Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 34

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 34:
23 August - 29 August 2009

• 2009.08.29
  Full coverage of the NEW Pizzeria Paradiso grand (re)opening near Dupont Circle in Washington DC. http://bit.ly/mgvMg


• 2009.08.29
  Watch a winebar as it is built. Read the blog. Funny and poignant. River City Cellars in Richmond, VA: http://bit.ly/rqo6V


• 2009.08.29
  Chef/owner of Cowboy Cafe (northern VA ) demonstrated how to cook Caribbean Meat Pies, on Washington, DC Fox TV: http://bit.ly/hlDzr /


• 2009.08.29
  Rock Bottom Brewpub in Arlington, VA celebrates it 10th anniversary tonight. http://bit.ly/14luLc


• 2009.08.29
  Raw foodists will disagree: primatologist Richard Wrangham argues cooking gave humans evolutionary edge. http://bit.ly/Uk6GL


• 2009.08.29
  Historian Maureen Ogle says New York Time's anti-trust story about Anheuser-Busch is loony. Explains why 5 ways. http://bit.ly/byXPK


• 2009.08.29
  @Beervana analyzes gender preferences for beer vs. wine, and what wineries are doing about them: http://bit.ly/ybq1u


• 2009.08.29
  Belga's Bart Vandaele to be 3rd inductee from Washington, D.C. into Le Chevalerie du Fourquet des Brasseurs http://bit.ly/3RVj4w


• 2009.08.29
  Proving it worthy profession: World's oldest (& longest-serving) bartender, 95, retiring in Pennsylvania. http://bit.ly/MYBZG


• 2009.08.28
  180 bottles, 12 drafts, 1 cask: Pizzeria Paradiso re-opens in its new location tomorrow in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. More via Going Out Gurus of Washington Post: http://bit.ly/6OZgy


• 2009.08.28
  Adjust your Facebook privacy settings: http://bit.ly/pQjwa.


• 2009.08.28
  The UK's no.1 beer blog Jeffrey's Blog - and on Twitter: @thegunmakers


• 2009.08.28
  The Washington Post discusses 4 Loudoun County (northern Virginia) wineries http://bit.ly/A9b1P


• 2009.08.28
  @Beervana looks at the 80% market share for just 2 macro-breweries, and sees collusion. http://bit.ly/3kTNZA


• 2009.08.28
  #FollowFriday @lewbryson: Not much Tweeting there, but the man can sure beer blog! http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/


• 2009.08.28
  Via @just_drinks: French wine and spirits exports down 25% in the first half of 2009.


• 2009.08.28
  Paean to an Arlington, VA beer/music bar: "As long as there's the Galaxy Hut, everything will be alright." http://bit.ly/ECSpZ


• 2009.08.27
  Despite recently announced beer price hikes, beer pricing hasn't come close to cost of goods sold increases, says Beer Business Daily. http://bit.ly/192Pk2


• 2009.08.27
  Twitter goes for the $$? The service rolls out commercial accounts later this year. http://ow.ly/luYZ


• 2009.08.27
  Researchers may have discovered cause of calamitous decline of honeybees: a fungus that attacks the bees' RNA. http://bit.ly/HmcHK


• 2009.08.27
  Reports of the demise of jazz have been greatly exaggerated: http://bit.ly/eifa7. Spread the word on Twitter by using the hashtag #jazzlives whenever Tweeting about a live jazz concert.


• 2009.08.27
  Washington DC Restaurant Week, so far, only so-so? Anecdotes from the Washington Post's Going Out Gurus'out nights on the town. http://bit.ly/12usTa


• 2009.08.27
  Flying Dog Brewery celebrates its 20th anniversary. http://snipurl.com/rfn23


• 2009.08.26
  Author Dominick Dunne has died. http://bit.ly/9BmES.


• 2009.08.26
  One of the (sometimes) forgotten pioneers of the 'craft' beer movement, Pete Slosberg celebrates his birthday today. http://bit.ly/b9zlW


• 2009.08.26
  What a job! Draft Magazine goes to baseball games, drinks beer, and writes about it: the beer selections at National League ballparks. http://bit.ly/4FhM7a


• 2009.08.26
  Budweiser, Miller to raise prices in the fall. http://3.ly/mNx


• 2009.08.26
  Edward Kennedy, Senate's Liberal Lion, has died. http://su.pr/9mNHSW


• 2009.08.25
  Via http://twitter.com/Lagerheads: The best BEER happy hours in Washington, DC. http://bit.ly/asAdr


• 2009.08.25
  Via @CharliePapazian: The tickets for the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon sessions at the Great American Beer Festival (14-26 October 2009) have sold out. Thurs, Sat eves' going fast. http://www.gabf.org/


• 2009.08.25
  Discussions between Diageo and United Spirits over a stake purchase have collapsed. http://phncq.tk/


• 2009.08.25
  Through its subsidiary in New Zealand, Heineken gains trademark control over use of term "Saison." http://bit.ly/3fFbco/


• 2009.08.25
  On balance, I'm pretty sure being a 'Beer' is more positive than negative. " Mr. Larry Beer runs for office in Colorado. http://bit.ly/iQtxk


• 2009.08.25
  The President was 'following' me on twitter. That is, the new President of Lithuania -Dalia Grybauskaite (@DGrybauskaite)- it's first ever female president.


• 2009.08.24
  DC Beer Week is over. Now it's Washington Restaurant Week. Which spots also serve good beer? http://bit.ly/3nb9fG


• 2009.08.24
  Business story on NPR Morning Edition: US craft beer faring well, in spite of poor economy. http://bit.ly/2Fu26N


• 2009.08.23
  Preliminary Baltimore Beer Week (8-18 October 2009) schedule is up. So far: 47+ events. http://bit.ly/4bSFtk

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