Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for Week 7

Week 7
14 February 2010 - 20 February 2010

• 2010.02.20
  From Brewdog Brewery in Scotland comes the world's newest strongest beer: Sink the Bismark! at 41% alcohol by volume. A review: http://bit.ly/Ydgq9.
• 2010.02.20
  Brewers Mitch Steele and Steve Wagner of Stone Brewing Company to write book on India Pale Ale (IPA) beer style, for 2011 release. http://bit.ly/a3Zh4L

• 2010.02.20
  Beer In Baltimore blog has recap and pics of the 6th annual 72 Hours of Belgium beer fest at Maxs Taphouse, in Baltimore Maryland: http://bit.ly/9KWBBO
• 2010.02.20
  Brewer/General Manager Janelle Pritchard of Snoqualmie Falls Brewing interviewed for series: Women in Beer. http://bit.ly/dtvWfG
• 2010.02.20
  Beer journalist Carolyn Smagalski on the the media roll-out of Maryland's newest brewery Stillwater Ales: http://bit.ly/dBXThx
• 2010.02.20
  In Richmond, Virginia: Richbrau Brewing Company has closed. Farewell, brewer Mike Banks. http://bit.ly/9B8fhA
• 2010.02.20
  If a pub refuses to properly condition a cask ale, refuse to drink it. When Real Ale Fails: http://bit.ly/9C0Wpe
• 2010.02.19
  #FollowFriday: Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather. The best weather reporting for the Washington, D.C. area.
• 2010.02.19
  The demands of debt and dropping sales. Anheuser-Busch InBev lays off 90, including 4 corporate vice presidents. http://ff.im/-gclEC

• 2010.02.18
  Do craft beer drinkers prefer the flavor or the buzz? Beer blog Beervana's post on Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece sparks controversy: http://bit.ly/d8VqJQ
• 2010.02.16
  Celebrating Lithuanian Independence Day today: http://bit.ly/ahL45n
• 2010.02.16
  A new American beer style? What was being termed, oxymoronically, Black IPA, now called Cascadian Dark Ale. http://bit.ly/d3Ij5G

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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 my Twitter account: twitter.com/cizauskas.
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