Hello everyone, this is "Energy Crisis," the energy drink report
Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, and everyone watching
This is "Energy Crisis," the energy drink report. I am your host, TheReportOfTheWeek
Two things: number one, for those of you that - I guess three things
Number one, this is an energy drink review and
Because I I?
Have a different kind of name series going for energy drinks
I call these the "Energy Crisis" reviews, and I do so few of them nowadays that
It's a name that we don't hear too often, but just like the food reviews, I call those "Running on Empty"
That's where the famous tagline of running on empty thing comes from but whenever I review an energy drink
I kind of say "this is 'Energy Crisis' the energy drink report," and you can find that from a lot of the old videos and
As proof I guess of that claim
Secondly my voice. I I know I might sound like something else but
something else I don't know what but
Yeah, I'm sick. I'm not feeling well. I I had a sore throat last week
I thought to myself well, maybe I was just you know I was moving a lot of boxes around and stuff
I thought well, maybe it was just a little humidity and a lot of the dust and got in the throat and maybe
Maybe that did me in but a week later. I feel a lot worse and
This last 24 hours. I've just been kind of
Literally just been laying down for the last 24 hours straight pretty much
And I figure this is the best I'm gonna feel so I'm just gonna get up
get some work done and get a video out for your wall and
Finally what I'm wearing this is just a blanket
I it would be cool if I was wearing like an Infernus cape or something you know and
Could say I'm bringing back a cape for 2018, but I'm not this is just a blanket
And I'm just wearing that to keep warm, but otherwise it's the usual regalia
So I don't know I guess as they say if you if you wanted to know where you could
You know, "cop such a sick fit"
Just go to go the closet or something, grab a blanket and just drape it over and there you go
You'll be styling like old Reviewbrah is
Well anyway. I'm not feeling well. I'm I've got a sore throat
I'm trying to keep warm, so what's a better thing to review than just a nice cold beverage?
straight out of the refrigerator
But it's true. This is a monster energy drink, and it was cool enough to the extent. This is in the metaphorical sense now
That I thought to myself I'm gonna bring back the series for this one
Monster Hydro Tropical Thunder, number one, comes in this nice little
See-through can like so, which I think is pretty cool. I've never seen a Monster like that
Number two, Monster Hydro, apparently what they're doing because they're just running out of ideas, otherwise. They said all right
We got to make caffeinated water. You've got to find a way for it to work
That's exactly what they're doing here so Monster Hydro. It's caffeinated water with a little bit of a flavor to it
You know think of all the things like the Vitamin Water
Sobe Life Water, now Monster's trying to enter the game, they're saying "Look. We're monster. We're bigger than everyone
We're better than everyone. We could do it better than you, and look at this. It's Monster Hydro
It's got a cool a cool name. It's got a cool aesthetic. You could see through it
I mean how much more awesome can it get?" That's what they're saying at least
Nutrition facts
Serving size, 16.9 fluid ounces, so you're getting a little bit more, usually the cans, you know is a little less than
One serving per container, so you're just expected to down this all whether you like it or not just one serving
That's it, gotta deal with it
A hundred calories per serving
23 grams of sugar, zero grams of protein
Contains vitamin B3, B6, other ingredients include filtered water sugar glucose taurine citric acid sodium citrate
Etcetera, etcetera
Caffeine from all sources 125 milligrams per bottle, consume responsibly, not recommended for children, people sensitive to caffeine
Pregnant women and women who are nursing
So in this, 125 milligrams of caffeine, now the best thing
That I'll try and read as dramatically as possible
Even considering how my voice is
"Water world" 70% of earth is covered in water
You got bottled water from mountains, glaciers
Virgin springs
Tropical islands and the Arctic
There's mineralized, fortified, ionized, electrified
Ph-balanced triple filtered blah blah blah. What's the point?
You gotta hydrate every day, so you might as well enjoy a boost while you're at it
Mmm. I see where they're going with this
Incredible
Monster Hydro
Non-carbonated lightly sweetened with natural flavors to make it thirst-quenching and easy drinking we added just enough of that
"Monster magic"
To get you fired up. The container is cool, too. Just don't call it water
Hydrate the Beast
And the usual stuff right there
Disgusting fingernails, etc etc all right. We'll just open it up comes with a blue opener this time around
I'm gonna pour it into a pilsner glass right here
Used to call it, I'll never forgive myself for this one, I used to call it the dilsner glass
I just didn't know any better
Here you want to see it get poured. That's fine. I don't blame you
All right well there it is kind of seeing me through it there. It's pretty cool
That's what it looks like you can see it's non-carbonated, it's a
Translucent to some degree
Um
Of course, same color as it was in here
This is orange
This is orange and actually I do see some light light carbonation I
Don't think you can see it, but maybe you can, I doubt it. I have my doubts
This isn't gonna work
Nah, forget it. There's some very mild carbonation at the top. Mild, mild carbonation
Very citrusy scent
That's all that I could pretty much say about it, so now. We're just gonna try it out. This is Monster
Hydro Tropical Thunder, Tropic Thunder
Well, it smells very citrusy to me. I expect a similar taste therefore. so Monster Hydro Tropic Thunder, going in
Hmm, not a fan
Not a fan mm-mm, no
I'm not feeling it, ladies and gentlemen
Ya know I've never done that before I'm not gonna break precedent over this. I'm not a fan now. I'll tell you that outright
No, nope
I don't have a ton to talk about on this because
You know with food especially that there's so much in it, you know you're gonna say well
It's got so many so many sauces and the meat is like this and that and it goes this way and that as
For a drink they go for a particular flavor, and I either get it or they don't and
Monster you know they usually do a good job. They usually do a good job, not this time
It's water you know, it's
When they're trying to make it watery
It's gonna be tough to kind of conceal the bitterness of the caffeine
They certainly tried they tried their best
You know it is. It's it's very watery. You know. There's no tug no resistance. It's really non-carbonated
You know as I said very watery it's like a sports drink. You know you've had a sports drink kind of taste like that and
Well that's fine, you know it's kind of what they market it asm so where's the issue you know what does it taste citrusy?
You know it has a nice little crisp flavor not the strongest, but it's it's there
The issue comes when they try to
Conceal the caffeine because mind you caffeine is a very bitter bitter tasting substance and these drinks
You know they try their best they try their hardest to
To mask it and the ones that do are usually the best ones out there
So it doesn't taste like you're drinking a caffeinated beverage, but this one on the other hand
For whatever reason it's a I just can't they can't do it
Extremely bitter extremely extremely bitter reminds me back when I was a kid
When I wasn't feeling well like today. I would sometimes have to take the liquid you know
Cough medicines or whatever, they had this terrible bitterness to them like the synthetic you know fruit flavor with this terrible
Bitterness to them and this is what it reminds me of I can't help it. That's what it reminds me of
So it's unfortunate. I wouldn't I would avoid it. I wouldn't get it. It's too bitter for my liking
There's so many Monsters out there that are good, too
Get, get any of the other ones really
You know, I know, I know you want to get the sports drink Monster with the cool, the cool little bottle here, I mean you get it, it was cheap, it was two bucks
Standard price, but I'd avoid it just get the Green Monster
What's everyone's favorite though the white can you know everyone likes the white can right? We can't can't give that one enough praise I
Like monster import, that's my favorite. I always go for the import one. That's that one is perfect in my opinion in my opinion
That's what how usually go for but just get anyone except for this. I'm not a fan of it
It's always the worst when they can't conceal that bitterness and it ruins the whole flavor
It's not enjoyable 6.0 out of 10 rating therefore
When a final note my voice is kind of given out, and I could just feel my throat's kind of you know it was getting
Better when I, when I started this, but all the talking
I'm just doing too much, so I'm gonna call the video a wrap at this point
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That's all that I have for you ladies and gentlemen today was an energy drink review. I know I'm not feeling the best
I don't know when the next video. I do is going to be just depends on how I feel, but thank you for watching
Thank you for uh, you know. Thank you for being here, and we'll see you
Probably in a couple days with another review or video of some sort. Thank you for watching and take care
I'm your host, TheReportOfTheWeek
