BEER: Only Beer, No Wine, Distilled Spirits, Tea

[Guest Rick Research]

4th Company Bavarian Landwehr Infantry Regiment 12, 22 July 1915 in the Vosges:

Officers just want to have fun: Infantry Regiment 53, early summer 1915

[Guest Rick Research]

Someone has to MAKE it (shockingly high casualties in the Hops Fermentation Units!!!)

before anybody else can drink it. Party! Party! Party down at the wagoneers' depot!

[Guest Rick Research]

Beer before the war (after lights out in the barracks of Bavarian J?ger Battalion 1, 10 May 1910)

Beer after the war: an implausibly dually occupied local oompah band, 1919

[Riley1965]

Rick,

GREAT pics!!! It's making me thirsty I just love these period photos...Please keep 'em coming!!!

Doc

[Guest Rick Research]

Cigarettes are OK if being consumed WITH beer!

Behind the barrackss of the Infantry Life Regiment in Munich, 9 February 1915: the origin of the now forgotten advice corollary: "...and do not DRINK yellow snow."

[Jef]

Nice photographs, Rick.

German soldiers were not the only ones who appreciated a glass of beer. This pic came from a familyalbum of a Belgian WWI nurse. Hope these drinking Belgian soldiers match your thread.

Jef

[IrishGunner]

Always worthwhile re-newing a "Rick" thread...especially one about beer. Cheers to the Master. We miss ya...

Edited September 23, 2013 by IrishGunner

[IrishGunner]

More beer drinkers...from Sachsen FAR 12.

[E Williams]

4th Company Bavarian Landwehr Infantry Regiment 12, 22 July 1915 in the Vosges:

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Officers just want to have fun: Infantry Regiment 53, early summer 1915

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Those two soldiers in front have two 'flippies" and we use to bring cases back from Grafenwohr. That was the only place that still sold them.

[IrishGunner]

Those two soldiers in front have two 'flippies" and we use to bring cases back from Grafenwohr. That was the only place that still sold them.

Haven't heard "flippies" in a long time, G.I.

My favorite was always Flensburger from the north. A lot of small breweries still use the flip top bottle.

[E Williams]

Haven't heard "flippies" in a long time, G.I.

My favorite was always Flensburger from the north. A lot of small breweries still use the flip top bottle.

Couldn't get them around Hanau, but we sure drank Graf dry and we carried more cases back that our trucks and tracks were more full going home than going to Graf. The guns went and returned by rail.

[IrishGunner]

Weapon of the future...

[E Williams]

Weapon of the future...

That reminds me of cases and cases of beer coming in on a pallet hanging from underneath a Chinook at our FWD firebase in Nam. One thing we had plenty of was beer, not so much potable water but beer we had plenty of.

[spolei]

Hello,

here two pictures from my relative.

The champagne and cognac will probably ended up in the bellies of the officers.

[E Williams]

Hello,

here two pictures from my relative.

The champagne and cognac will probably ended up in the bellies of the officers.

Damn!!! You guys are bringing back memories. The picture on the left reminds me on the Sundry boxes we got occasionally filled with cigarettes, chocolate (we called them John Wayne bars) only John Wayne could eat them, writing material, toiletries; etc etc . I do believe the german soldier ate better than the other armies during the Great War, especially if you were on the Western Front.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Beer at Verdun...

[Oiva]

I agree, we had lots of beer in rusting cans, but the water supplied by the Engineers was slightly green and Kool-Aid killed the taste. But of course, I am referring to the R.V.N. Regards, Oiva

[Stuka f]

My "ritual crippled" Reservistenkrug! Belonged to a einjährige freiwilliger of the Chevaulegers-Regiment ,,Kaiser Nikolaus von Rußland” Nürnberg. Dated 98-99.

[dante]

reservist krugs........

[IrishGunner]

The horrors of war...

[Stuka f]

Tell me about it !!

My family had a brewery for many years, before WWII . Cupper , horses and carriages were confiscated by the Germans during WWII.Leaving them out of buisiness.