Mein Sieben Pfund Hammerbier!!!

[JacktheKnife]

Hallo Brauer Dudes,

The world, down here in Texas, is covered with ice!
It is freezing and I am worried about my poultry, Red and Sugarmay.
I have my wood stove fired up so if the electricity goes out we won't die,
I'll just bring them all in here.

Gentlemen, tonight I have been on the German language Hobbybrauen forum. The viscous cold outside with the warm fire in my woodstove makes me think, it makes me very contemplative and philosophical.
I am 25% German and as 'bier' is really a German thing as well as a point of interest to focus my German language studys on,
and since I don't know any German speaking people,
even my old Great Grandmother Hattie von Dorn,
spoke not a word of German, and she was 100% German blood.
I guess that once she got here,
my mothers mothers mother...
didn't know anyone who spoke German either.
{The last thing I remember her saying to me was:}
{"Get a hair cut!"}
She was 96 and dipping snuff, ain't that cute.
{Mother do you want to go outside and spit?}
{Della, one of her daughters, and my grandmothers sister,
would ask.}
{nod nod smile}

How does one learn German if one is in a foreign land?
Well, the internet is a miracle!
I mean it, I can cruz the German brauer forums
and ... y'all ...
I thought I knew how to make beer{ale},
I can make alcohol,
{really good 'hootch' by their standards.}
But I learn a lot every time I 'go there'.
The language as well as the brewing expertise.

I was in the grocery store the other night,
{ uh oh ... here he goes...again }
I was standing in line with a grocery cart full of beer.
I had a case of shiner, a case of Grolsch,
Wine, a case of 'Red-Dog' because
{I'll drink anything.}
and these two chicks were in front of me.
One turned around and commented on my purchase,
and I related my challange of brewing and bottling
1,000 bottles of ale by April 1st!
And that the best way to accumulate
a personal 'vast hoard' of homebrew
consisted of not drinking it,
and this is my 'get by' beer and ale just to last till I get home.
you know.
I told them the name of the recipe for my own personal homebrew,
which is the recipe I will use in 'the great brew':
{and said real loud like this German I used to know,
where every body could hear me...}
Mien Sieben Pfound Hammerbier,
ist sie Goot! Ya Ya... {wink}

And I dern near got to take her home,
and I mean to MY... home.
And it was the German,
I guess folks just don't hear much German around here anymore.


Welp, its 25 degrees and I hope we live to see tomorrow.


Prost Y'all

Knife










Knife...

 

[homebrewer_99]

I know what you mean.

I was in Alexandria, VA a couple of months ago and heard some Germans speaking on the train.

There were four of the so I conversed with them in German. I said hello and asked where they were from and where they were going, etc. They were going to the Capital, natually, so I recommended the Smithsonian and the monuments (alles kostenlos - free). They were glad about that. I told them my history with living in Germany, etc. They said tha I spoke good german. I told them I had a good teacher. They were actually a couple of girlfriends my first tour there that really helped me learn.

My team leader was sitting next to them and while he lived in Germany for 3 years but didn't understand any of the conversation except a few words.

Spater.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

They were actually a couple of girlfriends my first tour there that really helped me learn.

Nothing like the old long-haired dictionary to help the learning process...

 

[zoebisch01]

roflmao. Btw wtf is up with the weather? I didn't realize people are actually dying in Mexico from the cold(I don't watch the news too friggin depressing). I mean the ground is wet here. It should be frozen through and we should have snow.

 

[Reverend JC]

You should go to texas right now, when they get even a dusting of snow the collective IQ drops (when driving is concerned). It is like watching kids and bumpercars.............LOL

 

[zoebisch01]

You should go to texas right now, when they get even a dusting of snow the collective IQ drops (when driving is concerned). It is like watching kids and bumpercars.............LOL

loller. Man I witnessed this once in NC. Was funny and scary at the same time.

 

[Whelk]

loller. Man I witnessed this once in NC. Was funny and scary at the same time.

Doesn't it just blow your mind how people can drive for 10, 20, 30 years, and all that experience just flies out the window when there's a little snow? I've watched people just steer their cars right off the road, into each other, etc., when all they had to do was relax and pay attention. But I guess that's a lot to ask.

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

On the subject of Heritage... I come from a strong German background, my great great grandparents came over on a covered wagon, blah blah blah... I found learning german to be easy, well what little i know. Ich bein nicht ein kuh nein, Ich bein shwartze und veisse affe. That's just a little joke I like to say, you explain it to someone who doesn't speak german and they don't get it...

Not only am I part german, I'm part Scot-Irish and english... Talk about having beer in my blood...

 

[homebrewer_99]

...Ich bein nicht ein kuh nein, Ich bein shwartze und veisse affe. That's just a little joke I like to say, you explain it to someone who doesn't speak german and they don't get it...

Ich bin keine kuh, ich bin eins schwarz und weiss affe..."I'm not a cow, I'm a black and white ape (monkey)"...

I speak German and I don't get it...quatschsprach?

Like I said..."I'm not a cow, I'm a black and white monkey"...

So what you're saying is the cow is saying this? How would he know what a monkey looks like?

How old were you when you used to say this? Maybe that will put more perspective into the phrase/joke.

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

A cow is black and white... the cow thought he was just a black and white spotted monkey...

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

Sorry Yeti. Even after the translation, I don't get it.

 

[JacktheKnife]

You should go to texas right now, when they get even a dusting of snow the collective IQ drops (when driving is concerned). It is like watching kids and bumpercars.............LOL

I have lived in Texas all my life and I am amazed at the collective 'lack of intelligence' Texas city folk have, when it comes to driving on ice,
it is amazing and then some! A bunch of kids in bumper cars is right and a good analogy. It sounds funny but the Rev. isn't kidding!
It is icy now as I look out my window,
and I ain't going no where for a week!
No where!
I mean are you kidding?


the 'Snowed in' Knife

 

[boo boo]

You know that don't only apply to you guys who don't see snow and ice very much. It happens all the time here. People just don't know when to slow down when it comes to snow.

 

[todd_k]

loller. Man I witnessed this once in NC. Was funny and scary at the same time.

People in VA are just as crazy in the snow/ice. People think that since they have 4-wheel drive, they can still drive 70mph.

 

[homebrewer_99]

The problem with a lot of drivers is that they drive the vehicle and not the road.




Not all cows are black and white...