Well Duh....it took a study to find this out about drinking beer.....

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From the university of the extremely obvious . . . drinking beer can make you happy, researchers claim

I know there are plenty here that enjoy feeling happy every chance they get......

Hordenine, abundant in malted barley - a key ingredient in the alcoholic beverage, activates dopamine receptors in the brain.
This then triggers a surge of the feel-good chemical to the decision-making area of the brain, German scientists claim.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg researchers examined around 13,000 food molecules to make the finding.

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