Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 18/19, 2015.

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

Weeks 18/19
26 April - 9 May 2015

• 2015.05.08
  Mild Ales are disappearing in the U.K., the land of their birth; but are re-appearing in the U.S.
  —Via Tony Naylor at The Guardian.


• 2015.05.08
  Remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe). Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies, today, 70 years ago.
  —Via Wikipedia.


• 2015.05.08
  Remember the Lusitania! A German U-boat sank the passenger liner 100 years ago today, while the U.S. was still officially neutral. 1,195 died.
  —Via Smithsonian.




• 2015.05.06
  Since its publication in 2012, the "The Oxford Companion to Beer," has been recognized as a standard reference on beer. For a list of errata (and corrections), go to A Good Beer Blog, compiled there by beer writer, Alan McLeod.


• 2015.05.05
  Cinco de Mayo: not celebrated much in Mexico, but an excuse for beer-drinking (beer-selling) in the United States. Mexico celebrates its actual Independence Day on 16 September.
  —Via Long Beach Post.


• 2015.05.01
  He stood by us. Famed R&B singer, Ben E. King, has died at 76.
  —Via The Guardian.


• 2015.05.01
  After city riots, Baltimore, Maryland's chief prosecutor charged six police officers with a range of crimes including murder and manslaughter in the arrest and fatal injury of unarmed civilian, Freddie Gray.
  —Via New York Times.


• 2015.04.29
  After a Massachusetts 'craft' brewery complained, the state investigated a Massachusetts 'craft beer' wholesaler, and fined it for illegal 'pay-to-play' practices.
  —Via Boston Globe.


• 2015.04.29
  Developer ordered to recreate and rebuild historic London pub, the Carlton Tavern, after illegally demolishing it.
  —Via London Evening Standard.




• 2015.04.28
  'Craft' breweries find the cost of whiskey barrels has jumped 34% in one year.
  —Via Bryan D. Roth at This Is Why I'm Drunk.




• 2015.04.28
  One more departing of the before-'craft beer' and early-'craft beer' era. Maurice Coja, erstwhile proprietor of Washington D.C.'s internationally renowned Brickskeller, an emporium that once boasted a menu of over one thousand beers, has died at 83.
  —Via Legacy.com


• 2015.04.27
  American 'craft' brewery, Brooklyn Brewing, to operate Norwegian brewery, E.C. Dahls, in collaboration with Denmark-based Carlsberg, fifth largest brewery group in the world.
  —Via Brookston Beer Bulletin.


• 2015.04.26
  Others have joked about a 'session' Double IPA, an oxymoron. Shmaltz Brewing, of New York, has actually brewed one. It designates its beer "Wishbone," tongue-in-cheek, a "Session Double IPA" ... at 8% alcohol.
  —Via My Beer Buzz.




• 2014.04.26
  "While a little haziness might be forgiven, there is no excuse for beers that look like 'chicken soup.' "
  —Via U.C. Davis Professor Charlie Bamforth, at Tandleman's Beer Blog.

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