Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 17/18, 2013.

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

Weeks 17/18
21 April 2013 - 4 May 2013

• 2013.05.03
  American 'craft' breweries pledge clean brewing and non-wastefull water strategies in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Via MSNBC.
  
  
• 2013.05.03
  Income of Boston Beer Company —maker of Samuel Adams beers, and others— rises 20%, but brewery sees stock tumble 11% as earnings fall beneath analysts' expectations. Via CNN.
  
  
  
• 2013.05.02
  After a 51 year absence, streetcars return to Washington, D.C. ... but they're not on the rails yet. Via WAMU Radio.
  
  
• 2013.05.01
  Rogue Brewing, of Oregon, sues Washington, D.C. restaurant —Rogue 24— for trademark infringement. Via Tim Carman at Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.05.01
  Argentina: not just for Malbec anymore? Higher altitude vineyards found appropriate for chardonnay. Via Dave McIntyre of Washington Post.
  
  
  
• 2013.05.01
  May is Mild (Ale) Month, in the U.K. More from CAMRA, the U.K. Campaign for Real Ale. Historical perspective on the campaign from blog Boak and Bailey.
  
  
• 2013.05.01
  Justin Wilson —the 'Spirits' columnist of the Washington Post— writes his final column.
  
  
• 2013.04.30
  Agronomist at John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K., revives Chevallier barley, once Victorian Britain’s most popular malt variety. Via Martyn Cornell at Zythophile.
  
  
  
• 2013.04.30
  R.I.P. Mick 'The Pirate' Kipp, Baltimore, Maryland, stuntman, hot sauce entrepreneur, and good beer advocate. Via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.04.30
  Anheuser-Busch InBev controls five of the world's top six beer brands, is world's largest beer company with a market value of $150 billion. Via CNN.
  
  
• 2013.04.30
  The 2012 vintage in Bordeaux, France was "less than stellar," especially for Cabernet Sauvignon. Via Wine Spectator.
  
  
• 2013.04.29
  First active professional U.S. male athlete comes 'out of the closet': Jason Collins, most recently of the Washington Wizards basketball team. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
• 2013.04.29
  British winemakers credit climate change for boom in bubbly sales. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.04.28
  Ten books from the 21st century every man should read. At least according to GQ Magazine.
  
  
• 2013.04.26
  Nine-Thirty Club in Washington D.C. named by Rolling Stone Magazine as best best "big room for live music" in U.S. http://rol.st/11HVxBd
  
  
• 2013.04.26
  Country music singer innovator George Jones dies at age 81. Via New York Times.
  
  
• 2013.04.23
  Un, Kono Kuro: a Japanese beer made with coffee beans that have "passed through" an elephant. Via Fox News.
  
  
• 2013.04.23
  One billion cicadas per square mile. Last seen in 1996, "Brood II" cicadas have begun emerging in the mid-Atlantic. Via WAMU Radio.
  
  
• 2013.04.23
  Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, has died at 72. Via Bloomberg.
  
  
• 2013.04.22
  Three-tier system of alcohol production and sales affirmed in Illinois. Law prohibits breweries from owning any percentage of a beer wholesaler. 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. But all are brief, and most are re-posts from twitter.com/cizauskas.
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