The Original Butter Beer Recipe

[bboyminn]

Indirectly through a news source I discovered that Butter Beer
existed before Harry Potter.

Here is the original butter beer recipe, though we don't know
that it in anyway duplicated HP butter beer.

http://blogs.channel4.com/food/2009/03/17/feasting-on-butterbeer/

This is the article from which I found out about this recipe -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/oct/26/harry-potter-halloween-warner-lawyers

It seems this woman has what she calls an 'underground restaurant'. Though really she just host a few friends at here house every now an then.

She was planning to host a Harry Potter themed Halloween party, 
and Warner Brothers thought that was an infringement on their
trademark and copyrights. Even though this was a small event
not holding more than say 30 people. The cost of entrance was
to offset the cost of the food, props, and decorations.

Warner even implied that it own the rights to all the food 
mentioned in the HP books, even though as this butter beer
recipe shows, many of the foods in the books pre-date Harry
Potter; as well as treacle tarts, pumpkin pasties, and many
others. 

I know many fan groups have had to rename their events because
they used words directly associated with Harry Potter. This
seems extremely unwise. If you can have a Harry Potter fan
convention that mentions Harry Potter, then ...well... you 
really can't have a convention can you? 

And if you can't throw a Harry Potter party that mentions
Harry Potter, then it is difficult to throw a theme party.

What Warner is doing is blocking all avenues by which fans 
can enjoy being fans. Which in my eyes means the fans will
have no choice but to turn away from the fandom.

How long before Warner institutes a law suit preventing schools
and colleges from playing Quidditch? 

You simply can't kill your fans then wonder why you suddenly 
have none. As long as fandom is alive, Harry Potter is still
alive, kill fandom = killing Harry. 

steve/bluewizard