Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 10

Week 10
7 March 2010 - 13 March 2010

• 2010.03.13
  It's nothing new. 'Black' IPA beer style was brewed in the UK ... in the 19th century. http://bit.ly/bsffCK
• 2010.03.13
  The Maryland beer tax increase looks to be defeated this session. http://bit.ly/b4yVw8
• 2010.03.12
  Corned beef & cabbage is not an Irish national dish. Nor is green beer for St. Patrick's Day. http://bit.ly/8CNda9
• 2010.03.12
  #FollowFriday on Twitter for information on 'real ale' in the UK: @caskaleweek, @TonyJerome.
• 2010.03.12
  The European grapevine moth threatens California wine crop. Discovered in Napa, the pest has spread to Sonoma. A quarantine has begun. http://bit.ly/91gGIe
• 2010.03.12
  New Hampshire Liquor Commission bans Flying Dog Brewing's Raging Bitch 'Belgian-style IPA' because of its name. http://bit.ly/9HPp5S

• 2010.03.11
  Food & Wine Magazine honors Greg Engert of Churchkey beer bar in Washington, D.C. as a beer sommelier. http://bit.ly/aQComE
• 2010.03.11
  Iowa legislature corrects inequity. In-state breweries may now make and sell beers of up to 12% abv. Out of state breweries ALREADY could. http://bit.ly/bW58YX
• 2010.03.11
  On 11 March 1991, Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. http://bit.ly/arnJe2
• 2010.03.11
  Belgian brewery De Dolle fire update: it was bad but its impact was not as bad as initial reports. Hurt employee recovering. http://bit.ly/cNg3HU
• 2010.03.10
  The National Beer Wholesalers Association publishes a blog dealing with developments in alcohol regulation and litigation. http://bit.ly/8YCE5A
• 2010.03.09
  The Brewers Association reports that overall beer numbers were down in 2009, but small brewery sales dollars were up 10.3%, volume up 7.2 % over 2008. http://bit.ly/99LaKC
• 2010.03.09
  Britain creates a Minister of Pubs to assist pubs to survive as "centre of the community they serve." http://bit.ly/cclEly
• 2010.03.09
  Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), House Small Brewers Caucus co-chair, to keynote the Craft Brewers Conference, in Chicago in April. http://bit.ly/aULUKj
• 2010.03.09
  More on the raids on Philadelphia-area beer pubs by the State of Pennsylvania. http://bit.ly/aBjZV0

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• Clamps and Gaskets is a weekly wrap-up of stories not posted at Yours For Good Fermentables.com. Most 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.
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