A couple weeks ago, I joined the DEWmocracy, a group of people that vote on all sorts of things relating to the Mountain Dew brand. Such items range from the "Mnt Dew" name change, all the way to new flavors!

After joining I kinda forgot about it and went about my life and the website trying to find different drinks people might not have seen before. A few days ago I received a package in the mail and was quite surprised to find three gray cans with numbers in it.

After trying the first one  number 193 (which turns out is 493 with half the 4 smudged off) I genuinely like the taste of it, like a lemon mountain dew. The others, however, not so much. Number 509 tasted okay, but it tasted too much like I was drinking a Hawaiian Punch. The Lime-Sour Apple from Can 231 was like drinking seltzer with a gummy worm stirred around in it.

All in all I really enjoyed the chance to have a say in the new brand of Mountain Dew and hope they continue keeping the fans involved in product development.