I personally never had one when it was still caffeinated. The gold flavor tastes alright and I can tolerate the peach flavor, but for the most part it's not great. I guess if you need some cheap malt liquor it works out.
With that said, I knew a friend around the time just before they stopped the caffeinated ones drank like three or four of them in an hour and a half while at a bachelor party. He literally managed to blow almost all of his paycheck on a stripper, puked all over the floor hours later, and for some reason decided to get nude to take a dump and then puked over the floor again. I was only there for the first one (and boy did he try to make the dollars rain), but I only heard about the other stuff second-hand (which the dude later corroborated as well).
I don't know if I was missing anything by not drinking it pre-ban.