The other day, the topic of our lesson turned to recycling in Germany. I mentioned that Germany was one of the first countries to recycle vehicles.

Then, there was the moment of surprise, when I mentioned some of us Germans even recycle our expired or half-drunk bottles of beer. Well, this does not happen too often around our home… Just enter Maria’s Beer Balcony in the search engine, click on images, and you will know why.

But when there is half a bottle of beer left over, we can use it for the following:

Beauty:

• To give your hair more volume, after shampooing, rinse it with beer.
• Use it like hair spray – put it in dispenser and spray your hair with it. No worries, once it’s dry, you won’t smell like beer.

Household:

• Polish your wood furniture with a small linen towel soaked in beer.

Gardening:

• A bowl of beer in your garden, will keep your snails at bay. To keep ants and bugs off your terrace or balcony, also fill a small dish with beer and add some sugar. In this case, you can also use alcohol-free beer.
• It makes a great fertilizer. Mix beer and water at 1:2 and add it to your plants. Best for green plants only.

Cooking:

• Add some beer to any kind of gravy or broth.
• Some brush the BBQ meat with beer before putting it on the grill.
• Marinade your BBQ meat in beer.

Indoor plants:

• Big-leafed indoor plants such as the rubber plant collect dust. Wipe it off with a beer-soaked cotton ball.

Home remedy:

* Catching a cold? Drink some warm beer before going to bed. For a better result, add some sugar to it. This will help kill bacteria and induce sleep.

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From a nutritional viewpoint, beer ranks highly in the food and beverage chart. It is also vegetarian.