Butterbeer recipes

There are a number of different attempts at making butterbeer in various ways, trading off complexity and flavour. The easy ones tend to be roughly "a partially-melted root beer float", which is already pretty good.

Some want you to home-make what's basically caramel (soft-ball-stage sugar plus butter, cream, etc) and then mix it into a drink.

I can now say firsthand: the version where you make caramel is, in fact, better.

https://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/harry-potters-butterbeer/014213de-794b-4d49-a92d-64a07ffb2894

[Edit: and in this recipe where they say to let the brown sugar stuff cool and then add rum extract? You can also *not* let it cool before adding good rum.]

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