First thougts:
As with all Hydro products, I was excited to try this. It’s herbal, and it’s Hydro, so I figured it would get bad soon, like every experience in the past.

Apparatus:
Bowl: Blue Phunnel bowl
Hose: Green Cobra Hose
Hookah: Mini Mya Saray
Coals: Cheap Japanese Naturals
Filler: Ice water
Cut: Red dye, bunch of sticks, and evenly flavored.

Experience:
Myself: The flavor is orange. It’s like a real orange, without the acid. The orange flavor isn’t too sweet or too sour. It’s basically the perfect mix of orangy-ness. It doesn’t taste like you’re diving right into a cup of fresh orange juice but I can definitely enjoy this flavor. Although, after about 20-25 minutes of smoking this, I got the chemical flavor that Hydro tends to put off.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/10]

Smoke:

The smoke is mediocre. It could be better, but it could be worse. My cheap coals could contribute to the mediocrity of it, but very marginally. With that being said, I’ll also give this one a five out of ten hearts.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/ 10]

Overall:
Unless your shisha has to be herbal, I wouldn’t buy this for your first time smoking an orange flavored shisha. There are plenty other brands out there that make amazing orange flavored shisha that I could recommend first. However, if you’re stuck on only smoking herbal shisha, this is a good item for you. Or if it’s the only thing in your price budget, try it. It’s not going to hurt you, and you may even enjoy it more than I did.

Apparatus:
Shisha: Hydro Avalanche [Banana]
Hookah: Mini Mya.
Bowl: Phunnel bowl
Hose: Cobra hose
Coals: Two coco-naras
First thoughts:
Myself: My first inhale of it tasted perfect. After the first few puffs, the perfection went away sadly. It seems as though all of the hydro’s have a flavor after a few moments or so. It’s not bothersome at the least.
Jaime: “good stuff!” Jaime claims. “It tastes like all of the other good banana [shisha’s] out there.”
All in All:
This shisha is mediocre as far as just shisha in general. But when you compare it to other herbal shisha’s I’d consider it the premium brand. This banana flavoring is quite superb within it’s beginning time frame. It lasted about a total of 30 minutes with the last 15 minutes of it being not as enjoyable as the first. The flavor itself tasted pretty much like banana juice, if you’ve ever had it. Like I explained in my “First Thoughts:” After a while, there’s a flavor that will throw you off guard. It tastes nothing like banana, it’s more like.. Medicine. A mix between medicine and chemicals. It’s not that bad, and a lot of people don’t notice it, but I’m one for details.

As I explained in my original Hydro review, Hyrdo [ in my opinion ] is probably the best herbal shisha that is on the market today. It’s made right here in America, with premium herbs from another country. Hydro is first packaged in ziplock bags, then again in a convenient sized cardboard box. The smell of the shisha penetrates right through the bag and box, leaving you drooling on yourself before you even get a chance to smoke it.

Hydro – Red Lightning.

Flavor: Strawberry.

First Thoughts:
Opening the bag, you get a really really sweet strawberry smell. Almost like strawberry shortcake topping. Again, the smell is extremely strong, which I believe is a great quality in a shisha.

Cut: Dyed red. Looks like hundreds of small sticks. Very nature-like.

Flavor: Have you ever went to the bank or doctor and get those little lollipops, wrapped in plastic? This tastes just like one of those. Extremely sweet, and partially fruity. Definitely strawberry though. 6/10

Smoke: Not as good as the last few times we’ve smoked Hydro. Still impressed for it being an herbal shisha. 6/10