energy drink roundup!

As Hot Curry! time approaches I am busy consuming energy drinks at a liver-failing rate!

Red Bull is the good ole standby enjoyed copiously by myself and the entire dumbrella team. I even had them sponsor one of my art shows! It is my standard fuel for conventions and art shows. Unfortunately they have yet to sponsor my regular everyday life.

Enviga is a newcomer from the Coke company. They call it the ‘calorie burner’, truth is that with all the other stuff in it, the metabolic boost you get only burns about 5 calories per can (a local news channel told me that, it must be true!). So in order to have any real effect on your caloric intake you would pretty much have to drink enough to die, at which point no one really cares if you are fat (except the pallbearers). It comes in peach, berry and green tea. They all taste acceptably OK, but not as good as my good ole redbull. Unfortunately they have that craptacular aspartame sweetner found in diet coke and sugar free redbull which leaves a horrible aftertaste.

Now on to the real reason for this post.. Howling Monkey brand “revitalizing elixir”!

This one just showed up at my local Deli. It comes in regular and cola versions (and sugar free versions of each). The cans are 16 oz, listed as 2 servings. I can get through about 3/4 a can at a time. The cola one is pretty good, rather generic RC cola taste but a little more citrusy. Pretty good kick to it. The “regular” one tastes a lot like redbull but slightly tarter. I like it! It may be my new choice when I get sick of redbull, besides, just look at that logo…

Rockstar is acceptable in a pinch. Everything else is crap.