Firefighter Brand EMS STRONG

Product Type:Functional: Energy Drink: Regular; Container: 12 fl oz (355 ml) can
BevNET Review: Gosh, we loved this fruit punch-flavored energy drink from Firefighter brand. The fruit punch flavor was accurate, not too cloying, not too sweet, and – wait – this is berry? This tastes nothing like berry. But it’s still really good. Just fix the label so that it reads fruit punch, and it would be golden. We like the slim can, the red trim looks great (and very Fruit-Punchy) and there’s no real drawback to this product, except that it’s mis-labeled. Worth a try for fruit punch fans.Reviewed on: 6/27/2005

Product Type:Functional: Energy Drink: Regular; Container: 12 fl oz (355 ml) can
BevNET Review: This is a very tasty lemon and citrus flavored energy drink that doesn’t have a single drop of caffeine bitterness to it. Again, Firefighter has succeeded in creating an energy drink that drinks like a soda, although they used the same High-Fructose Corn Syrup that their other products proudly claim to have avoided. Nevertheless, it’s pretty effective. The label on the 12-oz. slim can is bizarre, though, as the firefighters’ cross symbol seems to have a pair of crossed plungers at the very top. Definitely worth a try, though; this is a nice energy drink.Reviewed on: 6/27/2005

Product Type:Functional: Energy Drink: Regular; Container: 12 fl oz (355 ml) can
BevNET Review: It’s pretty well established that grape drinks don’t taste like grapes, but like artificial grape flavoring. That noted, we enjoyed the Firefighter brand version of artificial grape flavoring, thought that it was very sweet, and marveled, once again, at their ability to come up with an energy drink that tastes so much more like a soda than any other energy drink we’ve encountered. There’s simply none of that caffeine taste we think about with energy drinks, and we’re very impressed by that. We’re not so impressed by the use of high-fructose corn syrup, however, especially since Firefighter brand goes out of its way to mention that it doesn’t use the stuff in other products. Could use a simplified label, but otherwise, a nice effort.Reviewed on: 6/27/2005

Product Type:Functional: Energy Drink: Regular; Container: 12 fl oz (355 ml) can
BevNET Review: This energy drink from the emergent Firefighter brand ends up tasting pretty soda like, with decent artificial orange flavor and not much of the caffeinated aftertaste that plagues many energy drinks. The attractive but too-busy 12-oz. “slim can” mentions that the drink is “Powered with CoQ10,” which would be important because…well, we’re not sure, and we don’t think most energy drink users are sure, either. But it does seem to have those other important energy drink ingredients, anyway, and the taste is more than adequate. We would like to see Firefighter apply the same ingredient principals to its energy drinks as it does to its sodas – i.e. no High-Fructose Corn Syrup – but other than that, it’s better than most of its competitors.Reviewed on: 6/27/2005