Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 1/2, 2013.

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

Weeks 1/2
1 January 2013 - 12 January 2013

• 2013.01.12
  Homebrew inflation! A bottle of White House Honey Ale fetches $1,200 at a charity auction. Via Time Magazine.
  
  
• 2013.01.12
  The black market for 'craft' beer. Via Christian DeBenedetti on Slate.
  
  
• 2013.01.12
  A new beer flavor wheel, with flavor descriptors rather than chemical compounds. Via Mark Dredge.
  
  
• 2013.01.12
  "Beer Hunter: The Movie" on the career of seminal beer writer Michael Jackson, advance screening announced for 27 March 2013 in Washington, D.C. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.01.12
  Lunch with Mike McCarthy, past executive brewer at Washington, D.C.'s Capitol City Brewing Company. Lots of great stuff on & off record. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.01.08
  A small movement within craft beer towards session beer. Via Greg Kitsock of Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.01.08
  In an ever retrenching beer wholesaler environment, DOPS —long-time beer/wine distributor in Maryland and Washington, D.C.— sells the 'rights' to 7 'craft' beer brands. Via Brewbound.
  
  
  
• 2013.01.05
  Towards an East Coast style of IPA? Jonathan Reeves brewer at Port City Brewing, of Alexandria, Virginia, opines.
  
  
• 2013.01.02
  "Tennessee Waltz" singer Patti Page dies at age 85. Via AP.
  
  
• 2013.01.02
  Building a quantum computer, which would rely on the quantum properties of particles to run certain types of calculations blazingly fast. Via Science News.
  
  
  
• 2013.01.01
  The ten biggest Napa-centric wine business stories of 2012. Via Napa Valley Register.

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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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