that I noticed at first, so I kept on drinking. And then, it hit me.
Issue: 109 | February, 2010