Dutch Bros Spring Menu: Every Drink, Date & Calorie Count

The Kool Blue sat on menu boards for about twelve weeks in 2026, and then it was gone. That is how spring works at Dutch Bros. The drinks land loud, take over every feed for a few weeks, and disappear before half the people who wanted one ever got around to ordering.

If you are reading this outside of March, the lineup is not pouring right now. This page is the full record anyway: what actually dropped in 2026, why it arrived in two separate waves, when the season starts and ends, what is genuinely knowable about the nutrition, and what three years of spring menus tell you about the next one.

Is the Dutch Bros Spring Menu Available Right Now?

No. The seasonal boards are currently running the fall lineup, which means Snicker Doodle, Caramel Pumpkin Brûlée, Cookie Butter and Autumn Berry. The spring flavors rotated off in late May, and the syrups, sauces and toppings behind them went with them.

That is not a technicality. Once a seasonal flavor leaves the rotation, the ingredient itself is pulled from the shop, so a broista genuinely cannot build you a Kool Blue in October. The mango poppin’ boba is not in the building.

The next window opens in late February or early March. If you want a heads-up the day it happens, turn on notifications in the Dutch Bros app. New drops usually appear there before they reach any menu board you would drive past.

What the Dutch Bros Spring Menu Actually Is

Dutch Bros runs four seasonal resets a year, and spring is the one that leans fruity and bright after a winter of caramel and white chocolate. It is a limited-time-offer model: a small number of new flavor concepts, available for a short run across all 1,284 shops in 27 states.

Here is the part most guides get wrong. A flavor at Dutch Bros is not a single drink. It is a syrup or sauce applied across the entire drink architecture, so one spring flavor can appear as a latte, mocha, chai, freeze, cold brew, Rebel energy drink, lemonade or sparkling soda.

Three new flavors quietly become fifteen-plus orderable items. That is why the spring lineup feels bigger than it reads on paper, and why two people can order the new spring drink and end up with completely different cups.

Why the Spring Drop Comes in Two Waves

Most write-ups treat spring as a single launch. It is not. In 2026, the first wave landed on February 27 with three flavors, and a second wave arrived in April with two more.

That staggered release keeps the season alive through May instead of burning out in four weeks. If you only checked the menu in March, you missed the April half entirely. Worth remembering next year.

Spring 2026 Lineup: The Back to Cool Trio

Dutch Bros built the first wave around childhood nostalgia and called it Back to Cool. The campaign leaned into throwback references: sour candy, dessert flavors, and the blue drink you were not allowed to have on school nights.

Three flavors launched together on February 27, 2026, and they reached every shop at once. The lineup was confirmed in the official Dutch Bros announcement.

Before the drink-by-drink breakdown, here is the whole 2026 season on one screen. The caffeine column is the one most people actually need at the window.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip

The dessert entry of the trio. Brown butter chocolate chip sauce swirled through the drink, finished with a matching Soft Top and crunchy chocolate pieces on top.

It ran as a latte, a freeze and a cold brew, and those three builds behave differently by construction. The cold brew version keeps a stronger coffee backbone, while the freeze is built on the sweetened Freeze Mix, which makes it the richest of the three before any topping is added.

Fruit Punch with Sour Candy Straw

Cherry, pineapple and orange combined into a single punch flavor, served with a sour candy straw through the lid. Pairing something sour with a punch base that is otherwise entirely sweet is a deliberate contrast, not a decoration.

It came in Rebel, sparkling soda and lemonade versions. The lemonade and soda builds matter if you are avoiding caffeine, since the Rebel base is the only place the energy blend lives.

Kool Blue

Watermelon and blue raspberry over an electric-blue base, topped with mango poppin’ boba. The topping choice is the interesting part, because mango sits outside the watermelon and blue raspberry family. It is a contrasting pairing rather than a matching one.

Like the Fruit Punch, Kool Blue was available as a Rebel, a lemonade or a sparkling soda, which made it one of the few spring flavors you could order with no caffeine at all.

Wave 2: April’s Two Additions

The second half of the Dutch Bros spring menu arrived in April with a different personality. Where Back to Cool was playground nostalgia, these two leaned toward cherry, dark chocolate, berries and cream.

Black Forest Mocha with Cherry Soft Top

Cherry syrup layered with dark chocolate sauce, finished with a Cherry Soft Top. The name is a direct reference to Black Forest cake, which is built on the same three components, so the dark chocolate choice is doing real work rather than standing in for milk chocolate.

It was orderable as a mocha, a freeze or a cold brew, which gave it the widest format range of the April pair.

Pretty in Pink Rebel

Strawberry, raspberry and blackberry with sweet cream, blended with Rebel energy drink and finished with Soft Top and Shimmer Sprinks. Between the layered topping and the shimmer finish, it was the most visually built drink of the season.

A lemonade version was available too, iced or blended, for the same berry and cream profile without the energy base.

Spring Drink Nutrition: What Is Actually Knowable

Here is something no other page about the Dutch Bros spring menu will tell you straight. The official calorie and caffeine figures for these five drinks are no longer published anywhere.

We checked. The Dutch Bros nutrition link now resolves to a two-page allergen guide dated for the fall season, and the individual product pages for spring items return 404s. Seasonal nutrition data comes down when the season does, so any site currently listing exact calorie counts for Kool Blue or Pretty in Pink is publishing numbers it cannot source.

What stays reliable is the structure underneath the drinks, and that is more useful than a number you cannot trust. Four components drive almost every calorie on a seasonal build.

Caffeine follows a cleaner rule you can apply to any seasonal drink. Espresso builds carry the caffeine of the shots in them. Rebel builds carry the energy blend instead, which puts them well above a soda. Lemonade and sparkling soda builds carry no caffeine from the base at all.

For drinks that stay on the menu year-round, our Dutch Bros nutrition guide has verified calories, sugar and caffeine by size. That is the practical baseline, since a seasonal drink is usually a year-round build plus a sauce and a topping.

Sizes: Why Hot and Cold Cups Change Everything

Dutch Bros uses four size labels: Kids, Small, Medium and Large. That is the complete list. Plenty of menu blogs list an XL at 32 ounces, and it does not exist anywhere in the company’s own materials.

The detail that actually matters is that hot and cold cups are not the same volume. Hot drinks run roughly 12, 16 and 20 ounces for Small, Medium and Large. Cold drinks run roughly 16, 24 and 32 ounces for the same three labels, and Kids sits around 10 ounces.

That gap is why comparing a hot spring latte to an iced one is not a fair comparison. The cold cup simply holds more liquid, so the numbers climb for reasons that have nothing to do with the recipe. Our full Dutch Bros sizes breakdown covers every cup line in detail.

One more thing worth knowing: the Kids size only appears on blended and iced builds, including smoothies, frosts, lemonades and a Not So Hot. It is not offered on hot espresso drinks.

Caffeine-Free and Kid-Friendly Spring Picks

This question comes up constantly in the drive-thru line and gets answered almost nowhere online. Not every spring drink carries caffeine, and it depends entirely on which base you pick.

Two of the 2026 spring flavors worked without any caffeine source. Fruit Punch and Kool Blue both came as lemonades and sparkling sodas, and neither base contains espresso or the Rebel energy blend. Order either one and you get the flavor, the sour candy straw or the mango boba, and nothing else.

The Rebel versions are a different matter, since Rebel is an energy drink and those builds carry a real caffeine load. If you are ordering for a kid or for yourself in the evening, the lemonade build is the swap. Because Kids sizing exists on blended and iced drinks, a small blended lemonade was the most kid-appropriate option on the entire spring board.

How to Order Spring Drinks and Customize Them

Seasonal flavors are more flexible than the menu board suggests. The board shows one or two builds per flavor because there is no room for fifteen, but the flavor itself can usually go into most formats the shop makes.

The move is to name the flavor first and the format second. Asking for the Kool Blue as a lemonade instead of a Rebel works better than pointing at a picture. From there the usual adjustments apply: skip the Soft Top, swap to oat, almond or coconut milk, ask for a sugar-free syrup where one exists, add boba, or convert a hot build to iced or blended.

Ordering through the app is worth it during a launch week, because new seasonal items appear there first and you can see every available format in one list instead of guessing at the speaker. If you want to go further, our Dutch Bros secret menu guide covers the custom builds regulars order by name.

What Spring Drinks Cost

Dutch Bros sets prices by market rather than nationally, so the same medium seasonal freeze can differ by more than a dollar between two states, and sometimes between two shops in the same metro. There is no national price to quote.

What holds everywhere is the relationship. A seasonal drink prices at or slightly above the equivalent year-round build, because it usually includes a topping or add-in the standard version does not. If you know what a medium freeze costs at your shop, the seasonal version is that plus a small step up. The app with your local shop selected gives you the exact figure.

Spring Menu Timeline: When It Starts and Ends

The Dutch Bros spring menu follows a consistent rhythm, and once you know it you can plan around it instead of finding out from a sold-out sign.

Each wave runs roughly six to eight weeks, with the two overlapping to stretch the season across three months. End dates are not uniform, though. Individual shops run out of a seasonal ingredient at different times depending on local demand, so a flavor can disappear in Phoenix a week before it disappears in Portland.

The practical takeaway is that early May is the last comfortable window to try something. After mid-May you are gambling on your specific shop’s remaining supply.

Spring Menu Archive: 2024, 2025 and 2026

Most menu sites blend three years of spring drinks into a single list, which is how people end up asking for a lavender drink in a year lavender never came back. Here is each season kept separate.

Spring 2024: Lavender Returns

Dutch Bros brought lavender back as the centerpiece, paired with white chocolate across three builds: a White Chocolate Lavender Cold Brew, a White Chocolate Lavender Breve and a White Chocolate Lavender Freeze. Poppin’ Boba ran alongside it, with Strawberry and Vanilla Honey options available through the end of April.

This was a returning-flavor season rather than an invention season, and that distinction matters when you are trying to predict what comes next.

Spring 2025: The Fever Dream Mixtape

A three-drink throwback trio. The Poppin’ Boba Hyperchrome Rebel mixed orange, pomegranate and passion fruit, topped with either Strawberry or Blue Raz Poppin’ Boba. Alongside it came the Brownie Batter Mocha with Soft Top and brownie pieces, and a Birthday Cake with Soft Top built on cupcake syrup with sprinkles.

The nostalgia angle that defined 2026 clearly started here, one year earlier.

Spring 2026: Back to Cool

Five flavors across two waves: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip, Fruit Punch with Sour Candy Straw and Kool Blue in February, then Black Forest Mocha with Cherry Soft Top and Pretty in Pink Rebel in April. You can see the full current seasonal rotation on the Dutch Bros seasonal menu whenever a new season opens.

What Three Years of Spring Menus Tell You

Nothing about the next season is confirmed until Dutch Bros announces it. But laying 2024, 2025 and 2026 side by side surfaces three patterns that have held every year, and those are worth more than a guess.

Returning flavors are part of the model. Lavender carried an entire season in 2024 as a comeback, and Poppin’ Boba has now appeared in multiple springs in different pairings. Dutch Bros reruns winners rather than starting from zero each year.

The structure repeats even when the theme does not. Every spring has included at least one Rebel or energy-based fruit flavor, at least one dessert-forward espresso flavor, and at least one visually loud drink with a topping. The names change and the three slots do not.

The calendar is stable. Late February or early March for the announcement, a second wave in April, done by late May. If you want to catch the first day of the next one, the last week of February is when to start watching.

How Spring Compares to the Other Dutch Bros Seasons

Spring is not just a different set of names on the board. Each of the four seasonal resets has its own flavor logic, and knowing which one you are in tells you what to expect before you ever read the menu.

The clearest split is hot versus cold. Spring and summer push the energy and fruit side of the menu, so most of the new flavors land on Rebels and lemonades. Fall and winter swing back to espresso, which is why the current fall menu is built almost entirely on lattes and chais, and why the holiday menu leans on hot builds.

That pattern is useful for planning. If you want a caffeine-free seasonal option, spring and summer give you the most choices, because fruit flavors translate cleanly to lemonade and soda bases. In fall and winter, nearly every new flavor is tied to espresso or chai, so the caffeine-free route narrows to a steamer or a Not So Hot.

The Short Version

The Dutch Bros spring menu is a two-wave event that starts in late February, adds a second flavor drop in April, and clears out by the end of May. In 2026 that meant five flavors spread across Rebels, lemonades, sodas, mochas, freezes and cold brews.

App notifications are the only reliable way to catch the next one on day one. Until then, the current seasonal board is where the action is.