Mountain Dew Voltage

Recently, Deana Burke, who is working on behalf of Mountain Dew, contacted me to see if I would write a short post about their new upcoming product and get the word out about their online sweepstakes.

Anyone who’s played video games for any length of time knows about Mountain Dew and its association with gaming. I can fondly remember more than a few caffeine-fueled gaming sessions where I happily consumed quite a bit of the stuff.

Before I agreed to write this post, I asked Deana to send me a sample of the product, since I’ve never really tried this flavor of Mountain Dew. Deana obliged by sending me with three bottles, one of which I carefully tasted tested, and a free T-shirt. I was going to include a nice picture of them (since the T-shirt is pretty nice), but alas there seems to be an issue with my digital camera. Hence, you’ll have to be content with just the picture to the right, which is courtesy of Mountain Dew.

So how did it taste? Generally, if I receive a free sample of something I won’t write anything negative just to be polite.  But I won’t endorse it either. However, in this case, I don’t have to be so circumspect. I liked it. It was a warm 68 degrees yesterday in Portland and the raspberry taste of Voltage really did hit the spot.

The berry flavor is bit stronger than I thought it would be, since I thought it would be more of a blend between the original Mountain Dew flavor and raspberries, but the overall, the taste is pleasant. This is something I would buy on my own.

I should also plug the sweepstakes site that I mentioned earlier. The site, in which you can win gaming gear, iPods, etc. is at dewmocracyvoltage.com. The site does require registration, but to be fair, unless they have some way of contacting you, there’s no way of notifying you if you’ve won something. The site has a number of mini games on it that you can play to win points, like the one below:

The idea is to register on the site, play the various mini games and accumulate points. Points can then be turned in for various gear. To be honest, I haven’t registered myself to try it, but the sweepstakes site seems pretty straight forward and worth a visit if you have a bit of spare time. Overall, it’s a fun diversion that can potentially win you some nice gear.

Anyways, thanks Deana for the free product. I enjoyed it.

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