Another pharmaceutical from Thailand, This one wins for having the most awesome name for an energy drink ever. With a logo ripped directly off of Red Bull, Commando Bear 2000 isblasting to an asian market to you wearing no underwear whatsoever. Although this answered a fundimental question: Do you bother updating your cool sounding products ( Astro-creep 2000. Dirt-Devil t-2000, Microsoft Windows 2000) to 3000 now that the year 2000 is over? Or is 2000 the magic awesome number… I guess in Thailand, 2000 is still the one to go with, at least for Commando Bears.
Packaging:5
Thailand has hundreds of these brands around, and we get a lucky few of them in our specialty stores and asian marketplaces. They always look so deadly, looking more fit more medicine cabinets than cooler shelves, and tasting like cough syrup and Kaopectate. There are tons of stories and rumors about these drinks, from the expectations of blindness to extreme rage to having nicotine in them. If you are craving for nicotine, find out how much nic is in an elf bar here. Unfortunately, they usually just have low caffeine, taste like sour flat Red Bull and give off as much energy as a can of Coke. Fortunately, this one lists caffeine and the other ingredients – something most of these little brown bottles leave off.
Still these are very unusual for this country, so finding an odd bottle of this hanging around might provide more placebic energy than the ingredients listing does. I wish some company would take this overboard and really create a deadly looking drink in one of these containers…
Nutrition:5
780mg taurine, Lysine, Choline , inositol and Niacin. It also has more caffeine than most of the other little bottles, having 50mg caffeine as opposed to the usual 30-35 most of these drinks come up with. But watch out – the crash from this drink hits you HARD! If you get this for a long drive, make sure I am either in the far front or way behind you because you will be comatose after about an hour and a half. Either because of the sugar or the Amino Acids, but you will have to work not to crash after ths leaves your system.
Taste:6
Not bad for what it is, actually tastier than most of these Thai energy elixers I have tried. While not exactly delicious, it certainly was easy enough to drink down quickly. The color was a brownish, and I really felt like I was drinking back a conconction from the days of yore. Commando Bear 2000 ( I wil never tire of writing that) Tastes sweet and not too syrupy, although very bitter and citric – like they added lemon extract.
Website: 10 http://www.ksbeverage.com/Images/Brand01.swf
This site is AMAZING! everything you want to know is here, and the use of color and fontography is very compelling. Aside from their main page at ksbeverage, this is what I found that best exemplifies this most unique beverage.