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

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No: HPFGUIDX 67017

Jim Ferer wrote:

> 
> Old-fashioned, real, homemade root beer and all the others do have
> trace amounts of alcohol in them, because it's fermentation with yeast
> that gives them their fizz.  The difference between, say, root beer
> and beer beer is that you only leave  root beer to ferment for a few
> hours, instead of days.
> 
> So, when Winky gets loaded on butterbeer, it tells us that the wizard
> world makes it the old-fashioned way instead of just shooting CO2 into
> it.  It fits with our image of the wizard world as a retro place in
> many ways. Everything from the torches on the walls to the 19th
> century speech patterns of the teachers (compare the way they talk to
> the students - it's more than a generational thing) says so.
> 

Indeed, thank you. It was usual for children to consume brewed and even
distilled drinks a couple of hundred years ago. I imagine that places 
like the Leaky Cauldron
and the Three Broomstickshave their own brewhouses and
brew their own supplies. Using the old method of making three brews from 
each mash, you get three quality/strengths, best, ordinary, and 'small' 
beer. This last was what was given to children, being the least 
alcoholic and least strongly flavored. I can easily see that adding 
butter sugar and cinnamon to small beer would make a good beverage for 
them. And don't forget that heating it up would also evaporate some of 
the alcohol, whether its going to be served hot or cold. This would also 
emulsify the butter so you dont get a greasy scum when serving it cold.

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