Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 41/42, 2013.

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

Weeks 41/42
6 October - 19 October 2013

• 2013.10.19
  Congress passes, President Obama signs bill to raise debt limit, re-open government. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• 2013.10.18
  Another U.S. brewery purchased by Belgian investors. Duvel Moortgat buys Kansas City's Boulevard Brewery, for $100M. Via USA Today.
  
  
  
  
• 2013.10.18
  Baltimore, Maryland, celebrates the 5th annual Baltimore Beer Week: 18-27 October 2013.
  
  
• 2013.10.14
  Government shutdown affected wine imports, new wine releases, and new winery permits. Via Wines and Vines.
  
  
• 2013.10.13
  The winners of the Great American Beer Festival, held 10-12 October 2013, in Denver, Colorado.
  
  
  
  
• 2013.10.09
  Five cardinal Sins of 'craft' beer draft service. Via Julia Herz at Brewers Association.
  
  
• 2013.10.09
  Peter Higgs and Francois Englert —scientists who predicted the now-discovered Higgs boson— win Nobel Prize in physics. Via BBC.
  
  
• 2013.10.07
  Interview with Makers Mark's Vice-President of Operations, Victoria MacRae-Samuels, one of the few women in bourbon industry hierarchy. Via Huffington Post.
  
  
• 2013.10.07
  U.S. government shutdown causing delays in new brewery licences and label approvals. Via The Beer Babe and The BeerMonger.
  
  
• 2013.10.06
  Auf Wiedersehen, Oktoberfest! Munich's 18-day beer festival ends today. To return: 20 September 2014.

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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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