Butterbeer (Was: Re: Spoilers?? Where are They)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171673

Lauren:
> 
> > That reminds me: What is butterbeer? I know they allow the kids 
to drink it but then when some refer to Winky getting drunk on it 
this made me wonder about it.
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> I've had a large number of different kinds of beverages, both
alcoholic and non-alcoholic, in my life, but have never come across
butterbeer so far. I do know that if one adds milk to beer they really
do not mix well. However I'm no wizard, so what do I know? It is a
popular drink amongst younger wizards and witches.
> 
> 
> Marion
> 
> It's probably a wink-eyed reference to the 'lashings and lashings of
ginger beer' that was always drunk in pre-war schoolstories.

Carol responds:
And/or butterscotch, which sounds as if it has liquor in it but
doesn't. I've always imagined butterbeer as butterscotch-flavored
rootbeer, with just the tiniest amount of liquor in it--not enough to
affect a 120-pound thirteen-year-old (except possibly to make him even
giddier than usual, if he happens to be Ron), but more than enough to
affect a thirty-pound house-elf, especially if she's drinking six
bottles a day. Body weight is surely the main factor here.

Carol, who thinks that hot butterbeer might taste rather like hot
buttered rum only milder and sweeter