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Clamps & Gaskets: News Roundup for Weeks 18/19, 2014.

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

Weeks 18/19
27 April – 10 May 2014

  • 2014.05.10
    Taxes, not taxonomy: 121 years ago on 10 May 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a tariff decision, in Nix v. Hedden, declaring the tomato to be a vegetable, not the fruit that it actually is. Via Wikipedia.

  • 2014.05.08
    A new National Climate Assessment from the U.S. government states that the impact from global warming is already being felt, and will worsen. In the U.S.: “more sea-level rise, flooding, storm surges, precipitation and heat waves in the Northeast; frequent water shortages and hurricanes in the Southeast and the Caribbean; and more drought and wildfires in the Southwest.” Cato Institute warns that the assessment is “biased toward pessimism” and meant to justify “federal regulation aimed towards mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.” Via Washington Post.
  • 2014.05.07
    Small breweries are creating beers infused with gin botanicals, and aged in gin barrels.
  • Source: VA Beer Trail

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