Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 38

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 38:
20 September - 26 September 2009

• 2009.09.26
  "Denver is the Napa Valley of beer," said Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in his welcoming remarks at the Great American Beer Festival. http://www.gabf.org/.
  


• 2009.09.25
  Room for beer education. From a blog review: "Fruity like Czech lager." NO! Ales are fruity. Lagers have "no fruity esters." From the Beer Judge Certification Program: http://bit.ly/g7ebb


• 2009.09.25
  Northern Virginia Tweetup (meeting of Twitter users): Dogfish Head Alehouse in Chantilly, Virginia on September 30 at 6PM: http://bit.ly/zijfk Use the hashmark #NoVaTwtUp on Twitter.


• 2009.09.25
  FollowFriday on Twitter: Two brewers at the Great American Beer Festival. From the East Coast: Bill Madden @MadFoxBrewing. From the West Coast: Greg Koch @StoneGreg of Stone Brewing.


• 2009.09.24
  Cool, rainy spring produces lower yields but more "intense" whites for Virginia wineries. Roanoke Times: http://sn.im/rtvawc


• 2009.09.24
  Via Maureen Ogle: Was the 'craft beer revolution' actually 'revolutionary'? http://bit.ly/lCNHL


• 2009.09.24
  Austria is marketing its wine as a good pairing with the flavors of Asian cuisines. From Chicago Tribune: http://bit.ly/gSZKx.


• 2009.09.24
  It's NOT only malt: why brewers in the US can get British beer recipes very wrong. Reasons for invert sugar in brewing: http://bit.ly/19r3ra


• 2009.09.24
  Four criteria for determining a good beer town: breweries, pubs, shops, distributors. http://bit.ly/yxcTn


• 2009.09.24
  Happy Anniversary Guinness! 250 years of monopolistic business practices and beer monoculture. http://bit.ly/1piYV


• 2009.09.24
  Water on the Moon? Maybe. Observations by 3 spacecraft suggest water widely distributed over thin layer of lunar surface. http://bit.ly/1Xndlr


• 2009.09.23
  French government disavows its own earlier study promoting abstinence. Now, it says "moderate" drinking may have "positive aspects". http://ow.ly/qAhl.



• 2009.09.23
  "Avoid red wine with cheese." Wine writer pairs cheese with wine AND with beer. http://bit.ly/ZsfqH


• 2009.09.23
  70 years later Toto and Dorothy are still "not in Kansas anymore." The film 'The Wizard of Oz' is re-released, remastered: http://bit.ly/Ci5Ht.


• 2009.09.23
  Baltimore Sun columnist Rob Kasper and a tasting panel choose the best of 35 Pumpkin and Oktoberfest beers: http://bit.ly/WJgMe


• 2009.09.22
  Congratulations to yet another new Virginia brewery: Wolf Hills in Abingdon, Virginia: http://bit.ly/N0X6C


• 2009.09.22
  Global brewers are in business to “make money, not just sell boxes.” Their stock shares up in 2009 despite 2% fewer sales. http://bit.ly/FLBOv


• 2009.09.22
  Snobbery ruins delight. A wine writer says that the study of beer needs a "much smaller level of knowledge and skill" than that of wine. http://bit.ly/Sz6Zw


• 2009.09.21
  Beer style inflation. The 1987 GABF competition included only 12 categories. There are 78 categories at the 2009 Great American Beer Festival. http://bit.ly/2gwLX7


• 2009.09.20
  From the Going Out Gurus of the Washington Post: even more best bets for Washington, D.C.-area Oktoberfest celebrations: http://bit.ly/4e0XEp


• 2009.09.20
  Wharton study questions the Long Tail hypothesis, as seen in Netflix data. http://bit.ly/14gV5Z

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