National root beer float day is an excellent excuse to enjoy a little bit of American food history with friends and family.

The bottles are refrigerated. They then rate the root beer out of 10 in six categories: color, fizziness, mintiness, spiciness, sweetness and overall taste. Discussion and negotiation usually occurs.

Infusing a soda with gut-enhancing ingredients is a great idea, but the tart kick of prebiotics makes this taste more like cola than root beer. 25 calories. $2.55 for 12 ounces at Raley’s. (1 star) ...