Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 15/16, 2013.

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

Weeks 15/16
7 April 2013 - 20 April 2013

• 2013.04.19
  Police kill one suspect in Boston Marathon bombing; second suspect captured alive. Via CNN.
  
  
  
• 2013.04.17
  Blaufrankisch: Austria’s silky, sour red wine. Via Dave McIntyre of Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.04.13
  American 'craft' beer catches on in Britain, inspires brewers. "There's a hipster cachet to it," says British beer writer Melissa Cole. Via BBC.
  
  
• 2013.04.13
  "Small and independent American craft brewers ...are one of the country’s fastest-growing employment sectors." Bill Butcher of Port City Brewing, via Roll Call.
  
  
• 2013.04.12
  Bordeaux 'first growth' winery Château Margaux experimenting with “voodoo” of biodynamics. Via The Drinks Business.
  
  
  
• 2013.04.12
  Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. "We never really advertised much. I've thought it better to focus on the beer." Via Inc.
  
  
• 2013.04.11
  The top 50 breweries, and the top 50 'craft' breweries, in the U.S. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.04.09
  "A dirty little secret of the craft beer industry is that we are growing on the shoulders of a beer style —IPA— that has a very short shelf life." Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing at Craft Brewers Conference. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.04.09
  Sly Fox Brewing, of Pennsylvania, is first brewery in U.S., large or small, to introduce the 'topless' beer can. Via Today Show.
  
  
• 2013.04.09
  How Pabst Blue Ribbon won its blue ribbon in 1893 ... sort of. Via Mental Floss.
  
  
• 2013.04.08
  'Craft' breweries ask Congress for tax cut: Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce (BREW) Act. Via New York Times.
  
  
• 2013.04.08
  Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, has died of a stroke at age 87. Via Yahoo News.
  
  
  
• 2013.04.07
  U.S. Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski, joins the Senate Small Brewers Caucus. Via Maryland Brewers Association.
  
  
• 2013.04.07
  On 7 April 1933, beer of 3.2% alcohol and less was made legal, although actual Prohibition wouldn't be repealed until 5 December 1933. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.04.07
  The State of Oregon poised to designate beer yeast as the state's official microbe. Via Beervana.
  
  
• 2013.04.07
  Suspicious fire damages two New Belgium Brewery buildings in Asheville, North Carolina. Via BeerPulse.

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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. Most are brief, and many are re-posts from twitter.com/cizauskas.

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