Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 33/34, 2013.

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

Weeks 33/34
11 August - 24 August 2013

• 2013.08.24
  Thousands gather in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.08.24
  The 2nd annual Virginia Craft Brewers Fest (and Virginia Brewers Cup) at Devils Backbone Brewery, in Roseland, Virginia.
  
  
• 2013.08.23
  Virginia brewery Starr Hill wins best American cask ale at the Great British Beer Festival for its Bourbon Barrel Cryptical. Via All About Beer.
  
  
  
  
• 2013.08.23
  Maryland beer to again be poured at Baltimore Ravens' M&T Stadium: Flying Dog Brewing, of Frederick, Maryland.
  
  
• 2013.08.22
  World-wide, how long the average worker needs to work to earn enough for a beer. From The Economist, via YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.08.22
  Jack Daniels to undergo 2-year $100 million expansion to its Tennessee distillery, the largest expansion in its history. Via WTOP News.
  
  
• 2013.08.22
  Bluejacket —the Neighborhood Restaurant Group's long-awaited brewpub— scheduled to open in October near Nationals Ballpark in southeast Washington, D.C. Via WTOP News. Another look via DC Eater.
  
  
• 2013.08.22
  "Craft brewers are among the worst offenders of beer freshness." Mitch Steele, brewmaster for Stone Brewery muses on beer quality or lack thereof.
  
  
• 2013.08.21
  21 August 2013 would have been the 200th birthday of the father of Pilsner beer: Josef Groll. Via Brookston Beer Bulletin.
  
  
• 2013.08.21
  A blue moon is really not the 2nd full moon in one month. Via Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• 2013.08.21
  Jazz pianist Marian McPartland, NPR's 'Piano Jazz' host, has died at 95. Via NPR.
  
  
• 2013.08.20
  The great American crime novelist, Elmore Leonard, has died at age 87. Via CBS News.
  
  
• 2013.08.19
  U.S. craft brewers refute false charges about ingredients. Via Maureen Ogle.
  
  
• 2013.08.18
  Toward an American-style of cask-conditioned ale. Via YFGF.
  
  
  
  
• 2013.08.16
  Virginia brewery Lost Rhino produces first all-Virginian-ingredient beer of modern era. Via DC Beer.
  
  
• 2013.08.16
  Contract brewing and alternating proprietorships. Does it matter where your beer is made? Via Adrienne So on Slate.
  
  
• 2013.08.14
  In eloquent praise of small beer. Via Beervana's Jeff Alworth at YFGF.
  
  
• 2013.08.13
  Is beer falling to wine as America's favorite beverage? No, says Julia Herz of Brewers Association, reexamining a Gallup poll. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
• 2013.08.12
  A 2nd mobile beer canning service to open in mid-Atlantic area, in 2014. Via Brewbound.
  
  
  
  
  Don Russell (r) with Jay Brooks of Brookston Beer Bulletin
• 2013.08.11
  "Just call me U.S. Ambassador Sixpack." Joe Russell aka Joe Six Pack of the Philadelphia Daily News visits Lithuania.
  
  

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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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