It’s time to revisit a quintessential fan favorite: Bang Birthday Cake Bash. I’m using “fan favorite” extremely loosely, since it’s one of the lowest-rated drinks on the site. As a reminder, here’s how our in-house experts rated it:
Jared, 1.0/10: “It’s going to physically hurt me when I have to pour this out, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do after writing this review. Not ridiculously sweet, but you better love birthday cake if you’re going to drink this.”
Matt, 4.2/10: “If the name ‘Birthday Cake Bash’ wasn’t over the top enough for you, wait until you try it.”
Cam, 1.0/10: “The single worst energy drink out there. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Go get yourself literally anything else.”
Clearly not the pinnacle of energy drinks according to Caffeine Shark. Still, I suspect the flavor is extremely divisive, so I went looking for other opinions. Nobody can argue it isn’t accurate. The question is whether birthday cake belongs in a clear, carbonated energy drink.
Other opinions
I asked a couple of friends of the site to try it.
Daniel F., 7.6/10
- “Tastes like I’m a 12-year-old kid and my birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese is winding down.”
- “Most of that score comes from how impressed I was at the accuracy.”
Bobby L., 3.2/10
- “I immediately got flashbacks to the Reign Creamsicle flavor. We now have the technology to put these flavors into a carbonated beverage, which is pretty amazing. But is it good? … There is something wrong about textureless cake frosting… It was so close to cake frosting that I couldn’t believe it.”
- “As far as accuracy goes, it gets a 9.7/10. Taste is a 4.2/10. Drinkability is a 1/10.”
Not a great start. I hopped over to Reddit to see if the public agreed.
Some positives:
- u/cortr2000: “This is one of my favorite bang flavors and I’m usually against cake flavored ice cream and stuff like that.”
- u/autophobia: “Yall tripping this is the best one”
Some in the middle:
- u/MrTheJackThePerson: “This is weird, I’ve never had it but the 2 people irl that I know have tried it are split on it. Now we’re split on here too lol”
Plenty of negatives:
- u/jalop: “Tastes like a buttered popcorn jelly belly. Pretty gross as a drink tbh”
- u/Jowee: “One of the worst things I’ve ever tasted, and usually like birthday cake flavored things”
- u/Pat07844: “Warm Greek Yogurt and Chemicals sums up the taste for me.”
- u/JFreeman1123: “I didn’t love this BECAUSE they perfectly captured the flavor… It’s not bad, just very weird to have as a carbonated beverage”
Conclusion
The court of public opinion disapproves of Birthday Cake Bash. Still, some people will always enjoy, maybe even love, it. The real question: can we trust those liquid-cake lovers?
Think we got it wrong? Leave your own score on the Birthday Cake Bash page. If you want a Bang the Sharks actually like:
