Red Bull The Spring Edition Grapefruit & Blossom Energy Drink Review

Instead of something like chocolate bunnies or jelly beans, Red Bull decides that this year's "Spring Edition" should take the form of the familiar "grapefruit," bundled with the nebulous "blossom." It makes even less sense when you remember that the company had previously produced a grapefruit potent potable. The colors do not exactly make sense with the purple of the can, but it would look right at home in my Easter basket.

Leave it to Red Bull to make one of the best tasting grapefruit energy drinks on the market. The tropical fruit is clean and uncluttered, unbothered by all the supplements it is supposedly suppressing. But for every moment you sit back and enjoy this clean piece of produce, there is this funkiness nearby, this earthy aftertaste that would have been the experience's downfall had the liquid not been properly honeyed. The choice of sugar and glucose for its sweetening gives mouthfuls this wonderful mouthfeel, one that is ever-so slightly toothsome but never too heavy or ultimately gummy on the tongue; we get real carbohydrates, and this thusly sips like a champ. But this lauded saccharinity is not enough to destroy this plucky little tartness that snuck up on my tongue, the kind that both citruses and candies dream of providing. This is a weird little soft drink: a little different, a little unusual, but the more I gulped the more I wished it was not so little.

The eight ounces on offer here muster up only eighty milligrams of caffeine, but my body pined for more. More! I need more of my namesake stimulant! Oh sure, vitamins of the "B" variety, taurine and such show up, but come on, just an hour long buzz? Both the flavor and I deserve better.

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