Down the hatch: Mountain Dew Voltage

A recent post about sodas gone by the wayside led me to the soda aisle to see what colored and flavored offshoots are surprisingly still around. Green Tea Ginger Ale is apparently still going strong in its first year — or is on the way out: a single two-liter bottle was all that remained on the shelves of Target.

When I came across Mountain Dew Voltage, I figured I owed the drink a chance. This would be my first mistake. Introduced in 2008 as the winning flavor in a  “dewmocracy competition,” the blue-hued soda is described as “Dew charged with raspberry citrus flavoring and Ginseng.”

Creativeone, a user on YouTube, has a series of videos in which he tries Mountain Dew products. His experience tackling Mountain Dew Voltage should have been telling:

 “I like it, I really do…My eyes are watering…I can kinda feel it going down my throat…feels like a sizzly feeling.”