# What flavor is Red Bull? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614 "2007-03-19T19:04:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/41 "2007-03-20T01:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Two people ask how someone knows what “ass” tastes like… …but no one bats an eye at “rancid goat semen”??? [/QUOTE] Hey, we’ve all been initiated before. It’s part of the Dope Experience. Per the OP: Piss and Vinegar. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/42 "2007-03-20T01:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Two people ask how someone knows what “ass” tastes like… …but no one bats an eye at “rancid goat semen”??? [/QUOTE] Well everybody’s got an ass but rancid goat semen is rare and therefore sought out by connoisseur and nobody wants to look like some backwater hick that does not know the taste of some fine aged goat semen. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/43 "2007-03-20T01:21:12Z")
[QUOTE=Capa84] A bit of a tangent- I saw a news report on a new energy drink that had a disclaimer not to drink a full bottle the first time, but sure enough, some people were, and complaining of their heart rate jumping…anyone familiar with this? I can’t remember the brand name. [/QUOTE] Red Line. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/44 "2007-03-20T01:24:11Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] Well everybody’s got an ass but rancid goat semen is rare and therefore sought out by connoisseur and nobody wants to look like some backwater hick that does not know the taste of some fine aged goat semen. [/QUOTE] he didn’t say fine aged goat semen though, he’s talking more the Franzia of goat semen, not the Fine Aged version. As to ass, I have one thing to say True Story conversation between myself and three friends 1: Man this tastes like ass! everybody else: How do you know? \ Me: So… has anybody ever actually like, tossed somebody’s salad? One Guy: well yeah Everybody: What did it taste like Guy: I dunno, it tasted normal so there you have it, ass tastes… normal we never got him to describe “normal” in terms of ass taste though. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/45 "2007-03-20T01:55:51Z")
> [@NBC](#): > > At the risk of hjacking - any one know what colour bulls urine actually is? Yellowish, like most other urine. I base this pronouncement on having seen lots of bovines having a pee in the street when I lived in India. It’s confirmed by [this site’s](http://members.tripod.com/robindurandpainter/thesis,a.htm) description of Winsor Newton brand “Indian Yellow” oil paint: > [@](#): > > Indian Yellow is very transparent and doesn’t over-yellow mixtures. This color was originally made from bull urine and Winsor Newton’s synthetic replacement has the best rich, transparent urine-like glow. > [@enigm4tic](#): > > 1: Man this tastes like ass! > everybody else: How do you know? (😕 How can you kids these days have all that oral sex and not acquire at least **some** idea of what the human ass tastes like? What are you doing, using a straw? Or a hygienic adult diaper with a carefully cut two-inch-square hole in it or something?) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/46 "2007-03-20T02:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] How can you kids these days have all that oral sex . . . [/QUOTE] Speaking as a semi-kid, I want to know who these kids are, because I’m jealous :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/47 "2007-03-20T02:10:17Z")
I geuss the tasting like as really needs a qualifyer. Tasting like ass could just be, meh nothing bad. It would not be a highly improbable thing for someone to know what sweaty ass tasted like. If you know what dingleberry encrusted ass tastes like, well frankly you need to pick your dates a little more carefully or carry a head torch. PS thanks for the info on the bulls urine, just one of those things that has been bugging me but could not be bothered to search. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/48 "2007-03-20T04:33:02Z")
I actually like the taste. Not sure what that says about me based on the responses in this thread. I would describe it as: pixy stix mixed with almost flat club soda. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/49 "2007-03-20T04:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time Lurker] I actually like the taste. Not sure what that says about me based on the responses in this thread. I would describe it as: pixy stix mixed with almost flat club soda. [/QUOTE] Oh good. Now we just need to figure out what Red Bull tastes like. I wouldn’t ask you to sample that, too–there’s oly so much one man should endure. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/50 "2007-03-20T04:45:53Z")
It tastes like dancing, lights, glitter and pounding bass to me. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/51 "2007-03-20T05:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=Alan Smithee] Oh good. Now we just need to figure out what Red Bull tastes like. I wouldn’t ask you to sample that, too–there’s oly so much one man should endure. [/QUOTE] Hmm? Oh, yes.. Sorry for the lack of clarity. My post, of course, was referring to rancid goat semen. ---
**Author:** ![berff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@berff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berff)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/52 "2007-03-20T06:31:24Z")
I love the taste of Red Bull as well. If they made a caffeine free version, I’d drink it all day. Not that I have anything against caffeine, but it probably wouldn’t be healthy to drink 15 Red Bulls a day. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/53 "2007-03-20T06:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time Lurker] Hmm? Oh, yes.. Sorry for the lack of clarity. My post, of course, was referring to rancid goat semen. [/QUOTE] comedy gold right here. and FTR I actually kinda like the taste of Red Bull, regardless of the taste of ass (or rancid goat semen) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/54 "2007-03-20T07:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=myskepticsight] Red Bull tastes like Satan. [/QUOTE] And [Satan](http://www.satanbeer.com/satange.html) has a > [@](#): > > round, fine taste, fruity with a touch of bitterness, spicy, complex and subtile refering to the most carefully elected hops and spices. problem solved 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/55 "2007-03-20T08:55:47Z")
The taste of Red Bull reminds me very strongly of a child’s medicine I remember having in the eighties - perhaps Amoxyl/Amoxil? That was very yellow too, and had the awful flavour of something trying to mask the medicine taste for kids’ consumption. Uncanny to me. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/56 "2007-03-20T13:15:07Z")
I found it unbelievably sour, like I was drinking pure lemon juice, but without the lemon taste. It was also sickeningly sweet. I don’t think it was ever meant to replicate or evoke a taste found in nature. It was meant to taste unique, which it certainly does. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/57 "2007-03-20T15:21:06Z")
Astonishing. I’ve scoured the thread, avidly reading each successive post with mounting excitement, the thrill of realization building within me. Because, finally, we have discovered something that _doesn’t_ taste like chicken. In the grand story of exploration and human discovery, in the long, long quest for ultimate illumination, we can now, at long last, say it’s all downhill from here. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/58 "2007-03-20T16:35:27Z")
What color is it? (Red Bull that is, I don’t want to know the color of ass, bull urine, or rancid goat semen). I always figured it would be…red. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/59 "2007-03-20T16:39:00Z")
My wife says it smells like cherry cough medicine. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614/60 "2007-03-20T17:05:04Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] What color is it? (Red Bull that is, I don’t want to know the color of ass, bull urine, or rancid goat semen). I always figured it would be…red. [/QUOTE] It’s yellow. And supposedly it glows under a blacklight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-flavor-is-red-bull/396614.md?page=4)