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A&W’s my favorite root beer so I was excited to try their new ready-made ice cream float! I picked up a bottle at a convenience store nearby. It was unexpectedly creamy and tastes like they bottled it after all the ice cream melted. Which actually would make sense because at that point the pop would’ve lost most of it’s carbonation and the bottled stuff tastes only lightly carbonated.

It was definitely tasty, but I don’t think they quite hit the “just like the real thing” meter. I think it was the “artificial ice cream flavor”, which I’m pretty sure is just vanilla extract laid on thickly. There’s also an after taste, that’s some mix of vanilla extract and cream. I bet that’s supposed to be the foam from a real float, but then again it also reminds me of Yoo-Hoo which is a step in a random direction.

Overall I call it a yummy, creamy drink in it’s own right, but it really isn’t very float-like.