{"id":148,"date":"2023-09-13T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:01","slug":"the-real-mountain-dew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/the-real-mountain-dew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Mountain Dew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A take off on the old Scots-Irish slang term for moonshine, the iconic American soda brand Mountain Dew was originally intended to be a chaser and\/or mixer for sub-par whisky. In the 1930s or &#8217;40s (sources vary on the year), brothers Barney and Ally Hartman created a mixer to make whisky taste better. Apparently it looked and tasted nothing like the current incarnation of Mountain Dew, didn&#8217;t contain caffeine, and probably tasted more like 7UP. This was also long before rumors ran rampant at the back of most elementary school buses that Yellow 5, a dye ingredient in Mountain Dew, shrank the male genitalia (fortunately for scores of extreme athletes, this is not true!). The more you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/354306630_23856328903070236_7567691673296551298_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" style=\"width:621px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/354306630_23856328903070236_7567691673296551298_n.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/354306630_23856328903070236_7567691673296551298_n-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/354306630_23856328903070236_7567691673296551298_n-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A take off on the old Scots-Irish slang term for moonshine, the iconic American soda brand Mountain Dew was originally intended to be a chaser and\/or mixer for sub-par whisky. In the 1930s or &#8217;40s (sources vary on the year), brothers Barney and Ally Hartman created a mixer to make whisky taste better. Apparently it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}