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Firemans #4 is certainly a decent beer but if I'm doing domestic I'll go for St Arnolds styles. Especially the IPAs.That's a damned good beer, by my tastes.
While I knew the Germans used forced labor on their farms, it seems to me that those farms themselves might be demanded to grow more foodstuffs and fewer brewery needs? Or maybe the production of glass fell off or was rerouted to military needs, imposing (pardon the pun) a bottleneck?
Power supply could definitely be an issue by 1945.
I suspect the odd bombs falling all around might alert the braumeisters to the fact of a running war, though.
Prosit! (I'm enjoying an Real Ale Brewing Co Fireman's #4 blonde ale as I type)
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Firemans #4 is certainly a decent beer but if I'm doing domestic I'll go for St Arnolds styles. Especially the IPAs.
I would guess most beer was distributed by the keg then? So glass would be a non issue. Hops were easy picking so not much labor needed. Now the grain would be another issue. That's the jist of the thread question. Were grains freely available for brewing?
I suppose that makes sense. Allocation would not be an issue if there wasn't anything to allocate. And I also suppose that the Reinheitsgebot would still need to be upheld and would severely restrict production? Now schnapps would be another thing!!It's been quite a while since I read an article about beer in WWII, but what I remember, is that German beer production, while reduced in total barrels, was consistent until 1944.
With the loss of their agricultural imports from occupied territories and destruction of native farmland and machinery, German beer production was virtually non-existant between '44 and '45.
And I believe it wasn't until 1949, that their beer production started to make a substantial comeback.
Danke! Und Schnitzel mit Spatzle on the side. Now we're talking.
And no BudLite either....
I wonder how fast you can run? Blasphemy!I wonder if I can order tea in those giant glasses in Germany!
The RN, their ships not being "dry", planned two amenities ships for the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. These were to have an onboard brewery plus the bars to serve it. Conversion of HMS Menestheus was completed and she arrived after VJ-Day. The second conversion, HMS Agamemnon, was cancelled.
This warship was converted into a floating brewery for allied troops during World War II
Protect this ship at all coststaskandpurpose.com
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I don't run! I disappear into the shadows.I wonder how fast you can run? Blasphemy!