Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 8

Week 8
21 February 2010 - 27 February 2010

• 2010.02.27
  “Like baby boomers adopted wine, their kids are adopting beer." The New York Times reports on the popularity of beer tourism. http://nyti.ms/alwpQs
• 2010.02.27
  Room for beer education. A wine guy told me that draft beer is different than bottled beer because it is fermented dryer. [No! It's usually the same liquid stream.]

• 2010.02.27
  For almost all of California, the 2007 vintage will be one of the all-time great wine vintages. Neither '08 or '09 are as consistently superb. On Twitter, via @RobertMParkerJr.
• 2010.02.27
  Room for beer education. Wine/beer shop advertises: German pilsner-style premium beer made since 1627. [Pilsners 'invented' in now Czech Republic in 1800s.]
• 2010.02.27
  Chile earthquake news on Facebook http://bit.ly/9CcViG
• 2010.02.26
  #FollowFriday mixing politics and beer. From the right: @VADavid. From the left: @jayjacey.

• 2010.02.26
  March Madness in Maryland and Pennsylvania, firkin style. Real ale events in March: http://bit.ly/aGBPCH
• 2010.02.25
  Need a real ale fix in Massachusetts? Attend the New England Real Ale Exposition (NERAX) Mar 24-27: http://bit.ly/cwKnp4
• 2010.02.25
  "He's bringing some hooch out of the back room!" A 'beer' man tours Mexico. Finds other beverages. http://bit.ly/cdhBLg
• 2010.02.25
  After 30 years, Washington, D.C. weatherman Bob Ryan leaving NBC TV4, due to contract dispute. http://bit.ly/c6etXi
• 2010.02.25
  Pubs that serve real ale listed on a world-wide map. (5595 listed in UK. Only 15 listed in US) http://bit.ly/dg907u
• 2010.02.25
  A slideshow of the history of the Village Vanguard, New York's historic jazz club, at 75 years old this week. http://bit.ly/aKHXM4
• 2010.02.25
  A Czech beer blogger scoffs at so-called Imperial Pilsner style in the US: "No one had ever thought of strong lager before?!" http://bit.ly/cSS8ih

• 2010.02.25
  Tickets for SAVOR (a national beer-with-food exposition) sells out in 10 minutes. The sponsor, the Brewers Association, comments. http://bit.ly/b10eFa
• 2010.02.24
  More on Longtrail Brewing's purchase of Otter Creek and Wolavers Brewing. http://bit.ly/9GfOQb
• 2010.02.24
  National Cask Ale Week in the UK: 29 March - 5 April http://bit.ly/kT6C9
• 2010.02.24
  Do no evil?  Europe launches antitrust inquiry of Google. http://bit.ly/bh4Jfr
• 2010.02.24
  It's oysters IN stout with Gene Muller of Flying Fish Brewery and Kate Tame of Harpoon. http://bit.ly/9Z7wu5
• 2010.02.24
  Late to the game. Yahoo announces plans to integrate Twitter into search results. http://bit.ly/9CKpfh
• 2010.02.24
  The World Beer Festival expands to Richmond, VA, Saturday, June 12, 2010. http://bit.ly/c1PQ3D
• 2010.02.24
  Wine is now made in all 50 US states. Where to find it, in the Washington DC area: http://bit.ly/cZxTNU
• 2010.02.23
  At the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Why don't figure skaters get dizzy? http://ow.ly/1aDAv
• 2010.02.23
  On Twitter: @DalaiLama. Yes THAT Dalai Lama.
• 2010.02.23
  Despite drop in beer exports to US, Heineken's profit 'soars.' Sees further fall in ingredient costs. http://on.wsj.com/bbUQVK
• 2010.02.23
  Celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Joe Bastianich team with celebrity brewers to open a restaurant and real ale brewpub on prime New York City site. http://bit.ly/aBOsJO
• 2010.02.23
  From the New York Times: 1) the value of beer vs wine: http://nyti.ms/9iRaZ3; 2) Belgian golden ales described: http://nyti.ms/9i7coh; Belgian golden ales paired with fish: http://nyti.ms/9cVuU
• 2010.02.22
  Remember those who have made our beers. Rest in peace, Jeff Charnick, past award-winning brewer for Commonwealth Brewing in Boston. http://bit.ly/dnsUFE.
• 2010.02.22
  Room for beer education. Oak flavor was long regarded as a taint in beer. "The Complete English Brewer" by George Watkins, 1773: http://bit.ly/a2AK44
• 2010.02.22
  The long journey of the www.craftbeer.com domain name, and where it is now. http://bit.ly/bljwm8
• 2010.02.21
  No one at Gallo noticed? Red Bicyclette & The Case of (3.57 mil gallons) the Fraudulent Pinot Noir. http://nyti.ms/9kRZSp
• 2010.02.21
  The James Beard Foundation nominates 4 beer personalities in the "Outstanding Wine & Spirits Professional" category. http://cli.gs/JS2Hz

• 2010.02.21
  Citing the lack of care of lines and/or slow-selling beers, beer author Andy Crouch calls for the end of multi-taps. Says 24 taps is "magic number." http://bit.ly/cj97wt

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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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