DrinkGR's Nate Blury got to visit the Sprecher Brewing Company in Glendale, Wisconsin and meet up with Todd over Zoom to discuss the holiday.

National root beer float day is an excellent excuse to enjoy a little bit of American food history with friends and family.

But back to our homestead: The root beer our family likes to make is a low-alcohol, fermented infusion of herbs, barks, and berries, both homegrown and wild-harvested, and is more like historic ...

In fact, Kinney Creek makes non-alcoholic root beer and, if you like an adult version, there's also root beer, cherry cola and grape soda made that all contain 5% alcohol by volume.

ROOT Liquor is an organic spirit inspired by root tea, an alcoholic herbal remedy made from sassafras and sarsaparilla that originated in the 1700s. That tea was the basis for root beer, created ...

Perhaps the biggest name celebrating the day is A&W Restaurants, which will be serving free small root beer floats from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at many of its 630 locations across the U.S.

A root beer float is also know as a brown cow, said John Haberkorn, plant manager at the South Dakota State University Dairy Plant. If you make it with chocolate ice cream, it’s called a black cow.

Combine the beer, juice, vodka, bourbon, molasses, confectioners’ sugar and egg white in a cocktail shaker and shake to combine. Fill the small side of the shaker with ice and shake well.