Why would some prefer to put salt in their beer? Are there any traditional or historic reason(s) why people would put salt in their beer when drinking it or would simply prefer to drink a salted beer such as Gose?



Gose beer, brewed in Bonn, Germany (2014).
The same reason people put salt on their food. It enhances the flavor of the beer. 


  The extra salt has other effects as well though, outside of simply
  making things more salty. Particularly, adding salt to foods helps
  certain molecules in those foods more easily release into the air,
  thus helping the aroma of the food, which is important in our
  perception of taste.


Putting Salt on Food