Hey everybody, Caffeine Man here, and today we're gonna be going over the
Monster Hydro energy drinks. Or energy water. Or energy sports drink.
Or non-carbonated energy drink? Well, whatever you call it, I'm going over it.
I have four are the six flavors that they carry and I'll be starting the review
right after this super, super, SUPER short intro. I mean who wants to watch a long intro?
INTRO: C *THUD* M *THUD*
*Lightning Strike*
Hey again everyone, thanks for joining me today! Today, we're gonna be
going over the Monster water. I call it Monster water because most people know
Monster is an energy drink, and it's water, thus the name Hydro...plus, a bunch
of other stuff added to the water. When I first found these drinks I was very
excited. When I first started drinking energy drinks, it was Jolt Cola and
Red Bull. They were the only two on the market. Eventually, Monster came on to
the market and it did make a dent in the competition, but it was very sweet.
When I start looking into the sugar content of these bad boys, they have 54
grams of sugar! And that's a lot of sugar! Besides that though, my biggest annoyance
with energy drinks was the carbonation. I mean they make you burpy.
I don't like burping!
So, I'm definitely happy whenever I can find a non-carbonated energy drink,
and I got to tell you, there's a lot on the market now. They've come a long way!
Plus, this is water. Flavored water, but still, its water! I mean I've tried Avitae
water. If you want to see my review on that, I'll include a card above.
I've also tried Hint water and a few other flavored waters out there that
added caffeine to them, and in most of those cases, they're water with a hint of flavor.
This stuff....
This stuff! Is full of flavor!
Now, the nutritional facts panel on this says it has 11 grams of sugar, which
isn't much for a Monster energy drink, but I know Monster! They're very, very,
very tricky! So what you gotta do is with all Monster drinks... and actually any
energy drink that you drink... when you look at the nutrition facts panel you
gotta take a look at the servings per container. They like to trick you.
Yeah, 3 servings per container. Listen, let's face it, these places try
and trick you all the time. If you have one container, one can, one bottle, that
should be one serving! I mean, that was an additional thing that made me happy about
Bang. They actually have one serving for the can. It's 300 milligrams in one
serving, but at least they let you know it's one serving, and all the numbers are
one serving, because I hate doing math! I gotta do 11 x 3 now and figure out that it's 33.
I don't like math!!!
You shouldn't have to do math when you're gonna eat something or drink something.
That being said this is 25.4 ounces so it is a considerable size, so to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'd say
yeah, you know what? Maybe there are two to three servings in this. You're not
gonna sit there and chug the whole thing. Or you shouldn't, but I'm guessing if
people think it's water and they're really thirsty, they might. In that case
they're gonna get 33 grams of sugar all at the same time, as well as
180 milligrams of caffeine. That's right! These have 188 milligrams of caffeine, which in my opinion,
is also the perfect number for the size of the container. Me, I've had this blue one before and what I
do is, I take this in the morning; start drinking it; bring it to work with
me; and I usually sip on it until about lunchtime. So it's something that will
last me at least three or four hours. Granted, I sometimes have tea or
something else in between, but I'm constantly drinking sips of this and, in
general, with most energy drinks, you really should be sipping them a mouthful
at a time because drinking them too fast can be bad for you.
Therefore, for an energy drink that hydrates you over the course of a day,
well, over the course of my morning. I'll choose the 33 grams of sugar all day long.
Monster Hydro was released in 2017 overseas and then they released it here in the
States in early 2018, mid 2018, depending on your location. They were slow to rise in popularity, for several
reasons. First, Monster has already flooded the market. I mean when you go to the
convenience store and you're in the Monster section, they got the entire fridge full
of Monster drinks and they've even been expanding out into the next fridge over.
So it's hard to find shelf space. Another reason, people are unsure how they feel
about energy water. I mean there's still a lot of people out there that don't
know what energy water is, or that they've even added caffeine to regular
water. I mean I've done my best to try and get the word out there that there's
caffeinated water, and all the different ways that you can try it. I mean there
are so many different ways you can use caffeinated water, if you want to find
out, I'll include a card above. But no matter what, people are still gonna be
hesitant. Even now, in early 2019 I still don't see these regularly in stores.
Knowing that I had this video scheduled two weeks ago, I started
looking in convenience stores. I looked in 12 different convenience
stores to find these drink and three different Walmart's and I've only been
able to find four out of the six flavors. I was starting to get so frustrated that I
started asking the people that worked there. So I'd ask the cashier, "Hey do you
have the Mean Green or the Manic Melon?"
And they look at me like, "What are yer talking about?"
Because half the people that work there, don't even know the products that they carry.
It's so hard to get good help nowadays.
And the ones that did know the products that they carried, they would say they didn't have enough shelf
space. That they're only able to carry two or three of those different flavors
because that's all they have room for. And apparently these four are newer than
the other two, so these are the ones that the stores are carrying. So when I get
into the review, you'll see that I'm missing the mean green and the manic
melon. What I do have is Tropic Thunder, Purple Passion, Blue Ice and Zero Sugar.
What? Zero Sugar?
Okay yeah, that's the name of it. Zero Sugar. Real original Monster. Gosh!
All right so let's get right into these. I'm gonna start off
with the blue one because I've had that one before, so I'm kind of cheating I
guess, because I already know what it tastes like, but you might not know what
it tastes like, so I'm gonna try it out and let you know, and I get my caffeine count
up as well. Let's try it out.
Yeah, this is very good. Not that I like to relate it
to other things, but relating it to other things is usually the easiest way to
describe what it is. This reminds me very much like the Gatorade and the Powerade
blue ones that they have. It's got somewhat of a berry flavor to it.
I think Powerade has Mountain Blast and I think Gatorade is Cool Blue. This is
the Monster version of those two blue flavors, except this has 188 milligrams
of caffeine and it's water. Some of you might be saying, "Well, what else is in it besides water?"
Well, let me take a quick look. This has purified water, sugar,
glucose, citric acid, taurine, potassium sorbate a preservative, sodium citrate,
caffeine, monopotassium phosphate, sodium benzoate a preservative, salt, natural flavors,
gum arabic, sucralose, niacinamide which is a vitamin b3, ester gum, pyridoxine hydrochloride which is vitamin b6.
Oh! And it's got blue number one. I can really taste the blue number one in this.
So, when we actually start reading all the ingredients, you'll say, "yeah that sounds
like it's a little bit more than just water." So yeah, they're advertising it as a water beverage and it's probably the
closest thing to water Monsters ever gonna get, but there are a lot of other things in here that do make it
much more of an energy drink than a water. These are actually really good. I mean the flavor
is good. It's a green option for a different energy drink.
Next up, we'll try the Purple Passion. My best guess this is gonna be grape. I'm such a brilliant man.
Yep, that's grape all right. I mean, I feel like Monster has now just copied
Gatorade and Powerade. This tastes just like the Gatorade or the Powerade
Purple's. So if you like the Gatorade purple and you want to get some
caffeine, go ahead and try the Purple Passion. I'm gonna have some more.
I'm usually not much of a grape person but I'm feeling grape today. Yeah, no pun intended
Next up is the Tropical Thunder. Any guesses? Orangey?
Oh! They're trying to surprise me a little bit. It's definitely got an orange
flavor to it, you're hit with that, but it does have a little bit of that tropical
feel to it. Not sure if it's a guava or a pineapple. Let me cheat and look at the
ingredients. It's just gonna say natural flavors.
Yeah it just says natural flavors. It's definitely orange so obviously the
orange color can be the giveaway that it's orange, but there is other tropical
in there which they say tropical passion, otherwise they would just name it orange
mandarin power stuff. Otherwise they would just name it orange and then insert buzz
word here, although they didn't give much of a buzz word to zero sugar.
Anyway, you got yourself an orange Monster sports drink here. I honestly feel like I'm doing a
review for caffeinated Gatorade. Monsters it's own company right? They're not made by Gatorade are they?
See? Now I have to look it up! I say things like that and then I have to look it up.
Because Caffeine Man, he provides information to people. I mean, they're their own company.
Coca-Cola owns 16%
and there you have it! I actually just looked it up while I'm doing this review and
Coca-Cola purchased Monster in 2015 for 2.15 billion dollars. This Monster Hydro came out in 2018,
already a Coca-Cola purchased company.
What else is Coca-Cola own?
You got it! They own Powerade! It's like they're taking over the world, my goodness.
So what you got right here is caffeinated Powerade. Mountain Blast. I mean, Blue Ice.
Alright let's move on to the Monster Hydro Zero Sugar. So original. You'd think with a multi-billion dollar company like
Powerade and Monster you'd come up with a better name than Zero Sugar... but I digress.
Yeah, I don't really like that one. It took a second but there's this
aftertaste of something that's just not right. I'm trying to relate it to any
other Powerade drinks that are clear, but I don't think they have any besides
like, a white cherry one? I know Gatorade had like an Arctic Blast
and this has kind of that Arctic flavor, whatever Arctic tastes like.
I'm finding it very hard to describe this one because there's no clear way of
defining it it. Clear! That's, yeah, no, no pun intended, again. I'm probably gonna
pause the video here so I can think more about what this tastes like.
Yeah, I really don't know what to say. I mean, the first thing that comes in my
head, which sounds horrible, is that it tastes a little bit like a
cleaning product or some kind of a chemically taste, but just very light
hint of it as an aftertaste. I don't want people to think I'm drinking cleaning fluid,
so I'm not gonna spend too much more time on it. I'm not a fan of the white
one. I'm not sure if you're gonna be a fan of the white one and even though
it's zero sugar, suck it up and drink the other ones for 33 grams of sugar.
I'm just kidding don't do that. Go have yourself an Avitae water or a hint
water, but don't buy the zero sugar. So there you have it! Those are the four flavors
that I was able to find for the Monster Hydro. 3 of them are very good, one of
them is very bad, and they all taste similar to Powerade
because, as I just found out during this video, they're owned by the same company.
Doesn't Coke own Rockstar?
Man, Caffeine Man slacking off. Apparently I thought Rockstar was owned by Coca-Cola but in 2009 Rockstar
signed a distribution agreement with Pepsi Cola, ending its deal with the Coca-Cola company.
So it looks like Coke, Monster and Powerade are all owned by the same
company, and Pepsi distributes Rockstar. There you go.
If you want to stay informed on all things caffeine related feel free to hit the subscribe button.
I post new videos every Tuesday night and I hope that you can join me. Until then
have a great day ....
or night.
I gotta get that nasty zero sugar out of my mouth.
What? It's not poor form. Is it poor form to be drinking Red Bull in a Monster video?
I don't care!
Next we'll try the Purple Passion. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
Just like my last comparison, not to sound
repetitive, because I tend to sound repetitive in my things. I'm going to change it up!
I'm not going to sound repetitive!