Posted in: Nerd Food, Pop Culture | Tagged: baskin robbins, Mug Root BeerMUG Root Beer & Baskin-Robbins Wanna Set a New World RecordMUG Root Beer and Baskin-Robbins have teamed up to set a new World Record that involves sending a root beer float into space! Article Summary MUG Root Beer and Baskin-Robbins plan a National Root Beer Float Day stunt to send a root beer float to the edge of space. The MUG Root Beer launch aims to break the 114,100-foot record for the highest altitude ever reached by a root beer float. This National Root Beer Float Day, August 6, MUG Root Beer and Baskin-Robbins are settling it once and for all — celebrating the iconic, indulgent root beer float with an out-of-this-world stunt, exclusive offers, and limited-time creations. To get things off the ground — literally — MUG is launching a root beer float 114,100 feet up, to break the world record for the highest altitude reached by a root beer float aboard a high-altitude balloon.