Few Surprising Uses of Beer

Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide and probably the third most popular drink after water and tea. But do you know apart from drinking beer, there are many alternative uses of beer. You can use the beer for cooking, for polishing your gold jewelleries or even for the medicinal purposes .

Come, let's discover some of the best uses of beer.

Beer makes an excellent marinades for almost any kind of meat. You can add some beer over a roast, steak an hour before cooking and your meat will be more tender and delicious. The taste of the chicken gets increased if cooked in beer.

If you are preparing something especial with rice, then beer is the perfect ingredient to be used with. The beer will be absorbed in the rice and thus gives you a lovely flavor and aroma.

Make your own homemade shampoo with beer as one of the ingredients. Take a raw egg and combine with half a can of beer and massage it into your hair. After sometime, you can wash your hair and style as usual. Your hair will shine like anything.

Beer can be used to kill slugs in your garden. You can pour a little beer into some empty jars and place them in the soil, with the rims of the jars at ground level. The slugs will drop into the jar for drink but they won't get back out. Thus, you can avoid the slugs in your garden.

Wooden furniture can be polished with the beer. You can dampen a clean cloth with the beer and gently rub on the furniture. It will bring out the shine in your furniture.

You can polish your gold jewellery with beer. For example, soak your rings or other trinkets in the beer and then polish them with a clean cloth.

Copper accessories can also be polished with beer.

Beer can be used as a fertilizer. Your plants will get additional nutrients if you splash little beer around the base of plants.

Since beer is diuretic and as such it can be used to help pass a kidney stone. It also helps in curing the upset stomach. Because of the presence of carbonation, the beer heals your stomach problems.

After a hectic day schedule, you can just relax yourself by putting your feet in the beer for sometime. Aching feet can be revived by a beer foot-bath.

Thus we saw into how many useful ways we can use the versatile beer.

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