Nope, I didn't expect otherwise. I've drunk Shinerbock many times
before since I've been in Texas on business and family visits many times
before and even lived there for about a year. I well knew it was
German. I see that the brewery dates to about 1909 or some such. I
thought it might be even earlier than that since Texas received a large
number of German immigrants in that general area in the 1840s.
There's a large cemetery in Castroville, Texas just outside San Antonio
full of German graves with dates from the 1840s on. I haven't been
there in over 40 years so I just looked it up on Google maps. I think
it must be the St. Louis cemetery because the main street outside the
cemetery is called Alsace St. Somewhere I have some K64 slides taken
there including the the grave of a 2 year old child from that time whose
head stone has a skull and crossbones on it. My wife and I remember it
well.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/18/2011 2:18 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Yep it's here in SC and it is good. Made by German immigrants so did you
> expect otherwise?
>
> Charlie
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Chuck Norcutt<
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I do hope and trust that Oz has some better beers than what is commonly
>> available in the US. But Texas has at least one good beer, Shinerbock.
>> I had some recently on my pass through Texas. First one in many
>> years.<http://www.shiner.com/main.php?page=history>
>> It's supposedly available in 40+ states. Although I've never seen it in
>> New York maybe it's available in the state of enlightenment (apparently
>> a non-physical place) :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 11/17/2011 10:03 PM, WayneS wrote:
>>> I'm sure everything in OZ could put a Texan to shame. skiters, snakes,
>>> spiders, sand burs, ticks, scorpions, beer, hats, grass fires, train
>> tracks,
>>> belching, beans, farts, fire ants, and self aggrandizement.
>>>
>>> Thankfully I live in the small state of enlightenment in the north east.
>>>
>>> WayneS
>>>
>>> At 11/17/2011 03:35 PM, you wrote:
>>>> There was an original - the first model - that had interchangeable
>> lenses; three of them. it is now rather rare and pricey.
>>>> Texas does indeed refer to size because the Texans keep banging on
>> about how big they are. They don't know the meaning of 'big'. We've got
>> cattle stations (ranches) bigger than Texas.
>>>> Andrew Fildes
>>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 18/11/2011, at 12:32 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I had assumed this camera was new but, in checking at B&H, I see that
>> no
>>>>> Fuji film bodies are offered any more. Where does "Texas Leica" come
>>>>> from? I assume Texas refers to its size. Perhaps the quality of the
>>>>> camera inspires the Leica moniker but the GW690 is a fixed lens camera.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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