Butterbeer is a fictional drink from the Harry Potter book series, and apparently the soft drink of choice for younger wizards. Harry is first presented with the beverage in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Though it has no noticeable effect on a thirteen-year-old human, butterbeer is strong enough to cause drunkenness in a house-elf, if consumed on a regular basis. J. K. Rowling said in her interview to Bon Appetit magazine that it is supposed "to taste a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch." Jump to: navigation, search Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... Redirect page Jump to: navigation, search ... Jump to: navigation, search Cover of the UK Childrens edition by Bloomsbury Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series of childrens books by J. K. Rowling. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens For other uses, see Human (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i. ... House-elves are fictional creatures in the Harry Potter series. ... Jump to: navigation, search Joanne Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling is not her legal name; see below for the explanation) OBE (born 31 July 1965), commonly known as J. K. Rowling (pronunciation: role-ing, as in rolling stone) is an English fiction writer. ... Butterscotch is a type of candy made by boiling sugar syrup, butter, cream and vanilla. ...

The mascot of the Quidditch team the Ballycastle Bats, Barny the Fruitbat, is used in butterbeer advertisements ("Barny says: I'm just batty about Butterbeer!") Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, FL. A mascot is something, typically an animal or human character used to represent a group with a common identity, such as a school, professional sports team, or corporation. ... Jump to: navigation, search Quidditch is a fictional airborne ballgame played on broomsticks, a sort of magical variant of football or polo. ... In the fictional Harry Potter books, thirteen teams play in the fictional British and Irish Quidditch League. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...

Butterbeer and intoxication

In the UK, beverages are considered 'soft' if they contain less than 0.5% alcohol, and they can be purchased by anyone without age restiction. Jump to: navigation, search In general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-ghawl الغول) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage). ...

This trace amount of alcohol is usually the result of the fermentation process that is used to naturally carbonate soft drinks. The clues to natural carbonation are the very fine bubbles and the thick rich foam, which is certainly consistent with butterbeer. Modern carbonated beverages are injected with carbon dioxide gas (CO₂) which produces much coarser bubbles and foam. Jump to: navigation, search In its strictest sense, fermentation (formerly called zymnosis) is the energy-yielding anaerobic metabolic breakdown of a nutrient molecule, such as glucose, without net oxidation. ... Jump to: navigation, search Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. ...

That small trace of alcohol would not affect humans, but would certainly be enough to affect the tiny bodies of creatures like house-elves.

Influences

Butterbeer's name, as indicated above, was partly based on Rowling's imagination and butterscotch.

Other possible name influences include Barliman Butterbur, the Bree-based bartender in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Barliman Butterbur is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. ... There are 3 meanings for Bree 1. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ...

Recipes

Fans have proposed several recipes to fit the name; for example:

Ingredients:

• 1 pint (0.57 litres) vanilla ice cream (softened)
• 1/2 stick butter (softened)
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp. of cinnamon
• 1 tsp. grated nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. ground clove
• 1 imperial quart (1.1 litre) apple cider

Directions: The pint is a unit of volume. ... A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cider (also spelled: cyder) refers to a beverage containing the juice of apples. ...

1. Cream butter, sugar and spices together.
2. Beat in the vanilla ice cream.
3. Re-freeze the mixture.
4. Scoop out the frozen mixture into a glass.
5. Pour hot Apple cider over the ice cream mixture.

Optional: add an ounce (30 g) of rum for an adult treat. The ounce is the name for a number of different units of mass (oz), and also of two units of fluid volume (fl oz) and of one unit of force, the ounce-force (ozf). ...

(Note: before attempting this recipe, be aware that it comes out tasting a little bit like chai tea, and not like a "less sickly butterscotch".) Chai (written चाय in Hindi) is an Indian term for tea from India. ...

A simpler (and possibly more accurate) recipe calls for mixing cream soda with butterscotch schnapps or flavoring. Cream soda is a sweet carbonated soft drink. ... Schnapps is a type of distilled beverage. ...

External links

• Wizarding World Food & drink