Healthy Benefits : Drinking Your Own Home Brew Beer
Is beer a health drink? Binge drinking aside, in moderation beer actually has healthful properties. Studies reported below point out 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 only a few of the ways that home brewed beer is good for you:
-The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found (in May, 1999) that moderate beer consumption reduces the chances of getting coronary heart disease more than 30%. Excellent!
-"The New England Journal of Medicine" discovered (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 accumulation of the amino acid homocysteine (reputed to cause heart and vascular disease). Beer increases 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 occurrence. Home brewed beer contains no bad cholesterol and no fat.
-Drinking home brewed beer aids blood vessel dilation, sleep, and eases urination for elderly people.
Equipment
If the above facts have whetted your appetite, let's next examine a typical MYTH: that it is prohibitively expensive to make your own beer. Nonsense!
Ignore those huge expensive urns that you've no doubt seen. Basically you only need 2 pieces of equipment: a small fermenter (to hold the beer during the fermentation process) and a hydrometer (to know exactly when the beer is finished fermenting). That's it for equipment.
The only other 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, also 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. Place a container 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 simple to get started with home brewing kits readily available online. And it's cheap -- the beer winds up costing around $5 a GALLON!
Conclusion
Now you have even more reasons to get started making your own delicious beer at home. It's tastier and cheaper than store-bought beer, and it's better for you. So you can drink (responsibly) guilt-free.
