Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for 2010 Week 29

Week 29
18 July 2010 - 24 July 2010

• 2010.07.24
  More on the locavore wine controversy: do LOCAL restaurants support LOCAL wines? A Washington, D.C.-area discussion: http://bit.ly/aAsOes

• 2010.07.24
  Despite predicted decline for 2010, restaurant beer sales are up 1.2%. More statistics, via the Brewers Association: http://ow.ly/2g0Bh
• 2010.07.24
  President Obama touts Chicago beer: Goose Island Brewery's 312. http://bit.ly/bfnAKs
• 2010.07.24
  CBSNews Video interviews James Watt of BrewDog about his brewery's 55 alcohol-by-volume beer, 'The End of History': http://bit.ly/9xuY23
• 2010.07.23
  Veteran newsmaker Daniel Schorr has died. http://n.pr/dnxHrm

• 2010.07.23
  Production of Oud Bruin, Goudenband, and Kriek have resumed since Liefmans —a 'sour' beer brewery in Belgium— was purchased by Duvel/Moortgat. http://bit.ly/cqOGs8a
• 2010.07.23
  FollowFriday on Twitter. 4 British beer Twits: @MelissaCole, @TonyJerome, @MarkDredge, @Tandleman.
• 2010.07.23
  In terms of an inflation/unemployment metric, Seattle is the least miserable city in the US; Detroit is the most miserable. Washington, D.C. is the second least miserables. http://bit.ly/dyhGhf

• 2010.07.23
  Gruner Veltliner? Zweigelt? An interview with Klaus Wittauer, a Virginia, U.S.-based importer of Austrian wine: http://bit.ly/dtB1r8
• 2010.07.22
  Virginia's Rosemont Winery 2007 Meritage wins the 2010 Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition. http://bit.ly/d8Jkmu
• 2010.07.22
  A guide to how many beer-equivalents various exercises will burn off. http://bit.ly/Y3GFn
• 2010.07.22
  BeerInBaltimore.com is selected as Best Baltimore Beer Blog, by Baltimore Magazine. http://bit.ly/ddQVMa
• 2010.07.21
  The beer list for the Great British Beer Festival: http://bit.ly/uD93d. The international beer list at the GBBF: http://bit.ly/dsA6s
• 2010.07.21
  What the colonists might have quaffed. Yards Brewing of Pennsylvania attempts to brew modern interpretations of 18th century beers: http://bit.ly/aIf70P
• 2010.07.20
  Oak barrels, 'wild' yeasts, and bacteria: US brewers sour their beers, deliberately. http://dld.bz/mX9R
• 2010.07.19
  A digital media milestone: In the last 3 months, Amazon has sold more e-books than hardcover books: http://bit.ly/and2r5
• 2010.07.19
  Governor McDonnnell ponders privatizing Virginia's liquor stores. Proponents and opponents weigh in: http://bit.ly/cG1Orr
• 2010.07.19
  A proposed reduction in the beer excise tax reduction could ADD $10.91 in sales for each dollar lost in government revenue. http://bit.ly/9ybEBJ
• 2010.07.19
  James Suckling —The Wine Spectator's long-time writer/reviewer on Bordeaux wines— retires suddenly. Controversy ensues: http://bit.ly/cjnwQo. And, do wine scores really matter? http://bit.ly/a10y5L

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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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