TIL that during WW2 the Allies converted an ocean mine layer (HMS Menestheus) to a floating brewery to deliver beer to deployed troops in the pacific theater.

Priorities.

there was also an ice cream ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge

Didn’t they also turn a concrete mixer into an ice cream maker?

Read this as “the aliens”

That's a deep mythology cut. Menestheus was leader of the Athenians in the Trojan War. He didn't do much.