Review # 254: Bawls G33K B33R energy root beer
Every once in a while when I’m looking for a refreshing beverage I see root beer and think “That would be great, if only it had caffeine.” I know Barqs has caffeine, but I haven’t had it in years. I know Jeremy and Matthew have recently tried it for it’s caffeine content but were unimpressed with it’s flavor. I was looking for a boost today at work and remembered that we had just gotten this drink in and it was the natural choice to go with. Bawls energy drink is pretty good by me so I thought a highly caffinated root beer would be a winner. My attention was also drawn to the gimick of not only using the word “geek” in their name, but using the “33″ to replace the “ee”, a nod to leet speak, or 1337 speak, or whatever the hell. It is also nice to see a decline in the usage of limit-pushing, poorly-spelled adjectives like “xtreme” or “maxxed”.
It tasted all right. It was crisp and sweet, but as far as root beers go it was a little lack luster. While it had a tiny bit of that energy-drink flavor to it, it wasn’t strong enough to make you think you were drinking yet another flavor of Monster. As for it’s energy-boosting abilities, the web site says it’s about as strong as a cup of coffee, and I will agree. I drank it at about 8 pm to push through the last couple hours of work and I made it, although I felt fatigued after 10. It’s about 11:20 right now and off of work so, as usual, I’m not alert but not ready ofr bed either. I’ll probably play Warcraft, which is the kind of thing this drink was designed for.
I’ll probably buy it again at some point. Put it into my stable of energy drinks. But at over $2 per 10 oz bottle, I sure won’t be drinking it all the time.