Wired Energy

If you were to start an energy drink company, wouldn't you want your flagship product to be tasty? Wouldn't you work hard to make sure it has the competition beat in energy and nutrition? This is especially true if you have come out with 15 other flavors I would imagine.
Not so with Wired Energy, a company with products from the inane to the insane. The Original Wired Energy would definitely fall in the inane category.

Buzz:4
Could the company who comes out with the most caffeinated product, Wired 505, also give birth to an energy drink with 94mg of caffeine in the entire 16 ounce can? This barely has more caffeine in it that a Diet mountain Dew. And except for some B vitamins and inositol, that is about all the good we got. It is too bad that a company that have done so much chose to do so little.

When you add to that all their preservatives, high calorie count and High Fructose Corn Syrup, what you end up with is a mess - which will give you a sugar rush faster than give you a caffeine rush.
Taste:3
But that is nothing compared to how they made this one taste. I am sure they were reaching for Red Bull Clone, like most of their flavors, but in this case they ended up with something flavored like old cigarette. Not that I have drank many cigarettes, but unfortunately, I have had the experience of leaving my beer alone at a party and someone leaving a present in the bottle. This is much the same unpleasantness - only unfiltered.

Packaging:8
As the saying goes, If you got something good, don't take it for granted. Unique beverages used the same design for all their cans, and this one in the black and yellow/red flamage works really well. They double face and list caffeine, although they don't bother facing the lid. Still, they found a right thing with their design and are using it well on just about every product they do. It is just too bad it did not contain better stuff inside.