 Ladies and gentlemen, Salah, Mike, Abby, Lou, welcome to Raw Reviews. The raw stew, baby, baby, baby, I like it raw. I like that. That was good, huh? Yeah. We'll keep that up for any of these series we do. We did protein bars and it was terrible, but now we're doing energy drinks, which are the only two supplements I really use. I take creatinine monohydrate on the side, but these are the two fitness things I enjoy. And now we're going to give you a real, like it raw, energy drink, raw view, I won. So most of these are calorie free. A couple of them, we can find the calorie free or on the list, we're with calories. So we'll take that into account, but mostly we can't really give you a review on the energy, right? Because it's not going to hit us in time. We're just going to sip. So right now we're purely going to go on taste. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like these tier videos, be sure to subscribe. Leave below. What's your favorite energy drink of all time is be sure to follow Abby Lu on Instagram and we're going to dive in. We're also rigging them on the scale of trash, okay, solid, amazing and God too. I'll start with Jocco. It says zero crash. What is it? No sugar. No real, real energy, zero crash, 10 calorie, one carb. Yeah. Are we just going to sip it? Nice carbonation pop. That matters. We got orange on this guy, a little dole, not as carbonated as the pop. But not bad. There's a weird aftertaste. It's a little dole, right? It's kind of a flat like it is. It tastes like and it probably is, you ever bite, maybe I'm just a weird kid. You ever bite an orange peel? Yeah. It kind of tastes like that. Well, it's very bitter. Yeah. Kind of like that. But like not bitter, but kind of like this is very like that. Do you ever see Jar Jar Binks when he gets tongue electrocuted? No. When his tongue gets electrocuted, flopped out, he can't control it no more. That's what it feels like. It's very flat. The sugar, what is it? The sweetener? Yeah. Very like artificial sweetener taste. But not, some of those taste crazy sweet and this doesn't. Yeah. So like, I guess if you don't like a sweet drink, this might be it. Almost like in a tea range, right? It kind of has a tea. Because it's not super carbonated, which I don't really love super carbonated drinks. I'm the opposite. I love carbonated drinks. So it's not very carbonated and it's not very like super flavorful or like artificial flavor screaming. So solid for me, and there is a solid rating there. I don't know what you would put it, but I'd probably put it solid. I'd like a little bit sweeter. I'd like a little bit more carbonated. I'd like a little bit more caffeine, but I might sip on this and do some like creative work or some admin work. What do you think? I think it's solid. Yeah. Solid. Well then. I'm keeping it. Yeah, you can have it. I'll take it with me. So now we're trying the Rain Storm Clean Energy Peach Nectarine. Sounds good. I guess we'll dive into a couple of ingredients just because, right? It reminds me of Vellani. Three carbs. Yeah, the bottle is a little bit more natural looking, although their logo is very 1990s WWE. No high fructose corn syrup. No artificial flavors, it says. DHD formulated. I'm trying to look at caffeine on this, for sure. Damn. That's pretty good. I'd say 200 now is like the new standard, right? If a big ol' cup of coffee is a buck 40, why are you having an energy drink? You know, like you need a little kicker. Ooh, papa! It smells very... That smells... Dude! Oh, wow. That low key hits. So I got a big pet peeve. I love fruit. I really like fruit. Me too. I love fruit. I hate that each fruit has a counterpart of fake fruit flavor. Yeah. And they're nothing the same. Energy. That tastes like real peach. It doesn't really have that too much. No, I mean it says no artificial sweeteners, and now I do believe it. It's fairly bubbly, which I do like. The peach tastes real, 200 migs is really good. No weird beginning taste, no weird aftertaste. This thing kind of hits. It's kind of refreshing like that peach flavor. Yeah, there is an insane amount of ingredients that always worries me a little bit, but it looks like normal shit. Green tea extract, rana, whichever one talks shit on, but who cares. Yeah, a little bit of color stuff, biotin, sodium citrate, all kind of normal stuff. There is just a lot of it, but that low key is good. You taking that for your workout? Maybe. That tastes like real peach. Yeah. That's really good. I like that flavor. That's really good. I might throw that at the top. What's our tears? Oh yeah. I thought I liked this. I might go God tier. I don't know if we have this. No, these two are new that we added to the list because they're new in stores. I'll put it on God tier too. That one tastes really good. Yes. We're going to old... Oh, this is a cola. I didn't mean to do that. We're going with old faithful Celsius. Celsius has been in the game a long, long time. I used to drink their original flavor. They only had one flavor, and it was like an orange or a citrus. I didn't mean to grab a cola, so here we go. I recently had another Celsius. I don't know what flavor, and I was highly disappointed. But back in the day, I swear it was delicious. Cola energy drinks a little weird. I didn't know it was around for that long. Yeah. Well, pretty long time. Because you're old and you've had it. I am old, and it was around during the Red Bull Monster Era, and I would say this was the first one that kind of marketed to health. Or flavors. Terrible. Now, see the issue when you go into the cola world is you're like making yourself fight Pepsi and Coke, which are two of the greatest things ever created in America. Yeah. So, like, why would you throw your hat in the ring? You know what I mean? Like, that's a mistake to even try cola. They tried. If you take coke and Pepsi out of it, that's an okay cola, sure. But it tastes like... What's the shit you got for a quarter of an RC? I think it's like the healthy version. It is. EG with EGCG, ginger and corn. EGGG. I don't know what it is, but... EGG is a chemical in green tea, I think. At first it does like... Oh, it tastes like... Good. It's definitely not bad. But then it starts to get into that, like, medicinal flavor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a robotussin deal. Yeah. I was like, oh, that's what hit me. Robotussin. I know you got me feelin' right here on your way. Can you do that blue screen where it has all the colors? That was C-Breezy? I have no idea what you're talking about. In the flesh. You don't know who C-Breezy is? No, I know, but, like, that wasn't it. You know that song. All right. We need to cleanse our palate. That cola... Oh, you didn't rank it. So Celsius? Oh. Have you had it? I have had it. And? I like it. Uh, better than that? I think it's solid. I would say it's solid. Yeah, okay. High-end, okay, low-key solid. So let's get our sugar out the way. You've probably never had a NOS. I haven't. I've had some old-school shit. I used to really like the low-cal DOS, but, again, I'm talking like 2009 when I don't know, you know, my palate's all kinds of fucked up. I was just discovering black coffee. This got 500, or sorry, 50 grams of carbs. This is like the most typical caffeine-garana B12, make-you-piss fucking lightening yellow type of energy drink, which sometimes I feel like it's a good cleanse. Right. Sometimes your body needs to, you need to know what your organs are working with. If you throw this in there and they can work, you know, sometimes you gotta rev the engine. That's how you rev your engine? Yeah, sometimes. A little fucking fuel injector clean. I've seen this when I was a kid. Oh, it's like a lime-green color, but I was a kid, so I couldn't take it. Gotta get it. I can feel it go all the way down, not bad, right? Stop. You don't feel your kidneys just, it's good, no, it's good. Man, he does not need any more energy. No, that's good. Well, it's full calories. Yep. That's not good. 210. That's gonna get me fat. It doesn't taste bad. What flavor is this? No, see, that's the beauty. Yep. That's the beauty of 1990s, early 2000s energy drinks. Yeah. Monster. Red Bull. Nause. Spike original is the flavor. What flavor? Original. Exactly. It tastes like fuel injector. Spike. Damn, Spike. We already know where that one sits. Breast and cheese. Top of God tier. Breast and cheese. Top of God tier. Time. Spike. Sponsor us. RIP. Top God tier. Wow. They're not dead. They're alive. But they're just hard to find. This is pretty amazing, I would say. The Nause? You think it's amazing? Dang. I think it's good too. I do. I'll put that on amazing. I'm down. We'll go back to, what's the flavor on this? I don't know. It's Red Bull. Yeah, that's what I would equate this to. Yeah. I'm like, what flavor is Red Bull? I don't know, but I like it. I like it. I like it. Fuel injector and battery acid mix. There's not a single natural thing about that. I love it. And I love it. The only negative on my boys at Red Bull, the original formula we got here. I even love like they haven't really changed the can in 30 years. I like it though. They're logos, iconic. They haven't had to rebrand. Tastes yummy. You know what you're getting. The only knock. Not that much caffeine. Yeah. And I feel like it's not that hard to change. I think there's God tier. I love this one. God tier. I love it. I'll throw it in there for the, for the nostalgia, the iconicness and the, in the, in the longevity of the game. Is the actual flavor or caffeine God tier to me? Probably not. But it is old fucking faithful and it's never let me down. I love it. Slamming. Sure. There's a 16 oz. Slamming one of those on the Saturday after or the Wednesday after Call of Duty came out. Holy fucking cow. You know, we're living. I don't know it to that degree, but. Oh, we go way back. I'll buddy. I'll buddy. Okay. So we also got a new Red Bull on here. 41 grams of sugar. This is our only other sugared boy. And this is the Red Bull blueberry blue edition. There's a red edition, a silver edition. I guess it's their, their fruit things. But this one's really supposed to vitalize the body and mind. Yeah. The logo is still iconic. It is what it says. I don't really know what makes this different other than the can and flavor. I've never drank this before because when I want a Red Bull, I want a Red Bull like this. I just now that they're sugar freeze the new norm. That's all I drink. I assume similar caffeine. What are these? Like 100, 140, 114 milligrams. So very low. Yeah. Not it. It's like, it's fruity. But it's fake. It's blueberry. Is it fake? That's not, you take a handful of fresh blueberries, which I did. I took a handful of fresh blueberries straight to the dome. Just walking by the fridge. Yeah. And it tastes nothing like that. It doesn't taste like that. It doesn't even have that like typical blueberry artificial flavor. No, it's got its own. It has its own, which I still like that. No, it's not bad. I like the flavor. I'll throw it in a solid. If you're, you know, you're on a little road trip. You got a little video game session with the boys and gals. You guys are trying to make it to masters and fucking apex. And you know, you got a grind ahead of you. You can snag one of those and sip on it. Another old faithful, which I've actually changed my opinion on multiple times. One, I don't really like this Viva LaBam fucking art going on. You know Viva LaBam? No, but I know it. Viva LaBam is like a jackass type character at a show on MTV. And for some reason he was really into like gothic French fucking art, you know? I don't like it either. Yeah. The arts kind of get me. What I did enjoy about when this first came out 20 years ago is that it had texture on the can. I thought that was a nice detail on the art direction. And obviously this was one of the very first, not very first, but early adapters to the low sugar deal. It's got six grams of sugar. I think the caffeine's low too. I think it's a buck 40. Yeah. Yeah, 140. This is a popular one. This is like the most popular. Right. We drank this in this exact corner podcasting in 2011 making jokes about how small my white monster is, you know? A lot of people used to compare that to a squirt or maybe a sprite type flavor. I actually think it's too flavorful now. Yes. It's not as good as you think. It's so sweet. And it's just not that good. I've never loved it. Yeah. And what flavor is that? It's not. I do enjoy that again. Right? What flavor? I don't know. I've always enjoyed that too. At least the white can. You know, kind of for babies. Because of that though, it's also too sweet. It is too sweet to be like what flavor is. And another one for me, which you may enjoy, but I don't. It doesn't have enough bubbies. It's too flat. Like too syrupy. I think that almost adds to the sweetness. Yeah. Because it coats your mouth. I think if it had more bubbles, it'd actually fix it. That's why like sprite is so good. Sprites bubbly as shit. Yeah. I don't know why this is so, it's so sweet, but it's also zero sugar. All right. What are our rankings? I'll probably say average. You know, that's like your average. Okay. I'd say okay. I would say okay to you. Yeah. That's like your normal ass fucking. Monster energy. I would choose any of these maybe over this. I probably would too at this point. We'll go with the Elani. Elani's been out for a couple of years now. Multiple, multiple flavors. Again, the branding is a little bit more feminine perhaps. A little bit more homie, a little bit more healthy. A little bit more fun. Yeah. Where the typical energy drinks like this hardcore vibe for whatever reason. Yeah. And I just really like the look of the juicy peel or the juicy peach. Excuse me. It says peel. I don't know why. Like a sticker? Yeah, but it's not. It's supposed to be like a, yeah, but it's the cuteness of it. It is cute. I think it says vegan and all that nonsense. Three grams of carbs. Seed through. So now like weird flavoring. I think caffeine is fairly low on this guy too. Is there a reason why you pop it open and then twist the thing to the right? That's pretty good. I don't know. We had another peach, right? Oh, the rain. I, there's a peach soda back in the day that's slapped. I forgot what it is, but these peaches are going pretty good. So my dad had a friend. Wait, this is, this is more peach flavor, like natural peach flavor than this one. Say it again, say it again. This one? I think they're both pretty peachy actually. They are both peachy. But like good peachy, not bad peachy. Like when I bite into a peach, I taste more of this. Go, go, go. I think they're pretty neck and neck for me. You still? They're about the same to me. They don't taste the same, but they're both like naturally peachy. They're not like super artificial peachy. C4. Kind of a new to the game, right? C4 energy pre-workout has been a thing for a very long time. Used to be the go-to for the Jim Brass. Zero carb, carnation, beta power. This does make you a little itchy, which I don't mind. Beta alanine does have a little bit of endurance benefits for lifters and for the Jim. I went with the pink sharp burst. I think it's amazing how far some of these companies have come that they're doing collaborations with like big candies. I think it's cool. And they hit that flavoring right, right? Because they probably get some kind of recipe from them. So you kind of know what you're getting and it's pretty accurate because it's a legitimate. Oh, you can smell it. Peach does. It smells like you opened up some fucking starburst. Starburst is pretty good. I'm gonna start with a minute. Starburst is pretty underrated. What's your favorite starburst flavor? Maybe the red guy. Mine's red. Pink's pretty good, but probably the red guy. Actually, that's not as good as I remember. It has this, um, Otterpop taste. That? Yeah, kind of that syrup. I feel like Otterpops are kind of syrupy like that. The beta alanine stuff does feel good. I used to drink these a little bit. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. I would say it's solid on the list. It's a little bit better than okay in terms of taste, I think, you know? But for me, on the list, it's solid. What do you think? Bottom solid. Bottom solid, I'm down. It's better than the monster. Now caffeine drinks have gotten so complicated. I feel like each company has like 20 flavors. So you may enjoy a company, but only like one flavor. We're back in the day. If you like monster, you like monster. But now it's so intricate, which is cool. Moving on to one of my OG favorites. Rockstar? The Rockstar Pure Zero. Okay. I've never had Rockstar. So I like original Rockstar. It's more of this battery acid taste, which is delicious. It's got a golden white can, and that's very unflavorful, but very battery acid, which I love. It's like ombre. This one is a little bit newer, maybe in the last 10 years. It was one of the first boys to come hard. 240 megs of caffeine. And this flavor in particular is a little Jamba juice dancing on your fucking tongue. I also think Rockstar is a little bubblier, which is something I enjoy. That's C4's flatter than I remember. And again, just for me, and I understand some people are different, where they like pre-workout because they make it all dense and it doesn't feel their tummy. I drink like half of my pre-workout, or sorry, half an energy drink. Then I warm up and I sip the restaurant workout kind of, so it doesn't fill me up. But I do understand why people don't like 12 ounces of shit. Pre-workout. Yeah. I'm small. Which I get it. It's got a little bit of color in there. Probably artificial shit going on. But we got tangerine mango guava strawberry. Have you had it? Yeah. I used to drink this every day. I've never seen this. It looks cool. It's good. I've never, you don't see Rockstar around that much. Gas station. It's definitely fake fruit. What the heck? Sorry. What? That bad? I'm so confused. There's a lot. There was so much going on. There's eight, there's eight fruits just in the title. Tangerine mango guava strawberry. Yeah. I like that. That's a lot. Yeah. And what does it taste like? None of those. Just tastes like fake fruit. It tastes like someone threw fruit at me. Yeah. Just tastes like face fruit. You ever, speaking of starburst or something, you ever grab or like skittles and you just grab and go, it tastes like that. It does. No. It's like. Right? Yeah. Yeah. It tastes like one of these boys? Yes. It tastes like that? It does because you're like, what flavor is that? I don't know. All of them. All fake fruits? All of them at once. But it's not bad. You think it's bad? Try it. I bet you'll like it. Sebastian. I think you'll like it. We need a third person. So confusing. I'm about to go to bed, dude. I'm dead. Am I dying? Oh, shit. It's not the guava science one. Very similar. Yeah. Science is a low key hitter. Yeah. The silver pure zero is like, again, another very fake, squirt, sprite taste. So this one's very much by flavor for me. Like I was talking about. That's kind of why I brought that up. This guava one I'm putting in the solid or amazing, but the other flavors I would put in okay. Like that silver one I think is okay. It tastes like this. I'm not drinking that. That silver one tastes just like this. Okay. I don't. With more caffeine. So now we're moving on to rain, which I feel like it's a crowd favorite. But I've never, it never really caught my attention. I purchased them. I've tried every flavor. And they never really screamed at me. I will say the rainbow sherbet is my favorite rain. Really? I don't know if I've had this one. That's why I grabbed it. So three car. I think we're up at the 200, 300 mugs of caffeine because this is kind of a meathead deal. B vitamins. Brands changed. Electricity. Increased concentration, but 300 mugs. So this one is kicking. That's crazy sweet. That just punched me in the mouth. You know what that tastes like? It is too sweet. Not as sweet in the way that the white monster. No, but it's starting to hit there. But it's, yeah, it's close. No, it just compared to other rain flavors. It tastes like fucking Flintstones gummies. They put way too much vitamin B and shit in there. Yeah. It's very artificial too. Very. It's like when you compare it to some of these other ones. Like you really taste a difference between like the baked sugars. Yeah. And then the whatever. This might hurt some folks, but I'm putting that in the okay. I think it's okay. You all got to drink these other ones. And when you're drinking it next to each other, everything is like, it stands out. Yeah, you can tell for sure. You can tell, but you're drinking it. What they need to do is have a spike and spike sponsors because I still, and obviously it's easy to say because it's in memory and not in physical, but I think spikes the best. I think I like the flavor. Taste, energy, everything. Yeah. Energy-wise it was a spike. Do you guys remember when I started drinking them here? Yeah. And I'm like, you guys got me hooked and I'm like cracked out. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah. You're welcome for your success. It's very nostalgic. No. Well, then you took it away from me. Because everyone was buying them because people don't understand. Every person I had try mine or try one loved it. So maybe we'd have to like sample it like we're Costco to get people to buy them. Yeah. Which we could do. But we're not sponsored so we're not. But what do you want to sponsor me? Ghost Energy. I feel like is the newest cat on the block. They have a lot of collaborations with people. So they started in the supplement game. So they made these business connects. They're already doing successful. And then they made the energy drink. And now I feel like, right? They're the newest company out of these. Maybe Jocko. He might be, but they're in the same category newer. This is very commercial, very big brand. Probably find a Costco type ship now. Like they're crushing it. Shout out to them and Ryan who I've known for a long time. Very colorful cans. Branding's good. It's fun, but not fun. It's serious, but not serious. This one's a warhead collab, which isn't my favorite. I don't know what my favorite is. Oh, Cherry Limeade. Cherry Limeade is really good. Cherry Limeade Ghost. Absolute. Probably would be the God tier. God tier. Again, they have so many flavors though. So shout out to them for making the effort. There is probably a flavor you're going to like. I think another 250, 400 mix or 300 mix. Oh, 200. That's a little low. Carnitine Alpha GPC, which is one of my favorites. It's got 150 mix versus one of these guys only had 100. Neuro factor. I think it's made up. And so here we go. That's surprising. I would say it's cool that each of their flavors are different too. They don't all taste the same. Very different. Some brands will do that. They kind of all have the same flavor. Yeah, you could blind taste test every monster in Red Bull and probably know it's a monster in Red Bull. Even though you might like it, they do kind of taste alike. I'm not a warhead guy. I'm not a huge sour guy, but they do nail the taste. Whether you like it or not, they nail it. They do. Yeah. That's sour apple, candy, 1 billion percent. Yeah. Blind taste test, you could taste all the flavors. Yeah. It's also like creamsicle, orange creamsicle. Yeah. Unique and they nail their flavors. Again, whether you like them or not, that's up to you, but they do nail what they say they are. Yeah. Probably even better than the C4. I agree. In terms of nailing the flavor to general taste, they are a little bubblier, which I like. Mm-hmm. For me, ghost right now in the game is the best energy drink. I thought that ghost was too sweet, but drinking some of these, I realized it's not as sweet as I thought it was. Some of them are even worse. Yeah. Some are rain. I don't know what y'all are drinking or thinking, but I don't think rain's it. All right. We're putting ghost. Oh. Let's just do ghost because we know the other flavors. I'm going to put it in God's here as of right now. Ghost is God's here? I think so. What do you think? In my head? How about cherry-lemonade? Yeah. I'm putting it up there. Right. Where are you putting ghost? Well, we should go out here if it's cherry-lemonade. I did, but where were you putting it? It was cherry-lemonade. I'm putting it up here. Okay, how about this guy? It's not bad. I think it's solid. Solid. Yeah, this is probably my least favorite flavor. That's the thing. And it's still solid. Yeah. That's the thing with like, it depends on the flavor. Yeah. Because they do. They're so different, right? Yeah. You take a creamsicle versus this versus cherry-lemonade. Cherry-lemonade, a cold cherry-lemonade on a hot day. Oh, I'm excited. Slap or ruskies. Really good. We got to keep getting that one. Yeah, we will. Ladies and gentlemen, let me know if you enjoy this type of content. The cheer list for the meatheads, the raw reviews with Abbey Lou. Abbey.lou on Instagram. I'm stylingmike3sb.co for all your clothing needs. Every day we're dropping new content. So three big videos a week, a couple tier lists, a couple vlogs, a couple shorts. Be sure to turn on notifications and subscribe. 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