Bizarre ways to use beer

It might be the strangest hair treatment we have ever heard of but beer can actually do wonders for your hair. Want to try it? Pour a can of warm, flat beer over your hair after you have used normal shampoo. Wrap a towel around your hair and wait for 10 minutes before rinsing with a cup of apple cider vinegar and water. The natural sugars, b vitamins and protein found in beer works to give hair body and shine.

Take your beer beauty treatment to the next level by adding a can to your bath. Remember to rinse well after enjoying your soak.

Beer plus meat equals delicious caramelised flavours. Try adding beer to a marinade recipe for drunken chicken, beef or …anything really.

Check out Fast Ed’s knockout recipe for barbecued beer bread. You’ll love it’s sweet and salty taste and golden crust.

Turns out that slugs love beer more than humans! Lure slugs and snails away from your plants by burying a small jar of beer near the garden bed so that the top is level with the soil. They will be attracted by the sweetness of the beer and fall in but won’t be able to get out.

Entertaining outside? Keep unwelcome wasps and bees away from you and your guests by putting a couple of open cans of beers on the edges of your entertainment area. The insects should hang around the cans rather than you.

Give your wooden furniture a shine up with a bit of beer. Moisten a cloth with old beer and gently rub the surface to polish. NOTE: always do a spot test first.

Some people swear that a little beer on your dead grass will help to revive it. Don’t give your whole garden a spray but you might want to try out this trick with dregs of leftover beer to see for yourself.

Try a new way of cooking your favourite seafood, with beer! Mussels, clams, prawns and crab work well with beer.

A cloth soaked in flat beer and fruit juice might encourage butterflies to linger in your garden.

Give your kitchen staples a good polish with some fresh beer- the carbonation will help lift rust stains too.

So this one is not really bizarre but we had to include it. Beer creates the lightest, crispiest batter.