LittleSiss
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The Tree watches Disney movies! Who would ever guess!!I still have a '66 Mustang (in pieces) in the garage. Barb had nothing to do with its state of disrepair!
The Mustang might still be alive if it were a Karmann Ghia!!!
The Tree watches Disney movies! Who would ever guess!!I still have a '66 Mustang (in pieces) in the garage. Barb had nothing to do with its state of disrepair!
The Mustang might still be alive if it were a Karmann Ghia!!!
Yes, there are many milestones coming up in Greece this year - we overlooked the bicentennial of the beginning of the War of Independence on March 25th. Interesting that the best coverage I find is from Xinhua News Agency!Two hundred years ago today, on 22 April 1821, the Ottoman sultan decided to show the Greek rebels that Turkey means serious business. It was Easter Sunday for the Orthodox, and hanging Patriarch Gregory V, who moonlighted as the formal leader of Greek community in Constantinople, from the main gate of his residence sent a clear message.
Well, perhaps not the message the sultan intended to broadcast -- I suppose one could divine the glare of the guns of Navarino playing on that gate.
No doubt, our German readers will correct me, but I believe that these laws were only suspended for periods during both World Wars.On this day in 1516, the Duke of Bavaria adopted the purity law, or Reinheitsgebot, which limited what ingredients could go in beer—barley, hops, and water—and set the price of the drink. This was done in an effort to keep beer prices low, prioritize wheat for bread and limit beer additives.
It was still an issue after the war, since Germany used these regulations to protect its own beer market from import from other EU countries. In 1987 the use of the law for import bans has been abolished.No doubt, our German readers will correct me, but I believe that these laws were only suspended for periods during both World Wars.
So the situation now is that beer brewed in Germany must still conform to the Reinheitsgebot? Or only beers with designated 'appellations of origin' or suchlike?It was still an issue after the war, since Germany used these regulations to protect its own beer market from import from other EU countries. In 1987 the use of the law for import bans has been abolished.
My first taste of Weißbier converted me to its flavour. A Kriek is lovely on a hot day for one drink at lunchtime, but if planning several in an evening session, for me the taste is overwhelming.Beer brewed in Germany should still comply with the purity law (Reinheitsgebot), but recently more and more craft beers have appeared that can also contain wheat and oats and are sometimes made with fruits such as cherries. In the early 1990s, I myself received a selection of Belgian beers from the Dutch company I worked for, for Christmas. At that time in Germany completely unusual flavors pineapple beer, banana beer, cherry beer and I have to say it tasted unusual but not bad.
Don't drink too much of it - it's about three times stronger than dear old English Bitter!Yes, I've had wheat beer - Belgian I think it was, but maybe German - and agree, a very good refreshing taste, a nice summer beer.
That's probably why my memory of it is a bit hazy. But I do recall it was ve ... rrrr...y good!Don't drink too much of it - it's about three times stronger than dear old English Bitter!
(Thus speaks the voice of experience... )