Bei Samuel Adams sind Hopfen and Malz sicherlich nicht verlorengegangen ... "
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Liliputins. What the hell is this ?
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Bei ihm ist Hopfen und Malz verloren.
He is a hopeless case
Englische Redewendung: He is unimprovable
Englische Redewendung: He’s a dead loss
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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to President John Adams.
Born in Boston, Adams was brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. As an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s, Adams was a part of a movement opposed to the British Parliament's efforts to tax the British American colonies without their consent. His 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770. To help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the British Constitution at the expense of the colonies, in 1772 Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies. Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773 Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution.
After Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774, Adams attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Continental Association in 1774, the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and helped draft the Articles of Confederation and the Massachusetts Constitution. Adams returned to Massachusetts after the American Revolution, where he served in the state senate and was eventually elected governor.
Samuel Adams later became a controversial figure in American history. Accounts written in the 19th century praised him as someone who had been steering his fellow colonists towards independence long before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. This view gave way to negative assessments of Adams in the first half of the 20th century, in which he was portrayed as a master of propaganda who provoked mob violence to achieve his goals. Both of these interpretations have been challenged by some modern scholars, who argue that these traditional depictions of Adams are myths contradicted by the historical record.
After leaving Harvard in 1743, Adams was unsure about his future. He considered becoming a lawyer, but instead decided to go into business. He worked at Thomas Cushing's counting house, but the job only lasted a few months because Cushing felt that Adams was too preoccupied with politics to become a good merchant.[21] Adams's father then loaned him £1,000 to go into business for himself, a substantial amount for that time.[22] Adams's lack of business instincts were confirmed: he loaned half of this money to a friend, which was never repaid, and frittered away the other half. Adams would always remain, in the words of historian Pauline Maier, "a man utterly uninterested in either making or possessing money".[23]
After Adams had lost his money, his father made him a partner in the family's malthouse, which was next to the family home on Purchase Street. Several generations of Adamses were maltsters, who produced the malt necessary for brewing beer.[25] Years later, a poet would poke fun at Adams by calling him "Sam the maltster".[26] Adams has often been described as a brewer, but the extant evidence suggests that Adams worked as a maltster and not a brewer.[27]
In January 1748, Adams and some friends, inflamed by British impressment, launched The Independent Advertiser, a weekly newspaper that printed many political essays written by Adams.[28] Drawing heavily upon English political theorist John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Adams's essays emphasized many of the themes that would characterize his subsequent career.[29] He argued that the people must resist any encroachment on their constitutional rights.[30] He cited the decline of the Roman Empire as an example of what could happen to New England if it were to abandon its Puritan values.[31]
When Deacon Adams died in 1748, Adams was given the responsibility of managing the family's affairs.[32] In October 1749, he married Elizabeth Checkley, his pastor's daughter.[33] Elizabeth gave birth to six children over the next seven years, but only two—Samuel (born 1751) and Hannah (born 1756)—would live to adulthood.[34] In July 1757, Elizabeth died soon after giving birth to a stillborn son.[35] Adams would remarry in 1764, to Elizabeth Wells,[36] but would have no other children.[23]
Like his father, Adams embarked on a political career with the support of the Boston Caucus. He was elected to his first political office in 1747, serving as one of the clerks of the Boston market. In 1756 the Boston Town Meeting elected him to the post of tax collector, which provided a small income.[37] Adams often failed to collect taxes from his fellow citizens, which increased his popularity among those who did not pay, but left him liable for the shortage.[38] By 1765, Adams's account was more than £8,000 in arrears. Because the town meeting was on the verge of bankruptcy, Adams was compelled to file suit against delinquent taxpayers, but many taxes went uncollected.[39] In 1768, Adams's political opponents would use the situation to their advantage, obtaining a court judgment of £1,463 against him. Adams's friends paid off some of the deficit, and the town meeting wrote off the remainder. By then, Adams had emerged as a leader of the popular party, and the embarrassing situation did not lessen his influence.
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The Sudsy History of Samuel Adams
January 27, 2015 By Christopher Klein
HUNGRY The Sudsy History of Samuel Adams
More than two centuries after the Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, sparked a political revolution, another Bostonian attempted to launch a revolution of his own; this time in the brewing industry. On Patriots’ Day 1985, as the opening battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord were being re-enacted, , Boston Beer Company Founder Jim Koch introduced his new craft beer at about 35 bars and restaurants in Boston. Koch, a sixth-generation brewer, used the same family recipe developed by his great-great grandfather in the 1860s to brew Louis Koch Lager in St. Louis, Missouri. . But rather than reviving the family name on the brew, Koch instead chose to name his beer after his favorite revolutionary patriot —and brewer—Samuel Adams.
Since the introduction of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, the brewery has led an American Craft Beer revolution. Today, Samuel Adams is the largest and one of the most award winning craft brewers in the United States The smiling illustration of the well-coiffed patriot hoisting a foaming tankard is one of the most iconic in the beer industry.
“I had always admired Samuel Adams’s role in the American Revolution,” Koch said. “As the rabble rouser, he was the most independent-minded of the founding fathers.” Plus, as it was for Koch, beer was part of the Adams family business.
Along with the garden and small orchard that graced the backyard of the future rebel’s boyhood home was a malt house owned by his father, Deacon Samuel Adams. In addition to serving as a minister, justice of the peace, selectman, and member of the colonial legislature, the elder Adams made malted barley and supplied it to brewers as an ingredient for their beer. Upon the death of his father in 1748, the young patriot inherited the family estate, including the malting business.
It’s unclear if Adams himself was a brewer, but colonial records reveal that h was at least a maltster and involved in the beer business. A 1751 advertisement in the Boston Evening Post read, “Strong beer, or malt for those who incline to brew it themselves; to be sold by Samuel Adams, at a very reasonable rate.”
While Samuel Adams craft beer has become a success in the beer business, the same could not have been said of Samuel Adams himself, says Lauren Clark, author of “Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day.” “Malting wasn’t what Sam Adams was into,” she says. “He was more into starting a revolution and being a politician.”
Financial management was not Adams’s forte. After being elected tax collector in 1756, Adams performed his duties so poorly that he soon ended up indebted to the government. Within years of inheriting his father’s malt house, the business was bankrupt and the building itself began to crumble. The family estate was put up for public auction, but Adams successfully intimidated anyone who thought of buying it. His political opponents seized upon his business failures and mocked him as “Sam the Maltster.”
Adams found his calling as the charismatic firebrand who fanned the flames of independence. He proved more adept at following in his father’s political footsteps rather than in his business. The future signatory of the Declaration of Independence was a primary organizer of the Sons of Liberty, a group that came together in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act. Inside the public houses of Boston, such as the Green Dragon Tavern, Adams met with Paul Revere, John Hancock, Dr. Joseph Warren and other members of the Sons of Liberty to share not only food and drink but intelligence on the movement of British troops around Boston. “When it wasn’t being fought on the battlefields, the American Revolution played out in taverns,” Clark says.
Adams even wielded beer as a political weapon for independence by calling for a boycott of British imports. “It is to be hoped, that the gentlemen of the town will endeavor to bring our own October Beer [strong beer] into fashion again,” he wrote in an advertisement, “so that we may no longer be beholden to foreigners for acredible liquor, which may be as successfully manufactured in this country.”
“Sam Adams embarked on this ‘Buy American’ campaign,” Clark says. “He implored New England brewers to make a better product so that the colonists could drink local brews and not have to depend on imports from England.”
The irony is that thanks to Koch, the name of the failed maltster is now synonymous with great craft beer, and the higher-quality suds that Adams once called upon American brewers to produce now bear his name and likeness.
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born American military officer. He served as inspector general and major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines.[1] He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.