Top Ten Beers -- NOT!

Posted At : July 18, 2008 6:00 AM | Posted By : Jolly
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The FU Beer tasting team recently went to the Breckenridge Brewery, a fairly well known place in the Rockies. They produce a couple of respectable beers and serve good food. One of the featured brews was, get this, Breckenridge Brewery Blueberry Porter! So we were thinking: how San Francisco/Key West gay is that? That's beyond the French speaking, sit to pee winner - Stella Artois-Light! We expected to see a group of light-in-the-loafers flight attendants clamoring around the bar for a little sip.

So the FU Beer tasting team thought it might be fun to start a list that we can add to with your help; kind of a 'Letterman' list if you will. Please post your comments below and we will add to the list as we go. So, here are the first two on our list of:

BEERS YOU WILL NEVER SEE IN A FIGHTER SQUADRON BAR:

1) Breckenridge Brewery Blueberry Porter

2) Stella Artois - Light
3) Zima
4) Michelobe Ultra (Sorry D-Day)
5) Mount Gay Rum (Trap---never heard of this one?)

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Free Beer For Fighter Pilots

Posted At : June 17, 2008 6:00 AM | Posted By : Rowdy
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Our friends at the Schallmauer (Sound Barrier) in Rostock, Germany have a special offer for you. If you show up at their bar wearing Fighter Pilot University gear, you'll drink beer free for the night. That's a serious offer, even though it requires a trip to northern Germany, given the present Euro/US Dollar exchange rate. Damn, free beer for the night in a kickass German bar! That's gotta be worth close to $60,000. Plus, current intell from Hurrel and Hooters tells us there's plenty of nude beaches on the shores of the nearby Baltic sea.

Free beer, nude beaches; what more do you need or want?

Hurrel and Hooters, owners of Schallmauer. Both
retired Luftwaffe MiG-29 Fulcrum pilots

This could be you. Hurrel and Hooters demo all you need to
do for a night of free beer in their bar. Any Fighter Pilot University
shirt or hat will qualify you for a night of the amber nectar.

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Fighter Pilots & Smoking

Posted At : May 6, 2008 6:00 AM | Posted By : Rowdy
Related Categories: The Bar

We heard recently that there was a bit of a spat in a fighter squadron about whether smoking should be allowed in the squadron bar. One side of the argument was that it is indeed against regulations to smoke within a government/military building and since that was where the bar was located it was going to be enforced. The other side of the dispute was that fighter bars have always allowed smoking, this is just another example of degraded fighter pilot traditions and if I can’t smoke here, I’m leaving.

So is smoking in The Bar a fighter pilot tradition and, if so, is it one that warrants confrontation and falling on your sword to preserve? As a life long non-smoker I say hell no to both.

OK, I’ll smoke a cigar with the buds once in a while to be a part of the solidarity. I’ll smoke it in the squadron or where ever the moment dictates. And I’ll even do it if there’s a regulation that says we’re not supposed to do it there. But, I’m only doing it to enhance that moment of camaraderie, and that’s the point. Camaraderie is the tradition not the act of smoking. No more than drinking is a tradition. Drinking with your buds enhances camaraderie. However, again, camaraderie is the tradition, drinking, although popular, is not.

Sure smoking was once an acceptable practice just about anywhere. Seemed like just about everyone smoked. Sports stars, movies stars, clergy, teachers, mom and dad, fighter pilots, all the usual hero figures smoked. Even back then folks knew that smoking made them feel shitty, smell shitty and made food taste shitty. However, look at this old picture, an official RAF officer’s photo, to see just how acceptable smoking was in the fighter pilot community. See how smoking made him look so suave, happy and impressive. Think about it, you take the already kickass, coolness of a fighter pilot and add a cigarette. What could be more awe inspiring?

I once had a squadron commander say, “The cockpit is a very private place.” What he meant was that you do what you have do, there in your cockpit, to get the job done. I don’t need to know about it if it doesn’t affect me. That’s the way I feel about smoking. If you want to smoke, as long as it doesn’t affect me, go for it. But, now we know the same carcinogens that are corroding your lungs, shortening your life and making you smell like a walking ashtray are doing the same to me because I happen to share your little space in the world and get to inhale your toxic fumes.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not an anti-smoker crusader. If smoking is or isn’t allowed in a bar or restaurant, I’m not going to create a scene if someone chooses to smoke. I would prefer not to be around smokers but I'm not going to shun my friends because they choose to smoke. I pretty much don’t care what you do in private as long as it doesn’t affect anyone else, especially me. I don’t even care if you choose to smoke in the privacy of your cockpit as long as you don’t miss a radio call or the fireball doesn’t engulf me when a 100% oxygen leak causes you and your jet to super nova.

So, back to the original question. Is smoking in The Bar a fighter pilot tradition? No. Is it worth falling on your sword to dispute? Only if smoking is more important to you than the camaraderie of your buds. In that case, fall away.

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