The weather up here has been really strange. Increased humidity and high temps have me feeling pretty drained at the end of a long day at work. Lately, I've been whipping up root beer floats on a fairly regular basis. I drink nothing but water all day so I figure I can cheat a little with some high fructose corn syrup and sugar in the evening. Man, do those floats hit the spot!

I was a drug store Coke float kinda kid. But the other day, I stopped by an A&W in Reno and had a root beer float. Man, that was goooood!

At this stage of my life it's a diet root beer float, but hell yeah.

We called them black cows and nothing else is like one.

I’ve got some good ice cream. Strauss.

What’s a good root beer?

I also love the root beer floats. Don't enjoy them much anymore due to the high sugar count.

The best root beer float I have ever had was the shop made root beer in a German restaurant in San Antonio, served by the pitcher. Have lost the name of the place but plan to go back down and enjoy some in the near future.

As far as the best RB, I have tried IBC, A&W, Mug, and a couple of others and to me they all taste pretty much the same. Good luck in your search for a good root beer!

Most of the common ones in supermarkets just taste like sugar to me. I’m hoping to find a great microbrew draft type.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I’ve got some good ice cream. Strauss.

What’s a good root beer?

There was a small chain of drive-in root beer stands called Stewart's Root Beer which I loved when I was growing up in NJ. They had great hot dogs and excellent root beer which was served in frosted mugs. The drive-ins were scattered along the east coast but when I was talking to a relative recently, I learned that you can order the root beer from jet.com

^ I believe Stewart's Root Beer can still be found. Also, I'd recommend Henry Weinhard's Root Beer.

Ok. I’ve seen Stewart’s and Henry’s in stores. I’ll try.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
We called them black cows and nothing else is like one.

+1

I've also made floats with stour or Porter. Works great!

Thomas Kemper root beer was my go-to when I would make root beer floats. Nowadays I have to watch the sugar count so it's diet cola (of the caffeine-free kind) and whatever vanilla ice cream my wife would buy, usually Breyer's or Blue Bunny (my preferred by far between the two). Add some Grey Goose into the mix and it's totally da bomb.

You should try a Birch Beer Float, head and shoulders above lowly Root Beer. Oops, forgot your in California. Since Birch Beer is mainly a Pennsylvania thing you'll just have to order up your Birch Beer on the Net.

PS; Birch Beer is actually a real thing, google it and you will see that it is made from 100% Birch products, mainly the sap and bark but some root stock is also used on occasion. Unlike Root Beer which can have just about anything found laying about in the woods.

I haven't had a root beer float in ages, but used to enjoy them.

Another spin on the float is to make it with orange soda (e.g. Orange Crush) instead of root beer.

As a kid I also loved a Coke float, never cared much for root beer. Use to get them at Carvel's in the middle 70's, not sure why they fell out of favor with me. I might give it a try again this weekend.

Oh man, you have me remembering how good those root beer floats were at Stewart’s drive-ins in New Jersey back when I was youngster. The places where they hung a tray on your car door. I think I still have one of those heavy glass mugs as a souvenir. I should find it, get some Stewart’s root beer and re-live the experience. The neighbors might wonder why I am sitting in my driveway with a tray hanging on my car door!

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Root Beer floats from the A&W drive in were a nickel as a young child. We all piled in to dads pickup bed and loved those trips to get one with a frosted glass mug.

Big Red ice cream float is also excellent.

We have Stewart's in ohio

I also like rootbeer floats. Large please. They make for a huge burp... . I like a few large chocolate malts from UDF each Summer. I can eat 2 Blue Bunny ice cream sandwiches, back to back. Times I will follow up a Wendys' chocolate Frosty with a small vanilla. Its internal air conditioning. What is this sugar thing you all are talking about ?