Rockstar Punched Guava: A New Day Has Dawned!
Readers, I am humbled. My search is over, my life is complete, angels are singing out in chorus.
I have found salvation, an oasis of productivity, in the best energy drink to ever hit the market: Rockstar Punched Guava.
I always kind of knew Rockstar would be the one to make the breakthrough, I just didn’t know when. The time is now, and I am thrilled. This is the newest drink in the Rockstar Punched line-up as far as I can tell and is not to be confused with Rockstar Juiced Guava.
I have numerous other reviews I’ve been piecing together over the past week, but at the first sip of this drink I’ve committed my focus to spreading the good word. No-thing-com-pares. This is the stuff caffeine addictions are made of.
Taste
Marvelous, aggressive, and kindhearted with a forgiving personality. Carbonation is perfect, the guava flavoring is not intrusive and it never gets old. Each sip, an influx of taste euphoria; each swallow, a conditioned reward for the next sip to come. This drink can be mixed with just about anything too, ranging from 7-up to Bacardi. When you first get into bed with this drink, do not hold back. Just be yourself and go all out, you will be welcomed into open arms.
Ingredients
Rockstar blends the best of both worlds. It does not depart from the wealth of natural energy ingredients so commonly found out there in energy drinks (ginkgo biloba, ginseng, milk thistle extract). At the same time, Rockstar acknowledges the fact that not one of these ingredients have been scientifically shown to do much of anything for you, so they hit it where it counts.
There is an incredibly thoughtful 120mg of caffeine per serving, and um… ya, hi – there’s 2.75 servings per bottle. No, that’s not 122.75mg of caffeine per bottle. The theory of multiplication would have it that this drink contains 330mg of caffeine, not to mention the ~68mg of guarana and B-vitamin content (!). Yes, that’s more than even most energy drink lovers would care to down in one sitting, But guess what, this drink comes in a bottle. Drink some now, some later! The angelic chorus grows louder…
Energy
My information processing bandwidth was just upgraded from 56K to T1. My thinking engine from an economic inline-4 to a twin turbocharged V12. The electrical conductors of my brain upgraded from nickel to gold and I’m only half-way through. My productivity has skyrocketed. I’ve basically written this entire review in about 25 minutes, no joke. After waiting a few hours, I’m happy to report I experienced no crash.
Verdict
Let me add I bought this drink for $1.99. It’s just too good to be true. I feel like God kills a kitten every time I drink one. Energy drink lovers, your search is over.
Reviewed by Dusty Smith
Editor’s Note: Dusty was not paid by Rockstar to write this review……I swear by my mother’s caffeinated teet!
32 Comments
$1.99 for punched guava? That really does seem really low. The cheapest I’ve ever seen it was $2.89 without tax and $3.99 without tax. $1.99 is what the local Targets that i’ve seen charge for a single can of 16oz Monster but not Punched Guava. My guess is that you got it when it just came out and Rockstar was just coming off of really promoting it and started their low price market intro because now I highly doubt that you’d find it for $1.99 if you were to go back to the same place that you got it that time. If it is the same then luck’s on your side apparently because people out here on the east coast would pounce on that really quickly.
I have lived off of this stuff ever since I first found it. I have a two hour drive one way to work and rockstar has kept me awake many nights. One draw back is that it is so powerful that I feel like I just snorted something. Every now and again I catch myself grinning my teeth or talking extremly fast – but without it I would need a new job. The gauva is by far the best flavor and the punched is bad boy on the block. It is like sticking an entergizer in your back!
I had a rockstar once.
It tasted like a watered-down monster with cigarette butts.
Luckily I only drink coffee now. None of that carbonated shit thats been infecting the market.
this drink tasted terrible, not sweet, weird medicine type flavor
I paid $3.29 here in Los Angeles
I would not recommend it
i sell this in a 500ml bottle for £1.20
lol I just had one for the first time today, it was delicious, but i beat all your prices, i bought a pack of 12 at big lots for only 12 dollars. awesome i know.
Rick, did you add that location/description to the cheap energy drink locator? that’s awesome!
I havent been able to find the Punched “Guava” yet, but I was seriously addicted to the Original Punched. It wasnt just the best tasting ‘energy’ drink on the market, it was one of THE best tasting drinks available period. It is impossible to describe just how good the flavor is without tasting it yourself. Its incredible.
Funny as they only have punched guava in the southern hemisphere…maybe we could do a trade!
I’d like to mention that I’ve seen Guava and original Juiced in the 24 ounce bottles at Big Lots – 12 for $12. Let me just say – these things are ROUGH! The bottles at Big Lots are either mixed wrong or are very old and the local bottler liquidated their inventory.
Last year (2009) several local discount stores got a hold of 16 ounce Rockstar Punched and were selling these extremely cheap. From the first sip you knew something was wrong – either the bottler mixed it wrong or it was really old. Just to verify, I went and bought a full-price Punched from a grocery store and the taste was amazing.
You’re right Rob, Big lots and other such stores often buy out supplies of factory imperfects or beyond best by date items….you get what you pay for I guess…
DUDE IT’S SO GOOD.