Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 44/45, 2012

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

Weeks 44/45
28 October - 10 November 2012

• 2012.11.08
  The Brewers Association announced that SAVOR —its annual food-with-beer exposition— will move from Washington, D.C. to New York City in 2013. To return in 2014.
  
  
• 2012.11.08
  Bordeaux winemakers express cautious optimism for its low yielding 2012 vintage. Via The Drinks Business.
  
  
  
• 2012.11.07
  Great-great granddaughters of 19th century Virginia brewer Robert Portner plan to re-open Portner Brewery as brewpub in Alexandria, Virginia. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2012.11.07
  Like wine stored in caves, Belgian brewery Cantillon is aging its lambic beer in World War II bunkers. Via Belgian Beer and Travel.
  
  
• 2012.11.07
  Many political pundits' forecasts were wrong, but not those of 'geek' Nate Silver. Via Tech Crunch.
  
  
• 2012.11.06
  Barack Obama winner of 2012 Presidential election; to serve second term. The last time America has had three consecutive two-term Presidents was 1801-1825: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
• 2012.11.05
  The average price for beer at the 32 NFL stadiums is not cheap. Via Brookston Beer Bulletin.
  
  
• 2012.11.04
  The National Christmas Tree, a 73-foot Engelmann Spruce, was harvested near Meeker, Colorado. Now, on its way to U.S. Capitol. Via NPR News.
  
  
• 2012.11.01
  For its 30th anniversary, Sierra Nevada Brewing to release a whiskey-barrel-aged iteration of Bigfoot Barleywine. Via My Beer Buzz.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.31
  Litchi, mango, orange: the flavors & scarcity of Citra hops. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2012.10.31
  "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer." How Anheuser Busch-InBev is changing the company, and, maybe, the beers. Via Bloomberg.
  
  
• 2012.10.31
  A master of the history of ideas, historian Jaques Barzun dies at 104. Via Washington Post.
  
  
  
• 2012.10.31
  Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Via Wikipedia.
  
  

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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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