[HPFGU-OTChatter]Butterbeer (was Re: pumpkin juice)/ Odd dream

[sophiamcl <sophiamcl@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> Tyler wrote:
> 
> > on a HP/food related note, do you think butterbeer is
> > an alcoholic beverage? I always imagined it was
> > similar to root beer, a nonalcoholic soft drink
> 
> I've always imagined butterbeer as Cream Soda.  I'm not entirely sure why, 
but that was the first thing to come to mind the first time I read it, and I've 
thought of it as that ever since.  So nonalcoholic, in my opinion.
> 
According to cannon, butterbeer is alcoholic, though very weak. I don't  have 
GoF with me, but check out the chapter in which the trio visit the kitchen and 
encounter Winky, drunk on butterbeer. Ron (?) comments that it's not strong 
stuff, but Dobby explains that it *would* be strong for a house-elf, hence 
Winky's intoxication. This is why I believe it is. (Which is not to say that one 
could not concoct a delicious non-alcoholic beverage in the real world and 
label it butterbeer).

Sophia