Clamps and Gaskets: Week 15

Clamps and Gaskets is a weekly wrap-up of stories that I have not posted at Yours For Good Fermentables.com, but that, nevertheless, I find interesting or germane.

Most are concerned with beer, or wine, or whisk(e)y. Some are not. But all are brief. And many are re-posts from my Twitter account: twitter.com/cizauskas.

This is Week 15:
12 April - 18 April 2009

• 2009.04.18
  Campaign for Real Ale (http://www.camra.org.uk) may vote today to allow ales served via cask breathers to be listed in Good Beer Guide.


• 2009.04.18
  Grow your own .. hops, and barley that is. The Mad Fermentationist reviews 'The Homebrewer's Garden'. http://bit.ly/p0EXH


• 2009.04.18
  The Wall Street Journal reports that OVERALL US beer sales are down 4% in the first two months of 2009. http://bit.ly/39KFBw. What are the figures for 'craft' beer for the first two months?


• 2009.04.18
  The Wall Street Journal reports that sales of imported beer fell 19% in the first two months of 2009. http://bit.ly/o0O1G


• 2009.04.17
  Just Drinks.com reports the first fall in US wine sales in 15 years. http://tinyurl.com/dmnanz


• 2009.04.17
  Real Beer Wars: In Alabama, freethehops.org is fighting to pass the Gourmet Beer Bill, allowing beers of greater than 6% abv. http://bit.ly/RDl02


• 2009.04.15
  Wine giant Constellation Brands posts a 2008 loss of $301million, to cut 5% of its global workforce. http://bit.ly/Qp8H


• 2009.04.15
  Got $82 million? Anheuser-Busch InBev selling Rolling Rock. There's probably a discount. http://bit.ly/xrdJ


• 2009.04.14
  Read jack Curtin's blog piece on baseball Philadelphia Phillies longtime announcer Harry Kalas who died suddenly on Monday before the Washington DC Nationals home opener. http://bit.ly/Rm6d5


• 2009.04.14
  11 Useful Twitter Tools That Don’t Require Your Password: http://tinyurl.com/chsp6d


• 2009.04.08
  Wall Street Journal reports that cyberspies penetrated the U.S. electrical grid; Homeland Security had no comment. http://tinyurl.com/dbcp84


• 2009.04.14
  Beer wars in real life: MolsonCoors files suit in Puerto Rico against a lower excise tax exemption there for small brewers. http://bit.ly/ctbXp


• 2009.04.14
  Why the Mad Fermentationist WON'T be going to the Beer Wars movie. http://bit.ly/1a1LCa (Read the comments as well.)


• 2009.04.12
  Want to guarantee that your pint of beer IS actually 16 oz? @Beervana has a new Facebook page for the Honest Pint Project. http://tinyurl.com/dkxyle


• 2009.04.12
  Jay Brooks of Brookston beer Bulletin to assume the late Bill Brand's Bottoms Up blog and Oakland Tribune newspaper column. http://tinyurl.com/ctl8zd



• 2009.04.11
  http://twitpic.com/362q8 - Camilla the Hun of DC Roller Girls stopped by the Rock Bottom Brewpub in Arlington Virginia for the International Cask Ale Toast.

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