Harry Potter Butterbeer Recipe - Curly Girl Kitchen (2024)

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Harry Potter Butterbeer Recipe - Curly Girl Kitchen? ›

The version sold at The Wizarding World was tasted and approved by Rowling herself. Visitors to the park see a large wooden barrel that bears the word "BUTTERBEER" as soon as they enter, and they can buy it from a street cart and inside The Three Broomsticks restaurant and Hog's Head pub.

The version sold at The Wizarding World was tasted and approved by Rowling herself. Visitors to the park see a large wooden barrel that bears the word "BUTTERBEER" as soon as they enter, and they can buy it from a street cart and inside The Three Broomsticks restaurant and Hog's Head pub.

A simple brown sugar and butter syrup gets topped with cream soda and a dollop of cream in this wildly popular drink. Next time you are having a Harry Potter movie marathon, book club meeting, or even a Halloween party, pull out all the stops with this sweet drink that even Harry, Ron, and Hermione would approve of.

Butterbeer Foam:

1/2 envelope Dream Whip whipped topping mix. 1 tablespoon powdered sugar. 1/2 teaspoon butterscotch syrup. 1/4 teaspoon butter extract.

Known ingredients. Butterbeer was a popular wizarding beverage described as tasting "a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch". It was served at numerous locations in the wizarding world and had a very slight alcoholic content.

↑ In the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, however, Hermione Granger appears to act slightly tipsy after a visit to the Three Broomsticks Inn where she was shown drinking some; this can be seen just before the discovery of Katie Bell.

Butterbeer is implied to be about as strong as ginger beer, i.e. not very strong at all. Not strong enough to count as alcoholic for legal purposes. Winky only gets drunk because she's a House Elf and drinks a lot of it. The Hogwarts students aren't actually underage for drinking in the UK.

If this is your first Butterbeer, I'd recommend the cold version. As a Harry Potter fan, this drink comes the closest to how I imagined it. It can be served in a regular cup or a souvenir tankard.

Just as Rowling imagined, there's more flavor here than sugar, or at least that's how it drinks — essentially, you're getting a butterscotch cream soda with a float of something like toasted marshmallow crème; there's no escaping the inevitable foam mustache, and while you can try, you'll never outdrink the head.

Butterbeer had a slight alcoholic content and although was safe for children to drink, it could affect creatures (such as house-elves) if consumed in to high a quantity. Harry enjoyed his first Butterbeer in Hogsmeade.

What are the three types of Butterbeer? ›

The Three Broomsticks (in Hogsmeade) and The Leaky Cauldron (in Diagon Alley): Cold Butterbeer. Frozen Butterbeer. Hot Butterbeer.

Frozen Butterbeer

Because it's blended with ice, it's less sweet and more refreshing than cold Butterbeer and it still has the effervescent bite I enjoy. Unlike cold Butterbeer, it's served with a straw so you can get some of the foam topping with each sip or mix it into the frosty drink.

Butterbeer tastes like a good cream soda with a butterscotch foam. You may be interested in the frozen type when visiting in June. Download the Orlando Studios app when you get to the park, and get the express pass if you can to make the most of your time.

If you're drinking the butter beer from the Tudor era, it likely tastes like a creamy, foamy, warm, spiced, ale. If you're drinking the butter beer from Harry Potter, it's probably closer to a lightly alcoholic cream soda with a hint of butter scotch.

Alcohol was regulated in magical society by the Department of Intoxicating Substances and licenced by the Licensing Wizengamot of Great Britain. Beverages with heavy alcohol were usually restricted to wizards that were "of age", that was, seventeen or older.

Although the original stories depicted Butterbeer ™ as being served cold in bottles and hot in "foaming tankards," Universal Orlando Resort serves it three different ways, along with a flavored ice cream, for Harry Potter ™ fans craving the wizarding beverage.

Royalty Payments

Every time you purchase a Butterbeer, licensed product, on-ride photograph, or even a bottle of Gillywater from one of the Wizarding World lands at a Universal Park around the world, a percentage of that sale will go directly to the rights holders (Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling).

Butterbeer had a slight alcoholic content and although was safe for children to drink, it could affect creatures (such as house-elves) if consumed in to high a quantity. Harry enjoyed his first Butterbeer in Hogsmeade.

The 150 recipes in Bucholz's cookbook are classic versions of some of the foods cited in the “Harry Potter” books. But because of copyright rules, dishes named by Rowling, including butterbeer, could not be used in the “unofficial” cookbook.

“Tell you what,” said Ron, his teeth chattering, “shall we go for a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks?” First mentioned in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, butterbeer has become a symbol of magic in its own right.