Root Beer Float. © George Kelly / flickr.com / 2009 / CC BY-SA 2.0
A root beer float is a classic North American summer drink.
It’s a big, thick frosty mug of root beer with a big, creamy head of suds on it and ice cream in it: a classic ice cream float.
Today, why not got a bunch of friends together and let everyone debate their favourite brand of root beer; then do a blind root beer tasting.
Oakland A’s hold a fundraising Root Beer Float Day on a Wednesday in July or early in August, while playing baseball.
In some years, A&W Restaurants in North America offer free A&W Root Beer Floats on 20 June.
A few people plump for this day being held on 19 August.