[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP - It's Butterbeer time!

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No: HPFGUIDX 66992

Jesta Hijinx wrote:
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>  > > ButterBEER must have beer as an ingredient! It must also have an
>  >low
>  > > alcohol content for canon to make sense, maybe 2%.
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>  > > In medieval times BUTTERED ALE was a popular drink. Ale (beer
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>  > > without any hops) was heated together with with butter, cinnamon,
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>  > > sugar. I think this is basically what Butterbeer is.
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>  >That's possible, but I don't think butterbeer *has* to be alcoholic
>  >(however mildly) just because it's got "beer" in its name. Root beer,
>  >birch beer and ginger beer are all non-alcoholic.  Also, I always
>  >thought it was non-alcoholic, but that house-elves just had weird
>  >chemistry so that they got drunk on it. That kind of thing has
>  >happened in other sci-fi/fantasy-type stories. That's just my
>  >thought, though. It could just be very mildly alcoholic, also.
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> Someone who posted before the poster who wrote about "buttered ale" (and I
> honestly have never seen a recipe like that, and I do some medieval 
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> and research - all of the ingredients were available, but I just haven't
> seen any mention of it per se - is it maybe more Renaissance?) 

I think it was popular through til at least 17C. Just google for 
"Buttered Ale"

was saying
> "Isn't butterbeer a hot beverage?"  NO - when they're getting it at The
> Three Broomsticks, the mention of "foamy mugs" is because there it's
> available *draft* on tap - like A&W root beer is so much better at the
> fountain.  But Remus Lupin has bottles of it, when they all go into the 
> Hogs
> Head, they get 25 dusty bottles of butterbeer for the class...it's not 
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> served hot.


Well the recipe calls for the ingredients being heated together, but 
that does not mean it has to be served hot. I bet its good that way in 
winter though.

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