The Caffeine Energy Drink can is almost all black, with caffeine scrawled down the side and a grey and a red swooshy crescent things. (If there's one thing I learned in design school, when in doubt, put some swooshy crescent things in the background). My one complaint with Caffeine is it's similarity to Cocaine Energy Drink. They use essentially the same font and can layout (the text is oriented 180 degrees from Cocaine's design). The rest of the can is pretty simple, silver, white, black and red all around. The rim reads, "Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Vitamin B12". A first, Caffeine warns that you may experience "caffeine intoxication" if you drink too much. Like most cans/bottles these days, the ingredients/nutritional information are difficult to read.
Caffeine Energy Drink, thankfully, the people who formulated it wisely decided to include of great deal of caffeine in the product. It's light and refreshing, tastes almost like Sprite, maybe a little more bitter.
Caffeine shares a great deal of positive characteristics with one of my other favorite energy drinks, Bawls. For one, they don't bother with things like taurine, ginseng, ginkgo and all that other voodoo. Essentially, they put all their focus is naturally-derived caffeine. As I said earlier, it has a light and refreshing flavor.
Though it's called caffeine, they don't list the caffeine content on the can. On their website, they do disclose that each 12oz. can does contain 140mg of naturally-derived caffeine. While the caffeine content does not seem astronomical compared to some energy shots, specifically. I do feel like I've take Adderall shortly after drinking a Caffeine Energy Drink. Like I'm walking on sunshine.
I find myself staring off into nowhere, perhaps contemplating what super powers I might have. Looking at random objects and relating unrelated things, like thinking about what the video camera I'm using to record this might taste, how the color purple smells, what it would be like to live in a bee hive, why my feet and palms are so sweaty, why I've started growing ear hair...
Caffeine comes in a 12oz. can and has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $2.29, which I think is a value.
When I saw the sleek black can, I thought that Caffeine may have something to offer. As always, I was right. I cracked the can and took a whiff. The smell kind of reminded me of children's chewable Tylenol (which I find particularly delicious). The taste was equally pleasant with citrus flavors and a bit of grapefruit zing. The real surprise was the lack of bitter caffeine taste. With 140mg of natural caffeine, I was fully expecting to have my face turned inside out from that all too familiar caffeine bitter blast. Another favorable trait for Caffeine is the mild carbonation. Caffeine has just enough carbonation to make it tickle the taste buds, but no so much that you can't slam it down.
Some would say that the energy gained from Caffeine will make you like you're walking on sunshine. I don't disagree with this sentiment, but I find that it's more comparable witnessing the oh so vivid rays of a double rainbow. About 5 minutes after knocking back an ice cold can of Caffeine, I found myself with a slight case of the energy sweats and a slightly increased heart rate. If I enjoyed exercise and other healthy activities, I feel like Caffeine would be a great choice to stay energized. Alternatively, I could also see Caffeine being beneficial for those late night raid sessions in World of Warcraft or an evening of noob pwning in Modern Warfare.
On the double rainbow scale, I would rate Caffeine as a 1.5 rainbow. The taste is great, the energy gained is above average for a comparable energy drink, and the can design is pretty sweet. The only thing that keeps this from being a double rainbow all the way, is that Paul Vasquez frightens me and if I rate Caffeine as a double rainbow, he might appear.