After a brief hiatus after its official debut in 2023, the Mtn Dew brand's Summer Freeze is back, again for a limited time. It is coming to the award-winning Caffeine King in a bottle this time, so you really get to visually soak in all the unnatural-looking coloring. 'Merica! Or something.
The absence of an aluminum transport helps give this latest Mtn Dew a cleaner finish, climaxing without metallic interference. But that does not stop the beverage from being yet another misguided mutation of the company's popular Voltage version: blue raspberry is what you taste and you had better like it, because there are twenty ounces of candy-colored cocktail to consume. Buried beneath it is a touch of common citrus and a hint of melon, but these momentary pit stops are inconsequential interruptions, introducing no real nuance or breathing room- this is a showcase for blue raspberry. As for the cherry that the label hails, good luck finding the fruit here. The lackadaisical lemon and lime are perhaps the worst offender, as they fail to bring any acidity to the party, leaving the experience to rot a boring death with a chronic dearth of acidity. Instead we get aspartame, ace-k and sucralose, in that order, and they are sweet for the sole purpose of being sweet. And by the time only a few smalt sips remain inside the hollow plastic, your palate clogged up so badly that the trilogy of synthetic sugars is all your tired tongue can taste.
We do have 114 milligrams of caffeine, which is graciously more than, let us say last years equally dismal VooDew variety, but that alone an energy drink this does not make. And that is fine, it never claims to be one, but I dunno, perhaps my body is prejudice against confused caffeinated cocktails?
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