I like butterbeer in all forms except the ice cream version. If I were blind folded and given it, I would never in a million years guess it was supposed to be butterbeer.
I had my first cone earlier this month and I have to go along with what a lot of others had said. It is a vanilla soft serve with a touch of Carmel flavoring through it. It was a good cone of soft serve but I think you would do much better to just get a frozen butterbeer if you were thinking along the lines of ice cream.
Frozen in my favorite variety, but I think everyone else in my group liked the hot. I have a strange affliction where I can not taste the flavor of anything hot, which may be the reason it is not my favorite. The hot does have a nice texture to it while drinking it, just no taste for me.