Aldi's Summit brand of energy drinks returns with a refreshing of their "Red Thunder" drinks. Today's offering is their sugar free flavor, which back in 2011, failed to escape its Red Bull clone shackles. All these years later and a new design later, I am still visually unstimulated. The baby blue background fades from sight in a sea of other potent potables, a packaging filled with text but no personality.
I do love a good Red Bull clone, and Red Thunder Sugar Free is about as close as you can get to "perfect." Well, perfect considering it is a remake of a store-brand imitation. Apple is the center of the experience, with a puckering sourness that helps distract from the oh-so familiar diet sugar mix of ace-k and sucralose. The two sweeteners are on their best behavior, not having to do much except not overextend their reach. Vanilla and bubble gum make an appearance but seldom perch anywhere but the back of the tongue, insinuating complexity without really participating with the core fruit flavor. What does any of this mean? Well, it is a fine tasting little caffeinated cocktail; next time I will just write that and leave the thesaurus on the bookshelf.
Each can contains B vitamins, taurine, and eighty milligrams of caffeine. The buzz is not particularly impressive, until you remember that practically no energy drink comes in the antiquated eight ounce cans anymore. Overall, Red Thunder Sugar Free is about as good as an off-brand product can be.
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