The magazine Men’s Health has an interesting list of 32 Things You Can Do With Beer.
Here’s the list, but you’ll need to read the article to get their explanation for each.
- Bathe in it
- Put out a fire
- Marinate Meat
- Polish pots
- Make a beer barbecue sauce
- shampoo hair
- Loosen rusty bolts
- Clear up brown spots on your lawn
- Steam clams or mussels
- Pass a kidney stone
- Boil shrimp
- Kill Slugs
- Find due north
- Sooth tired feet
- Make a beer slide
- Lower your blood pressure
- Trick a cheap landlord
- Bake beer bread
- Catch mice
- Tie a fly
- Cure insomnia
- Massage yourself
- Calm an upset stomach
- Build your next home
- Cook rice
- Stop snoring
- Build a plane
- Roast chicken
- Ice a hamstring
- Build delightful patio furniture
- Tame a wild hair
- Scale fish
Notice the list has only 32 on it, the 33rd thing, of course, is using it as intended. There are some interesting non-intuitive ideas here, such as “loosening rusty bolts” or “clearing up brown spots on your lawn.” I’m going to give that one a try this morning. But several of them seem the same, in a way, like the seven cooking with beer suggestions. Isn’t that just one suggestions in seven different guises? And stopping snoring by tying a beer bottle to your back so you won’t sleep on it seems just plain silly, especially since it’s not really the beer but the package you’re using. You could use almost anything for that. That’s true of a few others, too, where it’s the bottle cap that you’re using rather than the beer itself. And frankly, I’m not sure beer suffers from not being versatile enough that we necessarily need to find more uses for it. Even if it’s only purpose was to drink it, wouldn’t that be enough for most of us?