Health Benefits - Drink Your Own Home Brewed Beer

Is beer a health drink? Binge drinking aside, in moderation beer actually has healthful properties. Studies reported below detail many benefits from drinking beer. Home brewed beer is even better than commercial beer because it has no artificial colors, additives, preservatives or flavors.

Benefits

Here are just a few of the ways that home brewed beer is good for you:

-The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center discovered (in May, 1999) that moderate beer drinking reduces the probability of getting coronary heart disease by over 30%. I'm impressed!

-"The New England Journal of Medicine" reported (in November, 1999) that moderate beer drinkers decrease the chances of suffering a stroke by 20%.

-The TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute found that homebrewed beer contains vitamin B6, which prevents the build-up of the amino acid homocysteine (linked to causing vascular and heart disease). Beer aids vitamin B6 absorption into the blood plasma by 30%.

-Home brewed beer is a stress reliever. Try a quick experiment, if you have any doubt. Even the process of making beer is relaxing.

-Studies have shown that beer increases good cholesterol and decreases blood clot development. Home brewed beer contains no bad cholesterol and no fat.

-Drinking home brewed beer promotes blood vessel dilation, sleep, and eases urination in older people.

Equipment

If the above information has whetted your appetite, let's next examine a typical MYTH: that it is prohibitively expensive to brew your own beer. No way!

Ignore those huge costly urns that you have no doubt seen. Really you only need 2 pieces of equipment: a small fermenter (to store the beer during fermentation) and a hydrometer (to know exactly when the beer is finished fermenting). That's all for equipment.

The final thing you'll need are consumable ingredients: a container of malt and hops mixture, and some brewing yeast. You can select from many basic flavors and styles, plus you're able to customize your own brews with many additional ingredients for your own secret recipes.

It's very simple to brew your own beer at home. Put a can of malt mix into the fermenter, add water, add yeast, and seal. A few days later use the hydrometer to know precisely when it is finished and ready to drink. Place it into bottles and get ready for your friends to be amazed at your new skill.

It's easy to get started with home brewing kits readily available online. And it's cheap -- your beer winds up costing around $5 a GALLON!

Conclusion

Now you know even more reasons to start brewing your own delicious beer at home. It's tastier and cheaper than store-bought beer, plus it's better for you. Now you can responsibly drink) guilt-free.

Get your free home brewing guide - with 13 delicious recipes today. Also see our beginners' brewing blog.Copyright 2009 Ron King. You can reprint this article if the resource box is left intact and the links live.

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