Health Benefits -- Drink Your Own Home Brewed Beer

Beer is a health drink? Binge drinking aside, in moderation beer actually has healthful results. Studies cited 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 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 consumption lessenslowers the probability of getting coronary heart disease by over 30%. Great!

-"The New England Journal of Medicine" discovered (in November, 1999) that moderate beer drinking decreases 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 improves 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 has no bad cholesterol and no fat.

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

Equipment

If the above information has whetted your appetite, let's next examine a common MYTH: that it is very costly to make your own beer. Nope!

Ignore those large expensive vats that you have no doubt seen. Basically 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 mixed malt and hops, 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 very simple to make your own beer at home. Insert 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 abundantly available online. And it's cheap -- your beer only costs about $5 a GALLON!

Conclusion

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

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