Starbucks Doubleshot Energy Vanilla Drink

This was a real leap for me, since I'm not an energy drink kind of girl. But I was very tired, hungry, and sad at school(/work) so I got this from a vending machine. It tasted like that gross can flavor all canned coffee drinks have to some extent. But it also did genuinely perk me up, which surprised me a bit. Also, I didn't appear to be allergic to this, so now I know guarana and ginseng are safe for me (which I honestly didn't know about before). This was also fairly sweet and milky in addition to the can flavor, so that was nice. Lots of calories though, which is good or bad depending on your circumstance.


Overall
Cost: 5/10 [2.50$ from vending]
Taste: 6/10

Java Monster - Mean Bean

I don't really drink energy drinks, and if I did, I'd drink AMP as that's my initials (don't stalk me). However, I do drink coffee, and I like cans. So there's your background.

On first taste, this is pretty good: sweet, creamy, milky, coffee-y, but not TOO sweet like some bottled coffee drinks. On second taste/aftertaste, there's a weird sickly sour flavor, which I associate with regular Monster (maybe it's taurine)? That really brings it down. I did drink the whole can, but I wish they just made the "Java" first and not the "Monster" part, especially since I don't feel very wakeful afterwards and I wish I just had a coffee from DD instead. This is really convenient to carry with you, though, which is a plus.

Overall
Cost: 5/10 (2-3$)
Taste: 5/10