Intro:
I have decided to also do some energy drink reviews, while I sort through the rather long list of supplements I have tried. Again, the same format will stand through review to review. I will also be doing all the entries from all the companies at once.
As I mentioned in my other reviews, I am pretty highly conditioned to drugs in general, so if something works with me, chances are very good that it will work with more "normal" people as well. There is a pretty big knock on energy drinks in general, casting them as little more than glorified soft drinks, but I have used them while bouncing, on long road trips, before workouts and just for a little pick-me-up and I can tell you that if they ARE indeed soft drinks, they are a higher octane version than what regular Coca-Cola or even perennial favorite Mountain Dew is churning out.
Review: Monster Energy drinks is an entry into a rapidly saturated market, which is that of energy drinks. I have tried all of them but the Low-Carb version, as taking sugar away from these drinks usually makes them taste far worse. Monster KHAOS tastes like a sort of fruit juice drink that college kids would make if they didn't have any money, wanted to get tossed and had nothing but some cheap liquor and several kinds of half-drunk juice cartons in the fridge and a bag of sugar in the cupboard. Monster ASSAULT is more like a hyper-sweetened variation on the Red Bull motif in terms of taste, to the point where it is almost nauseatingly cloying. Reguar Monster tastes more or less like a soft drink.
It also acts more or less like a regular soft drink. The net effect of these three drinks was about what you could expect from Mountain Dew -- a slight sugar rush and a bit of that alert feeling that comes from the hit of caffeine. In the case of Assault, you can also have the borderline headache and vague sense of illness and unease that comes from cheap-tasting sugar.
Verdict: With so many other energy drinks out there to choose from, some of which at least taste good, if not working better, recommendation is to AVOID.
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Thread: Monster Energy Drinks
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09-02-2006, 10:04 AM #1
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Monster Energy Drinks
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01-22-2007, 04:32 PM #8
here are some energy drinks I enjoy (one of the perps of working in a nutrition store is a stocked fridge)
ABB Diet Turbo Tea Lemon
0 calories, 90 caffeine
ANSI Thermo Hydroxadrine Fruit Punch (Grape is ok, FP rocks)
0 calories, 200 caffeine plus taurine, carnitine, tyrosine, white willow, bitter orange (synephrine), guggul, diarginine malate, forskolin, EGCG (Not in that particular order)
The Diet Turbo Tea is great, tastes just like sweet tea to me. I love the fact that it has lower caff, so I can drink up to 4 in a 12 hour day. I just sip on it while I work
Thermo Hydroxadrine is great becuase it always gives me a kick in the ***. I can drink it and I will always feel it within 15 minutes, I just feel hotter and I know it's working. I'll drink up to 2 in a 12 hour shift.PSN E-Go
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01-22-2007, 05:30 PM #9
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I'm more now than ever of the opinion that fully 90% of the energy drinks on the market now are ****. Now that Redline RTD has taken a dump, the only ones I think much of lately are the Wired X3000s and the Sobe No Fear Double Downs, though the taste of the Sobe is the main thing I like about that. It really doesn't deliver much more energy than anything else. The only one that does that is the Wired X3000, which is also the only one that I've been able to successfully use as a pre-workout drink...it's still nowhere near ISS Satur8 Rush, though or AMP tabs.
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01-22-2007, 05:39 PM #10
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01-22-2007, 07:17 PM #11
I agree
Monster is junk. I bought one today before hitting the gym because I was tired and needed a pick me up. Needless to say it didnt help hardly at all and it tasted like crap.
If I was to buy an energy drink Id probably have to go with Rockstar. Ive gotten them before and they at least gave me a little bit of a pick me up. I figured Id try Monster cause it was cheaper. Cheaper isnt always better.
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I'm not too worried about that, I just have other stuff in front of it...I will get to it, though, maybe next month or the month after, possibly...
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01-22-2007, 09:24 PM #17
EMISGOD, I'd recommend trying any of the No Fear drinks by Sobe. They have the normal no fear and also the gold, I believe they now have a sugar free version also. Ive noticed a decent bit of energy from them, deffinatly the best tasting I have had also. There really the only ones that I will drink.
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