Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 29

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 29:
19 July - 25 July 2009

• 2009.07.25
  Politics, racial divisions ... and beer http://bit.ly/AkzPT


• 2009.07.25
  There's always room for beer education. Overheard at a beer festival about a NON Dogfish Head IPA: "How many minutes is it? (Go here- http://tinyurl.com/mfd73p -and read the posted comment.)


• 2009.07.24
  Why wine drinkers are trying craftbeer. And the current sorry state of imported beers and mega-brews. http://bit.ly/145DdT


• 2009.07.24
  Via @mashable: Here's how Twitter's #FollowFriday works: http://bit.ly/2S29Fq (I say: also include a reason for following a Tweeter.) /


• 2009.07.24
  #FollowFriday. @ThBlackSquirrel: Washington, D.C. pub that re-Tweets interesting beer links. @bruisinales: Asheville, North Carolina beer shop that does the same.


• 2009.07.24
  Washington D.C.'s good-beer-pizza-pub Birreria Paradiso re-opens its Dupont location 17 August in new digs.The Georgetown location remains the same. http://bit.ly/qzHnv


• 2009.07.24
  There's always room for more beer education: Hoegaarden is a German beer? http://bit.ly/MThki


• 2009.07.24
  What Yuengling Brewery produced during Prohibition (and beyond). http://bit.ly/UgMeR


• 2009.07.23
  RateBeer.com reviewers dis the lagers. http://bit.ly/13Wl6R


• 2009.07.23
  A Hop's Tale: a public park in Fairfax, Virginia, raises hops. http://bit.ly/B3gtb


• 2009.07.23
  Sierra Nevada releases estate-made beer. Barley and hops grown at brewery. http://bit.ly/Uih8m


• 2009.07.23
  The scary future is here: tethered technology. Amazon.com is only the vanguard. http://bit.ly/11t2IC.
  


• 2009.07.23
  Assistant brewer for Coastal Brewing (Delaware) growing organic hops and barley, and blogging about it. http://bit.ly/jqIQr


• 2009.07.23
  Microsoft released Windows 7 yesterday for PC manufacturers. Public release 22 October. Good riddance Vista http://bit.ly/3toj2


• 2009.07.23
  How NOT to Twitter: bonehead political Tweets. http://bit.ly/T6Mko


• 2009.07.22
  Surprising results ... or not. Washington City Paper 'blind' tasting of 6 IPAs. http://is.gd/1HYoc


• 2009.07.22
  Wines in one-liter bottles gain critical acceptance. http://bit.ly/mGutz


• 2009.07.22
  More on why Frank Morales left as chef at Rustico in Alexandria, Virignia. From Washington Post's Going Out Gurus: http://bit.ly/QItho


• 2009.07.21
  The Baltimore Sun reviews my blog: Yours For Good Fermentables.com. Thank you! http://bit.ly/1arZou


• 2009.07.20
  Sticker shock on heirloom tomatoes. Are they worth the price? (My answer: yes, occasionally.) http://tr.im/teoo


• 2009.07.20
  Columbia Firehouse casual restaurant open in Alexandria, VA. 12 taps including Southern Tier Unearthly. A chophouse menu, and the upstairs more formal dining room, coming soon. http://bit.ly/b9JGZ


• 2009.07.20
  Starbucks to experiment with serving beer and wine at 3 Seattle test stores called "15th Ave. Coffee and Tea". http://bit.ly/y4qJA.


• 2009.07.20
  Some Miller beers are now brewed by Coors in Golden, CO. Some Coors Light are now brewed at Miller plants. http://bit.ly/eNffR.


• 2009.07.20
  More states are changing regulations in order to allow beer sampling in stores. http://usat.me/?35690244. However, some states such as Georgia and N. Carolina do NOT allow beer sampling in stores. There is a movement in North Carolina to change things: http://permitbeer.com/


• 2009.07.20
  Recommended summer reading: "Hops and Glory" by Pete Brown. Much more than one man's search for historical IPA. http://bit.ly/20Of0k.


• 2009.07.19
  Largest group on Facebook: 35-54. Fastest growing group: over age 54. http://bit.ly/188ep5.

The Clamps and Gaskets graphic was created by NotionsCapital.