Mtn Dew Green Label Soda Review

A surprisingly appealing can, this Mtn Dew is one of three in their "Label" line, at least according to my interwebs sleuthing. There is a lot going on in the design, busy white text and graphics that are easily noticeable off of the forest green backdrop, but it all works here, achieving a level of controlled chaos the main Mtn Dew drinks usually are overtaken by.

The flavor is one of the best the company has pushed out in years, the base fruits of Mtn Dew veiled by a composed sourness that puckers just enough to gently yank at the edge of your lips. Any claim of apple is a lie- you taste the fruity idiosyncrasy of kiwi just above the trademark lemon, lime and melon flavors. Sweetness is another highlight, thirty five grams cane sugar and however much the juice content adds, in addition to sucralose and ace-k. It is well balanced, slightly syrupy and gritty but never overwhelming: it is exactly what this flavor needs. Sixteen ounces might be a tall order for an experience of such relative simplicity, never evolving much between your first and final imbibe, but gosh, what a world if all the company's caffeinated cocktail varieties were as carefully crafted as this one here?

Each can contains eighty three milligrams of caffeine, but that is it. For a soda lover looking for a kick, it will do, but only Mtn Dew lovers will find much to appreciate in the ingredients list.

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Dirty Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Cream Soda Dew Review

I am, if anything, happy that Mountain Dew has decided to actually tell us the alleged flavor with their newest variety. I do not, however, think there is anything dirty about cream soda, which should be velvety, rich, and, ahem, creamy- what kind of soft drinks have they been having? The can is alright, surely busy enough to keep the most immature eyes distracted from the fact you cannot really tell what is going on. Is that a desert? Is that space? Who knows?

I love a good cream soda, but Dirty Mountain Dew proves that I do not love a cream soda mixed with caffeinated citrus. Actually, that is not entire fair: the spice chosen today is a cheap one, chemical and hollow, missing the weighty smoothness of one from a small-time soft drink manufacturer who still uses glass bottles. This is in heavy contrast to the fruit, which is your usual blend of lemon, lime, melon and grapefruit. That familiar blend goes the expected candied route, living in luxury at the decision to use synthetic sugars sucralose and ace-k. This fakeness only amplifies the cream's falsehood flavor, meaning you get twelve ounces of a cheap, carbonated sherbet covered in frost way in the back of a dingy discount store's end chill-chest. A splash or two of actual milk, even if it bumped up the calorie count a tad, could have rescued this from The Caffeine King's annual "Your Drink Sucks" list, but alas, I can only review the drink in front of me, not the one I improve in my head.

Sixty eight milligrams of caffeine, in all respects, is pretty decent for a soda sold in twelve packs. The only problem is, I have another eleven cans to suffer through.

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Mtn Dew Baja Cabo Citrus Soda Review

Not a "blast" this time, Mtn Dew's latest Baja beverage is "Cabo Citrus," or as the label explains a "tropical citrus punch." The packaging does sport the fruit I suppose I should suspect with that sapor, but the unnaturally bright safety cone orange calls to mind the brand's previous Flamin' Hot variety, which is not something anything, anywhere, should remind anyone of.

There is a lot of sugar here, seventy four grams of the sweet stuff, which equates to almost 150% of your recommended daily intake. I am no doctor, and therefore unable to provide any medical guidance, but that seems a bit unnecessary and unhealthy. But I digress: the saccharinity all comes from high fructose corn syrup, no diet sweetener to help break up the caloric monotony, and within just a few gulps all you can taste are carbohydrates. Mouthfuls have a flimsy mouthfeel, slippery like flour on a wooden floor, and even as I allowed the candied caffeinated cocktail sit still on my tongue, my taste buds trying their damnedest to try and locate all the fruits plastered across the plastic bottle, my body began to reject this belt-busting disaster. Tangerine is the least muted, followed by deadened depictions of melon and lime, but the tropical trilogy takes a backseat to the potation's pure purpose: sugar. I would say I wish I liked this more, but I sure as hell am not taking the blame for this twenty ounce misfire.

We are given just ninety two milligrams of my namesake chemical to enjoy, my body buzzed more from all the empty calories I would wager. This is not an energy drink, obviously, but if it were, at least there would be a reason to consume this and all its destructive glory.

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Mtn Dew Rise Peach Mango Dawn Energy Drink Review

Peach Mango is an interesting flavor from Mtn Dew's Rise line, one that has not really been seen before from the brand. Oh sure, we had their Mango Heat drink a few years prior, but peach? That is a first from the company of course, aside from their KFC-exclusive Sweet Lightning drink, which my tongue has never tasted simply because it would require my body to enter a KFC. The can today is OK, remaining a bland design that screams neither peach nor mango.

The five percent of juice included is limited to just white grape juice concentrate, which adds nothing to the flavor but does introduce texture. There is a slight grit to every sip, resembling the pulpy goodness but it is restricted to only a simulation. But this nuance goes a long way in giving the experience a minorly more mature impact on the palate. What does this mean? Every imbibe is less a "super sugar-charged soda" and closer to a mainstream craft soft drink, well, at least as craft as any mass-produced energy drink can be. The peach and mango are relatively impressive here, bringing to the potable a zesty acidity that pairs very well with the punchy effervescence. All this gives Mtn Dew Rise Peach Mango a profile that is further developed than what one expects from both the brand and sub-brand. Is it flawless? Of course it is not- there is not much in the way of nuance or complexity, with each gulp identical to the last. But hey, we are not looking for perfection here, we are looking for drinkability, and we got it.

The 180mg of caffeine here is twenty milligrams more than the average energy drink, and the buzz also slightly above average. There are some vitamins and antioxidants as well but the sweet sweet caffeine is what we are all about. On the whole, Mtn Dew Rise Peach Mango Dawn is a surprise, a pleasant surprise. It is a simple as that.

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Mtn Dew Zero Sugar Summer Freeze Soda Review

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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Mtn Dew Rise Pomegranate Blue Burst Energy Drink Review

The blue color scheme works rather well with the Mtn Dew Rise design, complementing the otherwise dull bare aluminum background. The scarlet top bar feels out of place however, not because it does not match with the design but instead because it is about the only red to be found. Well, aside from the eye and nose of the lion that is.

Mtn Dew branding. Blue coloring. I should have known better. Yes my friends, this is the company's often prostituted "Voltage" flavor, which has exploited several times before, including their "Frost Bite," among a good several others. It is perhaps their most famous flavor, next to the classic citrus of course, but why oh why oh why do we need to experience the same thing again?! "Pomegranate" is a misdemeanor, this is flat-out blue raspberry, with the crimson deciduous fruit coming up only in the tickling tartness and a pinch in the sweetness. But every sip is pure blue raspberry, you know what I am talking about- it tastes fake ever step of the way, each ounce soaked in syntheticness in the way only soft drinks can manage. On the plus side, this is an easy drink, simple, one-dimension but you will finish the entire can within mere moments.

The can here is proud of the 180 milligrams of caffeine, and so am I. It makes for a pretty good buzz, lasting three hours or so. Other ingredients include five percent juice, zinc, antioxidants, and vitamins. To end, Mtn Dew Rise Pomegranate Blue Burst is not quite a bust, but it sure as hell ain't a bang.

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Mtn Dew VooDew 2024 Soda Review

Who is this drink for? One would surmise it would be for folks like me, the kind who live, breath and die caffeine, but I prefer my potent potables to clock in somewhere a bit less than 270 calories and nearly a day and a half of your recommended intake of sugar. I know at least my waist will thank me.

Not unlike this year's diet variation, my tongue is crippled immediately upon  liquid impact; though this time it is due to the seventy three grams of sugar inside these thin plastic walls, all from high fructose corn syrup, drowning my poor palate in a saccharine salvo of bare unnecessities. I taste peach and mango, both so distant and distracted by the gut-busting carbohydrates that sips end up being just indistinctly fruity. Effervescence leaves almost as soon as it arrives, leaving the texture to fend for itself, a very, ahem, syrupy mouthfeel. As for acidity, ha, I wish we had some sourness to steer the experience back on track. I do enjoy a good mystery, giving me a bit of a challenge as I pen the review, and I do truly go in blind. But then I like to see what the interwebs thinks, which a quick search shows that even the nebulous blob of folks online have no idea. Is it fruit punch? Some nostalgic candy? No one has any idea, but my opinion still stands: this drink sucks.

A soda with ninety one grams of caffeine means that to someone, somewhere, this will replace that morning cup of coffee. Not me though, I prefer my buzz to be one that I does not need to be followed by a long jog.

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Mtn Dew Zero Sugar VooDew 2024 Soda Review

It is time for candy corn, or at least it is according to PepsiCo, who's Mtn Dew has their annual "VooDew" out on store shelves. This here is 2024's diet edition, oh I am sorry, their "Zero Sugar" edition. Nomenclature be damned.

The can looks good as per usual, but what could be this year's flavor? Cheap compound chocolate? Plastic Halloween mask? Or what about raw carving pumpkin? Who knows, but my body is willing to bet it ain't candy corn.

Pouring out a crystal clear, the scent is indistinctly fruity, but the flavor is trash: it has the awkward astringency of artificial peach, complete with an equally unpleasant sham creaminess. It just does not work together, failing not only as a holiday treat but also as an experience all together, which should have been priority number one for the brand. Banana is also here, for some reason, contributing nothing except more bewilderment; it does not work as a nuance because nothing here works cohesively. Sucralose and ace-k are the sweetener system at play but they put up no fight to the acidity, which is about the only good thing I could think of- this is more sour than sugary soft drink. Mouthfuls, despite being served chilled, taste somehow slightly warm, as if it needs to be surrounded in dry ice to truly be frosty on the tongue, so I gulped and gulped and my palate winced as every nasty ounce coated it. This tastes worse than trick-or-treaters toilet papering your house.

The buzz is weak, but that is OK, since this is not an energy drink. It is a soda, so the sixty eight milligrams of my namesake chemical mean that you can chug a few cans to ease into the kick. Or, you know, you could do that with a better tasting Mtn Dew.

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Mtn Dew Kickstart Watermelon Review

This slender, bright green can has text screaming in from many different angles, almost all different fonts, sizes, and with varying levels of importance. Some text is bold, some italicized, but hardly any is necessary, words tossed about the can like a kid learning how to use Microsoft Paint.

First sip is grotesquely sour, a mossy acidity rather unpleasant with the potation's high fructose corn syrup, ace-k and sucralose saccharinity. Its flavor is less the soft, carefree nature of the melon, and inspired most by the Jolly Rancher rendition of the fleshy fruit, twelve ounces with any gentle depth removed. Instead, the candied interpretation lacks the weight of the sugar needed, the fifteen grams used proving too little, particularly with the burn of synthetic honey; this gaucherie potable is liquid candy without the candy sweetness. The petite beverage seems to drag, and no matter how many gulps I choked down, there always seemed to be many more left in the can. Years ago, Pepsi proved that they did not know how to make a tasty watermelon drink, and this year, they showed that they still do not know how.

Sixty eight milligrams of caffeine, and several varying amounts of B vitamins and vitamin C. The buzz is banausic, lasting less than an hour, and acting more like your typical Mtn Dew and an "energizing" beverage. On the whole, this Watermelon Kickstart did not have much promise yet somehow, turned out to be worse.

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Mtn Dew VooDew 2023 Soda Review

I do not know about you, but I am tired of twenty ounce soft drinks with 270 calories! Those could, I dunno, go towards a complete balanced breakfast! But here Mtn Dew is, back with their annual "VooDew" variant, and if this year's diet version is any indication, this is going to be a pretty bad time. I will say that I like the label, going all in with the kitschy Halloween aesthetic, with greens and pinks and blacks. Is it busy? Oh hell yeah, but I do like looking at it.

The cloudy white elixir smells like Bomb Pops, and first sip results in something not too far from that scent. Lime, cherry and grape appear all mushed together, a Frankenstein of a fruit that has none of the complexity any of those three could have independently. Instead, Mtn Dew takes probably the only logical route with the soda, going hog-wild with sweetness. Oh gosh is this sweet, it is saccharine to the point of nausea, with seventy three grams of high fructose corn syrup. That is almost 150% intake of added sugar, for those health-conscious crazy people who think that using some artificial sugars, to help get that number down to something resembling reason, would somehow be worse for you. Yeah, because the human body was designed to digest all those carbs. (Note to readers: I am not a licensed medical professional, so please get your health advise elsewhere.) Anyway, This is not the worst VooDew that Mtn Dew has designed, but boy, am I tired of having to exercise off their drinks.

What else is there to say about a sweetened carbonated liquid? Well, I was less thirsty after consumption, I suppose that is something. Anyway, Mtn Dew VooDew 2023 is likely to have fans salivating with excitement for next year's version, but it has me rethinking my life choices.

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Mtn Dew Zero Sugar VooDew 2023 Soda Review

It is beginning to look like Halloween, at least according to PepsiCo, as we have their yearly Mtn Dew "VooDew" variant. This one happens to be the sugar free version, but do not worry, caffeine fiends, the cavity-causing variety should be reviewed shortly. The can is everything you want from the brand today, with a large logo, busy visuals and the hollow promise that maybe, just maybe, it will taste like candy corn. Oh wait that is only me?

Your first sip is sweet, oh golly is it so, a synthetic sugar salvo that assaults your palate into total compliance. What the flavor actually is is a muddled mess of melon, robbed of complexity and possibly acidity in favor of strict saccharinity, so simple in execution that you wonder how many satchels of Splenda, Equal and Sunett are poured into this small twelve ounces. What, you have never seen a packet of Sunett? Well, neither have I. The more one sips the more notes of vanilla and peach overwhelm the taste buds, all soaked in the unnecessary pseudo sugariness. So far at about half of the can is depleted of its contents, and my tongue is so seized into the sham sweetener submission, and suddenly I get the urge to bite into something natural, like an apple fresh off of the tree, or hell, even a sprig of broccoli, something- anything to help undo what the cascade of counterfeit carbohydrates have done.

Being a soda, the sixty eight milligrams of caffeine we get to work with is nothing but a benefit, though it hardly justifies the dreadful flavor. Overall, Mtn Dew Zero Sugar VooDew 2023 is worse than getting an expired piece of candy in your bag on Halloween night.

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Mtn Dew Flamin' Hot Soda Review

Someone needs to tell Mtn Dew to calm down- it feels like every week they release some crazy new product, but this takes the cake. A spicy soda? No thank you. But I believe in full-service reviews here at The Caffeine King, so "sorry" to my palate but "you are welcome" to readers. The packaging is wild in the best possible way, yet its bright red coloring feels at odds with its citrus sub-flavoring.

Whether or not I prepared for the worst or I was just plain wrong, but things are significantly less "hot" than I feared. Well actually hold on a sec, I am finishing my first mouthful here and- blech, yuck, this is nasty and if I could I would erase that first sentence. The rear of my throat burns with the heat unlike a pepper and more like a cinnamon candy or perhaps fireball whisky, it sticking to my palate, never yielding to any subsequent sip. Seventy three grams of sugar, all added and all from high fructose corn syrup, only intensifies the unpleasant sensation by thickening the texture to the point of carbonated sludge. As for the initial flavor, before the grody aftertaste, it is an unsophisticated lemon/lime hybrid that has minimal changes from base Mtn Dew. What else am I supposed to say? How about this: if I was not an honest critic, I would dump the remaining ounces down the sink, burn the bottle and never speak of this again.

With nearly a day and a half worth of the suggested intake of sugar, finishing an entire bottle is not only unsavory but also unhealthy. But hey, who here reads a Mtn Dew review expecting health advise? As for us caffeine kings, queens and all members of the royal family, there is ninety one milligrams, a solid amount for something lacking the word "energy" on the packaging. Overall and probably unsurprisingly, this drink sucks.

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Mtn Dew Summer Freeze Zero Sugar Soda Review

What bothers me most about the way this Mtn Dew looks is how it reads "Zero Sugar Summer Freeze," where as my friend the interwebs has it organized "Summer Freeze Zero Sugar." Either I am wrong, or the company is, which is such a silly distraction from the goofy visuals. Sure it is busy, but that is the point, though somebody tell Pepsico that "summer Americana" is not a flavor.

It only took a sip or two for my brain to start working; I have tasted this before. A quick search on the premier database for energy drink reviews, The Caffeine King, floods my mind back with memories of a simpler time, namely 2011 and Diet Mtn Dew Voltage. Oh I am sure there are some subtle differences, I mean it is not like I have a bottle of sugar free Voltage kicking around for over a decade just for this moment, but it does not matter on the tongue. Blue raspberry, fake to the fullest order, explodes with its candied simplicity as you take your first mouthful, a slightly powdery puckering playing in the back of your throat. I wish I could report that there was some other flavor but I am afraid not- this is a one-note experience that at least gets it right that us dumb Americans like things simple, sweet, stupid and synthetic.

The best thing here is the sixty eight milligrams of caffeine in each can, which is a bit excessive for a non-energy drink, but hey, that is America baby! Overall, Mtn Dew Summer Freeze Zero Sugar drinkable and nostalgic but probably not for the right reasons.

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Mtn Dew Pitch Black Energy Drink Review

Mtn Dew's Pitch Black has has come and gone several times throughout the brand's history, even getting reviewed by the world famous Caffeine King way back in 2011, but so what? Artificial scarcity hardly excites me, even if it clearly works, but what I do care about is the energy drink adaptation. Its intimidating use of black, green and purple make for a very Halloween look, even though its the month of love.

This flavor washes off of your tongue almost the moment it hits it, a rather forgettable grape impersonation lacking weight, personality and acidity, leaving us with just sweetness and simplicity instead of sweet simplicity. Though actual grape juice is involved, the potable is five percent of the white variety, its presence is minimal on the tongue, an involvement more plausibly due to sounding good to the marketing team. We have four grams of sugar working alongside aspartame, ace-k and sucralose, a saccharinity without nuance or patience, just plopping on the palate like "hey look at me" but forgetting a reason why. Carbonation is another weak point, tasting like it is soon expiring, as if it is to go flat in mere minutes. There are bubbles, so it does do the job, but only the bare minimum.

Proudly proclaimed on the front of the can, we have 180 milligrams of caffeine, and the resulting buzz is a satisfying if unspectacular two and a half hours long. Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, the usual stuff, also appear, but I came here for my stimulant and dog-gone-it that is what I want! Overall, Mtn Dew Energy Pitch Black is about as memorable as a dark room with nothing to see.

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Mtn Dew VooDew 2022 Zero Sugar Soda Review

It is almost as if Mtn Dew has listened to my yearly criticisms towards their VooDew releases and published a diet version. Now do I condone artificial sweeteners? About as much as I condone soft drinks honestly. The twelve ounce can is packed with wild fonts, colors and visuals, and is about as attractive a packaging as the brand has ever been. Interpret that as you will.

As bound by candy corn law, this tastes nothing like the polarizing Halloween staple, but in actuality, this barely tastes like anything special at all. The Mtn Dew base of citrus and melon hardly allows for anything else to break through the diet carbohydrates, sucralose and ace-k sweet to the palate like licking those multicolored satchels at the counter of your local coffee shop. No one imbibe resembles the brand's previous VooDews or even this year's, nuance lost in a saccharine sea of aggressive effervescence and plucky tartness. It is not a bad time on the tongue mind you, completely drinkable actually, but what is so mysterious about this I have no idea.

Sixty eight milligrams of caffeine is a good amount for a twelve ounce potable, kicking like any non-energy drink would. But this is not an energy drink, so why are we still talking? Anyway, Mtn Dew VooDew 2022 Zero Sugar will sell like hot cakes, so anything I have to say is just writing on the internet, destined to be lost like this years' top trick or treat costume.

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Mtn Dew VooDew 2022 Soda Review

This is the year- yes, the year Mtn Dew's somehow annual "VooDew" brand takes on the most classic of Halloween flavors: candy corn. How do I know? I do not, but come on, there had to be public outcry! Anyway, the bottle is what you expect from the company, more orange this time around, so actually hold up- maybe it will be PSL-inspired?

Well darn, this ain't candy corn flavored! Instead it is hyper-saccharine apple, lemon and melon with a sourness that rivals most anything in your average trick-or-treat bag. Not even two sips in and your mouth is engulfed by syrup, weighed down to the point of distraction, distraction from the rather pleasant fruitiness and its sweet/tart depiction. And further gulps only add to its grip on your palate, and before you know it, you are just drinking mouthfuls of thick honey without the honey taste. But that first imbibe, wow, that was pleasant, but now here I am, half a bottle depleted and my belt undone, so obviously gaining weight from the 270 calories per bottle, the needless carbohydrates clearly not interested in allowing me to slip easily into my Halloween costume this year.

This is a soda, and your diet be damned, because this does not give soft drinks a good name. What else am I to say? That I like the feeling of consuming so many empty carbs and calories? There is no curiosity here. Overall, Mtn Dew VooDew 2022 is frightening only when you read the ingredients label.

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Mtn Dew Zero Sugar Major Melon Soda Review

Grumble grumble, exhales all the palates of the world as Mtn Dew Major Melon debuted, only the company has a lot of confidence in this product- it is the first permanent potable in the line in something like a decade. After so many exhaustive limited releases, I have lost faith in the brand, considering so so so many of their potations fail to be anything but flavored corn syrup. Perhaps, just perhaps, the diet version of their newest brew will turn my frown upside down.

Unfortunately, the essence of Mtn Dew is lost in a cascade of syntheticness and candy. It is pure unpleasantry, twelve ounces of absolutely no good, rotten, bad time nastiness. The fruity flavor is dimensionless, that oh so familiar "melted Jolly Rancher" simulation that plagues so many potables using melons as their inspiration. We have a rather unique sweetener blend, with soft drink stalwart aspartame joining the common duo ace-k and sucralose, but they bring out the worst in each other, every sip is cloaked in a heavy mask of syntheticness, each of the three showcasing their own special brand of diet burn, cultivating in an aftertaste that lingers well after your final imbibe.

We have sixty eight milligrams of caffeine, but that is the only ingredient here worth noting. Overall, Mtn Dew Zero Sugar Major Melon is a major miscalculation, but considering its fervent fans, it probably will not matter much in terms of sales.

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Mtn Dew Baja Blast Energy Drink Review

Mtn Dew Baja Blast Energy puts me in an awkward spot as a potent potable critic- can I forgive the former scarcity of its Taco Bell exclusivity or can I be excited to see the favorite flavor in energy drink form? From a visual standpoint, it makes a strong first-impression, the lion imagery and iconic color palate benefiting from a surprising shortage of unnecessary text. Though lines like "immune support" get a chortle out of me; I mean come on, who with honest intentions would consume this for anything but refreshment and caffeine?

Lime and melon hit the palate with subdued vigor, carried by a plucky effervescence and an abrupt acidity that increases in intensity as sips are sipped but never lingers any longer than it does with that initial impression. The flavor profile is that of a soda, I mean yeah duh, but at sixteen ounces, there is minimal mutations between imbibes and that results in little incentive to continue gulping, outside of being thirsty that is. White grape juice, for a nectar content clocking in at a mere five percent, brings four total grams of actual sugar to the familiar faces of ace-k and sucralose. There is some textural nuance thusly, but more would have been appreciated. The dual flavors end up just sitting there, left out to die as other elements ignore them and instead choose to carry the experience to completion. What we get is, well, a mass-marketed energy drink.

180 milligrams of caffeine, vitamins A and C, B vitamins, zinc, etc., make up the ingredient cocktail, a resulting buzz lasting about two and a half hours. In the end, Mtn Dew Baja Blast Energy is exactly what its name suggests- nothing more and debatably nothing less.

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Mtn Dew Thrashed Apple Soda Review

Mtn Dew Thrashed Apple is exclusive to the Kroger family of grocery stores. Mine did not sell twenty ounce bottles, which meant I had to spend over seven bucks for a twelve pack of twelve ounce cans. Oh, well, maybe one day I will get paid for the words I type.

The can itself is wild, like any other recent Mtn Dew, but it sells its apple origins with its nearly all green appearance. I like it.

Despite having zero nectar, the flavor achieves a level of verisimilitude uncharacteristic of the company. It is ungodly sweet sure, featuring forty three grams of high fructose corn syrup, but there is a fresh taste to each sip, a burst of acid that feels like it came bursting out of the flesh of the emerald skinned fruit instead of by a person in a lab coat playing with beakers and other things I stereotypically associate with flavor scientists. It is one note and demonstrates an absolutely no depth, taking the famous granny smith variety profile and liquifying its essence, but it commits to that like a marriage. The front of the design reads "DEW charged with crisp apple," but do not let that fool you; my palate observed that the usual brand flavor was never present. This is apple through and through, for better or worse.

Remember kids, this is a soda, not an energy drink, so the fifty five milligrams of caffeine is not design to give you much of a boost- really the sugar rush is what my body felt most. In the end, Mtn Dew Thrashed Apple is what it claims to be: an apple soft drink.

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Mtn Dew Rise Tropical Sunrise Energy Drink Review

There is not much to say about this Mtn Dew Rise can that has not already been said in my award-winning review of the line's Orange Breeze version. Though with a flavor indication as vague as "Tropical Sunrise," it begs for more explicit explanation- what is so tropical about it? The ingredients list only white grape juice, so without any indication consumers are left to risk their two or so dollars on something they really do not understand.

I am a pushover for tropical potations, but Mtn Dew just double dips into the same old flavor-base used in previous products like Game Fuel Charged Tropical Strike. (So... triple drips?) The primary difference this time is the reduction from ninety to twenty five calories, but the core profile remains identical, tasting of hollow pineapple, jaded mango and a squirt of nectarine. But these are just words in a paragraph in a review on an energy drink review site- any Mtn Dew junkie has experienced this experience plenty of times before. In a way this is a good thing- the white grape nectar providing four grams of sugar, along with the synthetic squad of aspartame, ace-k and sucralose, but sips do not suffer from this carbohydrate reduction. The texture has some weight to it, and there is hardly any artificial aftertaste to taste, lost in the potable's fluffy effervescence and slight tartness. My tongue wished for stronger acidity and a whole lot more personality, but the sixteen ounces it bathed in was by no means unpleasant.

The 180 milligrams of caffeine makes for a pretty decent kick. Lasting three hours, the energy found within the thin metal walls is more impressive than anything here. To end, Mtn Dew Rise Tropical Sunrise gets a passing grade for competency and nothing else.

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