Happy Root Beer Float Day!
Today was the 2024 National Root Beer Float Day! How yummy. . .
Happy National Root Beer Float Day
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A Brief History on Root Beer:
Root Beer History: A root beer float started in North America and remains popular there. It is usually made from the sassafras plant, which gives it a unique taste, but there isn’t one standard recipe. Charles Elmer Hires, a pharmacist from Philadelphia, is known for creating Hires Root Beer. Legend has it that he first tried root beer during his honeymoon in 1875, a drink that has roots in colonial America. However, different stories exist about when and where he discovered it. By 1876, Hires had his own recipe and began selling packets of powder for 25¢, each making one gallon of root beer. At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia that year, he drew in customers by giving away free samples. Hires promoted his root beer as a mix of 16 wild roots and berries, claiming it could cleanse the blood and make you look healthier. In 1884, he started making a liquid extract and syrup for soda fountains, later shipping root beer in kegs and introducing a special dispenser called the “Hires Automatic Munimaker.” The Charles E. Hires Company was formed in 1890, and by 1891, they had sold over a million small bottles of Hires root beer. The brand changed hands several times from the late 1990’s to the 2000’s, and it was officially retired by Keurig Dr Pepper in the 2010’s.
Ice Cream History: Roman Emperor Nero, Alexander the Great, King Solomon, ancient Chinese leaders, European nobles, and some Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington!
Where it Came Together: Frank J. Wisner, the proprietor of Cripple Creek Brewing in Colorado, is recognized for inventing the inaugural root beer float on August 19, 1893.
Where & When: You can enjoy a root beer float in your home, outside on a nice summer day, or anywhere it can be enjoyed– morning, noon and night; a root beer floats can refresh!
Root Beer Float courtesy of Openverse
Celebrated: National Root Beer Float Day is celebrated every August 6th!
A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .
More Root Beer Float Facts and Yummy Tales:
Variations of Root Beer:
- Hires
- A&W
- IBC Root Beer
- Mug Root Beer
- Barq’s Root Beer
- Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer
- More. . .
Variations of Ice Cream:
- Vanilla ice cream
- More. . .
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Root Beer Float Trivia:
- August 6th marks National Root Beer Float Day
- Root beer floats are sometimes called “brown cow” or “black cow”A reverse root beer float is created with root beer ice cream and vanilla soda
- The first-ever ice-cream soda was sold in 1874
Nowadays:
Now: Worldwide, root beer floats is enjoyed by many people, and the United States is just as likely to have one or two!
Future:
- U.S.: I am truly confident that in the U.S., the root beer floats trend will continue everywhere–on and on. Root beer floats makes it better.
- Worldwide: The world loves a root beer floats! How yummy. . .
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National Root Beer Float Day
