Amp Energy Drink

What do you get if you add more caffeine than possible in normal sodas to a Mountain Dew? Chances are, if you are reading this review, you already know the answer. Amp Energy, from Pepsico, is what you do when regular Mountain Dew is not strong enough to get moving, but your body craves the sweet sweet mixture of orange juice, citric acid and bromated vegetable oil. A twelve ounce can of this will wire you completely, with power and energy to get bouncy and popping, enough high fructose corn syrup to make Aunt Jemima have conniptions and more preservatives than Michael Jackson's corpse.

Taste:8 You can not enjoy energy drinks and dislike AMP. That is like saying you dislike Blue Monsters. Sure, there are better out there, but there have been hundreds worse. I know - I have tried most of them. But sometimes, nothing tastes as good as an Icy cold AMP. Like Little Debbie Swiss Rolls or Totino's Pizza - sometimes you have to revel in the crap that we consume - to embrace the culture in which we live. Amp is not the tastiest of the tastiest,but like a Big Mac, there is something compelling about the flavor which goes far beyond your actual taste buds.

Buzz:5
Same thing goes for the health, which even if you try to pretend it is healthy, this is the one 5 Hour Energy makes fun of. But Look - it has Orange Juice in it! It has a little Vitamin B in it! It is not really fooling anyone - this is about as unhealthy as any preservative laden, hfcs filled empty caloried soda pop could be. If you are thinking about your weight, health or tooth enamel, you already know this is forbidden fruit.

But the energy makes it all worthwhile. At a nice 107mg per 12 ounces, the immediate buzz from the caffeine , guarana and sugars will get you nice and pumped. Three cans of this is enough to make like a strung out tweaker with too many paper hits under their tongue. - not that I would recommend drinking that much to anyone bus those with the stoutest of stomachs, as there is enough crap in here to really mess with a person's innards.

Packaging:8
Amp changes it's design so much it is hard to really nail down their style. I have seen the Amp logo covered in Racing gear, Nascar 88s, and all sorts of silliness. A couple things stand out though.
The logo is always clean. The fonts are always easy to read. They always list how much caffeine they have. They rarely have slogans on them enticing you to buy. The green and black is always offset by some deeper richer pattern, like soundwaves or carbon fibers.
Basically, It always rocks hardcore. You will never look wrong with one of thse in your grip. AMP set the bar a little higher for the likes of Full Throttle and all the Big 5 soda drinks out there, that to compete you gotta look your best.