Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Week 1, 2012.

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

Weeks 48/49
1 January - 7 January 2012
[and some from Weeks 50, 51, 52 of 2011.]

• 2012.01.06
  Feb. 15 to be official opening for the Heavy Seas Alehouse in Baltimore, Maryland. Via The Original Beer in Baltimore blog.
  
  
  
• 2012.01.06
  Announced: the jazz nominations, in four categories, for the 54th annual Grammy Awards. Via Elements of Jazz.
  
  
• 2012.01.05
  On the heels of the bankruptcy of Washington, D.C.-based Penn Camera, comes word that Kodak itself may declare the same. Via Reuters.
  
  
• 2012.01.05
  OnTap Magazine highlights nine new breweries to open or already open in the Washington D.C. / northern Virginia area.
  
  
• 2012.01.05
  Bugs developing resistance to GMO corn (up to 60% of US crop). Via Yahoo News.
  
  
• 2012.01.05
  Long-time St. Louis craft brewery Schlafly Beer is sold; stays local. Via Pro Brewer.
  
  
• 2012.01.05
  Celebrator Beer News has 'gone' digital, beginning with the Dec '11/Jan '12 issue. Back issues to follow. Via Brookston Beer Bulletin.
  
  
• 2012.01.04
  New multi-tap beer bar coming to Arlington (Ballston), Virginia. World of Beer to feature 50 drafts, 500 bottles. To open in July 2012. Via ARL now
  
  
• 2012.01.03
  A 1913 NY Times article on portmanteaus includes the word "alcoholiday": defined as leisure time spent drinking. Via @mental_floss.
  
  
• 2012.01.03
  A 'craft' beer pioneer, Fal Allen celebrates his birthday today. More about Allen, via Brookston Beer Bulletin. 2 Jan
  
  
• 2012.01.02
  Google has created an elections synopsis page: here.
  
  
• 2012.01.02
  The Year in Beer: 30 stories that shaped 2011. Via BeerNews.org.
  
  
  
  
• 2011.12.28
  A British beer blogger on what's wrong with the cask real ale scene in the U.S. Read Myth #1 from Dings Beer Blog.
  
  
• 2011.12.24
  Alan McLeod of A Good Beer Blog announces the Grand Champion Beer Photo of 2011: a photo of Cantillon Brewery by Jeff Alworth of Beervana beer blog.
  
  
• 2011.12.19
  Scientists set Internet speed record. Via NPR News.
  
  
• 2011.12.17
  "It matters not what you think, but how you think." Essayist Christopher Hitchens dies at age 62. 1949-2011. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2011.12.15
  Without public fanfare, Sierra Nevada Brewing begins to can its Pale Ale. Via Beer News.org.
  
  
• 2011.12.15
  Actor Will Ferrell does TV ad for Old Milwaukee Beer. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
• 2011.12.13
  James River Brewing to open in early 2012 in Scottsville, Virginia. Via Beer Advocate.
  
  
  
• 2011.12.12
  The 'Beer Activist' Chris O'Brien speaks on breweries and sustainability.
  
  

***************************

• 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.
• The Clamps and Gaskets graphic was created by Mike Licht at NotionsCapital.