Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 40

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 of the pieces deal with beer (or wine, or whisky); some do not. But all are brief, and many are re-posts from my Twitter account: twitter.com/cizauskas.

This is Week 40:
4 October - 10 October 2009

• 2009.10.04
  Stay rich, my friend: Heineken and SAB/Miller looking to buy maker of Dos Equis. http://bit.ly/11UTDk.
  


• 2009.10.10
  Eat more fresh, eat less processed, eat more veggies. Michael Pollan's Rules to Eat By, as summarized @Brookston: http://cli.gs/6VjaR


• 2009.10.10
  Video of past Baltimore Oriole great Boog Powell discussing Baltimore Beer Week, beer history in Baltimore, and his baseball career: "I made $10K a year." http://bit.ly/5p9A9




• 2009.10.09
  The story of the Star-Spangled Banger: the ceremonial cask mallet of Baltimore #Beer Week: http://bit.ly/w963r


• 2009.10.09
  Wine blogger Fredric Koeppel writes of the double standard created by new FTC disclosure guidelines for product reviews. http://bit.ly/10VBHd


• 2009.10.09
  Award for future achievement? President Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. http://bit.ly/3Oq3l


• 2009.10.09
  Ben Ali, namesake and owner of renowned Washington DC restaurant Ben's Chili Bowl, has died. Appreciation from the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/ydw68e6


• 2009.10.07
  Puts things into horrible perspective.Via @en_wikinews: Over two million people displaced by flooding in India http://enwn.net/2A9



l-r: Jonathan Surratt of beermapping.com; Cizauskas of YFGF.com

• 2009.10.07
  Travelers helping travelers. Via @beermapping We're collecting information on decent beer bars in airports. http://is.gd/43j09


• 2009.10.07
  $3 billion down, $49 billion more to retire debt. ABInBev selling theme parks for $2.7 billion. http://tinyurl.com/yjam33e


• 2009.10.07
  Good news from Richmond VA @LegendBrewingCo: Brown Ale now in 12-ounce six packs. Lager next: http://bit.ly/7gBIF


• 2009.10.07
  Verizon Wireless and ATT running scared of FCC and net neutrality? http://bit.ly/2tHpZ


• 2009.10.06
  New Schlitz? Pabst recreating 'Classic 60s Formula'. Case Study: http://bit.ly/1aj9kJ


• 2009.10.06
  In the UK, cask ale sales are up AND priced lower than kegged beer. Pete Brown reports: http://bit.ly/qLEmK


• 2009.10.06
  British beer historian (and #beer myth buster) Martyn Cornell blogging again at http://zythophile.wordpress.com


• 2009.10.05
  Baltimore Maryland's Chuck Cook: 1st beer writer allowed in Belgium's Girardin lambic brewery since Michael Jackson in 1993. http://bit.ly/e0mPU


• 2009.10.05
  Gourmet Magazine ends its 68 year run in November. http://bit.ly/14QtQN


• 2009.10.05
  Another great name in British brewing disappears in November when Scottish & Newcastle is renamed Heineken UK. http://bit.ly/10qBsg

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