[HPforGrownups] Re: butterbeer in wizarding world

[Buttercup]

No: HPFGUIDX 76443


 Buttercup wrote:
> > 
> > And what about butterbeer--letting kids drink an
> > alcoholic drink at such a young age is a good way
> to
> > start their lives of alcoholism. Imagine what
> Winky's
> > liver looks like. 
> > 

June wrote:

> I think Butterbeer might be more like either ginger
> beer (which is a 
> non-alcoholic - or virtually anyway) old fashioned
> english soft 
> drink, or perhaps like a drink called shandy (I am
> explaining this 
> rather thoroughly for US posters who may not be
> familiar - not 
> trying to patronise!). Shandy is a mix of beer and
> lemonade - 
> usually much more beer than lemonade though it can
> be made 
> stronger.  Made weakly enough and it is suiable for
> children.
> 
> I don't think there is any heavy duty alcohol in
> Butterbeer or we 
> would surely have seen some drunkeness scenes (or
> being tipsy).  
> Maybe house elves just don't have the head for
> drinking it and get 
> drunk very easily.

Buttercup:

I've never heard of shandy, but then I'm not British
and I don't drink alcohol. What you said is true. If
there was a decent amount of alcohol in butterbeer,
I'm sure some of the kids (like Fred and George
perhaps) would've had a good old time after winning a
Quidditch match. 

And maybe since elves are tiny, what alcohol that is
in butterbeer intoxicates them faster and with a
higher degree of potency.

Thanks for explaining. I heard it's real hot in the UK
now, so go have a shandy.

=====
Buttercup

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