Human Testing!

 I continue to test and tune Sprite,


Dr. Pepper,


and Rootbeer. 


Everytime I think it is right, my kids show up and bitch, moan and complain about all the flavors. When one kid thinks it is finally right, no one else does. I plan on tuning it until I like it - and that will just be the way it is.

I have FANTA Orange hooked up,


but the carbonator pump for that flavor is not running - so I will have to fish those lines to a different pump.

I turn off the carbonation, and wait for the pressure to leak out. Then I disconnect the Fanta Orange line - only to have the pump, using the stored CO2 in the carbonation tank - pump out about 2 cups of orange syrup.

All over the pumps and the tangled lines inside the cabinet. I clean up as best I can -

Reattach to a different pump and manage to get the orange working

- according to my kids, the best flavor so far.


I purchased Fuse Raspberry Iced tea syrup to hook up to the non-carbonated line


- but because the Corona Virus has locked down the city of Las Vegas, and turned Costco into the Wild Wild West, I could not go BUY two and a half gallons for just forty bucks.

I ordered online - pay $120 for a 2.5 gallon box - and wait to see if it arrives intact, which it does.


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