Price: €1,30Contains: 0,5L
Okay; it took us quite some effort to get our hands on this drink, which basically means that one of us took a journey by train to another province to find the snowboardstore where this drink had been spotted.
You see, the CR crew always had a weak spot for the Rockstar drinks and we almost jizzed our pants when we found out that we could actually get the newest Rockstar stuff in our own country!
Anyway; his quest was succesfull, as he returned with no less than 8 of these bad boys.
You'd have to be semi-blind not to spot this one from a considerable distance.
This can is really flashy and it stands out more than any other member of the Rockstar family.
It's the color that does the trick; our second favorited brand has chosen for a very bright shade of yellow that wouldn't look bad on your everyday sportsdrink.
Along with Rockstars' updated template, this drink will really draw your attention.
You can see a very subtle watermark in the background, which basically consists of Rockstars' name brand being repeated.
It really does add something; it prevents the can from becoming a tad boring but in such a way that it doesn't make it too busy either.
Another nice detail is the top.
The entire top is colored black, which isn't something we've seen before.
Normally it's just silver and in very special ocassions, just the pull tab is colored.
The last thing I find interesting and appealing is the addition of the color red.
You'll find it in the Recovery script and in the little stars near the top that devide the listed key ingredients.
We really like this can; it's certainly special, even for Rockstar.
Slogan:
No slogan is featured on this can and we consider that a bit of a let down.
Anyway, let's focus on the text the can does have.
Well, we think that 'Energy+Recovery' and 'Energy+Hydration' come close to being actual slogans, so let's pick those.
So this can implies that we'll certainly get an energy boost, along with both Hydration and Recovery, which are the prime ingredients to making a good sports drink.
These small bits of text have made us really curious to the drinks' effect.
Taste:
The can mentioned that this drink was 'non-carbonated lemonade with added juice'.
Well, that about summed it up, but still we wanted to experience every bit of this unusual Rockstar creation.
The fluid has a very bright yellow color indeed and it had a faint lemon scent; the absence of carbonation can also be noticed easily.
We took a sip and we could easily pinpoint the taste.
In our country we don't know lemonade like the Americans do, but we still recognised it from something else: a lemon-flavored ice lolly.
That's right; we could copy this drink by putting some lemon ice lollies in a funnel in the opening of this can and wait for them to melt (but then you'll unfortunately miss out on the truckload of key ingredients).
It does have some minor differences though.
You will taste the caffeine, along with some sourness that ice lollies dont have.
The aftertaste hangs in there for quite some time, so you will still enjoy this drink half an hour after you've finished it.
Well; we have to admit that this drink really is something new (you must be getting tired of that phrase, but I feel like using it even more) and we are delighted by its' taste.
Yep, only the drinks' taste make us want to buy it again, but let's see if the kick wants us to get on the train again.
Kick:
Absolutely phenomenal.
Next to your everyday energy drinks' key ingredients (caffeine, taurine and guarana) this drink also contains electrolytes.
Like most people, I didn't have a clue what those are supposed to be, so I decided to look it up on Wikipedia.
The first sentences:
'In chemistry, an electrolyte is any substance containing free ions that make the substance elcetrically conductive. The most typical electrolyte is an ionic solution, but molten electrolytes and solid electrolytes are also possible.'
Just to sum it up: when used in this drink they give one hell of a kick, yeah!!!
Price/Quality Ratio:
This drink actually was a tad cheaper then most of the Rockstar drinks we've bought in the past.
Normally, the prices vary from €1,39 to €1,49, with €2,39 being the absolute peak of expensiveness (you're probably not surprised if i tell you that was at a gas station).
With €1,30 this is the cheapest Rockstar product thus far.
And next to that: we consider it to be the best one,
We'll bring a truck the next time we'll visit that snowboardshop, that's for sure...
