Electric Shores Energy Drink Review: 3 g goBHB, 90 mg Caffeine

The Electric Shores energy drink from Vibes Beverages is one of the newer cans on the market with goBHB® on the panel, and it just got a bigger push. On October 26, Vibes announced a month of weekly Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and a launch on TikTok Shop, so a lot more people are about to see this can in their feed.

I read the label line by line, checked the brand’s site, and compared it with the other goBHB energy products I know well. Full disclosure: goBHB Labs supplies the goBHB in this drink, so read my take with that in mind. Here’s what’s in the can, what the BHB research says about it, and how it stacks up.

Electric Shores is a lightly carbonated tropical citrus lime can with goBHB and 90 mg of caffeine from green tea.

Who Makes Electric Shores

Vibes Beverages LLC is a non-alcoholic functional drink company with operations in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Lehi, Utah, led by co-founders Jason Croxford and Matthew Abate. The line launched in May 2026 with three cans sorted by mood: Electric Shores for energy and hydration, Glow Getter (a hops drink) for social settings, and Hot Tropic (a kava drink) for winding down. Burma Brewing in Fort Myers, Florida, is the co-manufacturer.

According to the October release, Vibes has expanded regionally across Florida, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Ohio and New York, and it’s working on new flavors for 2027. The holiday campaign, with new promotions every week in November, runs on the Vibes website and TikTok Shop, with some regional retail partners.

Electric Shores Energy Drink Ingredients

The product page lists BHB ketones, Alpha-GPC, green tea extract, magnesium glycinate and potassium gluconate. The nutrition panel in the brand’s product photo gives the amounts for one 12 oz (355 mL) can:

The Electric Shores nutrition panel, from the Vibes Beverages product page.Per 12 oz canAmountgoBHB (listed as L-beta-hydroxybutyric acid)3 g (per the panel photo)Caffeine (PurTea green tea)90 mgAlpha-GPC250 mgL-theanine100 mgMagnesium / potassium28 mg / 45 mgCalories / sugar10 / 0 g (sweetened with 5 g allulose)

The first thing I noticed is the caffeine: 90 mg is moderate. That’s less than half of MAC Energy’s 200 mg and well under the 400 mg a day the FDA cites as an amount not generally associated with dangerous, negative effects in healthy adults. The second is the BHB itself, listed as the acid form of L-BHB rather than a mineral salt, so it adds no sodium, magnesium or potassium of its own. The 28 mg of magnesium and 45 mg of potassium come from magnesium glycinate and potassium gluconate. If you want the background on acid vs. salt forms, I covered that in BHB Free Acid vs BHB Salts.

Caffeine per serving: goBHB energy products

Milligrams of caffeine, compared with the FDA’s 400 mg daily reference for healthy adults.

CleanForm goBHB Energy Shot0 mgElectric Shores (12 oz can)90 mgMAC Energy (12 oz can)200 mgFDA daily reference, healthy adults400 mg

Sources: brand labels and product pages; FDA consumer update on caffeine.

What the Research Says About the BHB in the Can

Most published human BHB work used D-BHB or 50/50 D/L salts, so I’ll be straight that L-BHB on its own has less data behind it. The most useful human data on L-BHB comes from a 2017 Oxford study by Stubbs and colleagues in Frontiers in Physiology. When adults drank a racemic sodium/potassium BHB salt, the L half cleared slowly: in the higher-dose group, blood L-BHB was still at 0.7 mM eight hours later, long after D-BHB had returned to baseline. Standard finger-stick meters read only D-BHB, so a meter won’t show it. That study used a salt, so the curve for an acid form in a can may differ. The ketone ester in the study was supplied by TΔS, and several authors had ties to the company.

On mental performance, a 2026 study from Nova Southeastern University (Jiannine, Holen and Antonio) gave 136 fasted young adults 2 g of D-BHB, L-BHB or placebo and tested attention an hour later. There was a significant group effect for reaction time, with L-BHB faster than placebo, and both BHB groups had fewer attention lapses. There were no time or group-by-time effects, though, so I read it as a first signal at 2 g, about two-thirds of what this can lists.

BHB and caffeine together

One reason we’re studying BHB with caffeine is the comedown. In our own cell-culture work (human neurons and astrocytes, not people), BHB lowered adenosine in neurons after caffeine washout by about 58%, from roughly 950 nM to 400 nM, against a baseline near 200 nM. That’s unpublished lab data and it hasn’t been tested in people; a rodent study comes next, then human trials. I wrote it up in full in our caffeine crash study.

Vibes sells Electric Shores in 4-can and 24-can packs on its website.

How It Compares With Other goBHB Energy Products

On caffeine, Electric Shores lands between the two goBHB energy products I’ve covered most. MAC Energy is the bigger-stim option, with 2,000 mg of goBHB, 200 mg of Purcaf® caffeine and 250 mg of Cognizin® citicoline per can. The CleanForm goBHB Energy Shot goes the other way, with L-goBHB and zero caffeine in a 2 oz shot. Electric Shores lists about 50% more goBHB than MAC (3 g vs. 2 g) with less than half the caffeine, plus Alpha-GPC and L-theanine. That makes it a sensible middle lane for a morning or early-afternoon can. I compared the other two in Caffeine-Free Energy Shot or MAC Energy?

MAC Energy: 2,000 mg goBHB and 200 mg caffeine per 12 oz can.

The CleanForm goBHB Energy Shot has no caffeine and no sugar.

Price and Where to Buy

When I checked the Vibes site on November 3, a 4-can pack was $14.97 ($3.74 a can, marked down from $27.96) and a 24-pack was $95.28 ($3.97 a can), with a 15% subscribe-and-save option. Vibes says new promotions drop every week in November, so expect those numbers to move. You can also find it on TikTok Shop and with regional retailers. For every other goBHB product on shelves, see the 2026 goBHB products guide.

Where the Evidence Stands

The ingredients in Electric Shores are reasonable at these doses, but the can itself hasn’t been studied, and I don’t know of any trial of this exact formula. The L-BHB data is thin: one 2017 blood study showing slow clearance and one 2026 attention study at 2 g with mixed results. Our caffeine and BHB data is cell work. What you can count on is the label: 90 mg of caffeine, 10 calories and no sugar. If you’re caffeine sensitive, pregnant, on medication, or watching blood pressure, talk to your doctor before adding any caffeinated drink. None of these products are meant to treat or prevent any disease.

FAQ

How much caffeine is in Electric Shores?

Each 12 oz can has 90 mg of caffeine from PurTea green tea, per the nutrition panel. That’s less than half of a 200 mg energy drink like MAC Energy. Count it toward your daily total if you also drink coffee.

Is BHB the same as GHB?

No. BHB is beta-hydroxybutyrate, a ketone your body makes when you fast or cut carbs. GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate) is a different compound and a controlled substance. The names look alike, but they’re unrelated as ingredients.

What kind of BHB is in Electric Shores?

The panel lists goBHB as L-beta-hydroxybutyric acid, at 3 g per can. L-BHB clears from the blood more slowly than D-BHB and doesn’t show up on standard ketone meters. Most published human research used D-BHB or D/L blends.

When should I drink Electric Shores?

With 90 mg of caffeine, I’d keep it to the morning or early afternoon if you’re sensitive to caffeine at night. If you want BHB later in the day, a caffeine-free option makes more sense. For context, a 2025 Japanese trial (Katsuya et al., funded by Osaka Gas) gave 90 healthy adults 1.5 or 2.9 g of D-BHB an hour before bed for 14 days, with no caffeine; that was D-BHB, not the L form.

The Bottom Line

The Electric Shores energy drink is a moderate-caffeine can with 3 g of goBHB, Alpha-GPC and L-theanine, no sugar and 10 calories. It fills the gap between MAC Energy and a caffeine-free shot, and the holiday pricing lowers the cost of trying it. The BHB research behind it is still young, so buy it for what’s on the label and read the rest as a work in progress.

Sources: Stubbs BJ, et al. On the Metabolism of Exogenous Ketones in Humans. Front Physiol. 2017;8:848 (ester supplied by TΔS). Jiannine L, Holen C, Antonio J. Acute Effects of D- and L-Beta-Hydroxybutyrate on Vigilance (Sustained Attention and Reaction Speed) in Healthy Adults. J Exerc Physiol Online. 2026;29(1). Katsuya S, et al. Effect of d-β-hydroxybutyrate on sleep quality in healthy participants. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2025;89(5):769-775 (funded by Osaka Gas). FDA: Spilling the Beans, How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?Vibes Beverages holiday and TikTok Shop release (Brewbound, Oct. 27, 2026). Product details from drink-vibes.com, drinkmac.com and cleanformnutrition.com.