PepsiCo just made the summer soda decision very easy.
A brand-new 28-can Pepsi variety pack is landing at Costco, and the combination is generating serious buzz — even among dedicated Coke loyalists. The pack bundles three of PepsiCo’s most talked-about current releases into a single Costco-scale box: Dirty Mountain Dew, Pepsi Wild Cherry & Cream, and the brand-new Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler.
It’s the dirty soda era in variety pack form — and for anyone who’s been curious about all three flavors but hasn’t committed to a full 12-pack of any one of them, this is the ideal entry point.
What’s in the Pack
The 28-can variety pack breaks down as follows:
- 10 cans of Dirty Mountain Dew Cream Soda — Mountain Dew’s first-ever dirty soda variant, launched April 7 nationwide, blending the brand’s iconic citrus profile with a smooth, creamy finish. Available in regular and Zero Sugar at most retailers, but the Costco pack features the original.
- 10 cans of Pepsi Wild Cherry & Cream — a fan-favorite that’s been in rotation since early 2025, blending cherry sweetness with a vanilla cream finish. One of the more consistently praised PepsiCo creamy releases.
- 8 cans of Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler — the newest of the three and only just hitting shelves now. Inspired by the classic root beer float, this one combines Mug’s signature root beer with vanilla cream flavor for an ice cream parlor-in-a-can experience.
Why This Pack Is Getting Attention
The combination is smart from a flavor strategy standpoint. All three sodas sit in the “creamy soda” category — sodas with a soft, dessert-adjacent finish — which is one of the fastest-growing segments in the category right now. The dirty soda trend, popularized by Taco Bell’s official Dirty Sips menu launch and Mountain Dew’s national rollout, has gone fully mainstream in 2026.
Reaction from the soda community has been strong. The pack was first spotted on Reddit, reportedly by a Costco employee, and the response was immediate — including from an admitted Coke loyalist who wrote, “As a Coke loyalist, this pack kinda hit me…might need. I’m a sucker for a soda with a creamy taste.”
That kind of cross-brand appeal is exactly what makes the variety pack format work — it lowers the commitment threshold for people who wouldn’t otherwise pick up a full 12-pack of any one of these flavors.
The New One: Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler
Of the three, the Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler is the one worth most paying attention to, simply because it’s the newest and least familiar.
Mug Root Beer has been a Costco staple for years, but the Vanilla Howler variant is a flavor extension that leans into the root beer float concept directly — creamy, vanilla-forward, with the familiar Mug root beer backbone underneath. It’s landing just in time for summer, which is the ideal season for anything that tastes remotely like a dessert.
What to Know Before You Shop
The variety pack is rolling out to Costco locations now, but as with most Costco soda variety packs, availability will vary by warehouse. If you spot it, the standard Costco advice applies: grab it. Variety packs at Costco come and go without much notice, and given the early buzz around this one, it’s unlikely to sit on the shelf for long.
No pricing has been officially confirmed, but Costco variety packs of this size typically run between $15 and $20.
The Bottom Line
PepsiCo’s new 28-can variety pack — Dirty Mountain Dew, Pepsi Wild Cherry & Cream, and Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler — is hitting Costco now. It’s a Costco-exclusive bundle of three of the summer’s most buzzed-about creamy soda releases, and it’s worth picking up before it disappears from warehouse shelves.
