Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 49

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 49:
6 December - 12 December 2009

• 2009.12.12
  Via @allagashbeer: "At Day of the Lambic Fest in Brussels. Our 1st spontaneous beer -in French oak for 2 yrs- is being poured alongside Belgian Lambics."


• 2009.12.11
  Falls Church restaurants react to new Virginia smoking ban. http://bit.ly/6b2kz3




• 2009.12.11
  Has cask ale become a gimmick in the US? Post your opinion at Beer Advocate: http://bit.ly/8xuFV0


• 2009.12.11
  Fire-brewed! Mad Fox Brewing to buy direct-fire brewhouse for its Falls Church, VA brewpub. Opening 2010: http://bit.ly/5SB6QD


• 2009.12.11
  #FollowFriday is Pete Brown @PeteBrownBeer. Beer writer of the year in the UK. Author of "Hops and Glory."


• 2009.12.10
  Happy Birthday to Slow Food. It's 20 today. Celebrate by eating locally: Terra Madre Day. http://bit.ly/5ThVHK


• 2009.12.10
  Lew Bryson on un-aged whisk(e)y: "You can almost feel the sunlight in young rye whiskey." http://bit.ly/90M4eS


• 2009.12.09
  Hops for prostates. Flavanoid in hops may retard cancer: http://ow.ly/K7YJ


• 2009.12.09
  The Top 25 bars of Baltimore, MD. Via Baltimore Magazine: http://bit.ly/6FRbrP


• 2009.12.09
  Washington DC area top 11 beer bars? From the Going Out Gurus at the Washington Post: http://bit.ly/4I73A3


• 2009.12.09
  What a difference a decade makes. AOL on its own, once again. Does it matter? http://bit.ly/4weDwD


• 2009.12.09
  Washington Post's Tom Sietsma reviews Birch & Barley. He likes the beer, food, servers, beer director. http://bit.ly/6SaY1P


• 2009.12.08
  At the US Congress for the Small Brewers Caucus, the National Beer Wholesalers Association [and the Brewers Association] co-hosted a sampling of beer from many of America's 1,500 breweries. http://bit.ly/5K9MCm


• 2009.12.08
  Andrew Van Til of Elite Brands Michigan is the first ever Master Cicerone of beer. News release: http://bit.ly/8HX32k


• 2009.12.08
  Beer geeks and foodies save the date: 6/5/2010. SAVOR –An American Craft Beer and Food Experience– returns to Washington, DC. http://bit.ly/SxWMw


• 2009.12.08
  A trend at the 2009 Great American Beer Festival: the emergence of lager beer from its protective craft brewers' cocoon. Via Andy Crouch at Beer Scribe: http://bit.ly/67Ou2p


• 2009.12.08
  World Beer Festival announced for 12 June 2010 in Richmond, Virginia. No other details posted: http://bit.ly/55jn5x


• 2009.12.08
  Complex alliance of two brewing conglomerates: Indian UB Group (which owns Mendocino which makes Kingfisher in US) and Heineken: http://bit.ly/8AkSB8


• 2009.12.06
  Today is St. Nicholas Day, a.k.a. Santa Claus- Patron Saint of Brewers. http://bit.ly/6GJ8Fb


• 2009.12.06
  Wow factor: Hubble Telescope new photos. http://bit.ly/4QDZqB

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