Red Bull Soda Energy Drink Blueberry Blackcurrant
September 13th, 2025A brief Red Bull history lesson: in the beginning was Krating Daeng, manufactured by TC Pharmaceutical (TCP). Red Bull as we know it in the West was derived from Krating Daeng for Western tastes in partnership with the owner of TCP, however products under the Red Bull brand name in Thailand are manufactured by TCP. This particular drink has been imported from Thailand and is very different to any Red Bull we might recognise in the West. It’s only very lightly carbonated and the flavour is mostly from blueberry as far as I can tell. Nearly all of the text on the can is in Thai so I’ve had to use Google Lens to translate what I can so apologies if any of the nutritional information is incorrect! A very nice energy drink and a change from the normal varieties we get in the UK / Europe.
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| Caffeine: | 22mg/100ml |
Tags: Blackcurrant, Blueberry, Thailand |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Family Shopper, UK | ||
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Carabao
November 12th, 2016This is certainly different. It has a fruity and sweet flavour, nothing like that of Red Bull at all but it does have the medicated tang that you’d expect from say one of the Thai drinks such as Lipovitan, only in a longer carbonated form. Despite finding this in a regular British supermarket, on reading the label my suspicions are confirmed. This is indeed a Thai energy drink (but a British import). It’s nice, it’s different, but it was expensive. Worth a try as a one-off for a taste from the homeland of energy drinks!
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Thailand, UK |
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| Calories: | 45kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 325ml | ||
| Sold By: | Spar | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Krating Daeng
September 22nd, 2012This is the original Red Bull. I won’t dish out a history lesson here, so check out the wiki page for that. I’ll just tell you that it’s a non-carbonated syrupy tasting version of Red Bull. Personally, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I enjoy Red Bull, but the actual kick you get from this drink is amazing and unrivalled. I’m not sure what they put in this exactly, but a small bottle was enough to send me flying for quite a number of hours. It’s been going for a long time, and was inspired itself by Lipovitan. You can get hold of it across Asia, or in Asian supermarkets here in the UK. To all energy drink connoisseurs, make the effort to try this one!
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Thailand |
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| Calories: | 46kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 150ml | ||
| Sold By: | Thai Supermarket | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Lipovitan-D
September 1st, 2012The grand-daddy of energy drinks! Lipovitan can apparently lay claim to being the inspiration behind a Thai drink known as Krating Daeng, which in turn is the predecessor of a little known drink called Red Bull. Lipovitan is bright yellow in colour and sold in a small 100ml brown medicine bottle. It tastes very synthetic, almost like the grape flavoured energy drinks popular in the US. It’s non-carbonated, and although high in caffeine per 100ml, it’s overall caffeine content per bottle is about half that of a standard can of Red Bull. It’s unique and works. If you can get hold of this, you have to try it!
