If you got through my review of Dickens Cider, Meth Coffee, all those aphrodisiacs and Cocaine, you might be ready to handle this, the silliest of energy drinks – Sum Poosie. The slogan at the top says ” Want Sum, Need Sum, Get Sum!” – with a new drink design destined for strip clubs and bachelor parties across America. This is truly a NSFW kind of drink, and the company revels in it. Whether or not the drink was any good, that is not even why a person would go and actually purchase this wrapped glass bottle. Here is a great time to give a big Thanks to Plaza De Santa Fe Liquor (1355 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO) for a sample of this drink first, and then I found a second helping courtesy of Drake at Beverage Boutique.

If you can handle this kind of packaging, you are in for one fantastic liquid inside too. Get the bottle, as this drink tastes 10 times better out of glass than out of aluminum. Trust me – it is totally worth the price difference. The strawberry candy flavoring is not at all bitter, and tastes more like a light soda than anything energy drink related.

Packaging:10
First of all, the 10 is not because I love the packaging – I think it is too sleazy and misogynist. BUT… if you were designing a drink for garage mechanics, recently divorced Dudes, Drunk Frat boys and Burlesques across the US, you can not come up with a better idea. They have gone through a great number of incarnations with packaging, from printing on brown bottles, to aluminum cans and now in a beautiful wrapped glass bottle. This oozes delicious sleaze from all directions. Even the cap has their trademarked Poosie Cat slyly staring at you. There are even different bottles with different women, so you could collect them like little wired frenzied horny hoarders. If ever there was a can to offend the sensibilities of just about everyone in the room, this would be it. Only issues are the lack of caffeine listing, but I am goin got completely forget that, since this drink is probably going to be seen in rooms with dim lights and colored spotlights.

Taste:9
Sum Poosie’s carbonated berry flavor is definitely great, if not highly caloric. The flavor is one of a kind, tasting better than your average energy drink but not as syrupy sweet as your average soda. If I was choosing a drink purely on flavor, this would be a regular for me. This comes as a complete surprise, as novelty drinks rarely bother with a great flavor, and this was quite extraordinary. I think it is a mix of Cane Sugar, Corn Syrup, Sucralose and Ace K which helps this taste very berry and candy. If I were not so offended by the packaging I could have this all day long.

Buzz:8
This has has all the basic energy ingredients ( B, Niacin,etc…) but is mostly sweetened with just regular cane sugar, which while calorie laden, is better for you and tastier than high fructose corn syrup. As for the caffeine content, It is still a mystery. My guess is it is around 160-200 per 16oz can – because it gave me a quick initial buzz, but did not make me fly around the room or feel particularly…frisky. There is only a couple ingredients to make this drink – which works in its favor. Plus, they put in here some american ginseng (panax quinquefolia) root extract, ginkgo biloba , l-carnitine, and the ever present taurine. For a gimmick drink, this list of ingredients is remarkable

Website: http://sumpoosiecatinabottle.com/ 7
On first glace I thought this site might be Not safe for work, and while I am not sure I want my big old born-again boss to glance over to my screen while I am looking, it is about as bad as looking at Maxim or a soft-core swimsuit soft-core porn site. I think the thing is that the site looks like it was designed to be a porn site – with the flash blinking girls and the hot phone number advertised. That, and the fact that there is nothing on the site to help you find out about the actual product. The “click for a free sample” advertised all over the site does not work, and their shopping cart is down. You CAN look at all the bottle models they have had so far, and get hi-res photos of each big-breasted g-string clad beauty. But info on caffeine, the drink ingredients, or anything about the drink itself is strangely absent.
I think this site is getting there, but the focus is not on the right thing – the product. It looks great and is very fun, but there needs to be info to back it up.