Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 11

Week 11
14 March 2010 - 20 March 2010

• 2010.03.20
  Why did spring arrive a day earlier than 'usual'? http://bit.ly/bcYcgd
• 2010.03.20
  The 4,600 lb pizza oven arrived at Mad Fox Brewing in Falls Church, VA. http://bit.ly/aj0FPM [Link includes other pics of the brewpub's construction.]

• 2010.03.19
  New 2010 Brewers Association board members: Nick Matt, Sam Calagione, Mark Edelson. http://bit.ly/bZHFwy
• 2010.03.19
  The new FCC broadband plan has good ideas but nothing too drastic: http://bit.ly/aTtnTc
• 2010.03.19
  From 1964: John Updike’s paean to the beer can. http://bit.ly/9Fiou1
• 2010.03.19
  Yelp sued for deleting positive comments when business refused to buy advertising on the site: http://tcrn.ch/cQUiBx
• 2010.03.19
  Twitter #FollowFriday: Maryland for Better Beer & Wine Laws @MBBWL advocates for change in US alcohol laws, specifically in Maryland.

• 2010.03.19
  The results of the recently completed World Cheese Championships, held in Madison, Wisconsin: http://bit.ly/cJdQZE
• 2010.03.18
  The US House of Representatives subcommittee on Courts and Competition held hearing on the three-tier system of alcohol distribution in US. http://bit.ly/98T8x3
• 2010.03.18
  SABMiller/Coors begins US testing marketing on a new small-batch beer that they are promoting as a Pre-Prohibition style lager. http://bit.ly/9bJWBr
• 2010.03.17
  Congress proposes halving small brewers’ excise tax and reducing the marginal rate. http://bit.ly/9cRi1M
• 2010.03.17
  In an internet world of bloggers, why professional food critics still matter. Why foodies should worry when a mainstream paper, such as the Wall Street Journal, loses a food reviewer. http://bit.ly/cubza4
• 2010.03.17
  The top chef of Bravo cable network's Top Chef program has "astonishing array of beers available to match food" at his New York City restaurant, Colicchio & Sons: http://bit.ly/ctsaMt
• 2010.03.17
  Guinness bubbles really do flow down in a glass, rather than up, say scientists. http://bit.ly/aOQFVF
• 2010.03.17
  Four brewing companies control and brew half of the world’s beer. http://bit.ly/d1k3os
• 2010.03.17
  What did the original Pliny the Elder (b. AD 23, d. 79) actually say about hops? http://bit.ly/cWCgwT Pronouncing "Pliny" [as in the beers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger from Russian River Brewing Company]: http://bit.ly/ap7RC8

• 2010.03.17
  For wine, 'terroir' is about smallness of scale & uniqueness of product. http://bit.ly/dgZazo

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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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