This is the last of my Joosed flavors to try – having loved the Tropicool flavor and somehow managed to suck down the red cranberryish flavor. Even though this was the last one for me to try, I was the most excited by this one – the promise of the first flavor I tried in a can that’s the perfect companion to Monster Khaos.
Rather than rehashing all the stuff from my previous posts on Joosed, I am going to get right to the good stuff and while this is not exactly a glowing review, there is some good to be had.
Buzz/Nutrition:8
and the good is this – rather than the 9% alcohol in the previous colors I tried, this one is at 9.9%. And I know that is only 1 percent, but that brings this up to 20 proof, the same content in light liquors, like pomegranate schnapps (which tastes great in this stuff btw). If you can manage 2 cans of this you will get messed up. No questions, you will be bouncing off the walls while you run into them. More fun than a case of Milwaukee’s Best, Joosed is the new poor man’s drunk!
Taste:4
It will really take most of the can before you could drink this concoction without sourface. This is the closest one to an energy juice, hinting at an orangey flavor – although it does not really pretend to be juice in any way. This stuff is better than the red can, maybe because you are drunk quicker and can thus stomach more of the strongly alcoholicy slightly orange/lemon flavors.
Packaging:7
Pretty cool and energy drink lookin’. If this one does not fool the cashier for the underage crowd, nothing will. If you stack this one next to a full throttle and a Monster Khaos, only the most adept convenience store worker could tell that they just sold to minors. Not that selling to minors is OK, but they are really the target audience here. The slogan is that they will get you f’ed up and buzzed up very very cheaply – and I remember when I was younger, those were probably the two most important factors in my underage drinking experiences.
Website:http://www.drinkjoose.com – 5
Boy, I was expecting something more than this going to the site. First, you get bombarded by bad rock, and lots of distressed type. Follow that by a woman wearing a fur hat and has only hair covering her breasts. Why? Dunno. It is the only place you will see her though. And then you have this wide array of links, like Joose, which has the cans grow from the bottom of the screen, or Events which has a silly promotional event 6 months ago. There is a super-small bit of info on the products screen and a very dull shopping cart. I think they should give a certain web developer I know a couple cases to develop for them a site they can be proud of. 😉