Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was a Mountain Dew flavor first released in the Holiday season of 2018 for a limited time in the United States. In June 2019, it was re-released in certain regions where the drink was previously sold, but was discontinued alongside the original Ice flavor in March 2020.
Description[]
Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was a Cherry-Lemon-Lime flavor of Mountain Dew and had a clear look.
Tagline[]
Its tagline is "Cherry Flavor with Other Natural Flavors with a Splash of Real Juice."
History[]
2018 Limited-Time store release[]
Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was first seen on a YouTube video posted by myCountyMarket on July 12th, 2018, as seen in the background on one of the shelves on one of their product reviews. A few weeks later, myCountyMarket posted a soda review about the flavor on their video on YouTube. The channel's video revealed that it would be released sometime in the Holiday season of 2018.
On October 3rd, 2018, in a r/MountainDew Reddit post, a user named u/McSteebler posted a photograph of the inside of a display case, showing the other display cases with release dates of each late 2018 limited-time flavors: Merry Mash-Up (11/5/18), Citrus Cherry (10/8/18), and Ice (Cherry) (9/24/18).
It was officially released in stores on September 24th, 2018, throughout the United States for a limited time in 12-packs and 20-ounce bottles until December 31st, the end of Holiday 2018.
2019 Permanent store re-release[]
On June 20th, 2019, in a r/MountainDew Reddit post, Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was quietly returned to store shelves in some regions and was found by u/kipkila showing an image of bottles inside a store fridge. However, it was discontinued at the same time as when the original Ice flavor was discontinued in March 2020.
Trivia[]
- Mountain Dew Ice was one of two lemon-lime sodas having caffeine. The other lemon-lime soda that had caffeine was PepsiCo's 1998 test market drink Storm.
- Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was featured on the YouTube channel myCountyMarket along with several other pre-release flavors of Mountain Dew from 2016 to 2019.
- Mountain Dew Ice (Cherry) was the third clear soda that has been produced in the Mountain Dew lineup, the first being Dewshine, the second being Mountain Dew Ice, and the fourth being Ice Zero Sugar.