Talk:Butterbeer

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I think there is potential for a reasonable article on this (as good as plenty of other Harry Potter ones, anyway). If nothing else, there's the continuing debate over whether it's supposed to be alcoholic.

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Um excuse me but if I'm not mistaken, it is Butterbeer, not Butterbear, which is in fact a Wiggles or Wuggles or Wuzzles or something like that character. Butterbeer is a drink from the Harry Potter books. You can find the recipe at [[1]].

Butterbeer is a fictional drink and I beileve Rowling stated it's impossible to make in the real world. Some website you stumbled across doesn't exactly fit into the Harry Potter canon.

[edit] Intoxication

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

I'm not sure that this makes much sense. Surely a tiny-bodied house elf would drink a proportionately smaller amount of butterbeer? Pburka 16:28, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree, that doesn't make sense. Good thinking. But that's what's said in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. After all, HP is fiction. Nuggit 01:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually it can make perfect sense, woman even though they are smaller often drink the same amount of alchohol as men and consequently sometimes get drunker. The biochemisty of different animals and even humans make them more or less vulnerable to intoxication. Jarwulf 06:24, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

if you eliminate the reference to size, which wasn't even mentioned by Rowling anyway...Jarwulf 06:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Recipes

An anon recently added yet a third recipe for Butterbeer. I've removed all of the recipes, as they were unsourced (WP:NOR, WP:Cite) and aren't really appropriate for an encyclopedia, anyway (WP:NOT). Pburka 02:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

This sounds like something from The Simpsons. "It's butter! It's beer! It's butter and beer! It's Butterbeer!" JIP | Talk 17:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)