Monster MIXXD

I love purple. Screw black, purple is the most bad-ass color around. Purple clothes, purple cars, I even own Purple Rain on Vinyl. Hell, my hair has been various purple shades pretty much straight on since 2001! So I got pretty excited at a new purple Monster called Mixxd. This Grapple flavored drink even has the purple tab, to collect with all your green and blue ones on those stupid necklaces High Schoolers wear.

Like all Monsters, we are really just talking about a new version on the old scene. Different flavor, same energy combo that is in every Monster flavor, diluting their brand until the cooler shelf is full of nothing but 365 different flavors of Monster.

Taste:7
Mixxd pours a deep shade of purple, and filled my nose with the scent of grape. This is supposed to be 30% juice, with the other 70% apparently full of all the things that frat boys like to put into homemade purple passion. Now, when I was in college, my purple passion was always made with either Everclear or Popov Vodka (It's Charcoal Filtered!) and grape Kool Aid, so this was definitely an improvement over that.

I got the definite grape-apple flavor, but the fact that it was juice seemed more like it was a by-product, and not because of any real choice for health. It was like the made the flavor out of whatever they had that tasted like grape in their warehouse, and some guy came up and said," Hey - you used juice in this! let's write that on the can!"

Just for old times sake, I got a shooter of Everclear and dumped it into 8 ounces of this - and it brought back all sorts of memories... The party in the forest with close friends, the dancing on the couch, the vomiting out the window of a moving car... Ah man - good times.

Packaging:8
Monster is the one that started the whole Stupid-paragraph-hyping-up-your-drink thing on the back of their cans. This hype is probably the worst one yet. Check it out.

"It's midnight Wednesday and the house party is about to go off. Everyone is jacked-up on the latest batch of jungle juice cooking in the kettle. Bring back any memories? How can a little bit of everything taste so good and work so bleepin quick. That's kinda what we were thinking when we came-up with Monster Mixxd. We took a bunch of our back-up flavors, tossed'em together...F-NA it's a masterpiece. Monster Mixxd has a juiced-up flavor you can't describe and a creeper buzz you won't deny. Don't take our word for it. Check it out yourself. If you don't like Mixxd, you can have your money back. Limit one refund per customer. 30% juice-100% Monster!"

First, who has house parties on Wednesday?? I mean, any time your liquor cabinet is added together, you are in for a rough time - let alone try to function the next day. Secondly F-NA? Seriously? F-NA? The rest of the design is the same as Khaos and about half a dozen other Monsters, except for the purple, which again, is bad-ass. I would normally give Monsters a 7 for package design, but this gets one extra point for color choice.

Buzz:7
Same as every other Monster under the sun. Does Monster regular give you a buzz? Great - this will too. It has 2500mg of an energy blend, where almost all of it is sugar (Glucose) and 160mg of it is caffeine. I got a nice quick buzz from slamming 8 oz and the other 8oz with the Everclear - and certainly enjoyed the 2 hours of happy buzzy alertness around the house.