I found this product for the first time at a Sheetz (which was sorta odd; I associate Sheetz more with Combos and Diet Mountain Dew than with strangely up-market flavored water).
I liked it. Makes a nice mid-road-trip beverage. Pick-me-up-ish without the hissy caffeine vibration, the sugar rush/crash, or the red dye dementia.
And then I went camping for two weeks. When it was hot, I drank this, and became less cranky. When it was muddy, I wished for a case of it so I could use it to wash my muddy little feet, in part to make life more pleasant for my grovelling minions, but mostly because I’m a sybarite.
I’ve added it to the list of must-have supplies for next year: 3 jars of pickles, 24 little cans of V8, a case of Gerolsteiner Sprudel, string cheese, and minty, minty water.
[1] Defensive footnote about the appropriateness of my supply choices: No, Iron Age Celts didn’t have all that. (Pickles, probably; string cheese, maybe; bubbly water, only if they lived near a bubbly-water spring). But they did have houses with actual roofs, and trackways through the sucking mud, and didn’t live somewhere the heat index gets over 100 degrees, ever. Plus, they had water, and mint. I’m unrepentant.