The Healing Power of Beer

The ideal book for all beer-drinkers! Includes background info on the amber nectar, delightful health and beauty tips and a collection of recipes.

Beer is good for your health – as well as being a popular drink. For decades it has been appreciated for its medicinal properties: it has fortifying and soporific powers, is used as a remedy for nervous and stressrelated complaints, can stimulate the gastric juices and kidney activity, and prevents prostrate trouble. Alongside information on ingredients and the history of beer brewing, the author offers numerous health and beauty recipes – and of course delicious recipes for cooking. Contains a special chapter on how to brew your own healthy beer.


Heidelore Kluge, born in 1949, has written many best-selling health manuals based on her own experience. Previous publications with Herbig include „Optimists Live Longer. The Great Power of A Little Smile” (1999) and „Stand Straight. Training programme for body and soul” (2001). The author lives in Berlin.