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In principle, we recommend beer only for your personal enjoyment. But we have been taught by experienced cleaners that it is also an excellent cleaning agent. You can use beer to make old pots shine again without having to use any chemicals or polish your fingers sore with steel wool. It's even easier to clean faucets that have become dull over time: Simply fill a plastic bag with beer and place it over the faucet. Even gold jewelry will look like new again if you soak it in beer for a few hours. By the way, the effect is not limited to metal: Wooden surfaces can also be polished wonderfully with beer. Disclaimer for your and our safety: It must be light beer, otherwise unwanted stains could remain. It goes without saying that you shouldn't use the most expensive bottle in your craft beer stash.
Yes, of course, there are solutions to this. The most obvious one is to reach for the lighter. If you've never tried it before, you need to know first and foremost: The trick is leverage. First, put one hand around the bottle in as tight a grip as possible. Your index finger touches the crown cork, and you slide the lighter in between. With a little practice, you'll soon feel how the cap can be opened - or rather, levered out - in this way. Once you've mastered the technique, it works with all kinds of utensils, from folding rulers to magic markers. And if all else fails, you can even use a sheet of paper. Don't think so? Look here:
To this we say quite clearly and unequivocally: No. Beer-based marinade is good, no question. There are plenty of recipes for it, and you've probably already tried one or two yourself. But here's the biggie: time and again, you see particularly resourceful people standing casually at the grill with a bottle of beer in their hand and generously dousing the meat again and again. To make it short: We can only advise against it. Because more than others, the liquid swirls up the embers, which first spreads cheerfully in the air and then settles on your grilled food. This not only tastes unpleasant, it can also be seriously harmful to your health. In principle, it's still quite simple: you don't pour beer, you drink it - if you heed just one of our pieces of advice, then please take this one.
How beautifully the foam crown on your beer presents itself depends by no means only on your pouring skills. A beer glass also needs to be cleaned properly. The first commandment: Take your time and rinse (thoroughly!) by hand - the dishwasher is taboo! Ideally, you use a fat-dissolving detergent. Then rinse it thoroughly with clean water and let it air dry. In this way, you eliminate the most important opponents of the solid foam formation: Dirt, grease and lint. You should also use a beer glass only for beer. Then you'll get a good head of foam!
Finally, after the rinse, an emphatic clarification. You often hear the recommendation to freeze beer in ice cube molds. Sounds clever: You can use it to cool warm beer without watering it down. It also allows you to use leftover beer that you would otherwise have thrown away. Food waste is to be avoided, of course, and beer waste even more so. But seriously, not by such means! Freezing stale beer to consume later after all? No thanks, without us. Especially since you've probably consciously chosen the beer in your hand, and don't want to mix it with another. Which could hardly be avoided with such "beer cubes". But don't worry, we have a simple and efficient solution to your temperature problem. You put the bottles to be cooled in a bowl, fill them up with ice cubes and pour a handful of table salt over them. After a few minutes, you'll have well-chilled beer - without any dubious leftovers from the last party. And here's a tip: Not all beer tastes best just before freezing point.
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