I tasted it for the first time when I was in mumbai. Its been a month for that being happened. I was on a trip with friends, it was a road trip actually, which indeed required a lot of energy to chill out.
Well an urge to drink something in a very u pleasant weather forced us to grab an energy drink and unfortunately it turned out to be a cloud 9 and not red bull. Since the shopkeeper nearby our location was having it only.
I guessed it to be a hard day and the taste and smell made it even worse. It almost felt like a beer which I personally dont like. Even the can wasnt sufficiently cold to give a proper taste.
But anyhow you compare it with any other energy drink I ever tasted. It was the worst of all and expensive too.
Grab something other than this thing this summer to chill out otherwise freak out.