Most beer drinkers will tell you that nothing quenches their thirst like a good, cold beer.

Well, according to researchers, beer does nothing but give the illusion that it quenches your thirst. In reality, it does nothing to relieve your thirst. It actually dehydrates  you. Imagine that.

As reported in Appetite, all the factors that give beer its character — the foam, color, flavor and aroma — actually reduced its ability to relieve thirst.