relentless energy drink..

#1

Coca Cola's latest offering is an attempt to give perennial wing-giving energy drink Red Bull the elbow.

It would appear that Coca-cola are targetting a slightly younger demographic, with a penchant for late nights and caffeine-fuelled binges - the Relentless can is twice the size of a Red Bull can, giving a proportional increase in caffeine. Drinking one of these certainly does make you feel noticably more alert! (or at least, more twitchy).

The drink itself is a shade more green than Red Bull, although there's little difference. Taste-wise, it's a similar story - this is clealrly an unashamed attempt to copy Red Bull as closely as possible, so the flavour is all but indistinguishable. If I were forced to make a distinction, I'd say Relentless was a little sweeter and a touch more syrupy than its rival.

All in all, Relentless does exactly what it says on the can - it provides a caffeine hit without many parallels in a sweet carbonated energy drink. The market for this sort of thing is already very competitive, but with the larger 500ml can and competitive pricing we'll see if Relentless can make a dent in the other energy drink sales.

good points
Quite simply, this is one big caffeine hit - equivalent to around two cups of coffee!
At 500ml, there's plenty - so you don't feel like you're being ripped off.
It's quite refreshing
The cool gothic-esque 'relentless' logotype. Never mind the bullshit slogans.
bad points
It doesn't offer much new in the taste department - if you've tried Red Bull and you hated that, there's not much to love here.
It has a worryingly green tinge - although it retains much of the piss-yellow colour of other energy drinks.

#2

Sounds pretty interesting. The only energy drinks that I drink is Full Throttle and Von Dutch. I might have to give this a try though

#3

how's it taste mixed with vodka!?

#4

LOL always want some sort of alcohol ... but looks good to me. After doing all nighters I will try it out

#5

It's all about Rockstar my friends, Rockstar...

#6

This stuff is nice only in a controlled environment (har har har... Dave Lomardo... har har har....), otherwise it can really be dangerous, especially for brainless peepol who actually experiment with more serious stuff than they think (oh, let's see, if I mix redbull with 50grades alcoholic drink and then sniff some glue and use an extasy suppository, how much will I jump ?)....

#7

Would you even be ABLE to jump..?

#8

i tried that once, only it was a ketamine suppository....wheeeeeee

heh

#9

QUOTE(who.am.i)Would you even be ABLE to jump..?

Who knows /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
I don't know and I'm not willing to try either /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
Personally, I only use red bull (or something similar) before going to the studio and only then. Otherwise, it's only caffeine... And according to people around me, caffeine makes me unpleasant too, so I don't use it when I'm around people /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Emanon, quite a jump huh ? /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

#10

Anyone who has seen more than 2 of my posts knows I am naturally hyper and active. The last thing I need is a damn energy drink before coming to the forums.