Ok, Stupid Question (butterbeer)

finwitch finwitch at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 14 17:01:12 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 121954


Peg :

> 
> I'll agree with Julie and add a point--most soft drinks (pop, soda, 
> whatever your local dialect calls for) have a little alcohol in 
> them.  Homemade soft drink recipes often call for a little yeast to 
> carbonate them.  Even bread has a little alcohol--the yeast that 
> raises bread is pretty much the same one used for fermenting beer 
and 
> wine.  

Finwitch:

Most if not all of that alcohol would vaporise away in the oven for 
bread, though. And yes, there are such low-alcoholic things kids can 
have (like liquer-filled chocolates).

But speaking of alcohol going away when heated - don't they have 
their butterbeer hot?

Finwitch







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