"prost" is the german word for "cheers"
and you say it when you start drinking
and sometimes in between drinking, too         german beer is drunk a lot by the germans
every german beer brewer has to follow a law from  the year 1516
which tells exactly, what is allowed to be in beer      hop, malt, water, yeast and nothing else..     http://www.biersekte.de/reingebot.htm   http://www.brouw-bier.nl/theorie/reinheitsgebot.htm   http://www.bier-lexikon.lauftext.de/reinheitsgebot.htm       and here is one from 1435   http://www.landgrafenstadt.de/statuta.htm      when because of part of the EC
a few years ago it was allowed to sell foreign beer here
in all pubs everyone older than 18
was able to sign for
keeping germany "beer clean"
means... germany does not want chemically beer
still today, beer sold in germany is more than 90% german brewed    germany has about 1250 breweries and 16 types of beer such as "bock", "alt" and "schwarzbier" - manni and lord buggie are drinking "weizen"
and auntie daisy drinks "pils" of course all different kinds of beer are served in different glasses       in bavaria beer is not titled as an alcoholic drink
it is food
bavaria is that state of germany,
where you may drink your beer in your breakfast-break
officially allowed - because it is food      it is called food, because beer was given away
instead of money for services and work
and it is full of feeding stuff and vitamines (i read that)       daisy lives in north-germany
and beer is no food here but people love it, too  daisy's favourite beer is     http://www.jever.de/index_jever_website.jsp    and here a few beer-links:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer   http://www.bier-lexikon.lauftext.de/   http://www.bier.de/   http://www.deutsches-bier.net/index1.html   http://www.bierundwir.de/   http://www.bier-lexikon.lauftext.de/   http://www.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de/bierwart/sorten/sorten.phtml?dokid=20