Taking the caffeine out of Red Bull so I can drink it at night
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Published 2020-07-04
I've always liked the taste of energy drinks and for years now, I have wanted there to be caffeine-free versions (specifically Red Bull). However, it doesn't seem like that is going to happen any time soon, so I decided to try and do it myself.
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Warning: Please don't try this yourself. Any leftover solvent can be very dangerous to ingest.
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All Comments (21)
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I am learning from the comments that there are a lot of people who absolutely hate the taste of RedBull.
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i used DCM to extract the DCM out of the DCM and then used some DCM to make sure there is no more DCM in the DCM.
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“So why’d you become a chemist?” “I like how chemicals taste”
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Hearing teachers tell me not to drink from beakers my whole life and then seeing NileRed chug down his homemade piss water is genuinely so hilarious
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y'know what NileRed is exactly the kind of guy who would like the "chemical taste" of redbull
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I first thought the title meant that you take out the caffeine, so you can drink the pure caffeine at night
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"Lemme get a energy drink, hold the energy"
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I find that the main flavour contributor to energy drinks is Guarana, the fruit from Paullinia cupana. (Source: I've had Guarana juice) The fruit does contain caffeine, though. So maybe the right way to go about this might be to try to extract the flavour from the fruit and make a soda with it?
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My god chemistry is insane. Not just Nigel's life choices, but the fact that this is even POSSIBLE. There are so many chemicals and they do so many different things. The whole enterprise seems like a set of amazing and sometimes very frustrating puzzles.
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"Scientist decaffeinates energy drink because he just likes the chemical taste"
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Energy drink without the energy is just “drink”. My guy made drink
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For anyone confused how you can talk about the pKa of something without any losable hydrogens, it’s talking about the pKa of the protonated caffeine, the “conjugate acid” (so you just imagine a hydrogen ion on the imide (the double-bonded) nitrogen. The pKa is how much you have to drop the pH (increase H+ concentration) to get it protonated again.
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The different taste might just have been just from the carbonation at home method. It always tastes different from store bought carbonated drinks. There’s just something off about things you make with the soda stream
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25% caffeine reduced "Red Bull gives you a wing and a half"
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The fact that RB has artificial colouring added to it means that they intended for it to look exactly like piss.
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I've seen some guides about making homemade redbull and it's essentially a fermented ginseng tea. If you're looking to make this in volumes more apt for daily consumption, try searching for homemade redbull recipes and you'll see plenty online. Great video as always. Cheers!
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Bro your smile after the satisfaction of completion of a project, it's awesome
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The most chemist thing I’ve ever heard is “ I drink energy drinks for the chemically flavor”
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Future Niles: “I’ve always loved the smell of cocaine, but don’t like watching 3 sunrises in a row...”
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Yo that was really awesome that they got back to you so quick! And they do that for concerns about copyrights, patents, etc
