Health Benefits Drink Your Own Home Brewed Beer

Is beer the new health drink? Binge drinking aside, in moderation beer actually has healthful properties. Studies reported below point out several benefits from consuming 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 lessenslowers the probability of getting coronary heart disease by over 30%. Impressive!

-"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 (reputed to cause vascular and heart disease). Beer increases vitamin B6 absorption into the blood plasma by 30%.

-Home brewed beer is a stress reducer. 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 promotes blood vessel dilation, sleep, and eases urination in elderly people.

Equipment

If the above facts have whetted your appetite, let's next examine a common MYTH: that it is expensive to brew your own beer. Nonsense!

Forget those huge costly vats that you've no doubt seen. Really you only need 2 pieces of equipment: a small fermenter (to store the beer during the fermentation process) and a hydrometer (to know exactly when the beer has 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 choose from lots of basic flavors and styles, also you can customize your own brews with many additional ingredients for your own secret recipes.

It's extremely simple to make 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 simple to get started with home brewing kits readily available online. And it's cheap -- the beer only costs about $5 a GALLON!

Conclusion

Now you have even more reasons to start making your own delicious beer at home. It's better and cheaper than commercial beer, also it's better for you. So you can responsibly drink) guilt-free.

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