Jay

Is there a company that brews an 'original' German beer (like they
made in the 20's)? I can remember that taste back then growing up
(sipping from Dad's glass) and would love to get some with the strong
hop flavor they had.

Everything now is 'light' for the ladies and those who don't go out
and work with their hands year round.

Can remember landing and a jeep would meet the plane and hand out a
ice cold beer from a wash tub of cracked ice. Mech would hand to you
before you could get out of cockpit. Of course, sometimes it took a
beer before you 'could' get out of cockpit G

More beer stories. My boss was in a jungle E & E exercise and I flew
out in a U-10 with a ice cold six pack which I air dropped to them.
Referees said 'no fair and made them do that day of exercise over (

My boss had mixed emotions. The beer went down good after a week
living off the jungle but he had to spend another 24 hours out there
instead of home in bed with his wife (


Big John

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:35:13 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Lastly, but not leastly, I looked from Friar Tuck's towards the control
tower and imagined planes as far as my eye could see. It was a very cold
evening, and the air was as clear as it could ever be. With the sun
setting
in an orange and azure sky, I got back into my the car and vowed to make
it
there for AirVenture some day soon.

Good job. T-minus 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day. See ya there!

On another note (completely off-topic, sorry), I visited the Pabst brewing
company in Milwaukee. It's all shut down now, but it is really a
fascinating
building complex. The big brew houses are like ten stories tall and all
brick. The smaller and older office building (ca.1880) has an obvious
german
influence with a cedar roof, stained glass symbology in the windows
depicting the beer-makers art, and large wooden doors. Some guy on the
street knew all about it and spent nearly an hour with me pointing out all
kinds of details and history. There's something about abandoned things
that
is endearing to me. I wish I could get inside that place.

Isn't that place cool? I toured it, back when it was a working brewery. It
was a sad day when I read that Pabst had shut down -- even though I disliked
their product. If only they had stuck with their original German recipe,
they'd still be brewing today... :-(

Thanks for the PIREP.