Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 46/47, 2014.

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

Weeks 46/47
9 November - 22 November 2014

• 2014.11.22
  Marion Barry, civil rights leader and former four-time mayor of Washington, D.C, has died at age 78.
  —Via CNN.
• 2014.11.22
  The economic impact from craft brewing in Virginia comes to $623 million; 8,163 jobs; 52 percent annual growth in volume among Virginia craft breweries; a ranking of 15th in the nation in 2013 for the number of active breweries (90); and the possibility to nearly double that number in the next three to five years.
  —Via Lee Graves (at Virginia Business)
  
  
• 2014.11.22
  Virginia brewery puts turkey stuffing into its beer.
  —Via Washington Post Express
  
  
• 2014.11.21
  The mid-Atlantic region's first ever hop processing plant to open at Black Hops Farm, near Leesburg, Virginia. A forty-thousand dollar grant from the Virginia Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund to assist Loudoun County with the estimated one million dollar project.
  —Via Virginia Business.
  
  
• 2014.11.21
  Craft brewers fighting 'black market' re-sell price-gouging. For instance a 'limited-edition' bottle of Stone Brewing (California) from 2002, which sold then for $7.99 in, was seen on-line selling for $1,000.
  —Via CNN Money
  
  
  
• 2014.11.20
  The great film/stage director, Mike Nichols, has died at age 83.
  —Via The Guardian
  
  
• 2014.11.20
  The Top 100 Wines of 2014.
  —Via Wine Enthusiast
  —Via Wine Spectator (at YFGF)
  
  
  
• 2014.11.20
  Women represent 37% of total U.S. 'craft' beer consumption, but the industry still seen failing its female fan base.
  —Via First We Feast
  
  
• 2014.11.20
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in three adult Americans drink too much, yet finds that 90% of those are NOT alcohol dependent. —Via NPR Food.
  
  
• 2014.11.19
  Forty-five 'craft' breweries are members of Brewers for Clean Water; actively support Clean Water Act. (In the Washington, D.C./Virginia area: Chocolate City Brewing, Blue Mountain Brewery, Old Bust Head Brewing, and South Street Brewery.)
  —Via National Resources Defense Council
  
  
• 2014.11.17
  A look at the history, from the late 1980s through the present, of 'craft' vs. 'crafty,' that is, small brewery beer vs. large breweries masquerading as small.
  —Via Paste Magazine
  
  
• 2014.11.14
  The State of Virginia celebrates Virginia Cider Week, 14 - 23 November 2014.
  —Via YFGF
  
  
• 2014.11.12
  History is made with the “first controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.” The European Space Agency's Philae, launched from its Rosetta probe, landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which orbits the sun at a speed of about 85,000 mph, 300 million miles from Earth.
  —Via Washington Post
  
  
  
• 2014.11.12
  A mid-western U.S.beer landmark will be re-lit. August Schell Brewing Company moves to preserve Minneapolis' iconic Grain Belt sign.
  —Via Schells Brewery
  
  
• 2014.11.11
  Top 10 worldwide beer brands of 2014. Number one is China's Snow still tops; Bud Light is at number 3.
  —Via Brookston Beer Bulletin
  
  
• 2014.11.10
  “The age of craft brewers acquiring craft brewers is upon us.” San Diego's Green Flash buys Alpine Beer.
  —Via Brookston Beer Bulletin
  
  
• 2014.11.09
  A wine writer predicts "The Coming Repeal of the Three Tier System for Wine, Beer, and Spirits."
  —Via Tom Wark at Fermentation Wine Blog
  
  
• 2014.11.09
  [Beer distributors] are just as vital as other tiers [of craft beer business]," says Erik Frank, Field Marketing Manager for Deschutes Brewery.
  —Via Southwest Michigan's Second Wave

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• Clamps and Gaskets is a bi-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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