Beer lovers are being given the chance to take the plunge in a health spa pool … filled with 42,000 pints of lager. Spa bosses in Starkenberg, Austria, claim that beer can treat skin conditions, circulation and can help cure wounds. The spa – part of a local brewery – contains seven 13ft-long pools filled with beer which you can even ask to be served chilled or heated. Bathers can try drinking the bathwater but head barman Markus Amann, 23, said: “I’d rather swim than swallow, as we have enough cold beer on tap at the bars next to the pools.
“These pools really can help some but if they don’t work for you, you’ll probably have drunk enough not to care about it any more.”
Now even monks are getting in on the craze for health on tap. Brewers of the distinctive dark Klosterbrauerei in rural eastern Germany have produced a spa supplement for customers to put in the tub at home.
“It opens up the pores. The yeast penetrates the skin and after 15 minutes your skin feels softer everywhere,” said spokesman Dirk Vock.
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Two burglary suspects wearing face paintings have been arrested in the US. The two had tried to break into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa, a caller told police, adding that the pair, wearing black hooded sweatshirts, drove off in a large white car. Police soon spotted and stopped the suspect car.
In it they found two occupants with mask-like marker pen scribbling on their faces. Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, were arrested. Both suspects were charged with attempted second-degree burglary and have been released on bail. McNelly was also charged with driving while intoxicated. The pair are due in court on November 10.
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