What is that?
Bomba!
Hi, I’m Josh.
I'm Ollie,
And today we're reviewing the world's best energy drinks.
The world's best energy drinks.
Well, I didn't want to say weirdest because it's always the world's weirdest.
The first one we're having, we're gonna have to go back in time to 1960.
The first drink ever produced specifically just to boost your energy,
Came from Japan, Lipovitan D and it was sold by Taisho pharmaceutical company it's still sold by them today.
That is a horrible colour!
It looks like an asparagus pee.
Oh wow!
It smells medicinal, okay.
Well, it's not carbonated.
It definitely makes it taste more medicinal.
But it also goes down pretty easy.
This is the original energy drink! That's kind of blown my mind.
I thought it would have been something to do with like Red Bull.
It's funny you say that, because the next big chapter in the energy drink saga is..
Thai Red Bull.
The original red bull which is Krating Daeng which I’m sure I’m pronouncing wrong.
It was invented in 1975 by a Thai businessman.
It was marketed at labourers.
Initially not popular, then this Austrian guy he went there he was like
it freaking cured my jet lag.
So he worked with the founder to set up another company called Red Bull,
they reformulated this for western markets.
Okay, also tastes very medicinal.
I feel like normal Red Bull is carbonated right?
Uh yeah,
So that's like basically just flat red bull.
But then I went on a bit of a rabbit hole.
The Thai's love the energy drinks!
They drink four times the amount of energy drinks per person than Americans.
Three gallons a year on average per person.
I thought gallons were like you put those in American cars.
Alright okay Caribou Dang and M-150.
Sounds like a freaking machine gun!
Caribou Dang, do you know what that literally means?
No.
Red water buffalo which in English doesn't have quite the same ring to it as red bull.
They're basically all just different levels of hydration, pee colour.
This I would say definitely need to pick up some electrolytes.
I think that's sugarier, more sugary.
Different tastes!
Are these stronger than the sort of energy drinks we get here?
Must be.
They feel stronger.
Wow, that's quite different!
I mean I don't like it.
Alright so we're staying in Asia, Sting.
There's actually a great advert, a lady breaks down and then he gets out a box which you think is a toolbox.
But it's actually a cooler, it's full of Sting, he then drinks some of the Sting, starts breakdancing,
becomes electrified, plugs in spark plugs onto his belly, and then he starts the ladies car.
Okay, so I’m getting like mountain dew code red vibes.
Wow okay, that's more to my western taste there's bubbles.
I do like the bubbles.
-Theres cherries, theres energy, -There's a lot of energy.
there's a lot of energy, I’m liking it.
That's like red Jolly Rancher melted down.
It is like red Jolly Rancher!
We're entering the west now and about 10 years ago there was a boom in energy drinks.
One of my favourite ones that I found.
What the heck is this?
BOMBA!!
It's shaped like a grenade.
With a flipping tab, okay where's this from?
I actually got these from Germany.
Okay Bomba classic, your classic urine colour, could use some more hydration
but he's not doing too bad for himself. That looks healthy.
My experience with energy drinks and flavours has generally been,
what's the point? I can barely taste the difference.
That smokes!
Like a flipping grenade!
-Oh, that was cool. -That is cool.
It's a pretty hefty bottle.
Are we trying all of these flavours?
Yeah man, how else are we gonna know which one is the best!
Holy moly, this is a dangerous video idea.
Bomba!
Okay, that's just sugary Red Bull right?
Do you want orange energy or do you want blue energy?
I like how they just call it energy without any pretence.
What happens if you mix orange energy and blue energy?
There’s only one way to find out mate!
Purple energy?
Boom!
Oh, that just becomes blue.
Oh dear, you have the orange one I’ll have the blue one and we can compare,
oh this is actually a mix but forget about that.
Not discernibly different!
and now,
What is that?!
This was banned in the U.S by the FDA.
It doesn't contain real cocaine and their website,
drinkcocaine.com.
No!
Is where you can buy this.
Warning: this message is for people who are too stupid to recognize the obvious this product
does not contain the drug cocaine.
This product is not intended to be an alternative to an illicit street drug
and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot!
Is that what he says?
That is literally what it says.
A little bit harsh!
As everyone knows when you name something it has no relation to what the product is.
I'm gonna be disappointed if this isn't white.
Wow, that's an intense colour!
-Here goes, are you ready? -Yeah.
Oh, dear... cocaine.
Okay, it tastes the least like an energy drink,
I would also say it tastes the least like a drink.
There's a marzipan taste to that.
That's it that's what it is!
-That I hate, I do not like that taste. -It tastes like liquid marzipan!
I knew it was something!
What I need right now is some positive energy, if only there was a positive energy drink.
Well, there is!
The Bob Ross positive energy drink.
No!
Who made that?
It’s literally called positive energy drink, that's hilarious.
-Alright Bob, give us some positive energy. -Its so blue.
It's not as strong a flavour.
You know what that tastes like to me, you know when you get those
like tubular bright fluorescent coloured ice lollies.
Like the bottom bit of it would melt and then you get like the juice at the bottom and when
you're a kid you like squeeze out all the melted ice lolly.
That's what that tastes like.
It tastes like childhood.
It's all downhill from here because...
Oh gosh, why?
Pewdiepie's G-Fuel,
This is the only one that we've got that you've got to mix up yourself.
Rumour has it, Josh, if you do this suddenly you get millions more subscribers.
No one has ever said that. That is how it works.
Literally not a rumour, that is the opposite of what a rumour is. That is definitely how it works.
You get profiled in the wall street journal it seems like a really bad story but in the
end, it just catapults you to even greater heights.
Wow, that colour this is like kool-aid flipping levels.
The first two people ever to consume G-Fuel without being paid to do so.
Shut up, That’s not true.
I really want to like that, it's really bad.
Oh yeah, that's not nice.
It tastes like a violation of YouTube's community guide.
Does it taste like Pewdiepie, maybe. I’ve never tried him.
We've energized our bodies we've energized our minds but we haven't energized our digestive system.
What?
In Japan, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are going head to head with a new kind of energy drink.
They've mixed into it a kind of indigestible fibre which means that you don't take on the
calories from the drink as far as I understand and it's good for your gut.
It's registered with the government as a health drink
it's supposed to taste a little thicker than normal coke.
Pepsi first.
Pepsi special.
Are you ready for your bowels to be energized?
I don't think it's thicker, also the flavour just doesn't taste very strong by comparison
to everything we've had which is…
That was satisfying!
It’s bursting with energy.
Let's try coke's version, coca-cola plus.
As far as I understand it there's this fibre in this which you can't digest that the coke
Kind of think of it as like a banana boat right the coke rides that banana boat through your gut.
The gut doesn't get to consume the coke, till it fires straight out of your butthole..
That to me tastes thicker.
No it doesn’t.
There’s a lot of bubbles that kind of fill up my mouth.
If it actually scientifically works genuinely impressive but I have no way of confirming or denying that.
We started on the first-ever energy drink.
I feel like that was a nice experience I don't know if I’ve ever had this before I’ve
heard a lot about it the original red bull.
I drink that and I think maybe one day I could be an elite extreme athlete.
Maybe.
I felt like my face is doing weird things without me controlling it.
Yeah, I was gonna say my teeth are doing weird things but it's not weird how they're reacting
it's honestly completely understandable.
That's been energy drinks from around the world I hope you've enjoyed that.
In the meantime, see you jolly soon.
See you later.