![]() ![]() Also, while the liquids were exactly the same shade of Energy Drink Yellow (why are they all this colour?), Red Bull Zero is noticeably less fizzy. Once we poured them out, it was pretty clear that our initial assessment was wrong, Red Bull Zero is much, much syrupier, while Red Bull Sugarfree has a tartness to it that balances it out. Anyway, they smell identical – or at least, that’s what I initially thought. Of course that’s not all that it tastes of, but beyond that, it’s mostly unidentifiable noise and vague berry flavour. For years, I didn’t really isolate what it actually tastes like, until I had some Red Bull sorbet (yes, I really do have a lot of energy drinks), which was very convincingly pineapple flavour. The pretender’s can Pour, Smell and Colourīoth Red Bull Zero and Red Bull Sugarfree have a sickly “tropical” flavour that fills the room as soon as you open the can. In the interests of science, I bought a can of the “normal” sugarfree kind as well, to produce an empirically accurate verdict.* I’m not against artificially sweetened energy drinks, especially as the flavour du jour for many brands can be fairly accurately described as “diabetes with a hint of pineapple” (V “Master Chief” flavour – ew – has nearly 70g of sugar in a big can), so I thought I’d give it a shot. This, in itself, is actually a little odd if you ask me – unlike Coke Zero (which tastes quite different to Diet Coke – the latter was supposedly meant to appeal to women in the 80s), Red Bull already had a sugarfree form which is a pretty reasonable analogue to the normal formula. A few weeks ago, something strange happened – a new Red Bull variant turned up overnight, Red Bull Zero. Now, while Red Bull may not be my energy drink staple (I am a fan of Frucor’s V), sometimes I like to slum it (don’t we all) and I will find myself cracking open the old winged bull. As a walking stereotype, I fuel my gaming and coding habits by ingesting scary quantities of energy drinks – I realized I was a lost cause when, a few years ago, I needed to have a pre-sleep can before I could relax.
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