Drinking alcohol mixed with energy drinks is summed in one word – dangerous! Many are under the allusion that one may neutralize the effects of the other and actually have a positive result instead of a drunken negative result. The manufacturers are not thinking too much about it either as that their marketing campaigns and beverage designs target the younger consumer. These are most popular amongst college students.
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Alcohol and Caffeine In Energy Drinks
Alcohol is a depressant and caffeine a stimulant, not to mention the other stimulants in the energy drinks themselves such as Taurine and Guarana, and Green Tea extracts. It is like stepping on the gas and the break pedals at the same time. One does not cancel out the other. The scientific results from these two ingredients being mixed together all spell disaster for the consumer. Deaths have been linked to it.
An article excerpt from Times.com about combining mixing Alcohol and Energy Drinks:
If you’ve never heard of alcoholic energy drinks, you’re almost certainly over 25. Sold in tall, narrow cans, they carry teen-friendly names such as Sparks, Tilt and Joose. Like other flavored malt beverages — Mike’s Hard Lemonade, for one, or Champale (”the malt liquor you serve like champagne”) from back in the ’60s — alcoholic energy drinks contain a lot of sugar and flavoring. The difference is that this new generation of malt beverages also contains stimulants. A typical can has about as much caffeine as a venti cup of Starbucks, along with additives like guarana and ginseng that can rev the central nervous system…..
Mixing alcohol, a depressant, with stimulants is nothing new. The Irish have their eponymous coffee, and any authentic Italian restaurant offers something called caffè corretto, a shot of espresso mixed with a shot of grappa or sambuca. (The wonderfully knowing name translates as “corrected coffee.”) But alcoholic energy drinks are different because they are so obviously marketed to kids. Ads are found mainly online or in publications like Blender.
Read full article: www.time.com
Common alcohol energy drink mixes
- Red Bull, lemonade and Vodka
- Red Bull and Vodka
- Yeager Bomb – and Red Bull
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I have adopted this system of mixing energy drink with alcohol for about a year now. and it helps me a lot. it reduces my stress and but i do by mixing with Guinness only.
i don’t know the long term effect yet. but i feel good and stronger after taking it.
alcohol without energy drink in me becomes very dangerous.