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Wednesday, August 18. 2021

A good day for a Root Beer Float

Works even better with Sarsaparilla if you have some around your cabin.
Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 13:40 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Heh.

I haven't had one of those in a long, long, time.

Likely decades.

I have an old long neck bottle of Dad's Root Beer in the back of my refrigerator. I wonder if there is any fizz left in it?
#1 feeblemind on 2021-08-18 14:10 (Reply)
We call it a Black Cow. You can make them perpetual by adding more rootbeer when it gets low, then adding more ice cream when that gets low.
#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-08-18 15:00 (Reply)
I LOVE root beer floats.
#3 Bruce Kesler on 2021-08-18 16:00 (Reply)
We owned a pizza place in our twenties, in the 80s, and carried sarsaparilla, birch beer, and other unique soft drinks...
#4 The Distributist (Link) on 2021-08-18 16:21 (Reply)
Have made these but one grandkid gets indigestion from root beer so we make them with oink (cream) soda or orange soda. They all love them especially made with my home made ice cream.
#5 JC on 2021-08-18 16:43 (Reply)
Awesome!!!
Make them with my grandkids a few times a summer.
We make them after Ascension Day Service at my church. Used to launch balloons for that. But the environmental observers said NO MORE! Someone came up with the FLOATS idea. Good times.
#6 Franknbean on 2021-08-18 16:44 (Reply)
I do love a root beer float.
#7 Texan99 on 2021-08-18 16:53 (Reply)
Sarsaparilla . all the company's ol'tyme flavors are superb. imho
https://kutztownsodaworks.com/our-sodas/
#8 LA on 2021-08-18 18:10 (Reply)
A strong second on that one, Kutztown Beverage root beer and sarsaparilla are absolutely top quality. Their dark birch beer is unparalleled, and the black cherry soda makes an awesome vanilla ice cream float. Great stuff!
#8.1 Dutch on 2021-08-18 19:16 (Reply)
When I was a kid we bottled homemade root beer using a recipe and extract from the Hires Root Beer company. Made great floats.
#9 Christopher B on 2021-08-18 20:00 (Reply)
For my money, Hires was the best root beer.

My dad still has couple of bottles of the extract you refer to to. They are still in their boxes, unopened. From my Grandpa's drug store for use in his soda fountain. It's old. From the 40s or 50s I think.
#9.1 feeblemind on 2021-08-19 13:16 (Reply)
I miss soft serve root beer floats. Can't have them now as a Diabeatnik. But I do this, which is almost as good:
Diet root beer with a nice splosh of heavy cream.
#10 Jewel on 2021-08-20 12:03 (Reply)

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