Ravers On Liquid

When I hit the dance floor at a party (I generally try to say party in avoidance of the media’s favorite buzzword rave) I usually plan on staying until the last track has been dropped. While this is feasible in theory, it is fairly unlikely I will be able to hang that late without some sort of chemical assistance. Eight hours of dancing will tucker out even the most athletically inclined of party goers and that is where energy drinks enter the picture.

Red Bull swung onto the scene prior to the newer energy drinks and therefore controls a dominant part of the market. Newer drinks such as Anheuser Busch’s 180, Mountain Dew’s Amp and Sobe’s Adrenaline have crept up on the market and exploded within the all night dance scene since the turn of the century. There’s even a new drink named Bong Water. Now this may just be me but why the hell would anyone buy a drink called Bong Water? I may be mistaken in my facts here but the word on the street is bong water is generally dirty and disgusting and drinking it rivals eating a spoon full of wet-vac sludge.

One of the biggest competing interests of these highly caffeinated concoctions is to inhabit the fridges behind the bars of clubs worldwide. While energy drinks are an obvious candidate in the running for keeping me fully functioning and dancing all night, this is not the only reason that Red Bull is found in thousands of clubs and bars across the US. Red Bull pulls far into the lead on this due in part to its hard working representatives who travel around their region, giving out free samples and meeting with the owner’s of various nightlife attractions. The other factor that weighs heavily in Red Bull’s bar/club share is its ability as a mixer.

Red Bull and vodka is an immensely popular drink all across the world. It is also an immensely dangerous drink. Red Bull contains caffeine amongst other stimulants and alcohol is a depressant. When these two are mixed you come out with the intoxication of alcohol and the energy of Red Bull, which is clearly a combination most partygoers would want to achieve. Another negative factor is that alcohol and caffeine are both diuretic which means they both dehydrate you leading towards a possible hangover in the morning. Another winning combination, for those of you whom are reading this article just to find good mixers, is Red Bull and Jagermeister.

While drinking energy drinks mixed with alcohol can make your heart stop or make you die of dehydration that does not mean that it should stop being served by any means. As long as you don’t have any heart conditions, you drink a glass of water intermittently and you don’t have relentless rounds of Red Bull and vodkas (and who can afford to at $5+ a pop at most bars?) then I think you’ll be all set, but what do I know, I’m a crazy college kid just like you. What I do know is I’ve partied my fair share of times with these two and I can tell you they can make for a rowdy evening. Be safe and maybe with the help of these two I’ll see some of you still working the floor at 3:30 Sunday morning.