ORIGINALLY introduced in 1940, Mountain Dew is a popular soda embodying flavors of lemon and lime.
Mountain Dew has soft launched a series of alcoholic beverages, currently available throughout Florida, Tennessee, and Iowa.
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What are the hard Mountain Dew flavors?
Hard Mountain Dew offers four flavors: original Mountain Dew, Baja Blast, black cherry and watermelon.
Available in both 24oz single-serve cans or a 12-pack of 12oz cans, hard Mountain Dew has no caffeine and no added sugar.
The drinks are 5% alcohol per volume.
"Originally intended to be a mixer for alcoholic spirits when MTN DEW was created more than 80 years ago, the brand is returning to its roots in one of the first alcoholic versions of a major soft drink," said a press release from the company.
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Where can I buy hard Mountain Dew?
In a press release shared in August 2021, PepsiCo and Boston Beer said they paired together because they "understand the importance of delivering new, breakthrough innovations to address the changing tastes of drinkers."
Boston Beer said the boozy beverage will be "marketed to adults of legal age and merchandised consistently with other alcoholic beverages."
In February of 2022, Hard Mountain Dew went on sale in three different states - Tennessee, Florida, and Iowa.
Carried by select grocery stores and retailers, the five percent alcohol-infused sodas are expected to expand their availability throughout 2022.
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What is Mountain Dew?
In 1940, Tennessee-based beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman created the original formula of Mountain Dew soda.
After a few tweaks to the formula by various people, Mountain Dew was launched in 1961.
Three years later, the brand and production rights were purchased by the PepsiCo company.
The caffeinated citrus-flavored soda comes in a series of flavors as of 2022: Voltage (Blue Raspberry); Live Wire (Orange); Code Red (Cherry); Major Melon (Watermelon); Spark (Raspberry Lemonade); and the Taco Bell-exclusive, Baja Blast (Tropical Lime).
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