A New Beer Business In Town, and other quick updates

• Pints and Plates is the new beer-dinner catering enterprise of East Baltimore residents Judy Neff and Lena Denison.
• This week's Baltimore City Paper has a review of Maureen O'Prey's new Brewing in Baltimore book, which is debutting at Clipper City Brewing this Saturday..
• Wednesday's Washington Post has Greg Kitsock's monthly Beer column, this time on local hops and malt in locally-brewed beer.