drank Pick Me Up Yaupon by YAYAYA Yaupon
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Cheap buy from Sprouts. $1.99 marked down from $10.99.

gmathis did a great job with describing it — “a cross between grass and roasted coffee.” https://steepster.com/gmathis/posts/424040

It’s light, smooth and sweet. Kind of like yerba maté but not whatever it is that defines yerba maté in my mind. The taste of high alkaloid content?

Tons of energy, not uncomfortable at all. I find myself thinking fast but not clearly. So this would be cool for making art or working outside but not while sitting at a desk doing work that requires a lot of juggling and attention to detail. Plus side – work day flies by.

derk

I don’t know how people can drink energy drinks with all kinds of gnarly tasting ingredients when plants like yaupon and yerba maté exist.

Mastress Alita

I tried an energy drink once — and only once — and when I got speeding heart palpitations that frankly terrified me, I never touched them again. I find the high content L-Theanine greens seem to work the best on me, as far as tea-alertness.

gmathis

I think energy drinks taste like antifreeze.

Martin Bednář

That sounds like a steal.
And good one. I felt similar when I have tried Yaupon; and I drank energydrinks before my night-shift inventory checks. I had only one bad experience with energy drink, exactly what Mastress Alita wrote about. I never returned to that brand and found one with lower, but more long-term effect.

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derk

I don’t know how people can drink energy drinks with all kinds of gnarly tasting ingredients when plants like yaupon and yerba maté exist.

Mastress Alita

I tried an energy drink once — and only once — and when I got speeding heart palpitations that frankly terrified me, I never touched them again. I find the high content L-Theanine greens seem to work the best on me, as far as tea-alertness.

gmathis

I think energy drinks taste like antifreeze.

Martin Bednář

That sounds like a steal.
And good one. I felt similar when I have tried Yaupon; and I drank energydrinks before my night-shift inventory checks. I had only one bad experience with energy drink, exactly what Mastress Alita wrote about. I never returned to that brand and found one with lower, but more long-term effect.

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