Mountain Dew Kick Start

I have in my hands the much anticipated Mountain Dew Kickstart. Or at least I'm told it's much anticipated, in the mainstream soda review blogs. I try to avoid reviewing typical name brands, because everyone's had them, but I feel this is a little special.

Also, this is supposed to be an energy drink. I have a very long 17 hour day of work, science fairs and sport today, and it is currently 8am. I've never had an energy drink before. Let's see how it does.

Appearance

 

 The can is pretty decent. The bright colors caught my eye before I even registered it was the soda I've been looking for.
 It's simple. No obnoxious patterns. I don't like the color match for the citrus at least though.

The Kickstart with my Science. Those be some nice wires!

 Appearance Score

5/10

 Taste

  Ew! It tastes like fresca. I'm not looking forward to it. It's much lighter than other sodas. It doesn't have as strong as a syrup taste. Once I get past the punch-in-the-face fresca taste, I can taste the citrus. It's not that bad of a citrus. But then once you get past the citrus it has a very chemical, chalky after taste.

I'll let you in on a secret. It also tried the fruit punch. The citrus is much better than the fruit punch. I really disliked the fruit punch, maybe 3/10. But the more I drink the Orange citrus the less I dislike it.


 It terms of caffeine I can't really feel the effects. It has 92mg of caffeine, which is more than a coke, but less than a espresso. You figure they might try to pack more in there, but they didn't so it was odd.

Taste Score

6/10. I finished it but I won't drink it again.