Any Mennonites on here?

[jamesnsw]

Random question, I know. I'm a Mennonite myself, and I've realized that I know a whole bunch of us who brew. Just curious if any of you on here are Mennonite as well.

 

[dataz722]

I pretty much grew up in a very highly mennonite populated area if that counts.

 

[phrogpilot73]

So since you asked a random question, can I ask a random question? Mainly because I know very little about the Mennonite religion...

 

[jamesnsw]

So since you asked a random question, can I ask a random question? Mainly because I know very little about the Mennonite religion...

Sure. 7890

 

[Shooter]

So, apparently alcohol is not verboten, perhaps there is a religion out there for me after all!!!

 

[jamesnsw]

So, apparently alcohol is not verboten, perhaps there is a religion out there for me after all!!!

It does depend on who you ask... my grandparents (former Amish) will never learn that I homebrew or even drink. Even my parents, who drink occasionally, are somewhat queasy about the subject.

 

[kjung]

So, apparently alcohol is not verboten, perhaps there is a religion out there for me after all!!!

Very few religions ban alcohol, but a handful of churches do, or at least suggest it.

Back on topic, my old guitarist married a Mennonite. Being that his side was mostly Irish-Catholic(origin), and/or biker/hippie types, that made for a VERY interesting reception!!!

 

[lehr]

And I just thought you had a cool beard !

Pat

 

[dataz722]

Very few religions ban alcohol, but a handful of churches do, or at least suggest it.

Back on topic, my old guitarist married a Mennonite. Being that his side was mostly Irish-Catholic(origin), and/or biker/hippie types, that made for a VERY interesting reception!!!

My wife's cousin (they are all italian) married a mennonite. I know what you mean about interesting.

 

[jamesnsw]

And I just thought you had a cool beard !

Pat

It's actually more that I can't connect a moustache to the beard, and I look 5 without facial hair.

 

[david_42]

Funny the number of times people have asked me if I was Amish, because I have the classic beard. According to my youngest sister, my father's family came from the same area in Europe.

It grows where it grows.

 

[dunnright00]

And I just thought you had a cool beard !

Pat

+1

That is a cool beard.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

When I saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought of The Electric Amish band...

 

[Revvy]

It does depend on who you ask... my grandparents (former Amish) will never learn that I homebrew or even drink. Even my parents, who drink occasionally, are somewhat queasy about the subject.

Thanks for giving me a chance to flex my theologial history muscles.

Alcohol Among the Mennonites of Northwest Germany

Among the Mennonites of North Germany beer brewers and brandy distillers were relatively numerous. This may be due in part to the fact that not all professions and trades were open to them. In the region of Lübeck in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Roosen family was even engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder.

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/A4387.html

In fact in Clevelond there was actually a Mennonite owned brewerie.

http://www.ohiobreweriana.com/library/holdings/leisy.shtml

Run by these folks;

Leisy family

Isaac, August, and Henry Leisy, all Mennonites and brothers from Friedelsheim, Palatinate, Germany, who came to the United States in 1852, founded the Leisy Brewery in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1862. In 1872 the family purchased the brewery of Fred Haltnorth in Cleveland and transferred operations to that city. In 1935 after the repeal of prohibition, the Leisy Brewing Company was reorganized and Herbert F. Leisy, grandson of Isaac Leisy, became and still was its president in the 1950s. The family has not been Mennonite for several generations.

So just tell your family you are upholding a NOBLE religious tradition as a Mennonite and a brewer.

 

[jmendez29]

Damn. I wish I had known you a few years ago. I know very little about Mennonites. I was taking some classes a while back and had this professor that I thought was a tool. The class was cultural geography and in one segment we were discussing religion and how it affects the way people live. He was trying to tell us that Mennonites were basically Amish but were allowed to ride in cars and use electricity, stuff like that. I'm sure to some degree he was right in the independent points he was saying, but a big part of me wanted to raise the "bu((5hit flag". I would have loved to learn more about your religion and call this guy an idiot in his own class.

 

[mitch171]

Now I assume that different view exist within the Mennonite religion. However, yours must be quite different than the majority who live around my area. They do not drive and they do not own a computer or TV.

 

[RoaringBrewer]

I am not Mennonite, but I live about 20 minutes from Denver... in Lititz. Small world!

That is really cool that you brew though... just not something that ever struck me as probable. Take no offense to that comment of course, every Mennonite I've been in contact with (quite regular contact being from this area as you are aware - in fact I was just shopping at Goods Store today) is very, very nice, I just never pictured many of them as brewers, that's all!

I also work with a young Mennonite man (23-24; I'm 27 myself) who drives fast BMWs and a 1000R sportbike. Again, not something I pictured, but he is a great guy.

 

[Pappers_]

I come from the Hochstetler branch of the Mennonite tree, from around Kalona, IA. http://hostetler.jacobhochstetler.com/index.html

 

[Evets]

I'm in Denver too. Denver Pa. that is. I suspect you're in that other Denver.
This area is absolutely crawling with mennonites. I even went to a mennonite church for ten years but never really considered myself mennonite because I wasn't raised mennonite.
There are many different mennonite sects. Some are liberal enough to be considered relatively "normal" while the old order mennonites can be more strict than the Amish, which there are also plenty of around here.

 

[RoaringBrewer]

I'm in Denver too. Denver Pa. that is. I suspect you're in that other Denver.
This area is absolutely crawling with mennonites.

This is just why I assumed he was from Denver, PA... it never even occurred to me that there might also be Mennonites in Colorado, as well. But I guess you're right!

Also dead on, on the some liberal, some strict. Like I said, my friend drives a fast BMW and a 1000CC Sportbike. They are black, but that is about the extent of me seeing Mennonite play into his day to day. Then, on the other hand I see plenty on bikes or using horse and buggies, just like the amish.

 

[jamesnsw]

I come from the Hochstetler branch of the Mennonite tree, from around Kalona, IA. http://hostetler.jacobhochstetler.com/index.html

I'm sure we're related then - I come from the Yoder tree in Kalona, IA, and have Hochstetler relatives.

 

[jamesnsw]

I'm in Denver too. Denver Pa. that is. I suspect you're in that other Denver.
This area is absolutely crawling with mennonites. I even went to a mennonite church for ten years but never really considered myself mennonite because I wasn't raised mennonite.
There are many different mennonite sects. Some are liberal enough to be considered relatively "normal" while the old order mennonites can be more strict than the Amish, which there are also plenty of around here.

Yup, I'm in the OTHER Denver . But I grew up in Reading, so I know Denver, PA. I even went to their Fireman's Festival or whatever, and saw, I kid you not, "Flamin' Dick and the Hot Rods."

But Denver, CO does have Mennonites- just not at the same magnitude, which is part fo the reason I'm there .

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Plenty of Amish to the south of me. Mennonites too, but I don't really know the difference.

I like the word Mennonite. I like all words that end in "ite" Meteorite, stalagmite, kryptonite.....

 

[RoaringBrewer]

...and saw, I kid you not, "Flamin' Dick and the Hot Rods."

LOL - My fiance's parents love flamin' dick and check him out every year when he comes to Lititz for July 4th or some other holiday. Haha...

 

[Pappers_]

I'm sure we're related then - I come from the Yoder tree in Kalona, IA, and have Hochstetler relatives.

Small world! My grandfather was Virgil Hochstetler.

 

[jgln]

Interesting as a friend of ours gave us a bottle of Amish Eggnog 14% alcohol made with whiskey for Christmas he brought at the Amish market. My first thoughts were maybe they are ok producing it just not consuming it?

.....wait, second thought maybe it said Pennsylvania Dutch Eggnog.

 

[jamesnsw]

Small world! My grandfather was Virgil Hochstetler.

I'll have to ask my mom if she can make the connections here . My grandpa is David Yoder, former minister at Sunnyside, chaplain at Pleasant View. And my grandma's rolls are the best around .

 

[Pappers_]

I'll have to ask my mom if she can make the connections here . My grandpa is David Yoder, former minister at Sunnyside, chaplain at Pleasant View. And my grandma's rolls are the best around .

Virgil spent the last 20 years of his life or so at Pleasant View, with his wife Agnes, who died about 2 years ago. Virgil and Agnes lived in one of the cottages, Agnes spent the last few years of her life in the main building.

Very small world

 

[Bullbythehorns]

I am Mennonite, wasn't born into it, but we started going to the Mennonite church when I was 4. In our town we have many different sects of Mennonites. The "simplest" lifestyle is led by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Many stem from Lancaster County, PA and still travel by horse & buggy or bicycle, but they do have electricity. Also we have ones that drive, but their vehicles are black and their dress is very traditional with most of the women wearing bonnets and the men wear suspenders. The church I go to is very conventional and everyone leads a "normal" lifestyle and drives. Many of the different sects make wine, but I am the only homebrewer that I know of.

What happens when you take a Mennonite fishing? He drinks all of your beer. What happens if you take 2 Mennonites fishing? They don't drink any of it.

How many Mennonites does it take to change a light bulb? 7---1 to change the bulb and 6 to prepare the meal.

How was copper wire invented? 2 Mennonites were fighting over a penny.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Sure. 7890

I guess my biggest question is what's the difference between Mennonite and Amish? My sister went to school in PA, so I had a lot of exposure to the Amish but have no idea the difference.