It’s
7:00 A.M. I’ve been up getting
ready for the day for about an hour now.
I’ve got two hours to go over a section of organic chemistry I haven’t
studied and take a quiz on it. I
need something to help me stay awake/focus, and I’m having a hankering for
lemonade. What do I reach for?
Well,
typically a Monster Rehab—Lemonade, but in this case I think a Rockstar
Recovery—Lemonade will do nicely.
Problem is, I don’t have one of those, and I don’t have time to run to
the store and grab one. Looks like
it’s Rip It—Lemoan’r today.
CAFFEINE
CONTENT
204
mg
EASE
IN ACQUISITION—6
This
is a Dollar Tree acquisition, and tends to shift in and out of stock. Just stop by once a week and it’ll show
up.
APPEARANCE/PRESENTATION—6.5
This
might be a little brighter and more eye-catching than the other Rip It
beverages, but it still has a lot of room for improvement. The cheesy tribal sunburst background
needs to go away and be replaced by something less dollar-store appropriate,
and the name of this drink is ridiculous, especially when printed in three
different messy fonts.
TASTE—6.5
I
know I’m in the reviewer minority when I say this (reviewers like Avery and Big Red Boots seem to like them quite a bit), I really do hate Rip It drinks. Not that they’re exceptionally bad,
it’s just that they’re exceptionally boring. The flavors all taste like they were
brainstormed, selected, formulated, produced and shipped in the same
five-minute time period, expending as little effort and creativity as humanly
possible.
Lemoan’r
might be an exception to that in that they might have taken ten minutes to do
all that. It’s not very good—the raspberry lemonade flavoring still
tastes really fake and chemical-y and not refreshing at all—but it’s not so
devastatingly ordinary as the others.
As an added bonus, it’s got less HFCS than most other non-diet Rip It
drinks—though it’s still not healthy by any stretch of the imagination.
KICK
(INTENSITY)—9
I
have to say, this one did deliver a pretty nice boost. Not five minutes had passed before I
took a break from my studying to get Blind Guardian radio on Pandora going so
my studying environment could feel appropriately…intense. That done and out of the way, I was
able to blast through the chapter with no problems—only to find out that I’d
studied the wrong section. I hate
it when that happens.
KICK
(DURATION)—9
Four
hours passed before I felt myself start to crash. By that time, however, I had time for a nice 45 minute nap,
which refreshed me for the rest of the day.
THE
DRINK OVERALL—8.17
In
terms of really cheap energy, this is a decent drink. However, it still pales in comparision with the Spider
Energy line, which deliver a really substantial kick, are inexpensive AND taste
fantastic. Until this line becomes
more widely available, however, this is a safe pick for the bargain energy hunter.
WEBSITE:
ripitenergy.com
KEYWORDS:
Rip It Lemoan’r energy drink review, bargain energy drink, cheap, inexpensive
Have you tried the Rip It Tribute? It's one of the best Rip It flavors I've tried so far. The only dollar store I found it at was Dollar General.
ReplyDeleteHaven't yet, though I've heard good things about it. I've hated all but one of the Rip It drinks to date, but who knows? If 5 Hour Energy's new shots can make a fan out of me, I think I can give Rip It a chance to do the same. I'll check it out and post a review the second I get ahold of it.
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