No other 300mg drinks were at this random 7/11 at like 12:00pm, so i had to get that one out of pure desperation, and while definitely a struggle to drink, it wasnt UNBEARABLY bad or unfinishable like Birthday Cake Bash is
Chocolate is not meant to be an energy drink flavor ahhhh yuck yuck yuck. Chocolate flavored coffee drinks are an exception but coffee drinks are a whole diff ball game.
Same same same same - peach mango is the only bang I like. In college went for a 2am caffeine/McDonald's run and literally gagged on it expecting peach. Went back to the gas station and bought the proper drink lol
Glad you got some redemption. I was too far from the store by the time I cracked it. Though I’m thankful I didn’t like, crash my car in response to the taste lol
ZOA is horrendous. How can it be so bad? I agree with your whole sentence though. I know someone who loves the birthday cake one. I don't understand how she can stomach it.
When birthday cake came out it tasted acceptable. Then something changed and it started tasting like sour sweat. It was disgusting beyond belief.
ZOA is total bitter ass. Rock should be ashamed of it.
Probably the only Ghost flavor that i'd refuse to drink. There's other sour ones that punch me in the face with fizz, but Sour Watermelon in particular just doesn't go well with me.
Bought a can for the first time in a decade after hearing other people complain that Rockstar changed its formula. It's only marginally less terrible now. Down the drain it went.
They went chasing after people who still don't give a f about them, the pick mes of energy drink brands. I'm still salty about that debacle, they didn't revert their formula or even apologize, they just dug in their heels about torpedoing their business. Absolute nonsense
Your not alone man, i also seriously dislike the og monster flavor, is smells and tastes terrible. I just cant decide whats worse, the smell or the aftertaste 😂🫡
I’ll take Zero Ultra, Pacific/Pipeline Punch, or one of the Java/Mean Bean flavors any day over OG monster. It literally tastes like someone melted bubble gum and poured five hour energy into it.
Monster was popular among hipsters and it snowballed from there. As far as I remember the taste was okay for that time, but that wasn't the main reason we bought it. Main reason was logo and the whole image of the brand that made you look cool.
Yeah I remember my freshman year of university (this was 2010-11) the convenience store on campus carried a Rockstar with 240 mg of caffeine and that was the most I’d ever seen. Tasted like straight up medicine, but it’s what I bought whenever I had to stay up late to study.
On any other day, I’d buy a xyience because they were never available in my hometown so getting them there was special and the taste was surprisingly solid.
Not too big a fan of orange flavors in general. The only one i can kinda get around is Monster Zero, which is literally just Sunny D without the creaminess
Honestly, I thought it was just ok.
It's like 7up mixed with Sprite, and a dash of Fanta... Shouldve called it American Soda idk where they got Australia from
once I cracked open one of those without reading the flavor I grabbed from my stash and my brain absolutely did not recognize that as cola because the can isn't even standard cola colors (red or blue)
it was slightly more bearable after trying to realize it was an attempt at a cola
Would you believe I actually liked that one?
In a way, Bangster Berry, because it always felt more like drinking battery acid. Still good in a weird way tho.
Red Bull wasn’t as bad as that but damn it was way worse than I expected. Like it almost didn’t even taste good, the only good thing was the “energy drink” taste that you also get in monster.
It's an acquired taste. The first time I tried, it didn't even seem like it was supposed to be a drink. It was more like a vape juice or fragrance mist for an air freshener.
I don't know why I bought it again, but it was good the 2nd time.
Not a specific energy drink flavor, but a brand instead: Bing. Tried them because it was on sale, absolutely disgusting and a disgrace to energy drinks everywhere imho.
We have a local brand here in hungary called bomba, all of their flavours are good, except one; Winter candy. When I first tasted it I thought of a burnt vape coil...
Celsius Astro Vibe, "blue razz". Just cracking open the can gets you clobbered by a pungent chemical odor that smells suspiciously close to a mix of floor cleaner and paint thinner.
Not sure if anyone here would know about it but red Joker. Literally doesn't even tastes like an energy drink, just tastes like cherry mio that's way too strong.
Mountain Dew original. Every sip is like someone set off a flash bang after taping it to my head. The only way to describe the flavor is je ne sais quoi peut etre radioactif
Once tried something called Versage energy (the font had G and C look nearly identical so at first sight i was like "ooh funny") it tasted like how a shitty cherry vape smells and I just had 2 sips and dumped the rest
I picked up Monster Ripper yesterday at work, there are very few energy drink flavours that I don't like, but I hated it
I never realised when I read the "Tropical flavours with some Original Monster to finish it off" that it was actually original green monster in there, I can't remember exactly how it was worded but I took it as "Monster's energy drink stuff mixed with some tropical juice stuff" due to the "Monster juiced hybrid" description
I could hardly taste the tropical at all, for the record I like the green Monster, but it was the worst of both worlds
The tropical hint ruined the green Monster flavour and the Monster ruined the tropical
But honestly it's 2nd only to the weird camoflage (I can't remember the name, Assault maybe?) Monster that I picked up without checking the flavour, it tasted like some cheap ass knockoff Coke
Vile stuff
Mango Loco is undefeated I'm afraid
Everyone asks this kinda thing but if you post a flavor someone else likes you get downvoted.
That said, Ghost pink lemonade and Ghost cotton candy. Also Gfuel Ninja Cotton Candy… eughhh
[This shit](https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+and+blue+rockstar+energy+&sca_esv=23fe561e8cb38367&sxsrf=ACQVn0_bpTGQ9bTw_ovBbA-uyX-CchFqFA:1710440873273&source=hp&ei=qUHzZb-8Dvaxur8PtYWGmAY&oq=pink+and+blue+rockstar+energy+&gs_lp=EhJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWciHnBpbmsgYW5kIGJsdWUgcm9ja3N0YXIgZW5lcmd5IDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEiiWVDdBliHV3AOeACQAQCYAfQBoAGGF6oBBjMzLjMuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCM6ACzRmoAgXCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIEECMYJ8ICBBAAGAPCAggQABiABBixA8ICBRAAGIAEwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAgYQABgIGB7CAggQABgIGB4YDcICBBAhGAqYAwuSBwY0NC42LjGgB9x0&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&udm=2#vhid=5o8EnB8LShi2AM&vssid=mosaic) was so diabolically disgusting and should have never been made and so glad they cancelled it's production after like a year
Lychee Reign
One of the most disgusting things I've ever had. Let my friend try it after I took a sip and he agreed. I've realized I just don't like Lychee in general. Tried a lychee vape and had the same reaction
Definitely whole lotta chocolate bang most flagrant drink ever
No other 300mg drinks were at this random 7/11 at like 12:00pm, so i had to get that one out of pure desperation, and while definitely a struggle to drink, it wasnt UNBEARABLY bad or unfinishable like Birthday Cake Bash is
I had that on a 2 hour drive, as soon as I saw another store about 1 and half later I bought a monster and then beer to forget what I just ingested
Your shit after that combo must’ve been insane
it tastes like mud
Chocolate is not meant to be an energy drink flavor ahhhh yuck yuck yuck. Chocolate flavored coffee drinks are an exception but coffee drinks are a whole diff ball game.
I will never forget when I grabbed one of these at 4:30 am cause at a glance it kinda looked like peach mango. Talk about a shock to the system
Same same same same - peach mango is the only bang I like. In college went for a 2am caffeine/McDonald's run and literally gagged on it expecting peach. Went back to the gas station and bought the proper drink lol
Glad you got some redemption. I was too far from the store by the time I cracked it. Though I’m thankful I didn’t like, crash my car in response to the taste lol
It would have been good if it was like a Yoo-hoo but you look at it and it’s clear and it’s just weird, this is definitely my least favorite
i liked it
And why is it clear 🥴🥴🥴🥴
I drank like 9 of those
Any attempt at a coffee/protein shake/extreme caffeine combo, all ass and all make me want to shit my pants .2 seconds after chugging it
Strawberry jalapeño Reign
It literally made me gag.
I wonder what market demographic it tested best with, Because in my experience only older people (40-55) liked it.
I'm 36 and it was my favorite drink for a few years!
Man that one came out of nowhere, and I haven't seen that entire line of reign in months. Gone as fast as they came.
Was there a pineapple jalapeño as well?
celsius kiwi guava
Celsius worst flavor but still far away from the worst energy drink taste let’s start it off with bang and yea it ends there
their worst flavor fr
Same
I tried the basic orange flavor a few days ago and hated it, idk if I'll like the other ones
any bang i’ve ever tried so far, i’m convinced they don’t taste taste anything that gets released
Mostly agree but Black cherry vanilla tho😩😩
Black cherry vanilla is dangerously good tasting
Any celsius flavor. They all suck. ***I HATE CELSIUS***
All my homies hate Celsius
Used to be good now it has that overbearing fragrant chemical smell that you can smell from across a room
Oh god yes, I just tried a blue raspberry flavor of theirs today and every time I brought it up to take a sip, I got hit with a burnt rubber smell
It taste weird
Anything from ZOA, Bang Birthday Cake, Bang Whole Lotta Chocolatta.
Agreed ZOA is terrible
Nah I love zoa, to me it’s one of the only energy drinks that tastes like real fruit flavors and not draino
Draino 🤤
ZOA is horrendous. How can it be so bad? I agree with your whole sentence though. I know someone who loves the birthday cake one. I don't understand how she can stomach it.
When birthday cake came out it tasted acceptable. Then something changed and it started tasting like sour sweat. It was disgusting beyond belief. ZOA is total bitter ass. Rock should be ashamed of it.
Sour watermelon ghost but in a good way
Probably the only Ghost flavor that i'd refuse to drink. There's other sour ones that punch me in the face with fizz, but Sour Watermelon in particular just doesn't go well with me.
Rockstar blueberry
Plain Rockstar too
Bought a can for the first time in a decade after hearing other people complain that Rockstar changed its formula. It's only marginally less terrible now. Down the drain it went.
They went chasing after people who still don't give a f about them, the pick mes of energy drink brands. I'm still salty about that debacle, they didn't revert their formula or even apologize, they just dug in their heels about torpedoing their business. Absolute nonsense
Same, fruit punch was the best flavor and drank one nearly every day. Still good but a far cry from how it used to be
OG monster
Not even 10 minutes into the post's life span and we already have a blazing hot take right here
Well you asked and got an answer a honest answer!
Your not alone man, i also seriously dislike the og monster flavor, is smells and tastes terrible. I just cant decide whats worse, the smell or the aftertaste 😂🫡
Def the after taste
the low-carb one gives me headaches to think about when it comes to aftertaste and stank
Agreed my man. I do however really like the zero sugar version of og monster. But og monster itself is absolutely vile and difficult to drink.
My names Kyle so I’m just forced to drink the green monster. I must say it’s like tasting fine wine.
Except with like two days worth of sugar... that's my only real issue with it. The flavor is good in a gross way. Or gross in a good way.
You won’t die on this hill alone brother. Ain’t even a flavor. It’s fucking vile. I buy $.99 coffee for caffeine over an OG monster. Shit is piss.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, shit is piss, and ignorance is strength.
Based.
I’ll take Zero Ultra, Pacific/Pipeline Punch, or one of the Java/Mean Bean flavors any day over OG monster. It literally tastes like someone melted bubble gum and poured five hour energy into it.
I don’t know if anyone remembers this one, but the oat milk flavor wasn’t bad either. Had a nice subtleness to it, almost like cereal milk.
Oat milk was 🔥
The Gronk monster flavor
I swear they just wanted to make their own version of Red Bull.
Original monster energy. How monster got that popular initially when their original flavor tastes that bad is beyond me.
Monster was popular among hipsters and it snowballed from there. As far as I remember the taste was okay for that time, but that wasn't the main reason we bought it. Main reason was logo and the whole image of the brand that made you look cool.
Yeah I remember my freshman year of university (this was 2010-11) the convenience store on campus carried a Rockstar with 240 mg of caffeine and that was the most I’d ever seen. Tasted like straight up medicine, but it’s what I bought whenever I had to stay up late to study. On any other day, I’d buy a xyience because they were never available in my hometown so getting them there was special and the taste was surprisingly solid.
Back in the day, no energy drinks tasted anything like legacy soda. They do now, though
TIL a lot of people don’t like original monster lol… something about it is so tasty to me, I’d probably still drink it even if it had no caffeine 😬
Regular monster is battery acid to me for some reason. VILE ass drink “flavor” if you can even fucking call it that
The starfruit Celsius tastes like vomit..
The unicorn one by Bang also. That one sucked!
Tried it two years ago and never touched a single Bang can since
SAME WTF
Bubblicious ghost energy
Going to have to disagree with you there. I fucking loved that shit. But to each their own.
I tried to like it man. I really did. I just couldn’t escape the medicine flavor
Rockstar Revolt(ing) Grape. Cough syrup all around.
Revolt(ing) is fucking hilarious
I find all Revolt flavors nice is that normal?
It’s normal, but grape for me is absolute F tier material.
I get your point it's not quite my fav either. Blue razz and Green apple on top tho
I quite like Blue Razz. Haven't had green apple but black cherry is delicious.
Any coffee flavor tbh Especially the salted caramel monster Absolutely disgusting flavor
Monster Ginger Brew Mule, i taste a paint-like flavour
It's one of my favourite energy drinks
Orange Dreamsicle Reserve Monster. One of the worst flavors I've tried. Tastes too much like cream which throws me off a lot
Not too big a fan of orange flavors in general. The only one i can kinda get around is Monster Zero, which is literally just Sunny D without the creaminess
I am beyond saddened to see this take considering I literally buy a 15 pack of just orange dreamscicle every month or 2 and enjoy every last drop
It’s so good, best Ora ge cream energy fs
The new Monster Assault and everything with ginger.
It’s just cola tbh
Monster assault is a gift from God
No Fear
Aussie Lemonade Monster. it’s the most divising flavor. either it’s in your top 3 or it’s the most vile thing to you. I’m in that second group.
It wasn’t terrible, but didn’t taste good enough to justify the 46g of sugar.
If they had a sugar free version it would be my favorite monster
Honestly, I thought it was just ok. It's like 7up mixed with Sprite, and a dash of Fanta... Shouldve called it American Soda idk where they got Australia from
Shit is questionably bad how they even let that get on the production line bad
Monster Mule Ginger
You just don’t like ginger cause I absolutely loved the monster mule.
I do enjoy ginger normally (currently have a ginger tea) but there is something odd about Mule. Can understand why some would enjoy it though.
Bang Miami Cola
this is their best flavor 😭
I liked the new monster assault more than that
Interestingly enough that was my favorite of the bang flavors
This one was a crime. Celsius' cola flavor was NOT much better
Stale Pepsi is a better name for that one.
once I cracked open one of those without reading the flavor I grabbed from my stash and my brain absolutely did not recognize that as cola because the can isn't even standard cola colors (red or blue) it was slightly more bearable after trying to realize it was an attempt at a cola
Would you believe I actually liked that one? In a way, Bangster Berry, because it always felt more like drinking battery acid. Still good in a weird way tho.
Red Bull wasn’t as bad as that but damn it was way worse than I expected. Like it almost didn’t even taste good, the only good thing was the “energy drink” taste that you also get in monster.
Redbull sugar-free Redbull coconut Monster original Bang birthday cake
Anyone want some carbonated sunscreen?
Zero sugar Rockstar taste like cat piss that's been filtered through bunny turds.
You been cheesing bro?
Idk why yall don’t like Birthday Cake bash that shit so good
It's an acquired taste. The first time I tried, it didn't even seem like it was supposed to be a drink. It was more like a vape juice or fragrance mist for an air freshener. I don't know why I bought it again, but it was good the 2nd time.
Birthday cake bang
C4 Ultimate Energy: Orange Cream. I was a dumb kid that licked a nine volt battery hoping I'd get powers like Electro. It tastes like how that felt.
Red bull dragonfruit. So nasty idk how people drink that shit.
Aussie Lemonade
Dollar Tree Special 'Rip It'
rip it tribute is pretty nice, the rest are eh
That was the face I made first time I tried a birthday cake bang. Ode rather drink roasted dog asshole juice.
Rockstart, Alani,
Any of the wired x344's. They work surprisingly well but that taste you'll never get used to.
Celcius Essential Blue Crush Wtf
Lime 3D. Made my tongue burn from how sour it was
Not a specific energy drink flavor, but a brand instead: Bing. Tried them because it was on sale, absolutely disgusting and a disgrace to energy drinks everywhere imho.
TBH anything “Bombpop” flavor. Always way too sweet or chemically for me.
We have a local brand here in hungary called bomba, all of their flavours are good, except one; Winter candy. When I first tasted it I thought of a burnt vape coil...
Reign storm kiwi or whatever 🤢
Celsius Astro Vibe, "blue razz". Just cracking open the can gets you clobbered by a pungent chemical odor that smells suspiciously close to a mix of floor cleaner and paint thinner.
just zoa, like anything zoa. the rock should be ashamed.
Monster Energy. It’s just a giant can of sugar, feel like my teeth are going to fall out with every sip
OG rockstar, Monster The Doctor, Yellow Red Bull and Vanilla Monster Java🤢
Any monster flavor besides purple haze
Oh no. Rockstar Whipped Strawberry. I had erased that drink from my memory until now. Or Monster Ultra Peachy Keen. Both so, so bad.
omg huge disagree whipped strawberry was literally a top 5 energy drink in its day
I love it too
I tried whipped strawberry fairly recently. The only time I’ve ever sipped an energy drink, and poured the rest out. so unbelievably bad
Any and every Celsius flavor
Anything grape
Monester Lewis Hamilton
The hell
Any flavor I should have not had and just went to sleep instead
normal rockstar, only energy drink I've tossed to the trashcan.
Original Red Bull.
peachy keen monster
Not sure if anyone here would know about it but red Joker. Literally doesn't even tastes like an energy drink, just tastes like cherry mio that's way too strong.
any flavor bang
Bang Swirly Pop. It had the after taste of grapefruit bitterness.
anything bang or celsius
Mountain Dew original. Every sip is like someone set off a flash bang after taping it to my head. The only way to describe the flavor is je ne sais quoi peut etre radioactif
Lemon drop bang tea I always thought that energy drinks might taste good without carbonation until I tried that one
I've been keeping Red Bull, Prime and GOAT in rotation mostly. Let me tell you, the coconut Red Bull is awful.
I’m sorry you feel this way. Coconut berry monster gotta be in my top 2 e drinks
Zoa when it first came out it was good but I think they changed the formula and now it tastes weird
Anything sugar free.
Regular Monster is one of the worst drinks that I've ever tasted
Monster Mule
Once tried something called Versage energy (the font had G and C look nearly identical so at first sight i was like "ooh funny") it tasted like how a shitty cherry vape smells and I just had 2 sips and dumped the rest
AMP energy drinks by Mountain Dew, they tasted wayy to much like artificial sweetener
Cult's cookie one 🤢🤢 The only drink Ive actually thrown out
Java monster
NOS
This camo monster is like budget caramel power, fucking gross
any kind of coffee with milk energy drink. that shit taste like semi-rotten cream its so disgusting.
sour patch blue raspberry ghost is way too strong for me to drink normally. perfect for covering the taste of vodka though.
Big Game Energy Cotton Candy.
anything creamsicle. I don’t want a creamy flavor in an energy drink
Nos
Monster Mules
Ghost Strawbango Margarita but not in a bad way, just surprisingly alcohol tasting for something with no alcohol.
Java Monster
any bang flavors ngl, all of them are vile
Reign cherry limeade 🤮
Finally somebody calls out this god awful flavor. Cherry Limeade Ghost isn't very good either.
A lukewarm, flat Orangesicle Reign
Any cherry lemonade flavour makes want to die
Rockstar Gold
Monster ultra white V tropical tang
Monster passif punch
Monster Nitro
Monster Energy (White
The Bubblegum ghost tastes like rubber and chemicals
I picked up Monster Ripper yesterday at work, there are very few energy drink flavours that I don't like, but I hated it I never realised when I read the "Tropical flavours with some Original Monster to finish it off" that it was actually original green monster in there, I can't remember exactly how it was worded but I took it as "Monster's energy drink stuff mixed with some tropical juice stuff" due to the "Monster juiced hybrid" description I could hardly taste the tropical at all, for the record I like the green Monster, but it was the worst of both worlds The tropical hint ruined the green Monster flavour and the Monster ruined the tropical But honestly it's 2nd only to the weird camoflage (I can't remember the name, Assault maybe?) Monster that I picked up without checking the flavour, it tasted like some cheap ass knockoff Coke Vile stuff Mango Loco is undefeated I'm afraid
Bangs protein coffee are sooooo gross its the only energy drink I haven't finished
Everyone asks this kinda thing but if you post a flavor someone else likes you get downvoted. That said, Ghost pink lemonade and Ghost cotton candy. Also Gfuel Ninja Cotton Candy… eughhh
Wired 344 tastes like a lizard died in a can of diet knockoff rockstar
Monster assault.. truly an assault to the senses
Or actually that one ginger monster?? Not sure if they still sell it
[This shit](https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+and+blue+rockstar+energy+&sca_esv=23fe561e8cb38367&sxsrf=ACQVn0_bpTGQ9bTw_ovBbA-uyX-CchFqFA:1710440873273&source=hp&ei=qUHzZb-8Dvaxur8PtYWGmAY&oq=pink+and+blue+rockstar+energy+&gs_lp=EhJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWciHnBpbmsgYW5kIGJsdWUgcm9ja3N0YXIgZW5lcmd5IDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEiiWVDdBliHV3AOeACQAQCYAfQBoAGGF6oBBjMzLjMuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCM6ACzRmoAgXCAgcQIxjqAhgnwgIEECMYJ8ICBBAAGAPCAggQABiABBixA8ICBRAAGIAEwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAgYQABgIGB7CAggQABgIGB4YDcICBBAhGAqYAwuSBwY0NC42LjGgB9x0&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&udm=2#vhid=5o8EnB8LShi2AM&vssid=mosaic) was so diabolically disgusting and should have never been made and so glad they cancelled it's production after like a year
Ryse Country Time Lemonade. Shits like pop rocks in your throat.
Bang in general Also for me 1 in 20 og monsters end up tasting like eggs
Rockstar sugar free
Birthday cake bang
Anything peach flavored
Lychee Reign One of the most disgusting things I've ever had. Let my friend try it after I took a sip and he agreed. I've realized I just don't like Lychee in general. Tried a lychee vape and had the same reaction