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Re: Alt.coffee is dead; long live alt.coffee (somewhere else)

In <Qb9Pj.12095$DY1.543@bignews5.bellsouth.net>, on Mon, 21 Apr 2008
19:15:23 -0400, John Heubel, jsheubel@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> "Steve Ackman" <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com> wrote in
message
> <SNIP>
>>  Should I grow hops?  ;-)
>
> With the current prices shooting up I'd say yes...

Actually, I was using that as another example of
some of the newb questions you might get over there.
BUT, since we're taking it seriously, my father had a
few vines down near the seacoast of NH, but never had
any blossoms that I recall.  I don't know of anyone
who's ever grown them here in the White Mountain region.
Might be worth a try though.

> Sad to say that mine
> that I just trained up the twines will probably have to be uprooted as I've
> found water seeping into our basement and some cracks in the foundation wall
>:o(.

Our basement was originally dry stacked stone.  In
later years, it was chinked in with mortar, but water
seepage is a fact of life.  I've sloped the ground
adjacent to the house away and that helped quite a bit
this year, but I probably need to do a bit more.

>>  After I came back from Germany, it was impossible to
>> drink what passed for beer in OK (a 3.2 state).  I HAD
>> to brew my own... and all that entails.
><SNIP>
>
> Where and when in GE?  I was stationed at Spangdahlem '92-'95

We were just across the valley in Idenheim (maybe 8
clicks from Bitburg?)  There was a joint Military
Intelligence (Army/Air Force/Civilian) station there.
That would have been '79 after Frankfurt in '78.
Nuernberg '85-'88.  Matter of fact... you can check
out *exactly* where:

http://wizard.dyndns.org/sandbox/
Wow, there are maps and sat views now.  When I placed
those markers, Google maps didn't have *anything* for
Germany.
I used to walk to work sometimes.  If you head out
of town on the road going south-west, you can't miss
the bunkers in satellite view.  Doesn't appear to be
an antenna field there anymore though.  Guess with
East Germany not being East Germany anymore, and the
Soviet Union not being the Soviet Union anymore, the
mission pretty much evaporated.

The Nurnberg marker is off by about 500 meters or so.
We lived at the end of Annette-Kolb Str. rather than
where the marker indicates.  I'll have to fix that one
of these days.
The Frankfurt marker is off by about a block.  I
recognize the street names, but it's built up there SO
much in the last 30 years (not to mention the memory
dulling), I can only narrow it down to about 3
buildings.

OB coffee:  That apartment in Doernigheim (Frankfurt)
was the first time we had a pot brewed with a Melitta
filter.  Downstairs neighbors.  Roasted darker than
we were used to, and brewed "correctly."  Probably
the best coffee I'd had in my life to that point.

> and I know
> what you mean about the beer.  I then transferred to Sheppard AFB in Wichita
> Falls so just curious if you were nearby and possibly crossed paths in the
> past.

Paths probably crossed geographically but they were
about 13 or 14 years apart.

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