is butterbeer really beer?

[ellenmiele]

In other words..is it an alcoholic beverage?

 

[MamaJessie]

no

 

[Bradsdadg]

No it's soda, think of cream soda

 

[nytimez]

They do have a Harry Potter beer (real beer) of some kind, but it's not very good. I think it's called Hog's Head or something.

 

[bumbershoot]

No it's soda, think of cream soda

Yep, we just tried a bottle of Boylan's Cream Soda and it tastes very very very similar.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

In other words..is it an alcoholic beverage?

Sadly no ...

... and yes, it tastes just like cream soda

 

[ChrisFL]

It's beer in the same sense that Root beer or Birch beer is.

 

[nytimez]

It's definitely got a touch of a butterscotch flavor or something that sets it ever-so-slightly apart from cream soda. But yes, it's basically a cream soda.

 

[siobhan1997]

To us it tasted like Vanilla Coke with butterscotch.. did not like at all YUK!!

 

[cv1990]

No it's not and I maintain that it should be because at the moment it tastes foul.

I'm sure I bought a Budweiser from WWOHP once though?

 

[BealsRwe]

Butterbeer, as others have said, is non-alcoholic. The kids in the movies drank it in Hogsmeade, and thankful my DD can drink it when we go there too. DH and I really enjoy the Hog's Head Amber in the Hog's Head bar! That one DD isn's going to be drinking anytime soon.

 

[DOOM1001]

I like Butterbeer,especially the sweet foam,now pumpkin juice that's the nastiest thing I've ever drank.

 

[XGrumpy1]

My wife HATES beer, but she liked butter beer!

 

[aubriee]

I like Butterbeer,especially the sweet foam,now pumpkin juice that's the nastiest thing I've ever drank.

My wife HATES beer, but she liked butter beer!

I agree with both of these. I loved the frozen butterbeer (the regular not so much). I don't like the taste of beer and agree that the pumpkin juice was the nastiest stuff I ever tasted. I love pumpkin, so thought I'd love the pumpkin juice at the Three Broomsticks. Boy was I wrong. That stuff was just plain nasty.

We'll be back to Universal in about two weeks, so I get another frozen butterbeer and my husband gets his Hogs Head Ale that he likes. The pumpkin juice they can keep.

 

[StalkerX]

Sadly it's not beer as others have stated, but sometimes on those hot days, I sure wish it was!

 

[ellenmiele]

Thank you to everyone for the info! I LOVE cream soda so I will definitely be trying a butter beer (and glad to know the kids can too) but DH is dissappointed to hear it's not "real beer" so thank for the tip about the Hogs Head!
be there in 4 days.....

 

[DVC Dude]

Here is a pic of Butterbeer (non alcoholic)

Hog's Head Ale is real beer (adult drink only)

 

[DaniB]

That looks so good! We're still 150 odd days away from trying it.

 

[bookgirl2632]

I really miss my butterbeer!! They need to bottle it for those of us so far away from Universal.

 

[The Rolands]

Did you all know Butterbeer really existed in the 1500s? Way before HP!