I usually drink 3 the days I work, the only kind they sell are the 16 ounce ones, and its usually the regular Monster that I get... the variety here sucks

I've tried all the Monsters' except for the Java ones, which don't interest me at all. I have tried the new Nerd drink, and the blue bottle Bawls, and both are pretty good. Only problem with the Bawls one is that the taste is somewhat like sprite but has more of a taste to it which wasn't something I'd drink.

After looking some up I found one called Shotgun and the famous Cocaine one that I've wanted to try for a while ... just dont know where they are sold or even carried.

I will post again soon with a few thought out reviews on the Monster Lo Carb, M-80, Nerd, ... I might try the Rehab even though im not the one thats going to have a hangover (said to help cure one)....

So basically after a few discussions with TMC, I was interested in knowing what kind everyone here drinks, as well as what kind are sold there...

Wo0t go sugar rush :cactuar:

The selection here is rather typical, SoBe, Monster, Rockstar, Red Bull maybe Nos or Amped if you look. To be honest I don't pay too much attention to what it around here as I’m a virtuous none believer when it comes to energy drinks or e-drinks as I sometimes call them. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m skeptical about medication and other crap like that which could partially work on the placebo effect or what. I’ve tried a few energy drinks and none of them really seem to do anything for me whatsoever. I don’t know if they just don’t work for me because of an anti-placebo effect where I’m so negative and pessimistic about energy drinks that they don’t work for me or if my body is just immune to them. I don’t think it’s the anti-placebo non believer mind frame because I drank a Monster today with the mind set that it was going to energize me, but after hefting a few bags of concrete around I was knackered regardless.

The first energy drink I ever drank was a SoBe Adrenaline in the blue can. I drank it in college before studying for some test to see if was worth it since everyone swears by energy drinks. I didn’t chug it, but I also take 2 hours to drink it either and I probably drank the whole can within 30-45 minutes. All it succeeded in doing was making me piss 5 times in 15 minutes.

Recently I began trying some Monster energy drinks out of curiosity and partially to taste them to see if there were any good ones since the SoBe Adrenaline had that damn fake sugar aftertaste. None of the 4 I have drank so far really seemed to have done anything for me and only one made me “crash” so to say making me hella sleepy like 2 hours before my shift was over. I don’t know if it’s because of the way I drink it or it what. Basically I drink about half the can 8oz. since it is a 16oz can and has 2 servings in it as it says on the can. I drink about half the can at breakfast with a meal and the other half on my lunch again with food. I don’t use them in place of food and I don’t chug the whole can at once or even drink one can within an hours time. I don’t know if the food is counteracting it or if they just don’t work for me. I’m sure the fact that I don’t drink them in place of a meal and don’t drink the massive 16oz. can in one sitting has some effect, but the company doesn’t specifically say for this product to work you have to take it in place of a meal and drink both servings at once. Though I may try drinking one can within an entire sitting to see what the effects are.

I am also going to use this topic to post my review on some of the Monster brand energy drinks and possibly some others, if there is a specific one someone wants me to try let me know I might take requests.

Rockstar Juiced is the way to go. I've tried so many over the years, I won't bother trying to list them all... but of the many, many of them I have drank, Juiced is by far the best.

I tend to stay clear of energy drinks mainly because I'm not fond of the taste. Maybe because we used to get so drunk on vodka and cheep red bull at uni... We used to go to a night where one of those were 80p so really cheap if you're a student!!

A lot of people drink them at work though, the favourite there seems to be either Red Bull or Relentless. I'm not sure if you can get Relentless over there but they kinda look like Beer cans!

Only time I drink energy drinks is when I'm bowling. I dunno, it's custom.

Otherwise, I stay away from them, because they're terrible for you.

energy drinks dont work on me, for some reason they make me tired.

Same here. I never drink energy drink.

And all those you people are talking about, never heard of. Here we have Red Bull, Bullit, Golden Power...maybe some more, but those are the only ones I know of.

Orange-Mango Liquid Z.

The Orange are like an Orange-Mango flavored. At the place I work they sell 2 16 oz. cans for $3 which is an alright deal for energy drinks. They taste really good, and I'll get them if I'm playing basketball, a long night of studying or writing a paper, or just playing xbox all night.

The question I have to those of you who have a specific energy drink they like or have just tried one in general is did you notice any boost of energy?


Also BM and RA's drinks have been added to the list for me to try/review. I might possibly even do the overrated Red Bull, but that alone makes me want to shy away from it. Well with that question out the way I will get started on my first review, but before that...
Disclaimer: Funny yet relevant songs aside I don’t claim to be an official reviewer of anything. There are plenty of people who get paid to do an in depth analysis of this stuff and many other fans who do their own reviews as is. And yes I know energy drink reviews have been done a million times over by other people, but I don’t care. I’m not particularly taking this very seriously, I'm not doing it for anyone’s benefit and I’m not going through every energy drink in existence to find “the ultimate one”. I’m just an average guy doing this for the fun of it because I want to. If you want come along and join me on the adventure and read my reviews then please feel free. If this can help someone decided whether to drink an energy drink or not or perhaps to help them choose which one they might like to drink or even if I’ve just managed to entertain you for a little bit with my thoughts then I will have achieved something with these random reviews. Even if it only turns out to be for an audience of one (myself) then I’m still going to do it, but it makes it so much more worthwhile when other people read it.

With that long winded slightly sappy disclaimer out of the way I will now do a rather poor review from memory of the first energy drink I ever had to give you a taste of what my reviews will be like. After that I’ll jump into the Monster reviews and we’ll go from there. First let me break down the categories.
Company – E-Drink name
The Can – What it looks like accompanied by an actual image along with any slogan/sales pitch which is usually printed on those cans and really most anything now days..
Story – How I came to try this particular drink.
Color – The stuff inside the can. Does it look like moose piss or a cup o’ tea?
Taste – Does it actually taste like the moose piss it may look like or is it more sweet yet tangy?
Day – How my day went/the effects of the energy drink if any.
Enjoy the first review below.

SoBe – Adrenaline Rush (Sugar Free…!?)
The Can
It’s a surfer blue that fades to a shiny aluminum can at the bottom with the silver geckos embracing to make an S in that trusty logo (usually) ensuring juicy goodness.

Can text N/A

Story
My roommate Matt was talking about how it helps to drink an energy drink before studying and pulling an all nighter or going to the test. Although I think he might have warned me of drinking one before a test to avoid sitting there all jittery/experimenting first to try one out. I basically grabbed this energy drink to try it out, being partially obsessed with the actual SoBe juices thinking the e-drink can’t be half bad either and might just hype me up.

Color
It was a light blue I believe looking just like a sea of wholesome goodness that I was about to dive headfirst into—hey wait a minute I can’t swim…eep.

Taste
Absolute shit. No actually to be honest I can’t remember the taste much in fact I’m not even sure it had taste other than pure aftertaste from that freaking fake sugar. Yuck. I trudged through it though and upon closer examination (as of the Google search for that image) I noticed the one I grabbed happened to be sugar-free…perhaps I should’ve paid more attention/chose more wisely instead of going for the can in the color I like best.

Day
Well I bought this on a nightly C-Store run, drank it at the dorm, upon finishing it had to piss 5 times within 15 minutes and other than that I noticed no real effects other than abused taste buds.

I drink amps. They are the best =]]

Even tho im trying to pry away from them...cuz I found out they eat muscle just like dark soda...And me going to the gym for the past 5 weeks will be for nothing =[[[[

So ima stay away from them. lol.

I drank the Red Jak E-drink today during my lunch break... and it tasted like pure sh1t >__<
ill edit this post with all the details that TMC had on his soon

but i can say the color of it was a light pinkish looking one... and the taste was... damn i cant even remember I might have to just buy another one to get the flavor... each sip I took I almost had to spit every time because of the taste, and the can is for two servings, 16 ounces.
lol looks like I already did mention most of the things ... ill up a pic of it right now...

they had a low-carb one also so ill try that one for another day

If the image is too big someone can delete it, and im sure later on TMC will IM me about it...
*as I drink a Monster M-80

The main two we have over here are 'red bull' and 'V', I mostly drink Red-Bull but I used to drink a 'V' a day when I was at school. No much variety around here but I have gone off drinking I think.

There was an article were a guy drank 8 and he had a heart attack so I kind of eased up from there.

*runs off to beat his record*

Where did you find out about that? Is that true? Do you have a website or some other source you can direct us to? I'm currious as to what other energy drinks do that.

@FFVIICloudS, if you drank the normal and it tasted like sh!t do you really think the low carb one is going to be any better? Seriously low/free anything is usually worse tasting than the original.

Moving on I've got almost all my review done 'cept the M-80 I'll drink tomorrow and I've still got to write the one for the MixxD I had a week or two ago. With that said I'll move on to the Monster reviews.

Monster – Original
The Can

Wait that’s not right, damn Google image search…ah here we are.

“Tear into a can of the meanest energy supplement on the planet, MONSTER energy.
We went down to the lab and cooked up a double shot of our killer energy brew.
It’s a wicked mega hit that delivers twice the buzz of a regular energy drink.
MONSTER packs a vicious punch but has a smooth flavor you can really pound down.
Unleash the Beast!”

Story
Well after seeing it advertised by numerous extreme sport people and having a friend who used to drink them/be into them and talking to FFVIICloudS on MSN who is into them I figured I’d give “the beast” a try to see if there were any energy drinks out there that not only tasted decent, but also actually did something for me.

Color
Pink! Actually I’m not far off since it’s not green like the cap and M on the can would suggest. In fact it looks more like someone who drinks way too much soda and dark colored things pissed in this can, a dark yellow...On a brighter note it looks like apple juice, maybe slightly darker...which also looks like pee. It has an oddly green tint to it though if you look at it and swirl it around a little bit or if you look at the “little buddies” that gather on the gutter of the can. Deceptive to say the least.

Taste
The best general way to describe it is its kinda citrusy in flavor like most energy drinks seem to be, maybe like Squirt, but not as sour. Or perhaps it’s like a more sour version of fruit punch with a very slight aftertaste every once in a while. Overall not too bad and very chugable if desired.

Day
Originally I was going to down this whole can for breakfast possibly substituting this drink for breakfast itself to try the “drinking it all in one sitting” variable to see if I got any energy boost out of that. Instead I ended up doing the usual half at breakfast half at lunch. I’m doing this review based on the day after Monster Assault which was bollocks day number two this week and once again I really noticed no real effects. I will admit I wasn’t as knackered as yesterday, but that’s most likely due to the fact that I haven’t done as much heavy lifting today so I can’t say Monster did anything for me. Also judging by the description on the can I guess they do imply that to achieve the desired effects you should drink both servings at once.

yeah i know sounds dumb.... I thought about it also but there might be a different taste to it that wont be as bad as this one, and yeah i know if its lo-carb its going to not have any of the "good" stuff... but might as well

and ill edit this post with my review of Rehab and Monster Mixxd (maybe this one)

Speaking of low carb.

Monster – Lo-Carb(…!?)
The Can
Looks like the original only the M and pop tab is a light blue not to mention it also says lo-carb on it.

Can text N/A though I remember it saying something about admitting how it was giving into the whole low carb craze these days.

Story
Well I was just going to get the original Monster to try it, but at the cheap backwardass convince store I went to I had to spent at least $5 to use a bank card since I had no cash on me. I ended up grabbing this one and at $2.29 needing another to break the five dollar limit I had to get another, the purple Mixxd. This is the second time choosing an energy drink based on a color I fancy has screwed me. Low carb, I mean c’mon...well at least its not as bad as sugar free, ugh.

Color
I don’t really remember. I want to say it was a lightish blue like the can, but judging by the color of the Original and the Assault I could be way off.

Taste
It taste a lot like the original Monster only with a lot more aftertaste since its low carb and has that fake sugar in it.

Day
Just like any other day only about two hours before my shift was over I started to “crash” I suppose it’s called. Really I just got super tired and had to trudge through the rest of the day, but upon eating dinner and listening to a bit of music I was good to go. Low carb, bad, TMC like carbs. Quick usable energy it is and being 6’ 3" and 95 pounds I need all the carbs I can get (height and weight may be out of proportion =P). I don’t know if it was the energy drink or not as even if it was low carb I’ve never had this problem without one. So I guess it really probably was the e-drink.

lol they're so bad for you, my recent fave is monster, before I joined high school though, it was all about the red bull lol >.>, but that stuff is soooo bad for your heart lol =c

Yeah I just watched Crank, awesome movie. It kinda makes me want to chug an energy drink just for the hell of it.

Speaking of this topic I've still got like 4 more Monster reviews that I never did post (not that anyone cares)...I blame FFVIICloudS for not keeping up on the topic so I can post (jk).

haha yeah my fault ^___^
but there wasn't anytime you would have double posted so you could have kept posting... lets just agree to disagree if that would work in this case...

new review now, lost my progress report which is where i wrote it all but i can remember what i wrote so here goes....

Company –

The Can – the can is basically what had me sold the first time I bought it, epic looking can and the name went good together...
Story – was at a local Kroger and met a friend who worked there and we started talking about Monster, and I saw that one, he said it would really mess you up if you drank it all (I had the bigger one but same difference)
Color – If I remember correctly it was a light color like any normal pineapple juice or orange juice...
Taste – it was good, tasted like a fruit drink with taurine thrown in ^___^ went down pretty good and didnt leave a bad aftertaste soon after finishing it....
Day – went the same, I dont really have an effect out of these drinks....

If I get more time ill review the new Nos drinks, the Grape and Fruit Punch which I think though will be self explanatory just by the name, and am also looking for the Nos Powershots

Well how 'bout that I get on MSN and find there is an article about energy drinks on the home page.
Check it out.
Woot, woot, Tigard Oregon baby, Oregon represent!...even though we really didn't get in there for anything cool involing someone being injured due to an energy drink :(
The actual article really doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know about e-drinks, except maybe the statistics, but still more than anything this is your typical MSN article created to scare people or "boost thier awareness".

Moving on I figure I may as well post the other reviews I did (not all at once).

Monster – MIXXD
The Can
Our familiar black can has been reinforced with some dark grey sheet metal, though the familiar M is still visible along with the Mixxd name, sporting a purple color scheme.

Cant text N/A though I remember it saying something about how we’ve all been wasted at a party before, but yet there is another batch of jungle juice brewin’ on the stove and something about how everyone is moaning the next day but not you because you drank a Monster mixxd as a pick me up.

Story
I grabbed it along with the low carb blue Monster off the shelf because it was one of the other ones I saw and needed two more to break $5. I figured the different color just meant a different flavor and to some extent that’s true, though I was quite happy to find it had a 30% juice mix.

Color
I believe it was a light purple like the color scheme on the can, but you know there is usually a big difference between looking at stuff in the can and looking at in a glass.

Taste
I don’t even know if it’s possible to describe this drink’s taste, it’s quite schizophrenic. After reading the description I had to double check to see if it had alcohol in it, maybe some of that jungle juice they were talking about only some of the alcohol bite made its way through. At first I could seriously taste the oddly mixed grape/cherry-like juice first then the regular Monster, after a while they kind of merged almost making one grape, cherry, citrusy taste. Then after eating breakfast I drank some more of the drink and I swear it tasted just like diet cherry cola as this drink did have that fake sugar aftertaste sadly. Based on other reviews you either like it or you hate it; do yourself a favor and just take the blue pill.

Day
Good news it wasn’t as bipolar as the taste of this drink, but on the other end of the scale it was just an average day for me, maybe a bit of heavy lifting here or there, I don’t know it was a couple weeks ago but I do know this drink didn’t aid me in any way; didn’t really hinder me either except for giving my taste buds a rather odd ride.

My big thing has been drinking monsters as my primary source of spurt energy/(stay awake stimulant), Sometimes I have to stay up for 24 hrs at work, I get the next day off but I usually rip through 3-4 monsters during the night to hold me off for the morning :p

its been a while since ive posted here... I have the NOS grape one that i had reviewed one some paper but I dont know where its at so ill go by memory and edit it later....

Can: same as the blue NOS just purple
(pic coming soon)

taste: its like a cheap grape soda drink with taurine thrown in... the taurine made it taste a lot better, no side effects on me though

Color: forgot, most likely a light purple will have to find the paper..

also on a side note, waking up two days ago coughing blood might be due to all the energy drinks ive consumed over a period of time, had a lot the day before though... Ive decided not to drink any for a week and see how Im feeling... drink responsibly guys 0___O

Ah sweet! I wanna cough up blood. I must drink 5 a day for a week now =P

Lol Yojimbo you say they are unhealthy but yet you drink 3-4 a night. You're not suposed to drink more than 3 in a day anyway dude. That can't be healthy, but hey whatever works I guess.