Homemade Root Beer Floats (National Root Beer Float Day)

Today is "National Root Beer Float Day" To honor this most awesome celebration, I decided to try my hand at Homemade Root Beer and make Root Beer Floats. I happened to be in Walmart in the baking isle, no surprise there. I was looking at all the wonderful extracts on the shelf and came across root beer extract. 

Right on the back of the box is a recipe for homemade root beer. I knew I had to try it, I wanted to see if it tasted just like the real deal. You see I am a Root Beer Lover!! I remember growing up my mom and dad used to take us kids to A&W Root beer and we would get burgers and floats. 

We had such a good time. I always giggled at the names of the burgers. The papa burger, the mama burger and the baby burger! I used to ask every time for a bigger burger but always ended up with a baby burger. My mom knew I couldn't eat anything bigger than that. Oh well, it never hurts to ask does it.

I don't know why I was so surprised at how great the homemade root beer tasted. I guess it was because I actually made it. I was so excited that it tasted just like the real deal. I know a liter of store bought root beer is probably less than $1.50, but there is just something about making it yourself that makes it that much better. I think I will try and make a root beer float cake next, I hear they are quite tasty as well.

These are the ingredients you will need: sugar, root beer extract, water, seltzer water and vanilla ice cream.


ready to measure out the root beer extract.

Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in sugar and



mix until dissolved.



add root beer concentrate; stir until well mixed. Refrigerate until ready to serve.



Slowly pour soda into root beer mixture until well blended. I used seltzer. Makes 6 cups.





Homemade Root Beer

1 1/2 - cups water
3/4 - cup sugar
1 1/2 - teaspoons root beer concentrate
1 - bottle (1 liter size) cold soda water, seltzer or club soda

Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in sugar until dissolved. Add concentrate; stir until well mixed. Refrigerate until ready to serve. 

Slowly pour soda into root beer mixture until well blended. I used seltzer. Makes 6 cups. To make Root Beer Floats, place scoops of ice cream in tall glasses. 

Slowly pour the homemade root beer over homemade or store bought ice cream and serve.