I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Mountain Dew has quite a few flavors to choose from. According to the Mountain Dew Wiki (a very helpful resource), there are dozens of different flavors available right now—and hundreds that have come and gone. Today, I’ll be covering seven rare flavors of Mountain Dew you might not have known about.
These aren’t the seven rarest flavors per say; I’m keeping this list relatively recent to help pare down the giant list of options. (An article exclusively covering flavors like the ~40-year-old Mountain Dew Aurora from Japan wouldn’t be hugely relevant to our modern sensibilities.) Some of these are still on shelves, and the rest pop up on eBay or other specialty sites from time to time. Of course, I can’t recommend you drink expired soda, but most of these are available online if you know where to look.
- Mountain Dew Maui Burst
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I get asked my favorite flavors of soda pretty frequently (can’t imagine why), and I get a lot of confused looks when I mention this one. Maui Burst is a Dollar General exclusive flavor of Mountain Dew—and a very good one at that. Lucky for everyone, it is still being produced! This pineapple-flavored Dew has been available consistently since October 2019; you can find it in bottles and cans at your nearest DG.
- Mountain Dew HoneyDEW
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This is the only foreign release I’ll be covering on this list, but there’s a technicality: People did find this soda mistakenly stocked on American shelves right next to the Canadian border. While this honeydew-flavored Dew was initially planned for release in both the States and Canada back in 2023, it ended up sold exclusively to our upstairs neighbors. According to our own Tyler Bowers, this will be returning to Canada permanently starting in 2025. I hope to have it again someday—without having to smuggle it across a border.
- Mountain Dew Uproar
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Mountain Dew Uproar was sold exclusively at Food Lion grocery stores (Get it? Lion? Roar?) from late 2021 to mid-2023. Speaking of smuggling soda across borders, I ended up bringing quite a few 2-liters of this strawberry kiwi Dew back from Virginia Beach a few years ago. Great name, but you didn’t miss much if you never tried it.
- Mountain Dew Supernova
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Tyler “#BringBackSupernova” Bowers would never speak to me again if I left this off the list. Mountain Dew Supernova was a strawberry-melon Dew last seen on U.S. shelves in 2011. I’ve never tried it, but it’s popped up in Canada multiple times since the last stateside release—most recently in 2023 as a Slurpee.
- Mountain Dew Dewshine
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Oh man, I really miss Dewshine. This clear citrus-flavored Dew was made with real sugar and sold exclusively in glass bottles and jugs from 2015 to 2017. The name “Mountain Dew” as a slang term for moonshine goes back to the 1800s at least, so this was a great callback to the origins of our wildest mainstream soda brand.
- Mountain Dew Baja Deep Dive
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Back in 2022, codes under the caps of that summer’s Mountain Dew Baja variants could be submitted online to enter a giveaway for one of 18,000 6-packs of “Baja Deep Dive.” It seems like everyone who entered won one of these packs, but a giveaway-exclusive Dew still counts as being ridiculously rare compared to any flavors that actually saw a retail release. The actual flavor was never revealed; as we know, Mountain Dew is no stranger to mystery flavors. I still have a few cans in storage for a rainy day—or maybe a review here on Sporked? (Leave a comment if you want to make it happen.)
- Mountain Dew Cake-Smash
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Much like my last rare soda rundown, the top spot goes to a birthday cake-flavored soda. The flavor was originally planned for a retail release in 2020 to celebrate Mountain Dew’s 80th anniversary, but the pandemic killed those plans. The following year, this Mountain Dew flavor saw the full trilogy of rare soda releases: social media giveaway, online sale that sold out quickly, and being given away in a single location while supplies last. I never tried this one; maybe Santa will order me one off eBay next month.
