Boston Beer, PepsiCo team up for new HARD MTN DEW offering

Flavored malt beverage innovation to hit shelves in early 2022

(Image courtesy of The Boston Beer Co./PepsiCo)

Boston-based The Boston Beer Co. and PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y., announced plans to enter a business collaboration to produce HARD MTN DEW alcoholic beverage. The partnership unites Boston Beer's world-class innovation and expertise in alcohol beverages with one of PepsiCo's most iconic and beloved brands.

Adults of legal drinking age will experience the HARD MTN DEW bold flavors and distinctive branding, all with an ABV of 5%. This new flavored malt beverage (FMB) will be marketed to adults of legal age and merchandized consistently with other alcohol beverages.

As recognized leaders in the alcohol and non-alcohol industries, Boston Beer and PepsiCo understand the importance of delivering new, break-through innovations to address the changing tastes of drinkers.

“We know that adult drinkers' tastes are evolving, and they are looking for new and exciting flavorful beverages. The combination of our experience in brewing and developing the best-tasting hard seltzers and hard teas, and MTN DEW, a one of kind multi-billion dollar brand, will deliver the excitement and refreshment that drinkers know and love,” said Dave Burwick, Boston Beer's CEO, in a statement.

Both companies share the same passion for pushing boundaries and anticipating what consumers want, which has driven decades of bringing ground-breaking, innovative beverages to drinkers in the US and beyond.

“For 80 years MTN DEW has challenged the status quo, bringing bold flavors and unmatched beverage innovation to millions of fans,” said Kirk Tanner, PepsiCo Beverages North America CEO. “The Boston Beer Co. partnership combines two recognized leaders in our respective industries to address the changing tastes of drinkers and we are thrilled at the opportunity to create HARD MTN DEW that maintains the bold, citrus flavor fans know and expect.”

As part of the business arrangement, Boston Beer will develop and produce new HARD MTN DEW and PepsiCo has set up a new entity to sell, deliver and merchandise the product. Consumers should anticipate finding HARD MTN DEW on shelves in early 2022.

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