Ok, Stupid Question

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 121909


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
> What is Butterbeer, and why, seeing that it contains alcohol, are 
the students allowed to have it?
>    
> Chancie

Tonks here:

According to the Harry Potter Lexicon:
butterbeer 
very popular drink served cold in bottles or hot by the mug 
("foaming tankards of hot butterbeer") at the Three Broomsticks 
House-Elves can get drunk on butterbeer, but it doesn't have that 
effect on humans (GF 
How is butterbeer made and what does it taste like? When asked about 
this by "Bon Appetit" magazine, JKR responded: "I made it up. I 
imagine it to taste a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch." 

Tonks_op