Mtn Dew Holiday Brew Review

After the mediocre critical success of their last holiday beverage, Dew-S-A, Mtn Dew comes down the chimney with Holiday Brew, a blend of the popular Code Red flavor and the trademark variety. The bottle is festive, I like how the green label and cap contrast with the nuclear red liquid, but boy, is there a lot going on in the design.

The flavor tastes exactly like it is supposed to, like Mtn Dew regular and Code Red, for better or worse. It is a potently sweet mixture of cherry, lemon, lime and melon, no one sip reveals the lazy fruit stitching, all tasting congruous as if this is how the flavors were always supposed to be experienced. But the problems of the Mtn Dew brand shine through the crimson cocktail, most notably the lack of acidity and a relentlessly syrupy saccharinity. You taste nothing but sugar by the last few ounces, but if that is how you like your soda, then happy holidays.

There is ninety one milligrams of caffeine to be enjoyed, but the tradeoff is seventy seven grams of high fructose corn syrup. It is a lot of calories for such a small kick, leaving me wonder why you would not just crack open one of those reduced calorie AMP drinks. In the end, Mtn Dew Holiday Brew is a smaller lump of coal than expected.

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