The set looks pretty German to me, I spent many happy hours stumbling around in the snow over plowed fields hunting hare, pheasants,and partridges.Usually we waited untill after the hunt to imbibe,but on the traditional daylong drive hunts, all the hunters would meet in the area somewhere for lunch.There were different soups, etc for food, but always there was beer.Usually there was also schnapps, sometimes "schwarzgebrandt" from different fruits.In one area they speclialized in using Maize(corn),as much like good old Alabama moonshine as anything you put into your mouth.However the one thing that was not ever tolerated was drunkenness.Any violation of this would result in the hunter being invited to never come back again.All unsafe practices were stopped right away, including drinking too much,by anyone seeing them, not just the host.
Mike
