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"butter" beer (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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so my partner is a harry potter fan, from back when What's Her Face wasn't obviously a trashy person. i would just like to preface this by stating that i don't condone the ideas that What's Her Face espouses, we don't buy the merch, we pirated the movies and any of her books in my library had been bought from a used book store which resells donated books.

So in the books, there's a reference to a "butter beer" the kids drink. I'm thinking that this is non-alcoholic as in a ginger beer, or at least not super strong. I wanted to try to make a batch for my partner as a special surprise.

I'm planning on making a batch of this next in the style of an american cream ale with vienna malt as the base, 10% oat and 10% corn flakes, to give it a heavy mouth feel, and adding some vanilla extract and nutmeg for the flavor.

Has anyone here made this before, and if so, how did it go? Any pitfalls to watch out for?

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[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried making butter beer, which is real thing that was sometimes made, but it probably isn't what you think.

It is more of hot wine style drink. I think someone made yt video that I used as instructions. Yes it is less alcoholic because you heat the beer (which is the base of the drink) and mix in sugar, butter and some other stuff I don't remember.

I think that it was quite good and could be made in 20min, really good for the colder evenings. I would suggest some neutral tasting beer as a base, I used some store bought lager if I remember correctly - most of the taste is from the other stuff there.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If I recall, they heated the beer with a hot iron poker, which also caramelized a bunch of the natural and added sugars in the drink.

https://www.brewer-world.com/the-history-of-beer-poking/

Traditional recipe here, though they use a pouring method instead of a poker: https://braciatrix.com/2021/12/10/16th-century-butter-beer/

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks, much better than trying to piece it together from video!

I wanted to make it again but didn't got to it, I think I wanted to cut the sugar a bit it was too sweet for me. Also I wanted to try some different beers to see how it impacts the taste.