Barley & Hops

Beer has a therapeutic effect on the soul, it's no wonder that it is the drink that eclipsed mead and coffee (yes its 3rd most consumed after water & tea) as the choice brew!  Yes scotch and wines have their haute moments but beer is like the perfect comfort beverage!  The fact, that it makes you hungry and then fat are just minor irritants, but for any one who has had beer it's clear as a day that you can always come home to it.

I always felt that the "gives you wings" should be a catch phrase of a beer.  The Germans are mad about it as is most of Europe.  It's cheaper than a damn red bull and it soothes your kidneys gives you a satisfied grin all in a low price!  Heck I have also noticed amazing side effects like women responding better after a couple of beers.  I have had strangers (women)  smiling sweetly at me .. stewardesses take pains to explain to me why the flight was late ... as if it mattered any more...

I feel it dissolves ones defenses by short-circuiting the core human stripped bare to ones emotions to ones outer persona creating this surge of pure unadulterated humanity ... This I feel gets translated as pheromones or something to magnetize the opposite sex!  (yes i had a couple of beers before writing this!) We always knew why men found drunk girls interesting!! ... :).  It enables you to honestly recount your failures by relating stories of pain, hurt, guilt and the other remaining sins.  Of course you have to be comfortably high and not inebriated, as more you drink more the humanity gets naked and that can be ugly to say the least. 

I always feel more satisfied after a beer than I do after a any other drink ... World looks rosy, emotions simple enough and relationships doomed to failure.   Logic of life becomes clearer and suddenly i feel the calories per mug are worthy of  the price.  Is it any wonder that Germans drink it during meetings in the day??  But (isn't there always one) when I think about it more I feel it might just be an illusion ... a mirage that as you approach (drink) more and more it eludes you and makes you more lost..

Whichever it may be I like the attention I get, I like the relaxed me better than the sober me & I wish my death would come to me when I am comfortably high as I would at least feel I understood life even if in reality I was deluded and maybe even that I completely missed the point.  May be it would end with me basking in a kind smile from someone interesting and that it was all worth it!!