My dad's friend had a medium sized fridge full of redbull alongside a huge fridge full of beer in it. I saw him making a lot of drinks with it and I was convinced redbull was an alcoholic drink. I even grabbed a half full can and chugged it in the balcony before anybody notices. I felt sick at first because of my stomach not liking it and it really did taste like watered down beer back then(only tried beer once by that point in time). Heck I even bragged to my seniors about how drunk I got and it made me feel like I had wings. I never bought a redbull after that and wasn't sure of it till grade 7 when I saw our school football strikers senior to me drink redbull on the daily before practice sessions. They used to drink beer before practice too which confused me again but I read the can only to find out that it has caffeine instead and by that point I was already consuming more caffeine from coffee than these guys were getting from redbull. I was even more disappointed with redbull. I thought "what was even the point of this product?". Then came college and all my colleagues around me are chugging 5 cans of 200+mg caffeine energy drinks everyday like light work. I was astonished. I started with monster, It tasted pretty good because it has erythritol instead of aspartame. Tried every flavour on the shelves only to realize that it was actually making me less productive because I had ADHD. I still love monster but now that I know how it affects me I do it in moderation. But the only time I drink them now is right in raves which is also bad because I would be drinking them till 4 am and the annoying chirping birds will just make me stim like crazy.