USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Camp Run-A-Muck ~ WooHoo! ~ Friday, October 17, 2003

My "VOICES", "kitty-katz", Linda, and FRiends of the Canteen

[tomkow6]

 

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

 

 

Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom?
Support The United States Armed Forces Today!

 

..what we gonna do today?....um, don't know!....let's do some fun things...don't wanna....
...come on.........huh?.....WHAT?...hey, lets make some BEER!....
....NO! NO! NO!...who's gonna drink it?...
                                   ...........EVERYBODY!!!.......YES!...tomkow6?.....
yeah!....hey, he's in orbit anyway'........he likes beer....Ma! tell them to STOP IT....SHUT UP, & have a brew!..............HUH?????

Wanna make some BEER?

We'll show you how!

Or, at least TRY......

First, a little History!

The History of Beer

Beer, the beverage of moderation, is older than western civilization. The ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Assyrians brewed forms of beer thousands of years before Christ. Vikings brewed "bjor" in Scandinavia and Julius Caesar found the various tribes of the British Isles drinking ale when he and his Roman legions landed.

 

Beer is closely related with America's history. Beer first arrived on America's shores with European colonists. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in December of 1620, because, in the words of a diarist aboard the Mayflower, "We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beere." Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) also brought the art of brewing to the New World and one of the first log houses built on Manhattan Island was soon converted into a brewhouse.

According to beer writer/historian Will Anderson, America's first "help wanted" ad was actually an appeal in a London newspaper for experienced brewers to come to America. Brewer Street in New Amsterdam was paved because of its breweries and their heavy beer wagons, which kept getting stuck in the mud during wet weather. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, all brewed beer on their estates. Samuel Adams, the fiery Massachusetts patriot, was the son of a Boston brewer and worked in his family brewery.

 

By 1810, there were more than 100 breweries in America. The 1840's and 1850's brought tremendous change to America's brewing industry. Hundreds of thousands of Germans left their homeland for a new life in America during those decades, especially after revolutionary upheavals ravaged Europe in 1848. These German-speaking immigrants brought with them a love of sparkling, golden lager beer - and the knowledge to brew it. It was during the Civil War that many of America's great breweries, including Miller, began.

 

Beer Facts: More than 80 million Americans regularly drink beer. Beer accounts for about 87 percent of total alcohol beverage consumption. On a per capita basis, Americans drink approximately 23 gallons of beer per year. Annual production by U.S. brewers is about 180 million barrels. Approximately 90 percent of beer sold in America is packaged beer. Cans account for about 70 percent of packaged beer in the U.S. The brewing industry is directly responsible for the employment of some 900,000 Americans and indirectly responsible for the employment of nearly 2 million more. Retail sales of beer total more than $45 billion and the total economic impact of the beer industry is estimated to be nearly $170 billion!

 

How beer is made: Miller brews its quality beers with the finest ingredients - malted barley from Minnesota, the Dakotas and other barley-growing regions; corn grits from America's heartland; pure water; hops from the Pacific Northwest; and Miller's special yeast. The process begins when Miller brewers mix corn grits with water, then boil the mixture in large cereal cookers. At the same time, malted barley is being steeped in other large cooking vessels called mash tuns. After boiling, the corn grits are added to the mash tuns and the resulting "mash" is slowly heated to a specific temperature to convert the grain starches to fermentable sugars.

The mixture is transferred to the lauter tun, where the sugar-laden liquid called "wort" is strained out and piped to the brew kettle. The remaining brewer's grain from the lauter tun makes an excellent, high-protein livestock feed. The wort (pronounced "wert") is boiled vigorously and hops, which impart the aroma and bitterness associated with beer flavor, are added at this time. From the brew kettle, the wort is chilled and pumped to the fermenting cellars, where yeast is added to begin the fermentation process.

Each brewery's yeast differs and brewmasters take great care to preserve the integrity of their strains. Fermentation produces alcohol and carbonation in beer. When fermentation is complete, the beer is filtered to remove brewer's yeast and is piped to aging tanks. After being aged 10 to 14 days, the beer is ready for packaging in bottles, cans or kegs.

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STUFF You're gonna need to get started

6 gallon plastic fermenting bucket with spigot

Bucket lid with stopper and special hole for air lock

6 gallon bottling bucket with spigot

Triple scale testing hydrometer with test tube

Bottle cleaning brush

3 piece airlock

Bottle filler and 4' food-grade vinyl transfer tube

Hand-lever bottle capper and 50 bottle caps

Sanitizer for sanitizing equipment (4oz)

Reusable nylon steeping bag

Brewing directions

OPTIONAL

Good for boiling up to 3 gallons of wort

IMPORTANT INGREGIENT: YEAST!

Some of the GREAT names in US Brewing History:

Valentin Blatz
(1826-1894)
Val. Blatz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Adolphus Busch
(1839-1913)
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, St. Louis, Missouri

Adolph Coors
(1847-1929)
Adolph Coors Co., Golden, Colorado

Frederick Miller
(1824-1888)
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Frederick Pabst
(1836-1904)
Pabst Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Frederick Schaefer
F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., New York, New York

Joseph Schlitz
(1831-1875)
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ENOUGH OF THE HISTORY!

Let's brew some brew.....

A homebrew recipe for this commercial British style ale out of Idaho.

TableRock Nut Brown Ale
(5 gallon/19 liter, extract with grains)
OG = 1.054 FG = 1.015 IBUs = 18 Alcohol 5.3% by volume

Ingredients
6 lbs. (2.7 kg) Briess light extract syrup
1 lb. (0.45 kg) dextrin malt
0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) Carastan malt
6 oz. (168 g) brown malt
4 oz. (112 g) crystal malt (120 °L)
2 oz. (56 g) black patent malt
2 oz. (56 g) chocolate malt
5.8 AAU Willamette hops (bittering hop)
(1.0 oz. (28 g) of 5.8% alpha acid)
1 tsp. Irish moss
White Labs WLP001 (California Ale) or Wyeast 1056 (American Ale) yeast
O.75 cup of corn sugar (for priming)

Step by Step
Steep the six crushed grains in 3 gallons (11.4 liters) of water at 150 ºF (66 °C) for 30 minutes. Remove the grains from the wort, add malt syrup and bring to a boil. Add Willamette (bittering) hops, Irish moss and boil for 60 minutes.
When done boiling, add wort to 2 gallons (7.6 liters) cool water in a sanitary fermenter, and top off with cool water to 5.5 gallons (20.9 liters). Cool the wort to 80 ºF (27 °C), heavily aerate the beer and pitch your yeast. Allow the beer to cool over the next few hours to 68-70 ºF (20-21 °C) and hold at these cooler temperatures until the yeast has fermented completely. Bottle your beer, age for two to three weeks and enjoy!

All-grain option:
Replace syrup with 9lbs. (4 kg.) pale malt, mash your grains at 158 ºF (70 °C) for 60 minutes. Lower the Willamette hops to 0.75 oz. to account for full-wort boil.

 

Welcome to Camp RUN-A-MUK!

 
Where the Plan Of the Day is: Mirth...Merriment...and FUN!
Kick back! Relax! Tell a joke or two! Have a brew !

The BAR is OPEN! 

We've got Eye candy...Mind candy...and 

Chicken soup for the soul!

 

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

Good Night Blessing for the Troops

Blessings on you this evening 
May the stars in heaven 
light your way into the 
Milky Way of dreams 
May your day tomorrow 
be filled with love 
laughter and joy... 
Taking away all heart ache 
left stinging... 
and unclouding your vision 
for clear sailing... 

bentfeather 

                           

                       

[Radix]

 

Actress Pamela Anderson joined an animal rights campaign against fast-food chain KFC on October 16, 2003 urging a consumer boycott of the franchise until it ensures better treatment of its chickens. 'If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick,' wrote Anderson in an letter circulated by PETA.

 

The telegenetic Ms. Anderson  who knows virtually nothing about anything, still, looks good. Enjoy the view,Troops. Please note, posting police, my concern about your ideas of the Canteen and the propriety of my posts. In other words,  kiss my grits!

 

 

 

Mourners carry the casket of murdered Iraqi hospital official Haider al-Baaj during his funeral in Basra October 16, 2003. Unidentified gunmen assassinated the director of a hospital in Iraq's southern city of Basra, his colleagues said. They said Haider al-Baaj, chief doctor at Basra's teaching hospital, was shot dead with a single bullet to the head as he was leaving his private clinic at sunset. The assailant and his accomplice escaped on foot.

 

CBS NEWS  in it's reporting of this atrocity suggested (incredibly) that one of the  greatest American presidents of modern times was somehow responsible for this murder. It was also clearly implied in the report that President Bush was responsible for the sinking of the Titantic, despite the fact that that doomed vessel met the Creator decades before "W's" own birth.

 

 

 

 

U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura wave before boarding Air Force One at Tokyo's Haneda International Airprot to depart for the Philipppines, the second stop of his Asian trip, Saturday morning, Oct. 18, 2003. During his overnight stay in Japan Bush had dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and thanked him for a US$1.5 billion pledge from Japan for rebuilding war-torn Iraq.

 

Is it just me, or is Laura Bush indeed a Babe of the highest order?

 

Babe alert!

 

She certainly is not carrying around a trailor like that scandalous previous Communist 1st femme used to, (and still does). 

 

Laura Bush, You go girl!

 

 

 

Followers of radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr pack a courtyard at his offices for Friday prayers in the Baghdad suburb of Al Sadr October 17, 2003. Three U.S. military police and two Iraqi policemen were killed when rooftop attackers fired on their patrol in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Kerbala, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday. Tension has run high in Kerbala this week since supporters of Al-Sadr occupied the Imam Hussein shrine and took several hostages.

 

Meet the members of the newest branch of the politicaly correct supporters of the assasins of  our US military Volunteers, and the newest  Dan Rather Fan Club, who held a joint conference of solidarity in a latrine just outside of Baghdad.

 

FR.com is a family sort of place, and thus, I stop my true desired remarks from being expressed here  because I do not want to get my ass kicked off of this place.

 

 

 

Followers of radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr pack a courtyard at his offices for Friday prayers in the Baghdad suburb of Al Sadr city October 17, 2003.

 

Please, somebody, caption the image of this ahole. I am getting bored with this stuff.

 

 

 

An Iraqi youth sits atop relief goods provided by the US government for distribution.

 

Didn't I already caption this image like a year ago or so ?

 

 

 

Actress Pamela Anderson joined an animal rights campaign against fast-food chain KFC on October 16, 2003 urging a consumer boycott of the franchise until it ensures better treatment of its chickens. 'If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick,' wrote Anderson in an letter circulated by PETA.

 

The telegenetic Ms. Anderson  who knows virtually nothing about anything, still, looks good. Enjoy the view,Troops. Please note, posting police, my concern about your ideas of the Canteen and propriety, kiss my grits!

 

Deja Boobs!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Star, for the Kalen update. Continued prayers for your success and safety.

[Soaring Feather]

 

~The MidNight Hour~ Good Night Troops~

 

~ Dream a Little~ Love Someone a Lot~
Roberta Flak First Ever I saw Your Face
Touch ms feather's hair for the song.

Until tomorrow, save the last dance for me!

~Touch the Doves and dolls for the music~

Touch the Doves for the music!

 

 

Bentfeather

 

 

[Fawnn]

Is it just me, or is Laura Bush indeed a Babe of the highest order?

Here's another for you:



They certainly make a nice couple!

[Fawnn]

Dream your good dreams!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Way to go, beach! #250!!

[Soaring Feather]

The Canteen

As a light house beacon warns
a ship away from dangerous shores...
We in the USO Canteen FReeper Style
offer a safe haven for our troops and their families.
May God Bless our ship The USO Canteen FReeper Style.

bentfeather
9/05/03

[Soaring Feather]

You are and always were hilarious.

:-)

[Radix]

Funny? Funny how? Funny like a Clown? Funny as in I amuse you?

[Soaring Feather]

Funny as in I amuse you?

Yes!!

No you are not a clown.

You have a good sense of humor, very dry like the British, but very crack me up funny.

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN Tomkow the WGN news has report now that six are confirmed dead in that high rise building in Chicago

Dozen of injuries

Also breaking news off Hareetz wire not only IDF took care some of business with PLO miltant they also stop plot of target Israeli target during this weekend for this Feast day in Israel

RACK ITTT

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad to meet you. The Canteen is a gathering place to provide a home away from home for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies.

[SevenofNine]

Breaking news off Interfax wire

Okay remember that rock concert bombing in Moscow this past summer WELL they busted MUMMY of female suicide bomber and Mama taught daughter everything she know about bomb making

WTF

Also AP wire has item about dude that drop the dime on where Private Jessica Lynch was he had fake heart attack

IT IS BIG ONE ELIZABETH

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

NEW THREAD

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Double Dose Of Dudes Ma Likes Section!

Thanks, Kiddo, good Dudes.

[radu]

Dagnabit! I'd planned to get back a LOT sooner tonight. I called a friend I haven't talked to in quite a while to wish him Happy Birthday.....and just got off the phone. That's gonna be a hefty phone bill! LOL!

But now I've gotta head for the bat cave.....this lil vampire has to get up early in the morning. UHG! That hurts!! LOL!
I hope all the "revellers" made it home safely from Camp. *giggle*

Good night y'all. Sweet dreams all 'round.
Good night troops, wherever you may be. May God keep you safe.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Sweet Dreams
God Bless You

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, radu. Thanks for your support of our troops. Happy birthday to your friend. Get a phone card from Sam's Club....less than .03 cents a minute.

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Legend

Beautiful, ms feather.