Beer makes you happy: German scientists link beer to brain’s happiness receptors

Vail Daily ^ | December 30, 2017 | Randy Wyrick

[katana]

There's even an untranslatable German word for the sense of well being from imbibing the amber nectar: der Gemütlichkeit. Google says it means "coziness", but they're FOS. Prosit!

[minnesota_bound]

When a group of Germans get drunk they invade other countries.
Remember Adolph and the guys at the beer garden?

[House Atreides]

LOL — At last...a non-objectionable double post.

[elcid1970]

Actually, Hitler did drink nonalcoholic beer.

I tried it when I was there. Might as well drink club soda.

As for German beer....as the old polka tune says,

“In Heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it down here...”

[piasa]

Adolph wasn’t into beer or meat... which should have been a warning that there was something seriously wrong with him.

[piasa]

My Pastor says it means a sense of belonging and happiness amid the warmth of family and friends.

Here’s a video of happy Germans in Afghanistan doing the moves in the Cowboy and Indianer drinking song...

http://www.oktoberfest-songs.com/cowboy-und-indianer-lyrics.html

[katana]

He’s right. But those feelings are implicitly related to sitting with friends, having good conversation, eating good food, and all of it washed down with glasses or steins of fine German beer. One of the songs we learned in German class in high school went: “Ein Prosit, ein Prosit, der Gemütlichkeit (tuba: bump-bump-bump-bump) ... Ein Prosit, ein Prosit, der Gemütlichkeit”