Red Bull – The Red Edition 2025 (Watermelon)
July 12th, 2025Red Bull seem to be re-releasing all of their previous Winter and Summer editions as “The [insert colour here] Edition”. In this case we have 2020’s summer edition being released as 2025’s Red Edition. Not to be confused with 2013’s Red Edition which was cranberry flavoured. It’s all very confusing to keep up with especially for a reviewer of energy drinks – I have to keep a sharp eye out to spot a subtle change like this! Anyway, it’s a watermelon flavoured energy drink exactly the same as the 2020 summer edition – strong, sweet and a little bit sickly if I’m honest once you’ve got to the end of the can.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: UK, Watermelon |
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| Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Local shop | ||
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Monster Energy: Lando Norris Zero Sugar
July 8th, 2025I’m assuming that this drink will help me drive really fast, and if combined with Monster’s Lewis Hamilton drink then all sorts of crazy shiz happens. Lando’s flavour is a very fresh and crisp melon flavour. As you would expect with any Monster drink, it’s extremely smooth and manages to balance sweetness with the tang of the fruit just right. Difficult to fault a Monster drink as usual!
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Melon, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Local Shop | ||
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Monster Ultra Strawberry Dreams
July 5th, 2025It’s quite sickly, but very nice and extremely sweet. It’s undeniably a sugar-free drink, it has the usual mouthfeel from the sweeteners in it and that does detract somewhat from the strawberry flavouring. I am normally a fan of sugar-free drinks over the full fat versions but I reckon that this particular drink would have benefited from being full of sugar instead – I just think it would have been much nicer flavour-wise. As it is, it’s an easy going drink, very pleasant, would buy again, but could be improved.
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Low Calorie, Strawberry, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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Rockstar Tropical Guava
June 21st, 2025This particular Rockstar variety is branded for the ‘Creamfields’ festival and they’ve gone with a Tropical Guava flavour. I wouldn’t say it’s that tropical personally, it’s more like a fruity berry drink – there’s none of that normal tropical tang you would normally get from a tropical drink. It’s really nice, but it’s not tropical.
Celsius Live Fit Peach Vibe
June 14th, 2025White peach energy drinks seems to be a trend for summer 2025 because this is the third one I’ve found so far this year. This particular one is quite tropical tasting overall and not that refreshing really, but it packs a huge amount of caffeine so when you’re that tweaked does being refreshing even matter?!
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| Caffeine: | 56mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, UK, White Peach |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 355ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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Monster Energy Ultra Fantasy Ruby Red
June 9th, 2025This is not your usual Monster concoction. It’s a fruity and smooth blend with a slight citrus twist to it and I can’t quite place the flavour… I *think* it might be strawberry lemonade, but there’s definitely more than just strawberry in there. Potentially a little bit of grapefruit for the tang? However you look at it, it’s a nice easy going drink in a very premium can complete with a textured surface and a cute cartoon design. A good flavour for the summer.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Citrus, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
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Celsius Live Fit Sunset Vibe Mango Passion Fruit
June 7th, 2025As I write this review it’s one of the warmest days of the year so far and a tropical flavoured drink goes down very nicely on a day like today. This drink is not too sickly and nicely sugar-free, but it is quite heavy on the caffeine so packs a decent punch of wake-up-ness.
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| Caffeine: | 56mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mango, Passion Fruit |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 355ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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Rockstar Blueberry Pomegranate
May 31st, 2025This is one of a number of Rockstar drinks for 2025 which are branded with the names of various music festivals around the UK. This flavour for the TRNSMT festival is blueberry and pomegranate – it mostly tastes of blueberry, quite strongly too. I couldn’t taste the pomegranate, but it was extremely sweet and strong in flavour plus packed full of caffeine.
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| Caffeine: | 40mg/100ml |
Tags: Blueberry, Large Can, Pomegranate, UK |
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| Calories: | 18kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
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Warrior Rage Energy Shot: Lemon & Lime
May 24th, 2025You don’t tend to see many energy shots anymore and I think the reason is because they tend to be quite bitter. This one is no different – you can just about taste the citrus from the lemon and lime flavouring, but it’s mostly masked by the sourness from the shot itself.
