When I was growing up, my grandmother would pick my brother and me up from school on Fridays and take us straight to a diner where she and my grandfather had gone on some of their first dates. Our ...

For many, Milwaukee's Sprecher Brewing is renowned as the first craft brewer in Brew City, but almost since the beginning, Randy Sprecher and his team were making delectable craft root beer, too. For ...

Root beer is weird soda. It lacks an easily definable flavor like cherry, grape or orange. Thus, root beer descriptions often include words like creamy, rich and old-fashioned. None of those are ...

Not long after Jeff Middleton opened his bar and restaurant, Middleton’s On Main, along the cozy downtown strip of northwest suburban Wauconda in 2012, one of the owners from the brewery up the street ...

On a hot day, nothing hits the spot quite like a root beer float. The combination of root beer, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream creates a heavenly, decadent drink, but not all locales use the ...

A&W Restaurants is offering a free small root beer float on August 6th from 2-8 p.m. local time. A&W operates over 850 locations across 35 U.S. states and Asia. National Root Beer Float Day is ...

Frothy, sweet and deliciously complex, root beer is the kind of bubbly libation that’s exactly right on a hot day. It’s refreshing straight out of the can or bottle — and an instant treat poured over ...

National Root Beer Float Day on Wednesday, Aug. 6, provides a great reason to indulge in a treat and to cool off. Root beer floats have a unique history. At least one source reported that in 1893, ...