Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Week 45, 2011.

A non-comprehensive roundup
of news of beer and other things.

Week 45
6 November - 12 November 2011

• 2011.11.11
  Veterans Day proclamation and observances. Via U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  
• 2011.11.11
  Major League Baseball Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos freed from kidnappers in Venezuela. Via TIME.
  
  
  
  
• 2011.11.11
  Frederick, Maryland's Brewers Alley opens new 20,000-bbl production brewery: Monocacy Brewing.
  
• 2011.11.11
  Baltimore, Maryland's National Premium beer to be revived -again. New owner looking for local brewery to brew it. Via Baltimore Sun.
  
• 2011.11.11
  Craft beer volume grows in 2100, but slightly slower than 2011, due to higher pricing (based on supermarket sales). Via Brewers Association.
  
• 2011.11.11
  Evolution Brewery to open in Salisbury, Maryland, in 2012. The restaurant to open in January; brewing to start in February.
  
• 2011.11.10
  Scandal continues. Joe Paterno fired as head coach of Penn State football team. Via ESPN.
  
• 2011.11.10
  Wet weather in Canada to drought in UK: malting barley prices to rise as harvest hopes wane. Via Agrimoney.
  
  
  
  
• 2011.11.10
  Steak or Veggie Burger: Which is Greener? Via Mother Jones
  
• 2011.11.09
  National Emergency Alert System does not perform well in first test. Via Mashable.
  
• 2011.11.08
  British beer writer Roger Protz reviews "The Oxford Companion to Beer" as "hard to put down."
  
• 2011.11.08
  Farmers and 'farm-breweries' attempting to revive hop industry, beer 'terroir,' in upstate New York. Via New York Times.
  
• 2011.11.08
  Fire put out at Colorado's New Belgium Brewery in old grain silo. No injuries.
  
• 2011.11.08
  "The problem with guides to beer drinking is that there just aren't enough." The Atlantic reviews "The Oxford Companion to Beer".
  
• 2011.11.07
  Rare Belgian Trappiste Abbey beer, Westvleteren, coming to the US in April 2012. Via Brewbound.
  
• 2011.11.06
  New signs that Maryland wine is being taken seriously. Via Washington Post.

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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: twitter.com/cizauskas.
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