Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 39/40/41, 2012

A bi-weekly*, non-comprehensive, roundup
of news of beer and other things.

Weeks 39/40/41
22 September - 13 October 2012

• 2012.10.13
  The results of the 31st Great American Beer Festival. Via YFGF.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.10
  Bardo Rodeo, long-departed Arlington, Virginia, brewpub has plans re-open in northeast Washington, D.C. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2012.10.10
  Brewery Vivant is the first LEED-certified production brewery in the United States. V
  
  
• 2012.10.09
  The OCBeer Wiki currently lists more than 200 corrections to The Oxford Companion to Beer, to almost 20% of the book's total entries. Via Zythophile.
  
  
• 2012.10.09
  Tours of two soon-to-open Virginia breweries: Center of the Universe Brewing (via Richmond Beermeister) and Beer Hound Brewery (via Fuggled).
  
  
• 2012.10.09
  The "avant-garde ales" of planned Washington, D.C. brewpub, Right Proper Brewing Company. Via Washington City Paper.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.07
  After 79 years: Washington, D.C., no longer last. The historic baseball season of the Washington Nationals. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2012.10.07
  Is national brewpub chain, Gordon-Biersch, opening a 2nd Washington, D.C. location, this one near to Nationals Park in southeast DC? Via JDLand.
  
  
• 2012.10.03
  The re-resurgence of lager ... at 'craft' breweries. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2012.10.03
  The growth of the Virginia cider business. Via Washington Post wine writer Dave Mcintyre.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.03
  Three 'craft' brewsters to watch, as selected by Serious Eats.
  
  
• 2012.10.03
  According to the 2012 Cask Ale Report for the UK, cask ale sales in Britain have surpassed draft beer sales. Via Pete Brown.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.01
  October 2012 is Virginia Wine Month. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2012.09.30
  A Maryland brewery has plans to open in Ocean City, along the boardwalk: Shorebilly. Via "The Original" Beer in Baltimore.
  
  
• 2012.09.30
  Two books on beer by respected authors slated for 4th quarter 2012 release. "Shakespeare's Local" by Pete Brown. "For the Love of Hops" by Stan Hieronymus.
  
  
• 2012.09.29
  Useful, small list of northwest 'fresh-hop' hop descriptions. Via Beervana.
  
  
• 2012.09.29
  Amazon may once again be trying its hand at the wine direct-to-consumer business. Via Mashable.
  
  
• 2012.09.28
  September 28th is the feast day of the Roman Catholic saint of brewers. Via Musings Over A Pint.
  
  
  
• 2012.09.28
  Camden Yards, home ballpark to Major League Baseball team Baltimore Orioles, one of only two ballparks in nation to offer cask-conditioned ale on a regular basis. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2012.09.27
  Large earthquake's unusual patterns puzzle scientists; may signal upcoming significant changes to Earth's crust. Via NPR News.
  
  
• 2012.09.24
  The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission conducted tests in the 1950s to determine if canned and bottled beer, near to a nuclear explosion, would remain safe to drink. Via Robert Krulwich of NPR News.
  
  
• 2012.09.23
  Newborn giant panda dies at National Zoo, in Washington, D.C. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
  
• 2012.09.22
  Oktoberfest 2012 begins at noon, Saturday 22 September, in Munich, Germany, and continues through Sunday, 7 October. Via Wikipedia.
  
  
• 2012.09.22
  The Autumnal Equinox occurred at 10:49 am on the US east coast. Via National Geographic.

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• * YFGF is several weeks behind in its updates for Clamps & Gaskets. While the column becomes 'current', readers can expect several consecutive Mondays of 3-week summaries.
• 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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