Mountain Dew Pitch Black Back in Limited Giveaway

Mountain Dew Pitch Black is back in a 3-day sweepstakes running through Saturday, December 5. Here's how you might score a 15-pack case of not-actually-black soda (it's more purple):

Simply visit the Mountain Dew Facebook page and post a comment saying why you want a case of Mountain Dew Pitch Black within the sweepstakes post using #WeWantPitchBlack and #Sweeps. You enter once per day (three chances in all) with 1,050 winners be chosen randomly from the Facebook comments.

Winners will be chosen on Monday, December 7 and will be notified in response to their Facebook comment. You'll want to keep an eye out for that response as you'll be asked to send a private Facebook message to Mountain Dew with your contact info and shipping address within 24 hours. Official rules can be found at: www.mountaindew.com/pitchblacksweeps.

 Mountain Dew Pitch Black first appeared in October 2004 as a limited-edition Halloween flavor and was last seen in summer of 2011 in response to fan voting via the Back by Popular DEWmand program.