Clamps & Gaskets: Week 17

Clamps and Gaskets is a weekly wrap-up of stories that I have not posted at Yours For Good Fermentables.com, but that, nevertheless, I find interesting or germane.

Most are concerned with beer, or wine, or whisk(e)y. Some are not. But all are brief. And many are re-posts from my Twitter account: twitter.com/cizauskas.

This is Week 17:
26 April - 2 May 2009

• 2009.05.02
  AnheuserBusch InBev is official beer sponsor of the 2009 James Beard Foundation Media Awards. Imagine THAT recipe! http://tinyurl.com/c9xc9d


• 2009.05.02
  Max's Taphouse (Baltimore MD) list of 82 keg and casks for American Craft Beer Week (May 11-17). http://beerinbaltimore.com/?p=416


• 2009.05.01
  The White House has just launched its official Twitter site @whitehouse. Seems legit.


• 2009.05.01
  It's Mild Ale Month, at least in the UK. http://tinyurl.com/cwnfwf Are there any US breweries producing a mild to celebrate?


• 2009.05.01
  Mahaffeys: A little pub that could, and did, in blue collar Baltimore, Maryland. http://bit.ly/17Eaot


• 2009.05.01
  Grains, barrels, ricks, limestone, yeast, federal regs, "wild-ass guesses": Bourbon story in the Washington Post. http://bit.ly/13UAA0


• 2009.05.01
  Google has a new personal profile page function. A Facebook killer?http://www.slate.com/id/2217232/


• 2009.04.30
  Hotel Washington Sky Terrace (overlooks the White House), re-opening early summer, with glassed-in 'Moroccan' bar. (tip via @metrocurean)


• 2009.04.30
  Twittiquette- 8 Surefire Ways to Tick Off the Twitterverse. http://tinyurl.com/9ew9jt. Such as don't over-Tweet. (Tip via @Cicerone_org)


• 2009.04.29
  NY Times: "Pilsners are stark and exposed, glorious in their lean, pared-down simplicity." http://tinyurl.com/cczxch


• 2009.04.29
  Economic downturn fallout: Katz, world’s largest beer coaster maker goes bankrupt. http://is.gd/vqEp. (Story via @draftmag)


• 2009.04.29
  World Health Organization (WHO) announces Level 5 pandemic alert, 2nd-highest level on the 6-level pandemic scale. (via @nprnews)


• 2009.04.29
  At Brookston Beer Bulletin: Top 10 Beer Books. http://tinyurl.com/depvmz. And a list of honorable mentions.


• 2009.04.29
  A state-by-state map of 2007 per capita beer consumption. http://tinyurl.com/cgykcq


• 2009.04.29
  What one DC-area brewer did at the Craft Brewers Conference. http://tinyurl.com/c3spqt


• 2009.04.29
  Thirsty America! According to the Census Bureau, U.S. per capita beer consumption in 2004 was 21.6 gallons. (Tip via @Happyhourguys)


• 2009.04.29
  National Public Radio (NPR) reports on yeast genetically modified (GMO) to improve flocculation: http://tinyurl.com/cuxfnb.

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