National Root Beer Day can be more exciting than you may think!  If you have children, a fun way to celebrate is to pretend like you have a soda shop and let your children sit at a high counter on stools to “order” root beer floats.  Maybe play some 1950′s music to completely transform the atmosphere.  But if you don’t have kids – or want to have a more adult Root Beer Day celebration – try making some yummy alcoholic beverages.  For out of this world root beer drinks, mix Three Olives Vodka with your root beer.  What?  Vodka in your root beer?  Three Olives Vodka recently released the world’s first Root Beer flavored vodka, perfect for celebrating this little known holiday! Over a century ago, Root Beer was first introduced as an alcoholic beverage, and Three Olives is thrilled to be the first to put the booze back into this all-American classic.

Three Olives Vodka is the original, ultra-premium vodka from England.  It is handcrafted in small batches and made from only the finest English wheat. Their method of quadruple distilling and quadruple filtration removes natural impurities, yielding a vodka of exceptional purity and smoothness. And what’s best is that this award-winning, ultra-premium vodka is now available in 18 flavors - Tomato, Mango, Root Beer, Vanilla, Bubble, Cherry, Berry, Grape, Triple Espresso, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Orange, Watermelon, Chocolate, Green Apple, Citrus, Rangtang, Naked - providing you with endless mixing possibilities!

Here are few recipes provided by Three Olives Vodka for the Three-O Root Beer Float and the Root Beer Floatini to use on this delicious day.

Three-O Root Beer Float

2 oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka

4 oz. root beer

Float 1 scoop vanilla ice cream on top

Root Beer Floatini

1.5 oz. Three Olives Root Beer Vodka

.5 oz. Amaretto liqueur

Shake hard over ice & strain into glass

Float a melon-ball size scoop of vanilla ice cream in center