This is the inaugural SDcast! Where we talk about things that might not have made it into some reviews and rant  until we get tired. Enjoy!

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It’s been a little over a year since Jason and I started slurping and chugging various elixir of the bubbly variety. However, the shear amount of brands and flavors make it nearly impossible to drink it all ourselves. So, I am pleased to announce the addition of a wonderful new writer, Denise English.

Hailing from Manitoba in the The Great White North, she will be our Canadian field operative, tasting and reviewing soda that might not have made it south of the border. She will also be our resident woman, giving us valuable insight into a slew of new drinks, because let’s face it, there are some drinks that Jason nor I will ever like.

So don’t be alarmed if you start seeing “u’s” in words or the occasional  beaver or moose around the site.

We seem to have lost all of our content, we are in the process of migrating to a new host and recovering what we can, needless to say, we are not having a good day.

UPDATE: We have finished finding what little content we could recover and adding it, unfortunately there was very little to salvage. On a brighter note, we have almost finished switching hosts and are working out the final kinks.

Various people have brought up the idea of a “soda tax”. The idea behind this is that by adding a tax to sugary drinks this will help fight obesity in today’s youth, raise funds to pay for health-care, and cover budget shortages. While this tax is being touted as the savior of all our troubles, one has to ask; how will consumers respond.

There’s no doubt that America has a problem with obesity. A study by the National Center for Health Statistics from the CDC found that 17.1% of children and adolescents between 2-19 years were overweight. That same study also found that 32.2% of adults were obese. While there are claims that soda plays a big part in America’s obesity, there are many factors that lead to overeating. Food manufacturers over the years have added more food to their products, the Triple Baconator from Wendy’s anyone? (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, I joined the DEWmocracy, a group of people who vote on all sorts of things relating to the Mountain Dew brand. Such items range from the “Mtn Dew” name change, all the way to new flavors!

After joining, I kinda forgot about it and went about my life and the website trying to find different drinks people might not have seen before. A few days ago I received a package in the mail and was quite surprised to find three gray cans with numbers in it.

After trying the first one  number 193 (which turns out is 493 with half the 4 smudged off) I genuinely like the taste of it, like a lemon mountain dew. The others, however, not so much. Number 509 tasted okay, but it tasted too much like I was drinking a Hawaiian Punch. The Lime-Sour Apple from Can 231 was like drinking seltzer with a gummy worm stirred around in it.

All in all I really enjoyed the chance to have a say in the new brand of Mountain Dew and hope they continue keeping the fans involved in product development.