Aramco and the Blue Flame a piece of Arabian American History "The Blue Flame"

Description: In 1934 an American geologist, Max Steineke, discovered the largest oil deposit in the world in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Over the coming decades an American company was formed and named Aramco. While it was a wholly American owned company and realizing their western employees were not going to give up drinking just because alcohol was not allowed in a Muslim country, the company decided that at least they should do so safely. The blue flame tradition was born in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, where the company engineers custom built small liquor stills and issued these along with the "blue flame" booklet on how to brew safely. The booklet is 15 pages and includes not only fermentation and distillation of spirits but wine and beer making instruction as well. Allegedly these were written by company chemists as it is a thorough yet easily understood document. Each company house also included a purpose built still-room at the back of the garage for this reason. This booklet is an exact copy of the original blue flame booklet that I was given while working there. While it has no author or corporate logo. anyone who lived in KSA and worked for Aramco until the late 1990s probably had one. The company became fully Saudi owned after 1988 and this tradition ceased at least officially. This copy came from a retired American VP who was there from the 1970s until he left in 2000. It helped make some of the best "siddique" (Arabic for friend) in the camp and was given to any American GI billeted there and preparing for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. You can find different versions of this document online and download it for free if you just want the basic knowledge. If you want to possess an actual item of American ingenuity and history or were ever the recipient of some of the finest "hooch" ever brewed, you will enjoy owning this rapidly disappearing document. It is used and the cover has some stains from what appears to be grape mash but the booklet is intact and completely legible. It is an exact copy of the original.

Price: 25 USD

Location: Apex, North Carolina

End Time: 2025-01-06T01:27:36.000Z

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