Yeah, I always thought of butterbeer as like, cream soda meets butterscotch schnapps. Haven't though of pumpkin juice...I like pumpkin soup fine, but seems it'd be rather smoothie-esque for juice.
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meara - Jun 08, 2011 11:51:53 am PDT #15180 of 28282
Polgara - Jun 08, 2011 11:55:42 am PDT #15181 of 28282
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The butterbeer they serve at the Harry Potter Universal park in Florida is delicious--somewhere between cream soda and butterscotch, with whipped cream on top. So good it made me wish they'd market it nationally.
DavidS - Jun 08, 2011 12:14:32 pm PDT #15182 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The butterbeer they serve at the Harry Potter Universal park in Florida is delicious--somewhere between cream soda and butterscotch, with whipped cream on top.
So: Virgil's Cream Soda plus Routin's Butterscotch Syrup = Butterbeer.
JZ - Jun 08, 2011 12:17:27 pm PDT #15183 of 28282
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Butterbeer always sounded painfully yum to me (I always imagined it pretty much just how -t and meara described), and now Polgara is not helping with the craving one tiny bit.
Pumpkin juice, less yum, though I have had some excellent pumpkin smoothies (they tasted like pumpkin pie ice cream milkshakes).
DavidS - Jun 08, 2011 12:19:36 pm PDT #15184 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's also the unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook which apparently has a butterbeer recipe.
But after Polgara's report I'm content with my suggestion.
DavidS - Jun 08, 2011 12:22:39 pm PDT #15185 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polgara - Jun 08, 2011 12:28:00 pm PDT #15186 of 28282
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
It was sooooo yummy, we all had seconds. Only had the frozen butterbeer though--it was September and ickily humid out.
They also had bottles of pumpkin juice, but we never got around to trying that.
Laga - Jun 08, 2011 12:44:06 pm PDT #15187 of 28282
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I can't imagine what pumpkin juice tastes like but I would like to try it. As I read the books I imagined butterbeer was the the hard cider version of rootbeer.
Consuela - Jun 08, 2011 12:55:43 pm PDT #15188 of 28282
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As I read the books I imagined butterbeer was the the hard cider version of rootbeer.
That I would drink. But the butterscotch and cream soda stuff sounds too sweet for me. I like my beers bitter (IPA, yum!).
Atropa - Jun 08, 2011 4:24:41 pm PDT #15189 of 28282
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Luna & Neville are my favorites. I would LOVE to read the further adventures of Luna.
The butterbeer they serve at the Harry Potter Universal park in Florida is delicious--somewhere between cream soda and butterscotch, with whipped cream on top
That does sound astonishingly good.