Pucker Up…Kool-Aid Sours Are Coming Soon

Oh, Kool-Aid. The only liquid where drinking it means, without exception, that you are either at a kid’s soccer game, a backyard cookout, or a cult meeting. It’s the only liquid whose mascot is a pitcher full of the aforementioned liquid, a pitcher whose most defining trait is busting through walls, to the point where “to Kool-Aid Man through a wall” is a colloquially accepted verb. They have imprinted on our brains so well that Kool-Aid is to “Oh Yeah!” as Owen Wilson is to “Oh Wow!”, and as someone who spent many years in marketing, that’s a pretty impressive level of notoriety. That said, either they don’t release a lot of new Items or I just haven’t been aware of it until now but there is some exciting news that “Kool-Aid Manned” into our inbox last week here at Sporked, and that is that we are getting three new bottled Kool Aid Flavors come February 2026 in a lineup they are calling “Kool-Aid Sours”.

What flavors are the Kool-Aid Sours? Will they have us saying “Oh Yeah!” or “Ouchie!” Does anyone else say “Ouchie” when things are sour? Just me?

The three flavors of bottled Kool-Aid coming in February of next year are Cherry Bomb, Frostbite, and Watermelon Blast. Cherry Bomb is (spoiler alert) cherry flavored, Watermelon Blast is (perhaps unsurprisingly) watermelon flavored, and Frostbite appears, based on the packaging, to be blue raspberry flavored, even though the liquid itself has a yellowish lemonade hue to it. As for why the blue raspberry flavored one would be yellowish in color – they also claim to use no artificial dyes in these Kool-Aid Sours, so it is possible there is simply no good way to achieve a believable blue under those circumstances. Regardless, a sour Kool-Aid drink sounds absolutely delicious for a hot summer day, and if these taste anything at all like a drinkable Sour Patch Kid (which, I’m not going to lie, is fully what I am expecting), I can honestly say I am firmly on board. If asked to try these, I would absolutely say “Oh Yeah!” and then inflict some major pitcher-shaped property damage. But I digress. I think there should be more sour sodas and fun drinks out there in general, so why not here? Why not now? Why not Kool-Aid? And why not make it sour