What is your wizarding beverage of choice?

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This topic serves as an archive of a thread from the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum as hosted on World Crossing which ceased operation on April 15, 2011. Elanor

freshwater - Mar 29, 2009 12:13 am
Edited by Potteraholic Mar 26, 2010 12:30 pm

Please choose the two wizarding beverages you would most like to try.

1) Butterbeer....warm and in a tall mug, or chilled in a bottle

2) Gillywater

3) Ogden's Best Fire Whiskey...just a thimbleful...it's strong stuff, you know!

4) ice cold pumpkin juice

5) tea....one lump, or two?

6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

7) Elf-made blood-red wine

Edited to add the beginnining and ending dates for this poll in the title, for uniformity's sake.

mona amon - Mar 29, 2009 12:52 am (#1 of 36)
1) Butterbeer tops the list. I've been wanting to try it ever since I first heard of it

Now I can't decide between elf-made wine and fire whiskey. They both sound great!

OK, 7)Elf-made wine.

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legolas returns - Mar 29, 2009 1:53 am (#2 of 36)
1 and 6 sound good to me .

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Verity Weasley - Mar 29, 2009 4:52 am (#3 of 36)
Well I drink tea all the time anyway, and I've never been a big fan of red wine. So, my choices would be

1) Butterbeer

2) Gillywater (McGonagall drinks it so it must be cool!)

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Elanor - Mar 29, 2009 5:05 am (#4 of 36)
6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

7) Elf-made blood-red wine

(I'd try them all though if I could... )

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Hogwarts Class of 85 - Mar 29, 2009 6:10 am (#5 of 36)
Butterbeer and Firewhiskey

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Orion - Mar 29, 2009 6:46 am (#6 of 36)
Gillywater and elf-made wine.

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PeskyPixie - Mar 29, 2009 7:25 am (#7 of 36)
1) Butterbeer .... Mmmmm, butterbeer

6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

(I had wanted to go for the elf-made wine, but I'd probably be attacked by S.P.E.W. for it!)

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Dryleaves - Mar 29, 2009 7:41 am (#8 of 36)
2) Gillywater

7) Elf-made blood-red wine

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freshwater - Mar 29, 2009 8:06 am (#9 of 36)
1) warm Butterbeer on a cold day

6) Rosemerta's mulled mead

I've always thought that pumpkin juice sounds like it would be disgusting!

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azi - Mar 29, 2009 9:45 am (#10 of 36)
1 and 2 - Butterbeer and Gillywater. I'm intrigued to know exactly what Gillywater is.

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Orion - Mar 29, 2009 10:41 am (#11 of 36)
So am I so I guessed it. It must taste cool and refreshing like rescue drops. Pumpkin juice - yeuch. The worst thing about the HP series - the thought that the poor children sit at these delightful feasts and get nothing to drink except disgusting pumpkin juice! I agree that pumpkins are an old fairytale item but a rare berry juice would have been quite as exotic and much more delectable.

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Potteraholic - Mar 29, 2009 11:43 am (#12 of 36)
1) Butterbeer and 6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

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Choices - Mar 29, 2009 1:02 pm (#13 of 36)
Rosmerta's mulled mead and Butterbeer. Set 'em up Potteraholic and I'll join you. :-)

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journeymom - Mar 29, 2009 2:41 pm (#14 of 36)
Butterbeer and Gillywater. I've always imagined that Gillywater tastes a bit like a gin and tonic, and I love a gin and tonic once in a while.

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Solitaire - Mar 29, 2009 2:49 pm (#15 of 36)
Pumpkin juice and mead.

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PeskyPixie - Mar 29, 2009 6:43 pm (#16 of 36)
I've already posted my choices, but I just couldn't resist sharing that I've tasted pumpkin juice. Well, it was marketed as mango juice and it did taste of mangoes. However, I was told after I'd finished my glass of it that it mainly consisted of pumpkin!

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me and my shadow 813 - Mar 29, 2009 10:34 pm (#17 of 36)
1) Butterbeer - must try warm buttery beer!

7) Elf-made wine

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Mrs Brisbee - Mar 30, 2009 5:12 am (#18 of 36)
What, no coffee?!?

3) Ogden's Best Fire Whiskey

5) Tea

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Ludicrous Patents Office - Apr 3, 2009 9:17 pm (#19 of 36)
6. Rosmerta's mulled mead (non tampered with) 7. Elf wine

LPO

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jose043 - Apr 3, 2009 10:26 pm (#20 of 36)
6 Rosmerta's Mulled mead.

7 Elf wine

for Anne and I

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Julia H. - Apr 5, 2009 2:42 am (#21 of 36)
6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

7) Elf-made blood-red wine

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freshwater - Apr 5, 2009 7:34 am (#22 of 36)
As in the past, this poll will run for two weeks, ending Sunday, April 12. But one (or two) new polls will start this week --and run for 2 weeks-- so hopefully we will have a new poll each week. At least, that's the plan!

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freshwater - Apr 5, 2009 10:37 am (#23 of 36)
While cruising the archives of the Votes thread I came across a poll that had been closed but not tallied. Kip gave me permission to tally it up, so....check out the "Rank the Seven Books" thread to see the results.

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freshwater - Apr 13, 2009 1:16 pm (#24 of 36)
Here are the results for this poll:

Please choose the two wizarding beverages you would most like to try.

29% 1) Butterbeer....warm and in a tall mug, or chilled in a bottle

13% 2) Gillywater

5.3% 3) Ogden's Best Fire Whiskey...just a thimbleful...it's strong stuff, you know!

2.6% 4) ice cold pumpkin juice

2.6% 5) tea....one lump, or two?

23.7% 6) Rosmerta's mulled mead

23.7% 7) Elf-made blood-red wine

To sum up, the wizarding beverages we'd most like to try are:

29% of the votes went to Butterbeer

There was a tie for 2nd place with 23.7% of the votes going to both Rosmerta's mulled mead and to elf-made blood-red wine.

13% of the votes went to Gillywater

5.3% of the votes went to Ogden's Finest Fire Whiskey

There was a tie for 5th place with 2.6% of the votes going to both pumpkin juice and to tea.

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Potteraholic - Apr 14, 2009 7:38 am (#25 of 36)
Thanks for the poll results, freshwater.

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Orion - Apr 14, 2009 10:35 am (#26 of 36)
Great work, freshwater! There were too many good things to choose. But I wonder why people chose tea because everybody knows what tea tastes like! I would like to know what's the difference between elf-made wind and ordinary wine, and what exactly is Gillywater, and whether fire-whiskey tastes different from muggle whiskey... BTW didn't JKR say that Butterbeer tastes like butterscotch? Brrrrrr! Sweet beer???

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freshwater - Apr 14, 2009 5:22 pm (#27 of 36)
Thanks for the "thanks", PAH, and thanks for the confetti, Orion!

I've always thought of Butterbeer as being a lot like rootbeer, but with a warm, buttery taste...sort of like a smooth hot apple cider. Yum!

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journeymom - Apr 15, 2009 11:06 am (#28 of 36)
There's a recipe floating around on the net for butterbeer, 1 part butterscotch Schnapps to 7 parts cream soda. Sounds like a small serving served very cold over ice would be nice.

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azi - Apr 15, 2009 11:11 am (#29 of 36)
I do think of butterbeer as tasting like butterscotch actually! I've never been able to quite put my finger on the taste I imagined, but now I can.

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Solitaire - Apr 18, 2009 8:29 pm (#30 of 36)
That does sound nice, Journeymom!

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Dryleaves - Apr 27, 2009 9:41 am (#31 of 36)
Orion, my daughter is extremely fond of your confetti smiley. I have to visit this thread a little now and then so that she can have a look at it...

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Orion - Apr 27, 2009 10:01 am (#32 of 36)
Ooooohhhhhh!

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Solitaire - Apr 27, 2009 3:50 pm (#33 of 36)
Dryleaves, you can save it to a gifs folder in your hard drive by right-clicking on it. I like the choir kids.

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Dryleaves - Apr 28, 2009 12:01 am (#34 of 36)
Thanks, Soli!

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wynnleaf - Apr 28, 2009 11:19 am (#35 of 36)
Is the poll still going?

6 and 7, most especially the elf made wine.

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Potteraholic - Sep 14, 2009 4:19 am (#36 of 36)
This poll closed on April 13, 2009, the results can be found here.