Mountain Dew Whiskey Mixer

And if mountain dew is your mixer.

Mountain dew whiskey mixer. The hartman brothers sought advice from coca cola about mountain dew but coke didn t help. Originally a 19th century slang term for whiskey especially highland scotch whiskey the mountain dew. Turning a knoxville whiskey mixer into a soft drink to tickle yore innards took mixology magic business savvy and a marketing campaign filled with gun toting jug swigging barefoot appalachian hillbillies. Tennessee bottlers barney and ally hartman developed mountain dew as a mixer in the 1940s.

And now the brand is honoring boozy history with the release of dewshine. Soft drinks were sold regionally in the 1930s and the hartmans had difficulty in knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor preferably whiskey so the two developed their own. In the south rc cola was popular. Before it was the fuel of all things extreme mountain dew was a whiskey mixer.

Mountain dew is another popular soda to mix with whiskey in fact the soda was literally designed to be mixed with whiskey. Whatever works with lemonade probably goes just fine with mountain dew too. Years later when mountain dew began tasting like today s mountain dew it was first called lemonade and sold in a clear bottle. Yet while mountain dew was created as a mixer for whiskey or as the name suggests moonshine it goes with just about anything.

Pepsi was interested albeit 35 years later when they bought mountain dew. Canadian whisky mountain dew sergeant batterton cocktail mountain dew seagram s extra dry gin sisco peco cocktail everclear gentleman jim beam bourbon whiskey mountain dew southern comfort slacker cocktail absolut citron vodka malibu rum mountain dew smitthy s special punch punch kool aid mountain dew pineapple juice tom. Large soda bottlers and distributors weren t common back in the 1930s so the hartman brothers invented their own whiskey mixer. On his blog broken secrets chad upton writes that mountain dew with whiskey perhaps punched up with a little lime juice tastes a little like a whiskey sour.

The hartmans managed an orange crush bottling plant in augusta.