Root Beer Festival / B-Day

We had a great Root Beer Festival / Spencer's B-Day Party (and our friend Kallie's B- Day) this past week. There are just so many Root Beer's around, so in order to know which one is truly the best we had a root beer taste off! Spencer and Jethro combed the valley for every brand of Root Beer we could find, we then made a spread sheet of all the qualities a root beer can have, and got started.

Spencer and Jethro preparing themselves for the taste off.

Here are the individual results (thank you Robyn!!):

Shasta: too watery, smells tempting, hint of smokey, not enough fizz, chemical/manufactured taste good value @ 99 cents for 3 liters.

Barq's: Fine odor, licorice tasting, oooh, peppery, too coke-like, has a bite, candy-like

A&W: Odorfree, high fizzability, light caramel color, smooth taste, boldness, light burpablilty

Howie's: salty, medicine-like, not that good, very bad after taste, party killer

Albertson's: came off the bark of a tree, supper fizzy in a bad way, earthy taste, tonic water, level 3 & 4 burpability

Teddy's: first problem, it was cream soda, not rootbeer, whoa sprinkler when opens, sweet maple syrup, butterscotchy

Sprecher: Burning dust taste, moth balls, yuckStewarts: smoked, foamy, smells good, bad after taste, causes dry mouth

Henry W's (5 votes): Foamy x 400%, smooth, foamstache, great rootbeer float taste, causes baby burps and a 5 second burp, stays up as late as you want it to, good companion

IBC(4 votes): Homemade taste, summer of 95', flavor too strong, strong after taste, nose tickler, caused light burps, good foamage

Brick Oven: metal garbage can, way too sweet, syrupy, no fiz, heavy, Chinese root beer

We even held a blind taste test to identify the root beer 6 out of 7 guessed right. (I was the one who guessed wrong!)

When the root beer induced coma's kicked in, we broke out the donuts. I did make a cake, decorated it and everything and our handicapped dog (see previous post) ate the cake I baked for him!!! Stupid Charlie! Here are some pics...(Thanks again Robyn!!)

This is my favorite boy in the world (besides Spencer)

CHARLIE

Has anyone out there seen a study or any facts about the possibility of dogs being handicapped? We have the worlds cutest dog, but sometimes I truly think there is something that is not quite right with him. He gave me a good scare this morning, this is what I woke up to: