So you’re in line at your local market with a couple of six packs of your favorite brew in hand, when who should step behind you but your grandmother’s best friend or your Sunday school teacher. You don’t want to come across as a keg-headed sot, so quick like a fox you toss a conversation her way that includes several potential excuses uses for that “sinful” hoppy adult beverage you’re forking over hard-earned cash to purchase.
Sure, we both know that liquid gold is going straight down your gullet, but there are some other legitimate ways to utilize Homer Simpson’s favorite drink other than as a libation.
For the gardeners in the guzzling group, beer makes an excellent, and oh so humane, way to get rid of slugs. The pesky, slithering wads of goo love the stuff. A strategically placed container acts like a slug magnet, drawing the pests in where they soon drown in the amber. Supposedly, beer is also a curative for those brown spots in your luscious green lawn.
For the chef superb, the recipes involving beer abound. From the expected beer bread and fish and chips batter to the unexpected as clever additions to rice, chili and shrimp. You’re salivating right now, aren’t you?
How about around the house? Beer has got you covered. Use lagers as stain removers and even as help to bring new life to dull furniture as a polish.
How about some home brew as a home remedy? Check. Beer can be used for everything from settling an upset stomach to acting as an exfoliant to a tasty way to highlight your luscious locks.
While there’s almost one implementation for every bottle in a case, there is definitely a list of 21 alternate uses (see how neatly that corresponds to the legal drinking age in most states) for beer.
Suddenly, I’m very thirsty and I’ve got a couple of slugs that have been taunting me in the back yard. Let’s go shopping.
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