Homemade Energy Drink Recipe
Are you an energy fiend and a DIY fanatic?
Have you dreamed about making a homemade energy drink to your exact preferences and tastes?
Well, hopefully this article will get you started in the right direction for crafting your perfect homemade drink.
Ingredients
- A caffeine source: anhydrous caffeine powder can also be ordered in bulk, but don’t go overboard!
- Flavorings: Try Capella Flavor Drops as they have many flavorings to choose from.
- Taurine: This can be bought as a powder or a liquid, but the powder is much cheaper.
- B vitamins: I would recommend ordering a liquid B vitamin complex.
- Glucuronolactone: This comes in powder form.
- Herbs: Now this is where you can be creative, but this can also get expensive to purchase the liquid extracts of herbs as you don’t want a salad floating in your homemade energy drink, now do you? Suggestions; Ginseng Liquid and Ginko Biloba Liquid.
- Sweetners: Here you can dissolve table sugar in some hot water or use sucralose or stevia if you want it sugar free.
- Carbonated water: You can just buy this pre-made or try making your own which is explained below.
Homemade Energy Recipe
Now here is the fun part in constructing your taylor made energy drink. Why not use a can of Rockstar or similar as your rough guide, but feel free to experiment with amounts. It would be handy to have a metric food scale on hand to measure out all the ingredients.
Be careful with the caffeine powder and probably to be safe use no more than 200mg at a time unless you are a Beverage Cooler Slave. The caffeine has to be dissolved in boiling water, which would be recommended for any powders you are using in your homemade drink.
As for the carbonated water you can make your own easily by using a soda siphon and soda siphon charger cartridges. In the long run this works out cheaper than buying pre-made and you will have a fresh supply each time.
So make a concentrate using a small amount of boiling water, into which, mix in your caffeine, taurine, sugar, flavor etc.. Then add your seltzer water a little at a time until you have a great tasting ratio. You may have to make a few attempts to get your homemade energy drink just right, but hey, that’s part of the fun, right?
Why not share your Homemade Energy Drink formula in the comments below if you think you’ve made a winner. Also if you are a homemade energy drink master, please share any tips below as well.
Disclaimer: We warned you already and if your stupid enough to make a homemade energy drink with a gram of caffeine in it, we’re not responsible for your caffeine side effects!
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None of the scales in your link measure in mg, which would be essential if working with anhydrous caffeine powder.
Do you have any links to a scale that accurate that is not ridiculously expensive?
I adjusted the key words, but try some of the other links on the landing page even one that uses counter weights would work if digital is too expensive.
Three words: Caffeinated Kool Aid. Make the kool aid as directed, but halve the amount of water used. 100mg’s the only dose I’ve tried, and in a cup made this way, there’s a barely noticeable aftertaste, but nothing else. Of course, I’d reccommend putting a label on whatever pitcher you use for it.
Also, as for the mg measuring problem, I found a powdered caffeine that comes with a 100mg scoop: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FWKXTY/ref=ox_ya_oh_product . It’s a bit more expensive than the other caffeine powders, but I feel it’s worth it, to avoid overdosing without paying 90+ for a scale.
Total costs will look something like this.
Caffeine: 500 servings at $24.24, including shipping.
Kool Aid: We’ll overestimate this at .50c for a single packet, normally used for 8 cups.
Sugar: $4.00 for 5lbs around here. Try Wal-Mart?
This comes in pretty cheap. For 8oz cups with 100mg of caffeine, it’s under 5 cents for the caffeine, 12.5 cents for the kool aid, and around 40 cents for the sugar, coming in at just under 70 cents.
Energy contained drinks can be made from home and can be sell it in the market.
How about boiling off the water to form a shot? Would that work?
The caffeine measurement in the article should be corrected. It currently reads 200g, which is nearly 2000 energy drinks worth of caffeine. It should be 200mg. 12g grams is usually the lethal amount, 200g and you’re dead, no question…
Thanks James for pointing out the typo
Want to make an energy drink like monster, rockstar, or red bull? All you need to do is add liquid caffeine mix to sparkling Apple Cider (carbonated). You will hardly be able to tell the difference. Seriously, the taste, look, fizz, and energy, will blow you away.
You can purchase the inexpensive Energy Mix (Google: Semi-Sweetened Mix). The thing to remember is that powder caffeine will not work. It will not dissolve in cold beverages. And, even in hot beverages it will only dissolve slightly.
Another great advantage to making your own energy drink is that you control how much caffeine you want to add. Add a little or a lot – it depends on how much of an energy boost you want – you decide!
You can purchase Rockstar syrup at Sams club in a 3 gallon bag box and use a SodaStream machine to carbonate your own water and save money and all those trips to the store buying it a can at a time.
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Or do it the fun Home Chemist way and synthesize it in the chemistry lab when your professor isn’t looking…
This is to energy drinks what moonshine is to alcohol. Careful, guys…