Butterbeer Cart

So goooooood! I got the slushy version! It tastes like a better version of cream soda! Fun drink to have in the hot weather and its Harry Potter end of discussion

So first of all I am not impressed with the butter beer at all… I think universal studios and JK Rowling herself should be ashamed of themselves for the thievery that they are participating in by selling this drink to people who just want to try the butter beer «to say hey have had it.» All that junk is, is a mixture of butter scotch soda and topped with a whipped soft serve type ice cream. It makes for an ungodly sweet drink that leaves a film of sugar all around your mouth!
They charge 6.50 for the «soda,» that’s all it is, to be honest it disgusts me that they taken advantage of people in this way. Children want to try it and parents have to buy it! What away to capitalize off of children Ms. Rowling…
Aside from the drink itself being not worth it, the cart attendant I experienced was one of the rudest little things, I have ever had the displeasure of engaging with, on a consumer level. After waiting in line for 10 min, to get one of these, I said to the «thing,» (that’s how we will refer to the attendant) I would like two please… Clearly I did not grab a pumpkin juice or a bottle of water and had clearly I had passed the point of reaching for them… He turns as says to me, «two of what?» With a huge attitude and rolled his eyes… I looked at him and clearly he was standing in front of one dispenser for a butter beer… I felt like saying something very rude to him… Then he had the audacity to make a snyde remark which I will be reporting to the management office of universal… His customer service was appalling to say the least! All together the butter beer and the attendant were just not worth it!
Truthfully if you don’t want to spend that kind of money give your child a cream soda with a scoop of ice cream and it’ll taste the same and you can get both those items for less then the cost of one butter beer and make a lot more of them :)

I would pay admission just to get back to this Butterbeer. It was one of the highlights of the entire trip! Forget that we are huge Harry Potter fans, this was just plain delicious. The foam is the best part!

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. The best part of the butterbeer was definitely the «foam».
. Not gonna lie, this review is very biased because I absolutely love anything Harry Potter related & butterbeer is just about as good as it gets.
. My recommendation is to try the frozen butterbeer over the regular one. It’s not as sweet & much more refreshing.
. If you’re visiting Hogwarts, why would you not get a butterbeer?!
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. Sadly to say, there is 1 con. The butterbeer from the cart is more expensive than the butterbeer at the restaurants. I believe it’s $ 6.50 off the carts, but only $ 4.99 at the restaurants.

My friend got a free butterbeer for her «freed house elf» costume. I bet you could get a free one at the cart for having a «theme park birthday pin» too. I liked the butterbeer for what it was. It tastes like a toffee frappucino. It’s good but I’m glad I shared it with my friend.
For those of you curious about how much this whimsical experience will set you back, you can get a frozen butterbeer for $ 6.50 and for $ 12, you can get yours served in a commemorative souvenir cup that lets you get free soda refills around the park.

A MUST TRY. Both cold and frozen were great! I originally ordered the cold butterbeer, which tasted like a cream soda with hints of butterscotch. But the best part was that at the top, they add a layer of what tastes like melted ice-​cream. AMAZING. My friend doesn’t like sweets too much so she gave me her frozen one, and it was equally as good. It had more butterscotch flavoring, but also had a bit more of an «ice» flavoring (like an icee). Both of these are non-​alcoholic options.
For those that want alcohol, there are some beers on tap. My friends ordered the «Harry Potter» themed lagers and said they were good. They also had some local brews and tried to have at least one brew of common styles (IPA, stout, lager, ale, etc).

Long line. And the kids (10 and 12) didn’t like their drinks. The butter beer is just cream soda. Wouldn’t let us opt out of the whipped cream on top. Don’t waste your money. My daughter loves lemonade. She didn’t like their bottled lemonade. Disappointed dad after spending $ 13.75 on drinks.

I was looking for the Butterbeer shop store at Diagon Alley, here on Unilocal,but didn’t find it. Cuz thats where i got my beer! So I’ll settle for this. Cuz the Butterbeer they serve is basically the same! I ordered the regular butterbeer. It’s pretty sweet, but it’s basically a butterscotch soda with melted butterscotch candy cream frothed unto my soda. Super decadent. I also tried the hot butterbeer. As a friend calls it, it’s basically a «liquefied donut.» I’ll admit, that was way sweeter than the regular butterbeer. But I somehow still loved it. All in the name of Harry Potter, trying these butterbeers seemed authentic as the books/​movies!

The butterbeer cart, located in Hogsmeade in Universal’s Islands of Adventure, is handy to stop by when you need a cool refreshment, and they serve a range of Harry Potter world style drinks like butterbeer, pumpkin juice and gilly water! The butterbeer is served either cold or frozen — both are delicious and really help on a hot day. Love it!

SO GOOD!!! My fiancé and I loved the butterbeer. Make sure to get the frozen kind! Very delicious and goes down like a smoothie. I couldn’t even taste any carbonation in it. For those who don’t know, it’s not actually alcoholic. Rather, it’s a very sweet, sugary drink. It’s quite a lot, so unless you LOVE it and absolutely insist on getting a cup of your own, I think you can easily share between two people.
The butterbeer is around $ 6, but you can opt to pay a little extra to get a souvenir glass to keep.
We visited the cart fairly early in the morning so it wasn’t too crowded. I would highly recommend doing that! We also passed through Hogsmeade later in the afternoon that same day and it looked quite crowded!

For some reason as a child who was reading the books, I always thought butter beer was more like a soft drink rather than a smoothie, but hey what do I know right?
The best way to describe the taste is caramel root beer that has a icy type texture and its not as carbonated as soda is. It will cost you aound $ 6 to get this.
Personally, I thought it was okay, maybe I set my expectations too high but it just didn’t blow me away like it does for most people.
Everyone has to try at least once if they visit Harry Potter World.

I LOVE BUTTERBEER!!! I’ve tried to make it at home and haven’t quite come across the perfect recipe yet. The butterbeer cart is a definite must stop on your visit to Hogsmeade. On my last trip, I had 2 cups in one day. That may not seem like a lot, but I usually have a low tolerance to sugar. Surprisingly I did fine (must have been all of the walking) but this is a sugary drink for real. You can get your butterbeer in frozen (the best) or non-​frozen. I have only had the frozen so I can’t vouch for the other kind, but I hear it’s a more concentrated, intense flavor. If you don’t have one yet, pay for the souvenir mug — you can use it around the park for 99 cent soda refills during your visit (no discount for butterbeer refills though). Take a photo with your butterbeer with the cart in the background and post it online. Your HP friends will instantly be jealous and begin daydreaming about their next butterbeer fix.

Absolutely delicious and refreshing! Order the frozen one it’s much better. We purchased two and each one was $ 6. Totally worth it.

Butterbeer: The drink is drawn from a tap, like a beer, and the dense, whipped topping is added from a separate tap. It is non-​alcoholic. It’s served in cups, about $ 3 ($ 4 for frozen) for a disposable cup and about $ 10 ($ 11 for frozen) for a hard plastic souvenir stein.
Here is the recipe: BUTTERBEER
Start to finish: 1 hour (10 minutes active)
Servings: 4
1 cup light or dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons water
6 tablespoon butter
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cider vinegar
¾ cup heavy cream, divided
½ teaspoon rum extract
Four 12-​ounce bottles cream soda

Butter beer! Not sure what that is? TRY IT!!!
The carts offer frozen or just cold butter beer– both awesome, by the way. There’s usually a line but it does go pretty quickly and you’ll have your tasty drink in now time!
I highly suggest trying both frozen, and cold… they’re both delicious, and worth trying at least once!

Technically, the butterbeer cart doesn’t exist in the Harry Potter books or movies, but I shouldn’t complain because the greater accessibility to butterbeers around the park, the better. The line moves very quickly, both here and at the snowman cart, which also sells butterbeer, by the other entrance to Hogsmeade. These carts offer two versions of butterbeer: cold and frozen. The hot version is sold at The Three Broomsticks, Hog’s Head, and The Leaky Cauldron.
Described as «a little bit like less-​sickly butterscotch», the frozen butterbeer has just the right amount of sweetness, and tasted like a delicious butterscotch slushy topped with a creamy, frothy butterscotch head. As everyone else has also described, the cold version is like a butterscotch-​flavored, carbonated cream soda. Both are delicious, so give each a try. You simply can’t go to the WWOHP without purchasing a butterbeer. The Starbucks secret menu’s version just doesn’t compare!
The plastic butterbeer mug is around $ 9, and a butterbeer is $ 4 or $ 5 for cold or frozen, respectively. The plastic mug allows you to get refills on fountain sodas for $ 0.99 throughout both Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Plus, it makes a great, relatively inexpensive, souvenir.

This cart serves two types of butterbeer: Chilled and Frozen. They are both nonalcoholic. Chilled butterbeer is very much like cream soda topped with a dense foamy butterscotch-​flavored ‘head’. Frozen butterbeer is a little less sweet, and it’s a slush that is also like cream soda with the same butterscotch-​flavored ‘head’. People go nuts over this stuff. My favorite was the chilled version, and it wasn’t even quite as sweet as I thought it would be: it’s about as sweet as a soft drink. I thought it was clever to combine the two different components of the head and the soda part, which have two distinct flavors and lets you control how much of each flavor you get when you sip it. You’ve got to try them. If the line is long, look around for other more hidden-​away places to buy beverages which might have shorter lines, as you can get it almost anywhere.
These two are the most popular drinks at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but they’re not the only ones. Don’t miss the Hot Butterbeer (think white chocolate-​butterscotch steamer), Fishy Green Ale, and the others, which you can find at other beverage stores or in restaurants like the Leaky Cauldron.

I had no idea what to expect but after seeing the films I was very interested in tasting butterbeer. Wow! Its like bubbly cream soda, butterscotch, heavy cream goodness. A really nice tasty cold treat on a hot day.

The butter beer. It’s worth it.
Honestly, the prices aren’t that bad. At a normal White Sox game, I would definitely pay $ 5 or more for a pop, and much more for a beer (though unfortunately no butter beers at baseball games). Butter beer in a normal cup is $ 4.50 which is a steal! I had one of each of the cold and frozen butter beers and they are each great in their own way. The souvenir glasses are a bit more expensive, but pretty cool. 2 of them with butter beer was $ 27 somehow, but still worth it.
The line moves fast, and make sure you get some!

My life is complete! I just wanted a picture of Butterbeer to make everyone at home jealous haha. But no, ever since the park opened I’ve been dying to try it! I even considered making my own but reading reviews it’s not the same or too sweet.
One word, it tastes AMAZING. Do get the frozen one! I liked it better. Kind of like a butterscotch float. The non frozen tasted similar to a rootbeer float with hints of butterscotch and it’s carbonated.
I can see the drinks being too sweet for some but I love sweets so it tasted good to me. I don’t suggest getting pumpkin juice though unless you just want it for the experience. That was way too sweet for me and tasted bad. I don’t even know how to describe it, like an over sweetened chai tea?
I didn’t have to wait in a long line but saw it was ridiculously long later!
Tip: if you eat at the three broomsticks you can order it there, also! Look for a worker outside the restaurant. They will take your butterbeer order on a tablet and bring it out to you! No waiting in line, just a heads up!