One of these things is pretty much like the other, one of these things is almost exactly the same.

 I was at my local gas station today when I noticed something. A lot of energy drink companies are coming out with punch flavored products now. So, armed with dreams of being a sommelier of energy drinks and a few Amazon photos I set out to compare NOS Rowdy Punch and Monster Punch Baller's Blend.

I began with the outside of the can. I compared ingredients, and caffeine content and found something interesting. They are darn near identical. They both have 160mg of caffeine or so they say. They both have all kinds of vitamin b including a bunch of niacin (vitamin b3, you know, the stuff that supposedly gives you hepatitis). Even their full ingredients list seems to be just a scrambled list of the other, both even having the same food coloring, red #40.

So on paper they are pretty much the same thing, I hear the voices in my head say, but they cannot possibly be identical in taste as well.

They taste pretty much the same. After my first sip of the Monster I said to myself "I like this better", because the Monster was much less carbonated and ever so slightly less sweet. However after a few sips of both, washing my mouth out in-between. After doing a blind study with opaque cups, a blindfold, and my New York card-shark skills. After feeling my sanity slip away trying to taste a significant difference in the two and drinking both at once. I can confidently say they they are as different as off-white and eggshell.

The only noticeable difference I can see is that the NOS is an opaque pink, and the Monster is a transparent red.

Perhaps they have a different kick, with their ever so slight difference in energy blends, but I was not about to sit here and down roughly 320mg of caffeine at the end of my day. So I will leave finding a difference between the two for you to find out.