Social benefits?? Personally I don't think German beer is actually that good. They always seem to go for quantity of quality.
One of the main German phrases I remember using often off the top of my head - "eins Pils bitter"
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Mind you, wasn't beer the catalyst for creating their last fuhrer??
Adolf was a teetotaler supposedly.
They had the German episode of Fawlty Towers on 7TWO last night out of coincidence. "So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads"
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