Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for 2010 Week 37

Week 37
12 September 2010 - 18 September 2010

• 2010.09.18
  Winners at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival, with analysis by Brookston Beer Bulletin: http://bit.ly/9d4fGz


• 2010.09.18
  Happy Oktoberfest: today through 2 October. If you can't be in Munich, here are ten North American Oktoberfests. From USAToday: http://bit.ly/8ZpGfV
• 2010.09.17
  Cuteness alert: Photos of the new Washington, D.C. National Zoo lion cubs. http://bit.ly/d2yQSC
• 2010.09.16
  Cell phones are prohibited during judging sessions at the Great American Beer Festival. http://bit.ly/auiyhu
• 2010.09.15
  Get to know Washington D.C.'s Heather Chittum, contestant on "Top Chef: Just Desserts." http://wapo.st/cfBCMr


• 2010.09.15
  Alex Hall: "The Man Who Sold New York on Cask Ale." Via New York Observer: http://bit.ly/cLH4VY
• 2010.09.15
  Washington, D.C. Election Results: Vincent Gray ousts incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary, and becomes the presumptive mayor-elect. http://huff.to/ci4pF2
• 2010.09.14
  "So what IS the difference between barley wine and old ale?" Not much, says UK beer historian Martyn Cornell: http://bit.ly/dxrNcG
• 2010.09.14
  How to give good [beer] head. Via Washington Post Food: http://wapo.st/cU2aeo
• 2010.09.14
  Two beers of the new Virginia brewery Shooting Star reviewed at blog Musings Over A Pint: Rebel Ale (rye beer), Buffalo Brown Ale. http://bit.ly/aTCPlS
• 2010.09.14
  Virginia's Governor McDonnell attempts to sell public on state liquor store sell-off http://is.gd/f9Rh1
• 2010.09.12
  Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let's stop playing into bin Laden's hands. http://bit.ly/b6cYXt
• 2010.09.12
  $52 million expansion plan announced by Bells Brewery in Michigan. http://wp.me/pevlF-3oV

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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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