Bottoms up: beer as medicine

We don’t generally think of beer as being part of a healthy lifestyle , but there is actually a long tradition of beer brewed with herbs being used as medicine. In fact prior to the abomination known as the Reinheitsgebot or Bavarian Purity Law that beer stopped being brewed with herbs and became strictly a hop infused concoction. The brewing process actually enhances and preserves the healing properties of most herbs. Herbal beers make a great medicinal addition to any beer cellar.

Originally posted on 05/05/2015 by mariekehendriksen

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I am glad you like my blog post 'Bottoms up: Beer as Medicine'. However, I am an academic blogger paid by public funding and I do not appreciate you copying my blog integrally on your website without asking permission first, especially not as it seems to me you also have commercial purposes.  
Please remove this immediately. You can put a link to my blog on your website if you want to, but not the entire blog. 

Marieke Hendriksen

Apparently the author has not seen this fantastic book that is full of herbal knowledge and recipes for beers made with one or more of the herbs detailed in the book. Each herbal beer has detailed insructions as well as indications for the types of conditions that each beer may help. I’ve tried a few and I can tell you that they are quite good.

A great compendium of Herbal Beers

In the near future I’ll be posting a few recipes for herbal beers made with wormwood, galangal and opium. Until then the recipes in this post and in the above book will have to do .

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