Different Uses For Beer

So they're BA posters?

 

Paging @TheIPAHunter. I believe he has the 4-1-1 on this.

 

All BA posters are slugs, but not all slugs are BA posters.

 

I heard you could de ice roads with it

 

I always have an old beer or 3 that I dump into a glass to catch fruit flies in the kitchen every summer and fall. Also use them for beer cheese soup, if that counts.

 

That brings back great memories of my grandfather. I used to help him in his garden when I was a kid and he also used beer in his slug traps (this is back in the 70's). He'd also use milk cartons with the top and bottom cut off to keep the cutworms away from the plants (buried with the tomato stalk in the center of the carton like a little tomato fortress). I'm pretty sure he gave me my first taste of beer. Gardening might be the only good thing I learned from him other than life is better with beer. I did also learn what electricity feels like, he used to patch his extension cords with whatever he had laying around; even having prongs on both ends for some of them. Anyhow thanks for bringing back some great memories (well mostly great, grabbing a live wire wasn't really that fun).

 

If you homebrew and have farm animals, the leftover yeast and trub (as long as you don't dry hop) makes for good pig, goat, and cattle slop feed. Spent grains are also good for these, as well as birds (chickens, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, etc.) and horses/donkeys. Freshness is important on both of these; if it goes sour, they won't touch it.

 

You can turn it into whisk(e)y

 

I forget which one but a brewery in Pennsylvania used the leftover grains a d made dog treats out of the stuff. My dog thought they were tasty

 

If you look at the recipes for spent grain dog treats, there are only so many dog treats you can make from a batch of beer before you're a dog food company and not a brewery.
I could keep all of the dogs in my neighborhood happy for a couple of months with dog treats made from the spent grains of a single 5 gallon batch of homebrew.

 

I'm wondering if there's any Youtube videos of some guy/gal getting a whale only to use it to water their lawn

 

Memory flash: when I was at law school, our 1L Moot Court problem involved the plaintiff suing a brewery because she used their beer as shampoo - which they had advocated in their advertising - and suffered personal injuries. So it can be used as shampoo, it seems.

 

I guess mustard is better made with craft beer than with Bud.

 

I used to use beer for slug traps. I read that slugs can smell beer from over 100 yards. I began to wonder if I was just attracting all the slugs around to my garden. They could just as well stop off and eat young bean plants on their way to the beer. Now I use scraps of copper screen wrapped in a cylinder around the base of the plants and run a strip of copper around the raised beds. Slugs and snails simply don't like to touch copper. (Sorry for veering off.)