Clamps & Gaskets: Roundup for 2010 Week 35

Week 35
29 August 2010 - 4 September 2010

• 2010.09.04
  The 'World's Oldest Beer' pulled from an early 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. http://bit.ly/dbnuS2


• 2010.09.04
  This September and October, Young's Ram Rod will be available on cask, the first time in 5 years, but only in the UK. http://bit.ly/anvD04
• 2010.09.03
  Shark Week on the Potomac River? Fishermen catch TWO 8 ft+ bull sharks. http://bit.ly/alyfZS
• 2010.09.03
  A national survey claims that the nation's worst drivers are found in the Washington, D.C. / Baltimore, Maryland area. http://bit.ly/aUMgIf
• 2010.09.03
  Bottles of wine to be lowered to trapped miners in Chile. http://retwt.me/1OBXV
• 2010.09.03
  The problem with the Black India Pale Ale beer style: it has no connection to India and it is in no way pale. From Andy Crouch at Beer Scribe: http://bit.ly/dBKdcN
• 2010.09.02
  It was this photo [http://yfrog.com/2mhdmdj] posted to Twitter that fist alerted the 'traditional' media to the gunman and hostage situation at the Discovery Channel building in Maryland. http://bit.ly/9KoSYD
• 2010.09.02
  1996 was the zenith for 'craft' beer ; 1997, only one year later, its nadir. http://bit.ly/c91m2R
• 2010.09.01
  A Tale of Two Wine Harvests. Hot and early in Virginia; cold and late in California. http://bit.ly/bozWNA


• 2010.09.01
  35 years later, heroes of the Vietnam War are reunited, decorated: http://n.pr/cX6wRC
• 2010.09.01
  "I expected DC Beer Week to be a bacchanale, but it turned out more of a wedding ceremony." Via Greg Kitsock of the Washington Post: http://bit.ly/9JHlX2


• 2010.09.01
  Oktoberfest comes twice to Fredericksburg, Virginia, in September. http://bit.ly/bNZ1fg
• 2010.08.31
  Pairing jazz and beer: National Public Radio listens to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew while tasting Dogfish Head's homage beer of same name. http://ff.im/-pXXqa


• 2010.08.31
  Should a brewpub fill growlers with cask-conditioned ale? Several brewers respond: http://bit.ly/br0QiQ
• 2010.08.31
  Sleuthing the mysterious origins of the words 'beer' and 'ale': http://bit.ly/cFEi7I
• 2010.08.30
  National Beer Wholesalers Association's online Alcohol Law Forum can help keep you up-to-date on legal developments: http://bit.ly/bM13UQ
• 2010.08.30
  What economic malaise? Washington State brewery boom: ~20 applications in 2 months http://wp.me/pevlF-3lR
• 2010.08.29
  What's a 'CE'? Know your beer volumetrics: http://bit.ly/d2vlIE
• 2010.08.29
  What's a 'CE'? Know your beer volumetrics: http://bit.ly/d2vlIE

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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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