Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for 2010 Week 45

A non-comprehensive roundup of the week's news
of beer and other things.

Week 45
7 November 2010 - 13 November 2010

• 2010.11.13
  Alcohol wars, session beer, and beer glassware. Beer writer Andy Crouch is interviewed about his book "Great American Craft Beer," on NPR's The Splendid Table: http://hops.me/ff


• 2010.11.13
  Beer Birthday: Don Russell, aka Joe Sixpack (Philadelphia Daily News). http://hops.me/fb
• 2010.11.13
  Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale: since 1983, it's the same beer, the same recipe, the same hop varieties. http://hops.me/fa
• 2010.11.13
  Small breweries sell 5% of US beer but employ 50% of the brewery workforce. http://ff.im/-tGs00
• 2010.11.13
  World beer volumes for 2009. From Yours For Good Fermentables.com
• 2010.11.12
  Rest in peace, Wild Goose Brewery: 1989-2010, Maryland. From Yours for Good Fermentables.com
• 2010.11.11
  New Zealand beer writer says: 'Craft' beer is defined by flavor, not by production size. http://tinyurl.com/2bh4yll
• 2010.11.11
  "The debate over cask breathers makes medieval theologians look like broad-brush generalists." One British beer historian's take on CAMRA's relevence: http://bit.ly/ay1v7A
• 2010.11.11
  Honor Veterans Day today. http://bit.ly/bsQmnV
• 2010.11.11
  Birthday in Beer: Alex Hall, USA cask ale maven. http://bit.ly/aWqpzp
• 2010.11.11
  "Corks are cool, but they don't really add anything to beer," and may cause off-flavors, says beer writer. http://bit.ly/bUOFJ7
• 2010.11.10
  Robust beer growth globally, but not in the US or Europe. From Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
• 2010.11.10
  European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011: the UK announcement, but no real dates yet. http://bit.ly/cguFq2


• 2010.11.09
  Capitol City Brewing Company (Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia) celebrates its 2000th batch of beer with its '2G IPA' at its downtown location at 7pm. From Yours For Good Fermentables.com
• 2010.11.09
  What We Learned From the First Episode of Conan. http://bit.ly/ad67Xv
• 2010.11.09
  The Washington Post rips off two media stories over the weekend. Writer says it doesn't matter. http://t.co/e9TKhI6
• 2010.11.09
  End of an era. Baseball announcers Joe Morgan and Jon Miller are done at ESPN baseball: http://wik.io/rkA8Q


• 2010.11.09
  'Cask breathers' and the possible irrelevance of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). From British beer writer Pete Brown: http://bit.ly/aJHOsG
• 2010.11.08
  Video: The Trumer Brauerei Rube Goldberg Machine: http://bit.ly/ayjAJe
• 2010.11.08
  For websites: Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO. http://wik.io/SJfuy

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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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