Hey everybody, CaffeineMan here and as
promised, well not really promised, I
wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to
get to it, but as hoped for, I got a bonus
video for you guys today. I wasn't sure
how my newest subscribers were gonna
feel about my informative videos
therefore I wanted to make sure I got an
energy drink review in for you guys this
week as well. Happy I was able to do it
for you guys. So what were you gonna be
reviewing? The newest energy drink on the
market, Quake, by 7-eleven. No, No, you gotta get the
sound effect
INTRO: C *THUD*  M  *THUD*
*LIGHTNING STRIKE*
hello again everyone thank
you so much for joining me today. So a
few weeks ago 7-eleven had a new product
in their store and I had one or two
people contact me and said hey you know
what 7-eleven has a new energy drink
called Quake in their stores. You should
do a review on it, and as I like to keep
everyone informed on all things caffeine
related, including new energy drinks on
the market I said, "oh I should probably
go over this." So I immediately went
online to find out more information
about this Quake energy drink and I
couldn't find a thing about it. Well I
did find something. I found information
about the graphic designer who actually
came up with the design, and his journey
from one logo to another until he
finally came up with the one he liked
the best. As interesting as that was it
didn't tell me anything about the drink,
so I pushed it to the side for now,
let me give this some time, but then I
kept getting people that said "Hey
CaffeineMan did you know this?" on
Instagram.
"Hey CaffeineMan did you know that?" on
Facebook. I reply and say, "oh you know thanks
for letting me know", because I love it
when you guys let me know about things,
and said I know what it's been like two
weeks now. Let's see if the informations
out there. Because even though I was
ready to look up the information,
7-eleven and Quake weren't ready to
provide it. But it's good that you guys
let me know things because even though I
keep you guys informed on all things
caffeine related, it's good when you guys
let me know about stuff that's caffeine
related out there that I may not know
about. It's like a partnership.
A buddy system!
Teamwork! Dynamic duo!!!  okay okay anyway
since it's been a few weeks I decided to
look it up again and, lo and behold, yeah,
7-eleven finally has it on their website.
You want to know what I found out? Not
much. They were very limited in the
information that they provided and
they're basically just advertising it
with a few words here and there.
You actually find out more if you actually look at
the packaging which I'm gonna do but
apparently 7-eleven came up with its own
product exclusive just to 7-eleven
called Quake energy drink because they
want to start competing in the heavily
competitive energy drink world. To me it
seemed a little weird at first. Why would
a convenience store, which probably has a
decent amount of people that go in there
for energy drinks, come up with their own
energy drink? I mean, granted they have
prime positioning to get more people to
buy it because it's a convenience store,
but if I'm going into a convenience
store specifically to buy Red Bull, the
chances of me picking up your energy
drink instead, are slim to none when I need
my coconut Red Bull .Also isn't this gonna
hurt their sales a little bit? I mean,
yeah, if people start buying your drink
instead of other energy drinks that's
good for your business, but what about
the companies that you work with? What's
to stop them from just pulling out of
7-eleven? If the 2 top energy drink
companies in the world decide that they
want to pull out of your store because
you want to go ahead and sell your own
energy drink, they'll be like, "Fine sell
your own energy drink. See how you can do
without us." I'm sure that's gonna hurt
their business. Not to say that people
just go to 7-eleven for energy drinks,
but it's got to be a decent portion of
their market. Sure, people buy soda, more
so than energy drinks, but I think it
would hurt you. But, I guess, what do I
know? I'm not in business. So 7-eleven
wants to compete in the energy drink
market. Not only the energy drink market
but the pre-workout market. With the rise
of Bang hitting the market and becoming
so mainstream, and other energy drinks
like Rockstar Xdurance doing their
pre-workout drink,
it's no wonder everyone wants to get in
on this. And once Reign came out to
compete with Bang, and have been very
successful with it, it makes sense why
7-eleven would want to come out with its own energy drink. Right now, in the mainstream market the
only pre-workouts that you can find are
Bang, Rockstar Xdurance and currently
Reign and they probably started coming up
with Quake while Reign was being
developed. So if you only have two or
three pre-workout drinks to compete with
and you make your own pre-workout energy
drink, you got a decent chance of
succeeding. You're not going to become
number one, but if you can come in third
place, that's gonna help sales. I can see
why they might have done it now. Now, yes,
there are plenty of other pre-workout
drinks on the market, such as C4, Raze,
Hyde, and a whole bunch of them. The
problem is you can only find these at
GNC and Vitamin Shoppe, therefore if you
don't go to GNC or vitamin shoppe on
a regular basis, you're probably not
gonna know these drinks are out there.
But if you're in a convenience store,
such as 7-eleven, you have a chance to
hit more customers.
So let's take a closer look at these drinks.
It's currently available in four flavors: Original, orange fusion, tropical lemon and berry
blast.
I can't help but notice the similarities in some of these cans. I
mean seriously, let's look at this for a
second here. Is this Q similar to the
circle part of the B of Bang? Looks
familiar to me. Then there's just one
word underneath the logo just like
another company or two companies. And
then what's this at the top of the can?
BCAAs, not BCAA Aminos thank goodness.
Creatine and electrolytes just to have a
little something different in there. But
all words at the top of the can similar
to other companies. And then look at the
color combo. I mean are those colors not
identical black and green? Come on now.
Who are you trying to copy? Huh, huh? Oh I
see a lawsuit waiting to happen! You know
they love filing lawsuits against
everybody and their brother, and their
cousin, and everybody. This is just what
Monster does. I'm surprised Monster hasn't
sued me yet. If YouTube ever decides to
monetize me. But in the end they do look
different enough. I mean how different
can you be than other energy drinks out
there and when you look at all four
flavors together you'll see that they
are very different. It's just the
original one seems similar to the others.
Perfectly fine. Let's start off with the
most important part of this drink and
that's the caffeine. This drink has 250mgs
of caffeine and it's a
16-ounce can. Apparently they thought 300mgs
was a little bit excessive, Bang and Reign,
we're gonna drop it down to 250 to see
if that's appealing to more people. Bah!
I don't know what these marketing people
think, but hey, they went with 250 for a
reason. I don't know the reason.
As for the nutrition facts, the servings in this can is one serving. I like you already!
One serving per can. That's the way to do
it. It's only got 10 calories, it's got
zero fat, zero sugar, and zero protein. I
came up with that all on my own.
As for your B vitamins, it looks like it has 25%
of your daily value of most of the B
vitamins, which is extremely similar to
what Bang has in their drink and, like I
said, I think quake might have been
developing this at the same time as Reign
so they didn't know that Reign was coming
out with a hundred percent or your daily
value therefore they stuck with
average of 25 that was successful with
Bang. As for creatine, how much
creatine is in this drink? We don't know
because they're not required to put how
much creatine is in it. Bang doesn't say
how much is in it, although a lot of
people probably say my comments "there's
no creatine in there", there's a little
bit of creatine in there, but not enough
to actually make a difference when it
comes to working out, so these companies
that are putting creatine in their
drinks, it doesn't really matter because
it is not enough in it to help for a
pre-workout. How much CoQ10? Same
answer. And what about the BCAAs?
*SHRUG*
Now it's
great that all these companies are
coming out with pre-workout drinks but
it'll be even greater if you could tell
us what the numbers are in the drink so
that we don't think it's a scam trying
to get us to buy it, or cuz monster
wanted to sue Bang.
There's no creatine! We're suing you! Monster and
their lawsuits. So let's get to the part
you guys all know and love! At least I think
you do, the taste test! We're gonna start
out with the original because why
wouldn't you start out with the original?
We'll move on to the orange. I'm not sure
how I feel about orange, then we'll move
on to the tropical because I've actually
been becoming a fan of tropical lately and
then we'll finish off strong with a
berry blast, at least I hope. Let's do this!
First up, the original.
*Cracckkkk open can*
*Pour into cup*
I'm just kidding! Who puts it in a blue cup?
There we go, a nice clear color. ooooh
I wasn't surprised by the clear color,
Bang, Reign, both going for clear. It's the
new in thing to do. Why not do it Quake?
So original.
I'm already hyper and I haven't started yet.
Oh geez, here we go again.
The original flavors always stump me
because the original just goes with
original. It doesn't say lemon lime; it
doesn't say watermelon; it doesn't say
cherry; doesn't have anything to
represent what it is. Just like Red Bull is
hard to pinpoint what the original
flavor is, Monster's hard to pinpoint,
even Venom's a bit hard to pinpoint, all
the originals are kind of hard to
pinpoint what they are. This reminds me
of similar to like a fresca feel to it.
Maybe like a lemon-lime, but very light
in those flavors. But it doesn't have a
very distinctive energy drink flavor to
it. What I mean by that is when you drink
Red Bull, you know that is Red Bull. When
you drink Monster, you know that it's
Monster because it has that Monster
flavor to it. When I drink this Quake, I
don't think I'm easily gonna be able to
say, "Well that's Quake" if I were doing an
energy drink taste test. I should do that.
An energy drink taste test.
You have the energy drinks out
there and you have people guess what
they are. I mean I'd be able to pick them
out but I should do that out in public
next time. That's it, I gotta write that
down. I don't think anyone would be able
to pick up that this is actually Quake
even if it became popular. I think people
are gonna get it confused with like a
lemon-lime type of drink cuz there's a
lot out there that tastes like that. That
being said, I still think it's pretty
good. Am I gonna be buying it over the
big names that I know? Probably not. But
if I was hanging out with friends and
they said "hey you want a Quake?" I'm like,
"yeah give me a Quake. it's good stuff" so
of course it does have zero sugar in it,
So I have to talk about the sugar or
lack thereof. It does use sucralose and
ace k but it's not very heavy on the
sucrose flavor and it does have a medium
sweetness to it. It's definitely not as
sweet as Bang or Reign who are they
competing with, but there have been a
decent amount of complaints that those
drinks are too sweet, so this is a bit
less sweet, so maybe that's what they're
going for. A lot of these companies
similar to Reign are doing their market
research so they can be competitive in
market. So if they see a fault in any of
these drinks, they're gonna try and be
the company that doesn't do it. Reign and
Bang both have strong flavor but they're
very sweet so they're probably gonna go
with strong flavor but not as sweet, but
we'll see once I get to the next few.
Quake original. It's pretty good. I say
you guys try it out, because you should always try out
a new energy drink just to see if you
like it and it could become your new
favorite who knows. Not becoming my new
favorite. People recommend a tier list to
me. Been researching it. Need to figure
out what I'm tier listing. Maybe all my
favorite drinks. Maybe all the Bang
drinks, maybe all the Monsters? I don't know.
Moving on! Next up some orange
fusion. As you can see up close, very
different packaging than most of the
Bangs.
*Can opening*
No surprise, it's clear.
Interesting.
It doesn't have your typical orange
flavor to it. Kind of has more like a
tangerine. It's kind of a strong flavor
which is what makes me think tangerine
but it's definitely not your typical
orange. Remember trying the sunrise
orange from Monster and a few other
oranges from a few other companies and
they were very typically orange flavored
but this one is a bit different. So if
you're looking for a more powerful
orange that has more of a tangerine
flavor, surprised they didn't call it
tangerine though. I mean oranges tend to
be a little bit sweeter than tangerines
so it's not as sweet as an orange but
the tangerine has a more powerful flavor
to it.
As for the sweetness of this, it still
has a decent amount of sweetness but
once again not a high amount of
sweetness, but definitely not too light
of a sweetness. Overall from these first
two, they do seem to be a little lighter
than some of the drinks out there.
The Reign has a very strong powerful hit
to it for its flavor. This one has a
powerful flavor to it, but it's more
light, similar to the Bang. So if you
compare the two it kind of has a strong
flavor like Reign has but it has the
lightness of a Bang and the sweetness
just below them. I think this is going to
appeal to some people out there that may
want to switch up the sweetness that
they're having because some people, if
they drink Bang every day, that
sucralose can be a little too
overpowering. So you go with something
like this that's a little bit lighter,
but still strong flavored, and it's a
good option. Pretty good. I'm surprised
because it's not your typical orange and
I like that.
Next up, Tropical Lemon.
I do have to say I am a fan
what they did with these cans. They're
very colorful and they do stick out from
the rest so even though that first one,
the original, looks similar to the others,
they do a really good job with these.
They're nice and bold and they stand out
from the rest. Let's try it out.
*Craccck a Lack*
Would you look at that! This one's clear too!!!
Did my mocking surprise actually trick you?
I can be a good actor sometimes.
Another interesting one. I do say interesting a lot in my videos,
I'm realizing it, but if
it is interesting it's because it's a
little bit different than what I'm used
to. I was expecting a little more
tropical, like a pineapple orange drink
like I've had from the other tropicals
on the market, with a hint of lemon, but
the first flavor I get from this is
actually the lemon. It's not a strong
lemon.
It's got, like, a medium kind of lemon but
then right after that lemon you do get a
little bit of pineapple, a little bit of
a tropical feel to it. As for the
sweetness, it's still got that medium
sweetness but I am tasting that sucralose
a little bit more in this one than the
other two. Still it's not bad but
Im actually liking the orange a little bit
more than this one. I was expecting more
tropical and I think that anyone that's
expecting tropical from this is gonna be
surprised that it's a little bit more
lemon. I'm not sure what they were trying
to accomplish by doing a tropical lemon.
You got two different flavors. You got your
tropical flavors and you got lemon. Your
tropical has the pineapple and the
oranges, maybe some coconut, and your
lemon flavors are the lemon. They pretty
much stand on their own. Your lemon, your
lemon lime, the lemon is so strong you
usually keep it on its own and I think
they were trying to combine two genres.
They didn't work out that well so I had
to rate them this one's going lower on
my list. If you like tropical, you can try
it, but don't be surprised if you got
lemon. If you like tropical and you don't
like lemon don't try this one. If you
like tropical and you do like lemon, you
might like this one. If you don't like
tropical and you do like lemon then you
might like this one, because it's lemon.
And if you don't like tropical or you
don't like...let this is like a math class.
This remind me of a philosophy class. We
need to take Logic and you add this,
then this, then this, then that, and if you
took logic you know what I'm talking
about. If you didn't take logic then you
probably think I'm a crazy. In Logic
class you had "if this, then this",  "if this then
this" and all the possibilities for what the
different outcomes were because there's
two options, for four different ones,
it ends up being 16 different
possibilities or something like eight or
twelve or sixteen I didn't really like
math so I took logic as a philosophy
class, it fulfills my math requirements
without actually have to take in math,
it's pretty smart. Why am i talking about
philosophy? Tropical lemon. Not that great.
If you like lemon, you might like this.
You guys try it out tell me what you
think in the comments down below after you
tried it out to let me know I'm wrong.
Because I could be wrong. Everyone's taste
buds are different. Need to move on to the next one.
Next up is the berry blast!
Love it! Berry blast! love the name this
can looks awfully familiar though
doesn't it? huh? look at those colors!
How did they ever come up with that color
combination! I have no idea! Don't see any
similarities here whatsoever.
Here I am complimenting them on their
colors being different from everybody
and then I see that let's try it out
Whoa, that was a tough one!
Hmm...It's alright. I closed with it because I
was hoping it was gonna be the best one.
It does have a decent berry flavor. It's
a bit light, like I mentioned with the
other ones, but it doesn't really have a
strong pop to it, like a blueberry
raspberry pop to it. I've had a lot of
different berry energy drinks out there,
you guys have seen me review them, and
you've heard me talk about the ones that
have a strong berry flavor. This was not
too strong on the berry flavor. The
sweetness is a medium sweetness. I can
get a little bit of sucralose in there,
that I can taste, and overall, because
there are so many other berry flavors
that I like that are out there, I'd be
far less inclined to try this berry one
because it's not as strong as the other
ones. If you like light flavored drinks
then you might like this, because it's
only got a hint of berry in it. And I
know there are people out there that
like that. A lot of people like to drink
those Hint waters or other flavored
beverages that are lightly flavored,
usually it's the people that like water
though. They just like a little bit of
flavor to it. This reminds me of more of
a sparkling water with a little bit of
blueberry flavoring to it, and as some of you know, I don't like sparkling water.
Overall, not a fan. If I had to pick these
up in the store and I saw those four
flavors and I had to choose something, I
definitely wouldn't choose the blueberry.
I probably wouldn't choose the tropical
lemon, but I would definitely pick up the
Original Quake and the Orange Passion
Quake, and because I was so let down with
the berry one I'm actually gonna go back
to the orange one to have some more to
get the berry flavor out of my mouth. Get
a little bit of that sucralose flavor
out of my mouth that it had, even though
this has sucralose in it.
Maybe I'm just looking to drink more
energy drinks. Thank you guys so much for
joining me today! I hope you liked the
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and until next time have yourselves a great day ...
...or night.
Or even afternoon
maybe I should start saying afternoon.
Have yourselves a great afternoon. Then
again why do I say it that way? I always
say have a great day or night, because I
say oh well you know you can have a
great day but then I don't want to
exclude the people who are watching at night,
but in most cases, I post videos every
Tuesday night, therefore I should say
have a great night or day. Is it too
late to change it? I could do whatever I want.
Thanks for joining me have yourselves a
great night ...or day.
Nah! Not gonna work.
interestinggg.
inter-resting.
hmph very interesting.
interestingly enough.
interesting
do I see interesting too much I think I
might say interesting too much. But I
mean, I say it because it's, it's, you know,
it's interesting. I don't know I'm
gonna have to go to the thesaurus, maybe
I should go to thesaurus.com and look
another word interesting. No I like
interesting. Interesting is is good.
Do you like interesting? Let me know in
the comments below... if he even made it
this far... I know some of you did, didn't you?
you did right? You were waiting for this.
I knew you guys were waiting for it.
Thanks for staying you guys. I know you
guys like the extra outtakes but
sometimes I don't have them. Don't be mad.
I mean, I don't always mess up in my
videos. And Im not always funny. But get
these energy drinks going through me, I
can be funny. If only I knew about these
back when I started dating in high
school, or college even ... could've been
 the life of the party, instead of sitting in a
corner doing nothing. CaffeineMan.
Imagine me at a party?
Who's going to invite me to a party? Huh!? HUH!!!
 
