Homemade Watermelon Beer

How many delicious things can you make from a watermelon? SO MANY*!! My latest project: watermelon beer. Inspired by 21st Amendment Brewery's Hell or High Watermelon Beer, I wanted to try and make my own version using fresh watermelon juice. It became something else entirely, something differently delicious, so let's get fresh everyone!

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*Check out some of my other watermelon projects:

Watermelon Juice
Watermelon Margaritas
Watermelon Salad
Watermelon Mojito Slushie

Chop half of one small watermelon into into cubes*. (approx. 4 cups)

*For the best way to cube watermelon, see Step 2 of my Watermelon Salad instructable.

Puree the cubes in a blender.

Use a sieve to strain off the watermelon foam, leaving you with just the clear juice.

Refrigerate for at least one 1 hour.

Fill a serving glass 3/4 of the way up with beer* and top it off with the chilled watermelon juice.

Give it a gentle stir to mix the two.

*I found the best kinds for this were wheat beers, hefeweizen, and blond ales, but feel free to experiment!

This really ended up being more of a watermelon shandy than a relative of the Hell or High Watermelon Beer, but it was super tasty to me and a really refreshing summer drink. So go forth and stay fresh everyone!