10 Unexpected Uses for Beer
There are many different uses for beer besides getting drunk.
There are many useful uses for beer besides drinking it and having fun. Most of us just enjoy drinking beer, but the truth is, it can be used in a variety of different ways. Especially when you don’t want to throw away any extra beer you have. Here are just 10 examples of what you can do with them.
- Marinate meat in it – Use beer instead of wine to marinate your meat. Not only does it taste better, but it also makes the meat softer and more tender.
- Help grass grow easier – pour beer on those irritating brown spots on your lawns to help your grass grow. The grass absorbs the nutrients, sugar and energy it needs to be able to grow.
- Kill slugs & snails – Fill containers or wide-mouthed bottles or something of the sort with beer about a quarter to half way up. Then bury these in your garden. The slugs or snails will be attracted to them and drown.
- Kill mice – This may sound a little far-fetched but fill a bucket or pail up about a third of the way with cheap beer with a board or something leading to the rim at the top. The mice, smelling this, will jump in, and not be able to climb out.
- Calm a stomach-ache – Just sit down and drink a beer. This carbonated drink will settle your stomach right down. The alcohol helps reduce the pain as well. Don’t use if you have an ulcer or gastritis.
- Polish gold – Wet a piece of cloth with some beer and start rubbing your gold (no stones) to get the shine back. Use a second cloth to dry it.
- Bathe in it – Add a few cans of beer into your bath. Believe it or not, it will do you good. The yeasts are good for softening and soothing the skin.
- Polish wood furniture – Let some beer sit until it goes flat, then, dampen a washcloth with it, and rub your wooden furniture. This will polish it, and give it a more shiny and healthy look.
- Cook with it – When boiling shrimp, try using beer for the cooking liquid. Season as you wish, but don’t overcook.
- Drink it!
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Anne Lyken-Garner | Nov 26, 2007 | Reply
Good list, I will try the furniture polish one.
Judy Sheldon-Walker | Nov 26, 2007 | Reply
I used it once to marinate chicken, and it was the best tasting chicken ever.
Good article. Thank you.
Bailey | Nov 26, 2007 | Reply
I’ve heard of all but bathing and polishing with beer! Seems interesting enough. As for killing slugs with beer- why waste it? Just use salt.
kimbutgar | Nov 30, 2007 | Reply
I have a gnat problem in my house and I filled a jar half way with beer, covered the top with plastic and tightened it with a rubber band. then I poked a hole in the middle. The gnats fly in and can’t fly out. They are attracted to the smell of beer. Instead of using bombs and toxic sprays this works pretty good.
Ryan | Nov 30, 2007 | Reply
“Drink it” is an unexpected use?
billingham | Nov 30, 2007 | Reply
I made the mistake of starting with 10. All the other uses pretty much went out of the window, although I did try to aim for the brown spots when I was being sick on my lawn. 5 is poppycock.
Tim | Dec 1, 2007 | Reply
I heard it starts milk flow in new mothers.
bhartta | Dec 2, 2007 | Reply
i like the grass growing one
Marmot | Dec 3, 2007 | Reply
#10 was totally unexpected!
Hans | Dec 5, 2007 | Reply
Over here you say, if you have a cold it’s good to drink warm beer. Even though I’ve never tested it, warm beer sounds horrible.
i8it | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
washing your hair with beer is supposed to be good with one in the hand one in the hair works real good. the mice&snails yes! works well, bathing in it is new to me look what happened to the mice and snails
Burrito | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Sit your chicken on an open can of beer. BBQ. Mmmm!
Michael | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Burrito, Beer-Can chicken rules! Also, beer makes us smarter and better looking!
Ratchet | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
I like # 10 the best.
Hop head | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Not to worry about the mice. Drink enough beer (#10) and they look like gorgeous babes.
Braumeister | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Two words that should never be placed together: EXTRA BEER
Grumbler | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
I once washed my hair with some beer after running out of shampoo. It did a grrreat job although my ‘do smelled like a distillery.
Adam | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
The grass one doesn’t work too well me me… Maybe I’m not supposed to filter it through my liver first though.
pictaker | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Didn’t know these, but I have used beer for shampoo, it really works for shiny hair.
Maine | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
I always boil my bratwurst in beer before I grill them. Afterwards, a little more soaking/boiling in beer if I want to soften them up a little bit.
My wife adds flat beer to the water she gives to some of her plants in her garden.
Eric | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Never tried the chicken but I do know for a fact that a steak, (even a tough cut) will be tender and tasty after marinating in beer for a 30 minutes or so.
Jim | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
It’s true, beer helps lactation. Best is dark beer, though.
http://nfp.freehostia.com/nursing.html#increasing_milk
Calcaholic | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
Want to make the best pancakes you have ever had? Use a pancake mix that calls for water only (not eggs and milk). Substitute beer for the water. It makes for really fluffy, delicious pancakes.
Tony K. | Dec 6, 2007 | Reply
“In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.”
I wouldn’t waste good beer on those uses except for #10.
You can buy cheap non-alcholic beer for those other uses; unless, of course, you drink Schaeffer or some other crap.
J | Dec 7, 2007 | Reply
Hey Poopman, all “commercial” beer, by which I can only assume you mean “for sale” is most definitely NOT “filtered and pasteurized.” Of the more than 1400 breweries in the U.S. alone, only a tiny fraction pasteurize (the big industrial brewers primarily). There is an entire group of beer with the yeast still in them, they’re called bottle-conditioned beers and they are commercially available throughout the civilized world. Also, there is at least one spa in the Czech Republic that offers a beer bath spa treatment. Before you call something dumb, you should make sure what you’re saying isn’t.
99 Bottles of Beer | Dec 7, 2007 | Reply
Use Bud, Miller, or Coors for any but number 10#
Sticking a can of beer in a chicken is called a “drunken chicken” and is so good you will want to slap yo’ mama.
Marinating meat in beer before grilling not only tenderizes the meat, it helps prevent carcinogens from the coals from being absorbed in the meat.
Mmmmmm beer
mmmmbeer | Dec 7, 2007 | Reply
You can also boil kelbasa in it and it tastes sooooo good.
Sheri | Dec 10, 2007 | Reply
Is there anything that beer won’t do? *Sniff* it makes me so happy.
Mr. Ploop | Dec 16, 2007 | Reply
“There are many different uses for beer besides getting drunk.”
Yes, however, getting drunk will still be the human population’s favorite beer purpose.
Nice article.
sjsoftball | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply
wow.
i cannot stop laughing!
i never guessed beer could help anything like that…
i am totally going to dump a beer in my bath!!!!
paddybear | Jan 22, 2008 | Reply
why waste something so good?!
beer is for drinking only, thats what it was made for.
chris | Jan 24, 2008 | Reply
omg! I really didn’t expect number 10 :-O
joeyb23 | Jan 30, 2008 | Reply
Drink half a can of beer. Take the can of remaining beer and add a few cloves of garlic, 1/4 of an onion diced fine and a tablespoon of rosemary. Take a roasting chicken and rub the inside and outside with peanut oil and sprinkle some Old Bay in and out. Set the chicken’s butt on the beer can and place it butt down on the grill. I usually wrap the bottoms of the legs with foil because they get a bit too crispy. Grill that bad boy on medium heat and be prepared to be amazed. The beer and spices steam from the inside and the grill roasts from the outside. Be careful when you take this off of the grill as the can is now full of molten chicken juice and hot beer.
Also, with the slugs, just take a lid from something like a mayo jar and fill it. It is amazing how many you get in just a few days. Keep you dog away. Mine drinks the beer.
pink | Feb 18, 2008 | Reply
I am not understanding how bathing in a yeast based liquid would be a good thing? I am imagining developing a yeast infection from H*.. Ladies, if you try this, be sure to have a case of yogurt on hand.
Thirasara | Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
Absolutely news to me. Thanks.
branestorm | May 13, 2008 | Reply
I will be trying #10 tonight.
Paul Corvus | May 23, 2008 | Reply
The grass growing one was the only one that was really unexpected, but that is pretty cool.
amy | Jun 5, 2008 | Reply
you could kill mice with a bucket of water and some nuts floating inside instead if wasting a perfectly good beer.
Justine | Jun 24, 2008 | Reply
I read that because the hops in the beer has female estrogen in it, it actually kills the male libido somewhat. But the brewing companies don’t want you to know that… especially with the advertisements geared towards male drinkers
PR | Sep 26, 2008 | Reply
Beeer. Gets You Sexy. Make meatballs or an omelette at Your taste and pour some.
Drink beer with a sexy friend. He/She’ll be suprised how good You spoke foreign languages/played guitar/danced in a bar and after the night: Wild sex at the morning hangover and some heart attacks nearly but good… Then take only just a few if it’s sunny. A few if raining or even cloudy. The fun starts again and You can try the chick then maybe after getting these ideas. If not, just get a pizza and a few beers;)
BigG | Nov 7, 2008 | Reply
If you are having a big cook-out, boil the brats in beer ahead of time to ensure they are cooked through. Put one of those disposable tin foil pans on the grill and put in a couple of beers. As you finish the brats, put them in the hot beer – keeps them hot and gives a good flavor – you can feed a lot of people at the same time this way.
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Partha | Mar 6, 2009 | Reply
Really nice article
Akka | Mar 8, 2009 | Reply
“#2 by Judy Sheldon-Walker, Nov 26, 2007
I used it once to marinate chicken, and it was the best tasting chicken ever.”
If if was that good, why only do it once?
Miss Lily White | Mar 9, 2009 | Reply
ALSO TRY: pouring a can onto your hair in the shower. It’ll make your hair so soft and shiny, its quite fantastic.
Moment | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
Yeah, don’t bathe in beer if you are a girl. You may achieve soft, smooth skin, but you’ll also get a wicked yeast infection. That’s a really, really bad idea.
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