Charms teacher Filius Fitwick has magicked up a plant-based treat for our vegan friends to put the whey into Butterbeer at Universal.
And enjoy the Potter potion that gives us all, vegans, carnivores, wizards and muggles alike a sugar rush.
Because make no mistake Butterbeer is schweeet.
It’s the butterscotch that gives the beer, well, it’s buttery taste.
While the shortbread tones may be a nod to JK Rowling’s adopted Edinburgh.
It’s all topped off with a vegan-friendly version of the Butterbeer froth.
Soft landing
While it’s buttery all right the good news for adults who don’t want their kids even more wired at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is that it’s not beery.
But, of course, it gives the illusion to kids that like adults they’re drinking ‘beer’ too.
The most famous illustration of branding ‘beer’ for kids, and non-drinkers, is ginger beer.
Which has just 2% alcohol in it but all the spice of the Caribbean.
While Top Deck, no not the boozy beer buses of my late teens, but the soft drinks firm of my adolescence lured us.
With Limeade and Lager and Lemonade Shandy.
Cavan a laugh
While on my annual trips to the Motherland of Ireland us kids would feel all grown up with a Midlands Cavan special.
Sipping the now much-missed Cavan Cola, that looked a lot like Guinness, complete with its own head.
They were different days, of course, and we would all have our packet of sweet cigarettes and copy the adults.
Different but the same and as they say in Potterworld plus ca change, or at least the wizarding equivalent.
You’ll get your vegan, non-dairy Butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks restaurant in Hogsmeade.
And the Leaky Cauldron restaurant in Diagon Alley as we did… somewhere to take shelter from the man-made flash storm.
Universal Studios Hollywood guests too can enjoy the beverage at the Hog’s Head pub and the Three Broomsticks restaurant.
Vegan fare
While our fantastic friends also offer fabulous fare which could well have been made in Azvegan (soz).
In Irish Stew and Shepherd’s Pasty Pie (both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando), and Mushroom Pie Platter (at Universal Orlando).
Here for the beer
So seeing that we could all do with to suspending belief and leaving the muggle world outside.
Get down to your Potter local for, whey hey, Vegan Butterbeer at Universal.
Full confession here though this drowned rat took a detour on our Harry adventure.
To Pat O’Brien’s on CityWalk for a rather large Floridian special, the Hurricane.
