| Author | Message | ||
     Tramp |
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| Nutsosane |
I'll raise a Pilsner Irquell or Budvar to that anyday!  NUTS | ||
| Smoky |
So what's with the Czech flag? Something special about today? | ||
| Tramp |
it's new years day. | ||
| Bigdaddy |
Tramp, You'd make Vaclav Havel a proud father :-) G2 | ||
| Tramp |
HOOah | ||
| 1313 |
 1313 | ||
| Bigdaddy |
www.czechvar.com I didn't realize it was available in N.A. A very good pilsner, regardless of label, but it's not as good as Bitburger :-) G2 (Message edited by Bigdaddy on January 01, 2006) | ||
| Tramp |
i love bitburger. both imports are somehow inferior here, as they get a bit overpasteurized (i'm told ). i prefer gambrinus to both, though, along with 'Kelt' a smaller label. three winters ago, gambrinus made up the bulk of my lunch, and certainly my supper and dinner. | ||
| Tramp |
check out www.budvar.cz on the homepage, at the bottom, you'll see, in tiny print, in the center of three wrods "english" or "anglicky" click on it, and you'll be golden. gambrinus.cz is in czech only. | ||
| Bigdaddy |
I quit consuming adult beverages a few years ago so I can only comment on what was and not what is :-) Here's a good one, IMHO, about a bier label designed by American GI's stationed at ASA/INSCOM USA Field Station Augsburg (note the FLR9 Horizontal Rhombic on the label -- that's how you keep a site undercover :-) .) Foam Of The Professionals. Field Station Augsburg now has its own beer. At least in name. On January 12th (1981) ceremonies at the Thorbräu Brewery in downtown Augsburg, FSA became one of the first United States military units in USAREUR to have a beer bottled for it. The idea of coming out with a FSA beer was thought up by Field Station Commander Col. Seab W. McKinney during a "Bring Your Boss Night" at the Sheridan MCO Club where the idea was passed along to Sgt. Justin Crisp and Staff Sgt. Randy Lenser. "I asked them if they thought it was a good idea and they said 'yes' so I gave it to them to work out," McKinney joked at the ceremony. The first draft for the label was drawn up by Crisp and Lenser in Mid-September (1980). By December, the first proof sheet of the newly designed labels were approved by McKinney and production was under way. The cost for a case of beer is currently DM 13, and can be bought from the brewery. Crisp hopes that it will soon be available for sale through AAFES and in the military club system around Augsburg.  | ||
| Bigdaddy |
Tramp, You should run through the registered list at: www.usafsa.org Plenty of misguided human beings from DLI/MACKAL/USAJFKSWCS/Devens/NTTC Corry floating around. | ||
| Tramp |
wobeck and handorf are down. | ||
| Tramp |
 (Message edited by tramp on January 01, 2006) | ||
| Bigdaddy |
There's not much left open. Bad Aibling may be the only operational site still up -- and it's scheduled to close too. | ||
| Blake |
Did you start the new year out with a nice hearty breakfast of jeternice? I really like that stuff! Yeah, I know what's in it.  | ||
| Tramp |
uh-oh. the in-laws are breaking you in! what town are they from? | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Been to Prague a few times, used to take truckloads of TVs, just after the borders opened up. man we used to have some weird international parties, remind me to tell you sometime....... (help save me, I've caught Canfielditis :-) | ||
| Tramp |
yep- i was there just after the borders opened up, too. before and after. in fact, not too many years after they opened up, i was one of the poor saps sitting in the back of a big transport cradling an AK, while the slovaks decided what to do with the soldiers they assembled (against UN laws) at the czech-slovak border. funniest part was, regardless of what the books say, the slovaks soldiers were trading jokes and bottles of slivnice with us, and the officers were all cool with it. noone expected so much as a rude word, and we were all correct. we all thought it was stupid of them to break away from the greater czecho-slovak republic, but in the end, they made out fine. two really peaceable nations. top-shelf people. | ||
| Bigdaddy |
As the end of the Soviet Union became more and more obvious the West German tour companies started organizing bus tours of the crystal outlets/factories. Many of the civilian spouses with significant others working at the Field Station would board the Karl Domberger bus in Augsburg and come back in two/three days with all kinds of high quality goods for very little money -- it was a good time to be there. Once the Czechs figured out that the Ami was crazy they raised the prices  If you were cleared you weren't allowed to cross the border so you'd have to wait for your spouse to come home and tell you about the weekends adventure in Prague. I was always left on the porch babysitting. The changes are so dramatic that it'll catch you off guard if you've spent any time at all in Europe. A good time to be alive IMHO. You guys are flooding me with memories :-) Now you got Wal-Mart, Miller Genuine draft in the local tankstelle, sat-tv and TNT,,,,,I could go on. It's still my favorite destination but the more global it becomes the more soul it loses. Livemush/liverpudding/liver sausage,,,a universal delicacy indeed. Grew up on the German version and then migrated to the Carolina version of livermush. Wurst, brotchen, zempf, pils, side of pommes may be the perfect meal. G2 | ||
| Tramp |
yep- I spend many winters right near a big 'glassfabrik' up on the CZ/Pol/DEU border. | ||
| Blake |
I dunno. Yeda netzke, been broke in for some time now. Forgive the spelling. It's just too bad the folks didn't teach the youngin's to speak the language. | ||
| Blake |
Their roots are Moravian and they still have kin living on the family farm there. Michele got to visit a few years back. Turned me on to some great beer when she got home. http://www.kozel.cz/en/home.html Found some in College Station, TX. |
