Liquid Energy coffee flavored pouch

Liquid Energy comes in a little pouch in most truck stops and little convenience stores aross the country. It is always near the Awake energy pills, condoms and other necessaries to living life on the road all the time. They seem to have always been there hanging on it's peg - as far back as I can remember. While I only remember this bright hot pink Colombian Coffee flavored package, I found that is also comes in a Chocolate Cherry and Tropical Orange too. Still, seeing as this is what I do now, it is about time I got hold of one of these little packages for a review.

Liquid Energy has been around since 1986 (or 1987 - their website lists both years), so they must be doing something right. The question is - I am not sure what that something is!

Taste:1
For sure it is not the taste, which is 1/2 ounce of complete evil coffee nastiness. This little foil pouch of doom is flavored sucralose water - with fake coffee extract dumped on top - truly a tongue wrenching experience. It is about the same flavor if you added Splenda to your coffee and then cooked it down to a gooey burned paste. Maybe, like 5 Hour Energy, this has just become such a staple for truckers and long distance drivers that it has just found its home regardless of bad taste. For anyone who has yet to discover it, however, you would be advised to back slowly away from at least this flavor.

Buzz:8
Energy-wise, it does just what you would hope. Without loading up on liquid and needing to make a rest stop an hour later, this boosts your energy by a good couple hours, with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Korean Ginseng, Taurine, Inositol and either 125 mg or 135 mg of caffeine, depending on what page you want to believe on their website. I still got around 3 hours of perkiness from this - enough to get out of the house and get things done on a weekend. The extra Vitamin C, Vitamin A and E was a very nice surprise too! For a nice boost like this, I could almost see putting up with the taste. Almost.

Packaging:3
The package is not that easy to deal with - a little foil pack that you squeeze liquid out of - like a gel pack. You can't suck it from the pack, but needs to be squeezed out like a toothpaste tube. I would think the rip-off tab should be easy to pull off with one hand without employing the use of your teeth (important while driving) and sucking down, but it is just not the case. for some reason, the top of mine just did not want to rip off. The pink design certainly stands out, and there is no mistaking what this is or what it does. I don't particularly like the fonts, but I guess if it has worked all this time, who am I to argue? The only thing I really wish is that they listed the caffeine amount on their package, or even the same caffeine amount on their website.