Back to the joose, this time I am trying the red cranberry variety. I tried thre tropical flavor and was very pleasantly surprised by its drinkability. So I thought I would have no problems with this one.
Boy was I wrong…..
Not I cant think of a way to make a very strong alcoholic drink full of taurine and caffeine not taste strong, bitter and nasty – unfortunately, it seems the makers of juice are struggling with this too. This alcopop is bad to the smell, strong and bitter to taste and leaves your mouth with a taste wishing you were drunk enough to chug it down. Unfortunately, the flavor of this drink slowed me down from the last offering by Joose. This one took so long for me to force down my gullet I did not get a good buzz from either. I imagine it would have the same caffeine content as the tropical variety, and I could feel some of the effects when the caffeine hit my bloodstream, but it was too spread out over a couple hours for me to feel the effects of the almost 10% alcohol content. I did feel the caffeine in me for about 2 hours, and then the rush was done, and I was left a little headache-y and crash-y. If you have a choice, go with one of the other flavors and reesist picking up the red joose.

Buzz/Nutrition:8
Still got a nice buzz out of this – in the caffeinated sense – and I liked it that they tried to fit in the EnergyDrinkMix(EDM) of taurine, B and Ginseng. There is no nutritional content in this – as you can gather… hell it is a very cheap drunk and it would be even wrong-er if they tried to make it healthy too

Taste:2
Truly, this one is awful to swallow. Another blogger summed it up this way:

and now while I did not find it nearly that bad, I would never say that this was good.

Packaging:8
The one thing joosed has right is the packaging – great size and look for an alcopop sold at a convenience store near you. If I were a 15-25 year old wearing my “thug4life” hoodie, riding my harley/el camino/ crotch rocket/tricked out cutlass, hanging out in the 7-11 parking lot, I would definitely feel the urge to hold one of these in my hand. Too bad the red is worse than the blue version – the colors of the red are much bad-ass-er than the other offerings.

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