Red Bull – The Lilac Edition Sugar Free (2025) Grapefruit & Blossom

July 14th, 2025

It’s not often I’m disappointed with a Red Bull drink, but this time I was 🙁 I’m not saying it was a bad drink at all, it was quite nice and refreshing, but with this being billed as a ‘lilac edition’ I was hoping for something special, especially with the ‘blossom’ flavouring mentioned. Sadly this drink pretty much just tastes like a tropical energy drink – from the grapefruit I assume. Perhaps the blossom needed to be paired with something gentler in flavour, maybe a very light lemon flavouring, in order for it to shine through. Also, why lilac? It’s not purple in colour inside the can. My brain was expecting something more like grape flavouring rather than grapefruit. Anyway – also available in full fat (if I can find that version to compare), this is very low in calories due to it being the sugar-free version.

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(2.3/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
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Monster Energy: Lando Norris Zero Sugar

July 8th, 2025

I’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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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Local Shop
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Monster Ultra Strawberry Dreams

July 5th, 2025

It’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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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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Rockstar Zero Sugar Peach

June 28th, 2025

It’s another peach drink for 2025! This one does actually taste like peach to be fair and isn’t specifying that’s it’s White Peach or anything. So just normal peach. The can has been branded for the music festival season and this one is “Reading & Leeds”. It’s reasonably sweet and refreshing, but there are better rockstar flavours out there. At least this one is sugar-free though unlike most of the other festival-branded Rockstar drinks I’ve found so far.

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 31mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 1kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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Rockstar Tropical Guava

June 21st, 2025

This 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.

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(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 40mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 19kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Morrisons
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Celsius Live Fit Peach Vibe

June 14th, 2025

White 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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(3.1/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
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Monster Energy Ultra Fantasy Ruby Red

June 9th, 2025

This 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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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Tesco
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Rockstar Blueberry Pomegranate

May 31st, 2025

This 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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(3.8/5)
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Caffeine: 40mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 18kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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Virtue Clean Energy Lemon & Lime

May 18th, 2025

How can you ruin lemon & lime flavouring? It’s the perfect refreshing combination. Well somehow Virtue have managed it 🙁 They’ve made it bitter and given it a strange aftertaste. I was very disappointed, this was sharp and watery with none of the sweet refreshing tang that I was hoping for – look, I’ll happily chew on slices of lemons and limes all day, I love them, but none of that flavour was in this drink sadly.

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(1.8/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Gloucester Services
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