{"id":204644,"date":"2026-03-04T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:40:08","slug":"disneylands-butterbeer-knockoff-tastes-exactly-like-universals-original-with-one-big-difference-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204644\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland\u2019s Butterbeer knockoff tastes exactly like Universal\u2019s original \u2014 with one big difference \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The villainous Gaston from \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d has created a knockoff version of Harry Potter\u2019s signature Butterbeer drink that\u2019s available for a very limited time at Disneyland\u2019s Red Rose Taverne.<\/p>\n

The Gaston Brew is available during the 70 Years of Favorites<\/a> after hours events at the Fantasyland restaurant.<\/p>\n

ALSO SEE: 12 ways to satisfy your Butterbeer cravings at Universal Studios Hollywood<\/a><\/p>\n

The $7.99 Gaston Brew is described as a butterscotch beverage with a dulce de leche foam topper.<\/p>\n

The Gaston Brew tastes remarkably similar to the original Butterbeer drinks sold at Universal theme parks around the world.<\/p>\n

\"ButterbeerButterbeer Season returns to Universal Studios Hollywood. (Courtesy of Universal)<\/p>\n

Disneyland\u2019s Gaston Brew was a bit more carbonated than Universal\u2019s Butterbeer \u2014 but otherwise they tasted the same.<\/p>\n

The biggest difference was Red Rose Taverne served the Gaston Brew over ice, which took up a third of the glass. A good deal of the whipped topping was wasted as it coated the ice at the bottom of the empty glass.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant\u2019s staff offered to make the Gaston Brew without the ice \u2014 with the same amount of fluid ounces as the iced drink.<\/p>\n

\"ThemeTheme Park Reporter Brady MacDonald raises a Butterbeer in Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood. (Brady MacDonald\/Orange County Register\/SCNG)<\/p>\n

The 70th Anniversary Disneyland After Dark<\/a> event is only running on two nights \u2014 March 3 and 5. That means you only have one more chance to try the Gaston Brew on Thursday, March 5.<\/p>\n

Red Rose Taverne served a similarly-named Gaston\u2019s Famous Brew in 2017, according to the Disney Food Blog<\/a>. But Gaston\u2019s Famous Brew was an apple-mango punch topped with passion fruit foam.<\/p>\n

\"ButterbeerButterbeer Season returns to Universal Studios Hollywood. (Courtesy of Universal)<\/p>\n

Universal chefs created the Butterbeer drink first introduced in the 2004 \u201cHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\u201d film to have flavors reminiscent of butterscotch and shortbread with a whipped foam topping.<\/p>\n

Butterbeer is sold at Wizarding World of Harry Potter themed lands at Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando, Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Beijing.<\/p>\n

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The Universal parks in California, Florida and China are currently hosting Butterbeer Season<\/a> events. Butterbeer Season kicks off April 1 at Universal Studios Japan.<\/p>\n

Butterbeer sales topped the 20 million mark in 2018 at Universal Orlando, generating approximately $139.8 million in revenue, according to the Botrista<\/a> beverage technology company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The villainous Gaston from \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d has created a knockoff version of Harry Potter\u2019s signature Butterbeer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2223,163,165,164,7,2222,1341,611,420],"class_list":["post-204644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-amusement-parks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-disney-california-adventure","tag-disneyland","tag-orange-county","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}