JeffB wrote:A correction: looking at a can of the stuff, the main upper in Red Bull seems to be taurine (I guess that's the bull connection). I know that other US energy drinks contain guarine.
The first of the energy drinks, at least that I'm familiar with, was Bawls. It was flavored with guarana, among others.
It was actually quite good. Not as sickly-sweet as a lot of the more recent ones, and it came in one of the coolest bottles ever mass produced:
http://www.bawls.com