[HPforGrownups] Re: Butterbeer

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No: HPFGUIDX 28189

In a message dated 25/10/2001 03:45:06 GMT Daylight Time, conshydot at email.com 
writes:

<< Isn't there a drink in Britain called "shandy"? 
 I remember it as a mixture of beer and lemonade..... 

 I always imagined butterbeer to be like the shandy I remember.  >>

Ugh... I can't see Butterbeer being remotely Shandy like. It sounds sweet, 
something Shandy definitly isn't, and slightly whiskey-ish (by that I mean 
warming... Shandy was never warming).

However, it does raise another point. You used to be able to buy cans of 
really low alcohol content Shandy over here. So if you were a kid they'd sell 
it to you cos the alcohol content was basically obselete. That was about the 
same time Harry Ron & Hermione would have been starting Hogwarts (I was 9, my 
brother was 11). i can't believe I used to drink that stuff either... 

You can buy Root beer over here (England), though it's not prolific. I've 
only ever seen it in Sainsbury's. It's fairly new addition to the shelves as 
well. More common is Dandylion and Burdock, similar looking and smelling, but 
tastes alot like aniceed (and is therefore gross...)

Sara - who prefers Becks, a nice Red wine or anything with Vodka in it these 
days... though Butterbeer does sound nice. I always imagined it to be a kind 
of alcoholic melted butterscotch solution. Nice and sweet and lovely.