AZ Arizona Energy Drink - Dollar General : Cherry Hill, NJ

I VERY rarely use energy drinks, but right now I have a psych paper, two finals, and a summer practicum observation course all at the same time! I just don’t have enough energy to keep going and get everything done, so I resorted to an energy drink to give me the boost I needed. (I didn’t even know that Arizona made energy drinks.)

Typically, Arizona cans are tall and colorful. This design has more of an urban-graffitii feel, and it doesn’t match any other product in the Arizona line. I don’t feel like this design was very well thought out, because the can doesn’t even say what flavor this drink is. The ingredients list mango and other fruits, as well as a laundry list of chemicals that I can’t even pronounce. While I like the idea of an Arizona energy drink, I think this can needs a bit more design work and information. 

I popped the can open and the liquid inside smelled similar to a typical Arizona tea. Maybe this is another tea-based energy drink?

Well I guess not, because it is carbonated and a bright yellow egg-yolk color.

I have no clue what this will taste like!

Turns out, this is a pretty quirky drink. I get an artificial tea flavor similar to Arizona or Brisk, but with carbonation. The aftertaste is pretty similar to Red Bull. I imagine if you mixed a can of red bull with a can of Arizona, you’d get this drink. (Maybe not the same color.)

I am not a huge energy drink fan. After drinking 1/3rd of this I started to feel nauseous, but that quickly passed. I nursed the can for the rest of the night and I was able to stay up and get a decent amount of work done. 

If I needed another boost of energy, I might get this again because it was effective, but I didn’t really care for the flavor (or the can design).

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Southern Style Half & Half (Sweet Tea, Pink Lemonade) - Target, NJ

Another random Target find. I had never even heard of a Pink Arnold Palmer, but it sounds like a wonderful idea. Something new and sweet for summer.

The can is bright and colorful, but I am not a fan of the photoshop filter look of the art. Something I do like is the pink pop-tab. I always love a little pop of color, especially since the tops of all drink cans look so generic. The drink smells like powdered ice tea mix, which isn’t a bad thing. I enjoy fresh brewed ice tea and powdered mixes. Sometimes that artificial lemon flavor is desirable.

I wondered what color it would be, because pink lemonade would easily be discolored from the addition of sweet tea. To my surprise it was a dark rosy color, you can definitely tell there is something pink inside this mixed drink.

It tastes, like a very sweet lemon iced tea. Very similar to most dry iced tea mixes I have used through out the years. I think it’s a very generic flavor, but it does give the aftertaste of real lemon. It is VERY sweet, which must be the Southern sweet tea, and after I drank 2 glasses of it I started diluting it with water.

This Pink Arnold Palmer is very sweet, and something a little different for the Arizona line-up, but nothing that special. I would rather buy an iced tea mix for about the same price and make tons more product. I think this is another product I’ll pass on in the future, but maybe other people will enjoy it more.

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