e6 energy shot

I am always on the lookout for new and exciting energy shots - as this category has pretty much settled down to the top 5 or 6 boring competitors.  The market is just too small for lots of different players - at least without offering something revolutionary.  So I was taken by surprise when my local corner stores started carrying a new brand, E6 energy - which is a straight-on energy shot, taking on Rock On, 6 hour, 5 hour, and Worx.  For this to even make it this far into stores is an accomplishment, so I had to pick up a couple and try them out.  Will this drink be a big contender with the big boys?  Probably not unless they really go all out with marketing and promotions; which is a shame.  I thought this tasted better than most of the other energy shots filling my 7 11 shelfspace - and gave a nicer buzz too.

 Packaging:6
There is only so far you can go making a shot in a 5 Hour Energy container - and this one did not go very far.  E6 is about as standard as they come - with a decent yet non-original logo and color scheme, utilizing basic bet easy to read fonts and clip art drawings of fruit.  THere is no listing of caffeine either, which does not make sense - as they advertise they have 150mg all over their website.    While they did not make any errors with this run-of-the-mill package, they did not take any chances either.


Taste:8
I had the choice of a whole bunch of flavors - all with more or less the same ingredients.  I chose a berry and a  peach one - as they seemed the most different than the other standard energy shot flavors - like grape and  fruit punch.  Neither of them were particularly good - but not particularly bad either.  I enjoyed both in a very superficial way - like I would enjoy a fruity Sour Skittles.  I could not really say that either tasted much like the fruit they were based on, but compared to the slew of crappy flavored energy shots out there, these ranked pretty well.


Buzz:9
Now about the actual buzz - you wil not be disappointed.  While there is not six hours of energy, there is a good deal of power in here: enough that I was able to power through an extra four hours of life that I barely had in me beforehand.   Both times I tried I found an explosive burst of energy  - although not enough that I got jittery or felt over-caffeinated.

They also load this with a nice lookin' energy blend; taurine, a usual overdose of vitamin B complex, tyrosine, glucurolactone, and interestingly, Phenylalanine. Now, I have seen Phenylalanine before, but usually it is something found in aspartame (Nutrasweet, Equal), and is usually followed by one of my most favorite sayings on diet soda cans "Phenylketonurics - Contains Phenylalanine!". This always sounds very scary - even though it is really harmless. Unless you have the metabolic disorder called Phenylketonuria, you are safe. And how do you know if you are a Phenylketonuric? Simple. Chances are - if you have never heard of it and live in the US, you don't have it. You can find out more about PKU by clicking here.