European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ing us list h half it is Pic. Eddie Beamon gets Down to the grape picking business. The work was simple bul tiring Cut the Bunches Oil the vines with a pair of Small scissors then loss them into buckets then empty Tho buckets into Industrial size plastic containers with straps for carrying. The Foreman comes around with a Ira Clor to collect the grapes. Saalwachter was grateful Lor the help. He had not been Able to find enough German workers or the Harvest we re very Happy to have soldiers. It took a Burden Oft our shoulders. Without the army we would have Gol the grapes in. Bul Wilh great problems. We would Havo lost quite a few  As the eight soldiers ale their meal the other Day using Foreman Hans Joachim Lindenberg s Small tractor As a table they washed it Down Wilh plastic cups of Saalwachter wine. This is belter than mess Hall food Pic. Philip Brown said As he dug in the work was also a change of Pace while one or two men argued that work was work whether in the Field or in a Field of grapes Al teas one was glad to be make a living mean in will become sweeter Active yeasts in the lemme Nimg beverage convert the sugar Mlo alcohol and German Law allows adding the sugar to lower Quality wines Only to boost the alcohol Content no to sweeten the flavor in a Harvest year when poor weather causes the grapes to have Low Levels of glucose. Saalwachter is disappointed with  year s weather not Only does he have to put sugar Somo of his wine but he won t have any Spallone this year. Fila these wines arc made from grapes picked after the Normal Harvest Pend. The longer the grapes loll on the Vino the Sceler the wine will be. No spat Lese no  Saai Wachizr lamented Asho walked through his cellar he sad the larger casks each hold Tho my pissed from 9 900 pounds of grapes the form Chung process  about two acc. Yeas Lurns Sugai to alcohol and carbonation take place then  Young  we Atje hour by Houd in by Day Lor the not one to two years Johann Saa Lachle. Won t to ruined it makes our fiends and customers Happy when we can give them the Best Ivic october 27,1987 Pic. Philip Brown masters the Art of cutting the grapes from the Vine where he was we do the same thing every Day we need a change said pfc. Fredrick Mckelvin. For some of the soldiers in was their Lisl Contact Wilh the people of Ingelheim. Whal s wild is that some of us Havo been Here a while. I be been Here iwo years Al Mccully and i be never done this before pfc Eddie Berryman said it was t the Lisl time working in a Lipold far Berryman a native of Walnut miss., or pfc. Francis Lewis who lived on a farm about 30 Miles from new Orleans ii s nol the same thing Here hut it s fun Lewis said the go pickers wore Lucky Iho previous Day s rain had moved on and the mud Between the Iroll ised vines had hardened some. The men were Piole cled from the chill wind by their army ponchos bul some wore sweatshirts underneath All trumped up and Down through the rows of grapes in army boots filling buckets Wil h the Ripe and rotting fruit under a s