Kaffn8 Liquid Caffeine
Kaffn8 is a concentrated caffeine solution intended for diluting in any drink to get your caffeine fix. Have you heard this claim before? Let us explore Kaffn8 and compare it to Liquid Caffeine.
What is Liquid Caffeine
Kaffn8 is just like Liquid Caffeine, it is a liquid you can add into any drink to add caffeine. The main differences are the caffeine concentration and dispensing methods.
What do you Get?
We ordered a single bottle of Kaffn8. It only comes in 1 size, with discounts when ordering 3-20 bottle packs. Interestingly there is a subscription option, but we opted for the single bottle.
Using it
Like any other liquid caffeine, feel free to add it to any liquid that you would like to caffeinate. Kaffn8 suggests adding it to juices, water, sports drinks, flavored waters, a smoothie, coffee, or soda. Hell yeah Kaffn8, but, oh yeah, per the site:
CAUTION: Do not exceed 400mg caffeine per day.
The EZ-Dose Chamber
While Kaffn8 does not claim a unique mechanism, they are giving a different name for what is just a Twin Neck Bettix Bottle. There are two main variations of a Bettix Bottle, single neck and twin neck. Both variants allow for controlled and potentially measured dose of the contained liquid.
The reason why you might want the twin neck version is mainly for allowing a direct pour of the liquid out of the bottle. Nice Kaffn8! But, oh yeah, per the site:
CAUTION: Do not exceed 400mg caffeine per day.
The dosing mechanism takes a little getting used to, but overall works well.
One challenge appears when you get to the end of the bottle. You are left with an amount of liquid that does not travel through the dosing mechanism. You can guess that it is somewhere around 1/4 oz, which you can directly pour out of the other end of the bottle. This leaves about 3% of the total amount of liquid, which is high given the already high $ per mg caffeine you are getting.
How Does it Taste
Like our experience with Liquid Caffeine, the liquid is a little bitter. Mixing it with water results in a slight bitter taste, but most any other liquid masks the flavor completely.
Other Concentrated Liquids
We previously compared the concentration of Liquid Caffeine to other caffeinated beverages, let us see where Kaffn8 ranks.
| Liquid | Volume | Caffeine Content | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid Caffeine | 0.16 oz | 80 mg | 500 mg/oz |
| Kaffn8 | 0.25 oz | 75 mg | 300 mg/oz |
| 5 Hour Energy Extra Strength | 1.9 oz | 242 mg | 127 mg/oz |
| Rockstar Pure Zero | 16 oz | 240 mg | 15 mg/oz |
| Original Red Bull | 8.4 oz | 80 mg | 9.5 mg/oz |
We were surprised by how close Kaffn8 caffeine concentration was to Liquid Caffeine, the dosing mechanism led us to believe that it was much less concentrated.
Breaking Down the Price
We previously did a break down on the price of Liquid Caffeine. Unfortunately for Kaffn8, it is a little higher on the $ per mg of caffeine.
Purebulk will sell you 1.5kg of powdered caffeine for $43.25. That means your 8 oz bottle of Liquid Caffeine contains about 7 cents of caffeine powder. Kaffn8 sells a single bottle for $16.99.
Vs. Liquid Caffeine
When you google liquid caffeine, Kaffn8 and Liquid Caffeine are the top 2 results. There are only 2 differences between the products: the price, the dosing mechanism. Overlooking the dosing mechanism, let us just look at the cost.
At a single bottle
| Name | Volume | Total Caffeine Content | Price | $/mg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid Caffine | 16 oz | 8,000 mg | $16.95 | $0.002/mg |
| Kaffn8 | 8 oz | 2,400 mg | $16.99 | $0.007/mg |
Hopefully, it is clear Liquid Caffeine has a better single bottle price per mg of caffeine.
Wrapping Up
We previously concluded that liquid caffeines are overpriced when looking at the raw materials. The challenge today is that caffeine power is limited to qualified commercial, scientific and business buyers only. It may be worth it for the most hardcore caffeine addicts to become qualified. We at Firestarter Labs has caffeine powder stock from when it was more freely available.
We really enjoy the ability to add caffeine to any liquid without altering taste and recommended it for those caffeine driven individuals.