![]() ![]() Only three states are kicking off the launch with Florida, Iowa, and Tennessee, but more states will start to get them through 2022. Each HARD MTN DEW will contain 5% ABV and will also have Zero Sugar with 100 calories each. Four HARD MTN DEW flavors will be coming with Back Cherry, Watermelon, Original, and the hit flavor Baja Blast! Two versions will be offered with 24oz single-serve cans as well as a Mix Pack that features 12oz cans and all the flavors in one box. ![]() This is the first major soft drink to take this leap, and there is plenty for Mountain Dew fans to get excited about, from flavors to contents. This new alcoholic beverage takes the legendary soda back to its mixer spirits origins and turns it up a notch. This is the foundation drink you pounded alongside a Mexican pizza and three Crunchwraps because you don’t have any self control, you monster.At long last! Every Mountain Dew fan's dream is now a reality as PepsiCo, and The Boston Beer Company announced the arrival of Hard Mountain Dew. This isn’t rolling the dice with calamansi or blood orange. For a drink that clocks in with the same ABV (5 percent) and calories (100) of a White Claw, there’s a whole lot more flavor.Īnd since it’s a pretty solid approximation of Mountain Dew, you already know and probably like those flavors. Mountain Dew was originally uncolored and lemon-lime flavored, used as a mixer with bourbon. The aftertaste is a fine layer of Splenda, but I actually am digging it. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola enter hard soda markets, causing concerns among regulators and researchers. It tastes almost like the real thing - a little more syrupy, but it’s sweet and there’s only a slight hint of the neutral spirits that give it its 5 percent ABV kick. It looks like a damn Willy Wonka drink, if Wonka wanted to get kids drunk instead of murder them. Once it’s in the glass, a lovely reverse rainstorm of CO2 floats its way to the top of the cup. This pours like regular Baja Blast, fresh out of the Taco Bell tap but with (slightly) less carbonation. It should take about 15 minutes at this rate. I just want to pour it into a 52-ounce cup filled with crushed ice, stick a two-foot straw into it and sip it at a tailgate until I forget I rode two hours to watch a Vanderbilt game. ![]() Mountain Dew always made a good diet soda, so the swap of sugar/corn syrup for whatever saccharine substitute they’ve got going on here isn’t especially noticeable.īut I drink those sugar-free versions a lot, so maybe I’m numb to it. This tastes like a soda - I’m not getting any booze in these sips - and a pretty good one at that. This is a sugary delight, and the alcoholic, acidic tang of bad wine or neutral spirits is swept away in that sweetness. It smells like Boone’s Farm, which *further* bums me out. This is only “watermelon,” however, and it bums me out. MTN DEW lovers of legal drinking age can experience the bold, citrus flavors of the soft drink they know and love with 5 alcohol by volume (ABV). The non-alcoholic version of this is called “Major Melon,” which sounds like it’s 91 percent of the way to an ’80s adult film title. Summer 2023 was the backdrop for a Baja Blast-themed extension that brings the Hard MTN Dew portfolio up to eight flavors.Īnd, because I am a journalist, I am ranking them. And I clearly wasn’t the only one, as the folks behind the launch haven’t just expanded to new territories - 14 states and counting - but new flavors. When I reviewed it last year I was seriously impressed with the amount of true-to-brand flavor the company was able to cram into each can with a seltzer-style calorie payload (and more booze than a light beer). Instead, we live in an era where we can simply choose to do so. ![]() Gone are the days where you had to mix tequila or vodka into your neon green beverage to create that perfect combat margarita taste. And at five percent alcohol and 100 calories, it’s a proper contender to the throne of an ever-expanding hard seltzer/canned cocktail empire. Not the traditional soft drink version, of course, but Hard MTN Dew is a malt beverage true to its original roots. A burgeoning new world of alcohol is upon us. ![]()
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