![]() (The fast food restaurant, surprisingly, is not actually involved in the promotion or production of the hot sauce). ![]() Still, I wanted to give the sauce a fair shake, so I decided to pair it with its most obvious mate: Taco Bell. The sauce was far too sweet for the mild-tasting pizza, and the look was anything but appetizing. Looking back, this wasn't the best choice. I opted for pizza, since I had a frozen Newman's Own White Thin Crust Pizza on hand. We're not talking crazy levels of spice here, but after a few bites, you will feel a burn.įollowing my chip test, I wanted to try the sauce on something more substantial. It instead gives way to a surprising spiciness that hits you in the back of the throat. It really does taste like Mountain Dew, specifically Baja Blast it's somewhat akin to adding soda syrup to a chip. I've never had a hot sauce, or any condiment really, that's as sweet as this. The taste was surprising, and quite unlike anything I'd ever tried before. There's only so much one can learn from looking at and reading about a food, so I knew I had to try the sauce.įirst, I tried it on some tortilla chips. Mountain Dew Baja Blast Hot Sauce: The Taste Test It both looks and sounds like a spicy green salsa.with sweet soda flavoring added. Tomatillo is the first ingredient, and later on in the list - past the sugary flavored syrup and high fructose corn syrup - you'll find green chiles, lime juice and cilantro. Looking over the ingredients, I was frankly surprised at the amount of "real" stuff in there. But upon closer inspection, I noticed quite of bit of biological material in the bottle: loads of seeds, bits of fragmented pepper and possibly even some lime pulp. I initially had a hard time believing that such an unnatural-looking product could actually contain anything natural. The literal first thing I thought upon seeing the hot sauce was this is a color not found in nature: an almost neon-green bluish hue. Clearly, The Dew wants to make experiencing the sauce an event, and the packaging certainly clues you into the fact that you're about to undergo a unique ordeal. It came packaged in a branded wooden crate filled with straw (for some reason) and accompanied by a metal taco holder, dip cup and various stickers. 2.My bottle of Mountain Dew Baja Blast Hot Sauce arrived with a considerable amount of fanfare. That’s not necessarily a downside-it goes down a bit too easy-but if you’re looking for something that packs a noticeable punch, you might be a bit let down (I may or may not have ended up mixing it with a bit of whiskey at the end of the tasting, which certainly did not hurt). The 5% ABV all of the flavors boast is also a good and a bad thing, as you probably wouldn’t know this had any alcohol in it if you didn’t know what you were drinking. However, that reality is reflected in the end result this definitely gives off some pretty strong Diet Mountain Dew vibes. I was able to do a side-by-side comparison with a regular can of the brand’s flagship flavor, and I was pretty surprised to discover it was able to hold its own.Īll of the Hard Mountain Dew varieties are sugar-free, which is probably for the best when you consider the hangover that would likely greet you after throwing back a few if that wasn’t the case (each 12-ounce serving also features a modest 100 calories). On Tuesday, the product officially dubbed “Hard MTN Dew” debuted with a splash when it hit shelves in Iowa, Florida, and Tennessee, and after calling in some favors, I was able to secure a few cans for myself.ĭoes Hard Mountain Dew live up to the hype? Here’s my verdict. However, things came full circle last summer when Mountain Dew unveiled it was gearing up for what I believe the Cool Kids refer to as a “vibe shift” after teaming up with Boston Beer Company to turn the world on its head with the game-changing concoction that is Hard Mountain Dew. Over the decades, the brand has slowly but surely strayed away from its roots in the 1990s, it found itself engaged in a battle with Surge to win the hearts and minds of the skateboarders and BMX riders who belonged to Generation Xtreme, and after emerging from that conflict as the victor, the focus shifted to the gamers who used it to wash down the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos they also used for fuel during marathon World of Warcraft sessions.
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