Celebrating National Root Beer Float Day in NoCo!
From craft root beer to homemade ice cream, Northern CO has great places to celebrate National Root Beer Float Day on Aug 6, 2023! #rootbeerfloatnoco Just want some craft root beer without the ice cream? Scroll a little further down for local breweries that make their own. Looking for spiked root beer? We found that too in NoCo! Tag us #rootbeerfloatnoco BUT FIRST, A LITTLE COLORADO HISTORY ABOUT ROOT BEER FLOATS: Photo source: Wikipedia Sharing from National Food.com: The unique fusion of ice cream with root beer is unlike anything else. This summertime delicacy has a history as rich as its texture and flavor! Frank J. Wisner, the owner of Colorado’s Cripple Creek Brewing, is the person to thank for creating the root beer float on August 19, 1893. The idea behind this extraordinary innovation came to Wisner when he was looking at the snowy peaks of Colorado’s Cow Mountain that gave the illusion of ice cream floating on a beverage. While staring out of the window of the Cripple