Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 38/39, 2015.

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

Weeks 38/39
13 September - 26 September 2015

• 26 September 2015
  By the numbers: the 2015 Great American Beer Festival, 24-26 September, in Denver, Colorado.
  "Winners were chosen from 6,647 competition entries (20 percent more than in 2014) from 1,552 breweries hailing from 50 states plus Washington, D.C. This year’s GABF competition saw its biggest panel of judges ever, with 242 beer experts from 15 countries."
  —Via [U.S.] Brewers Association.


• 26 September 2015
  Mid-Atlantic winners at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival.
  —Via YFGF.



• 26 September 2015
  Major American beer milestone announced at the Great American Beer Festival. There are 4,000 breweries in the U.S.
  —Via [U.S.] Brewers Association.


• 23 September 2015
  He came to the big fork in the road, and he took it. Hall of Fame New York Yankees baseball catcher —and wordsmith— Yogi Berra dies at age 90.
  —Via Yahoo Sports.


• 19 September 2015
  "We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners." Roman Catholic Pope Francis I, a native of Argentina, visits the United States for the first time as pope.
  —Via Wikipedia.






• 19 September 2015
  Oktoberfest, the world's largest party began today, in Munich, Germany. To continue for 16 days until 4 October.
  —Via Oktoberfest.


• 18 September 2015
  How hops prevent infection in beer: they cause bacteria to 'starve.'
  —Via LarsBlog.


• 16 September 2015
  What would be the impact be on U.S. 'craft' brewers if Anheuser-Busch InBev would purchase SABMiller?
  —Not so much in the immediate future, via [U.S.] Brewers Association.


• 16 September 2015
  Today would have been the 90th birthday for blues guitarist, singer, and composer, B.B. King, who died 14 May.
  —Via Wikipedia.


• 14 September 2015
  The "invisible" men and women of good beer: importers.
  —Via Jeff Alworth, at Beervana.


• 15 September 2015
  MillerCoors to close its Eden, North Carolina, brewery, which began operations in 1978.
  —Via Jay Brooks, at Brookston Beer Bulletin.


• 14 September 2015
  National grocer Kroger to pour draft beer AND wine at several of its stores in Ohio, Georgia, and Virginia, and offer growlers (take-home resealable containers).
  —Via Craft Brewing Business.



• 13 September 2015
  Nine reasons why there might be an upcoming 'craft' beer bubble-burst.
  —Via Mitch Stone, at The Hop Tripper.


• 13 September 2015
  On wine reviewing, and the effects of social media on it, sanguine and not so.
  "I have read arts critics fulminating against the proliferation of “amateur” reviews and arguing that these cannot possibly carry the weight of those freighted by decades of experience and deeply relevant education. But it’s not an argument I can use when I have spent my entire working life trying to arm consumers with as much information as possible so that they can make up their own minds about individual wines."
  —Via Jancis Robinson, at Financial Times.

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