It's All About the Beer, Buddy!

G'day all! Welcome to It's All About the Beer, Buddy! A blog dedicated to Beer and everything about it! A keyboarded shrine to the amber fluid that gives us all such happiness, that we laugh about it, cry about it and sing about it. 

Last post, I said that I was going to find other things you can do with beer, other than drink it. And have found a few pearlers, some awesome tips and some weird ones too.

Here we go! - said in typical Mario 64 voice action!

1. Scale Fish - Nail or glue 4 bottle tops to piece of wood. Keep the caps inline, and make sure that the sharper serrated edges are facing out, then go to absolute town on the fish!
2. Tame wild hair - A few drop of beer on the end of your fingers, and run your fingers through your hair, evens out any uprising on your head or even your eyebrows - a gentleman's room in a bar is where you'd be doing it though!
3. Ice a hamstring - Frozen or ice-cold beer bottles make great ice-packs for sore muscles, sunburns, even a headache. Lying your leg, or your knee on one helps if you have pulled a leg muscle. The best thing is you can actually drink the ice-pack!
4. Roast a chicken - If you haven't heard of it before, you have now. In Australia we even sell the can that does it for you. Usually, you drink about a quarter of a can, put some herbs and spices in it, some seasoning, and you can even do it with stuffing. Put the can in the chicken, and the chicken in the oven, but it's better in a bbq. Now tell me that isn't ingenious?
5. Build a plane - Hmm. First I've heard of this one! And it's the first time I've heard of anyone selling 22 designs of model beer-can planes. I've hear of beer-can everything, but the first I've heard of anyone SELLING them!
6. Stop snoring - Now THIS is smart. Put on a t-shirt with a front pocket. Just before bed, put a beer can in the front pocket, and put it on backwards. Most snoring happens when you lie on your back. This stops you from doing that!
7. Cook rice - Get a cup of jasmine rice. Rinse it in cold water. Do it twice more then drain. Add the rice to a saucepan, and add a bottle of beer. Bring to boil, turn the heat on low and cover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove pot and cool for an addition 10 minutes. Drain if needed. Now you will have a nuttier tasting rice, great for anything, and it won't be lumpy, just like you when you eat it
8. Build a home - Yep. Seen it. Have a look for it on Google. Earthship is what it's called, and they are in Mexico. Have a beer, they said. Have another they said. Build a house, they said...
9. Fix an upset stomach - WHAT? Wow... Having a high carb beer is like having 7up or Sprite. Sheesh! I wish I knew this earlier!
10. Massage yourself - Come on! I'm sure you've all rubbed the soles and arches of your foot on one at sometime of your life
11. The ingredients of beer help insomnia - sew a hop for beer onto your pillowcase for babies with collick, the smell is a sleep aid!
12. Tie a fly - Mix beer, charcoal or soot, and walnut leaves with a little powdered alum. Apparently makes them stick apparently better when you tie things together?
13. Catch mice - Wow again. Fill a cup with beer, and add a ramp to the top of it. The mice will jump in and drink its fill. But then be either too full or too drunk to climb out!
14. Bake beer bread - Yes! Great!
15. Lower your blood pressure - YES IT'S TRUE! There have been several tests world wide, and plenty of reading on the net for this, to make it true.
16. Good for tired feet - apparently you dip your weary feet in a bath of beer, and it's heaven for your soles (no pun intended!) 
17. Kills slugs - pour beer on them and they seem to die
18. Cook prawns - this is fantastic and gives them a marvellous flavour. Add three longnecks to a pot, add turmeric, which will turn the prawns an apt yellow, and add teaspoons of garlic, salt, chilli powder and some lemongrass and lime. Bring to boil, then cook for 3 or 4 minutes. Take the prawns out and drain. Put them in a frying pan to get some colour and add them to whatever you like
19. Bathe in it - all people should do this once in their lifetime! It makes a fantastic bubble bath!
20. Put out a fire - because it really doesn't have a high alcohol level, it is just like a bottle of soft drink
21. Marinate meat - of course - please do this if you haven't before. Add spices and seasoning if you like. 
22. Fill your water balloons up with it - it's a great thing to do! If you plan to have a regular water bomb fight, fill some up with beer! When the opposition have these ones pop on them, they'll get chased by flies!

There are some amazing ones in that list, and some I really didn't think of! If you have any other ideas about what else you can do with beer, please leave them in the comments section below\

That's it for this post! Come back next time for more interviews, and other news. 

UNTIL THEN

CHEERS! AND DRINK ON!