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LIST OF DISCONTINUED MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVORS
- LiveWire (2003-2005, now permanent with limited availability)
- Pitch Black (2004-2021)
- MDX (2005-2006)
- Supernova (2008, brief return 2011)
- Revolution (2008, brief return 2011)
- Typhoon (2010-2011, online return 2022)
- Distortion (2010)
- White Out (2010-2019)
- Diet Supernova (2011)
- Sangrita Blast (2013-2017)
- Dewshine (2015-2017)
- Frost Bite (2020-2025)
- Spark (2020-2025)
- Major Melon (2021-2025)
- Voo-Dew (multiple years-2025)
Note: Some flavors had multiple limited releases or regional availability, complicating exact dating. LiveWire remains available but with sporadic distribution.
LIVEWIRE
Discontinued: 2005, now permanent with limited availability)
Mountain Dew’s first orange-flavored soda increased sales by 10% in its first year. PepsiCo, a company that has sent plenty of its own cola spin-offs to the archive, marketed it as “Orange Ignited” before changing it to “Dew sparked with orange.” You could even find it for a time as a Slurpee and an alcoholic version (for those looking for an extra buzz).
PITCH BLACK
Discontinued: 2021
This dark grape soda debuted for Halloween 2004 and became extremely popular. In 2005, Mountain Dew released an extra-sour sequel called Pitch Black II. Though it was voted to become permanent, it only lasted 17 years.
MDX
Discontinued: 2006
This was Mountain Dew’s energy drink. The MDX contained guarana, taurine, ginseng, and D-ribose. It was developed to compete against Coca-Cola’s Vault. The name confused consumers, who did not know it was a Mountain Dew drink. It ended up on the same scrap heap as the caffeinated hopefuls that never found a foothold.
SUPERNOVA
Discontinued: 2008, brief return 2011
This was a bright pink strawberry-melon soda with ginseng. It came in second in the first DEWmocracy campaign. Most thought it tasted like strawberry lemonade, even though it had no citrus. Fanta ran its own berry-and-strawberry experiment, and that one didn’t survive either.
REVOLUTION
Discontinued: 2008, brief return 2011
Revolution was a sky-blue wild berry soda with ginseng and placed third in the DEWmocracy campaign. Reviewers described it as tasting like flavored club soda.
TYPHOON
Discontinued: 2011, online return 2022
This red-orange tropical punch flavor lost the DEWmocracy II campaign to White Out with 40% of votes. After the soda was discontinued, Mountain Dew brought it back in 2022, but you could only buy it online.
DISTORTION
Discontinued: 2010
Distortion was a lime-flavored soda, an idea Coca-Cola tried and abandoned a few years earlier, and it performed poorly in the DEWmocracy II campaign and finished last in the 2010 FanDEWmonium diet competition. It briefly appeared as a Taco Bell Freeze in 2013-2014.
WHITE OUT
Discontinued: 2019
This white citrus soda won DEWmocracy II with 44% of the votes, staking out clear-citrus ground that Sprite has repeatedly reworked and walked away from. Mountain Dew gave White Out different flavors by region before officially canning it.
DIET SUPERNOVA
Discontinued: 2011
This diet version of Supernova won the FanDEWmonium campaign with 55% of the votes. But Diet Supernova performed poorly commercially and was removed from the market after just twelve weeks.
SANGRITA BLAST
Discontinued: 2017
Sangrita Blast was a maroon citrus punch exclusive to Taco Bell restaurants. For a limited time in 2015, Mountain Dew also released it in bottles and cans.
DEWSHINE
Discontinued: 2017
This clear citrus soda came in glass bottles instead of plastic. But there were legal issues around the moonshine-referencing name, which may have caused Mountain Dew to pull the plug.
FROST BITE
Discontinued: 2025
Frost Bite was a bright blue drink with a tropical melon flavor. It was sold exclusively at Walmart. Though many hardcore Mountain Dew fans made the weekly trek to the retail giant, it never reached the scale needed to become a permanent offering.
SPARK
Discontinued: 2025
Spark featured a raspberry lemonade flavor. It was first sold exclusively to Speedway gas stations and became so popular it went nationwide in 2022. Mountain Dew changed its color from light red to pink and used Charlie Day in advertisements.
MAJOR MELON
Discontinued: 2025
This watermelon-flavored soda, with bright pink coloring, was the first mainstream melon soft drink. Mountain Dew originally announced Major Melon as permanent, making its discontinuation surprising.
VOO-DEW
Discontinued: 2025
Voo-Dew was a Mountain Dew annual Halloween mystery flavor that challenged fans to guess the secret taste, and it now sits alongside every other beverage that quietly disappeared from store shelves. In 2025,PepsiCo replaced it with a Trolli Cherry-Lemon collaboration.
