very popular drink served cold in bottles or hot by the mug ("foaming tankards of hot butterbeer") at the Three Broomsticks
House Elves can get drunk on butterbeer, but it doesn't have that effect on humans (GF
How is butterbeer made and what does it taste like? When asked about this by "Bon Appetit" magazine, JKR responded:
"I made it up. I imagine it to taste a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch."
Hot Chocolate
served at the Burrow (CS4)
and on the Knight Bus (PA3);
Dumbledore comes down in the middle of the night for some, but finds the petrified Colin Creevey instead (CS)
when Ginny Weasley is being brought to the Hospital Wing after her ordeal in the Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore suggests that she be given a cup of hot chocolate (CS
Gillywater (McGonagall's drink) (PA10) (cf. gillyweed, GF)
Mulled Mead (a favorite of Hagrid's) (PA10)
Red Currant Rum (Cornelius Fudge's choice of drinks) (PA10)
Cherry Syrup and Soda with Ice and an Umbrella (Flitwick enjoys this)
(PA10) aka a Sherley Temple
Ogden's Old Firewhisky (CS6, GF10)
Elderflower Wine - served at the Weasley's (GF5)
Bottle of Some Amber Liquid which Hagrid carried in his overcoat pocket (SS4)
Tea (Lupin makes tea with tea bags he heats his kettle with a tap of his wand)
Single Malt Whisky (given to Madam Maxime's horses) (GF15)