Happy Hour: Playing favorites

Here are the beer-related goings-on after work tonight:

• Tuesday is Ten Buck Tasting night at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village. Usually, there’s a theme, but this week, it’s literally random. The $10 tasting menu includes Grando Plato Chocarrubica from Italy, De Ranke Guldenberg from Belgium, and Southen Tier Oak Aged Unearthly from upstate. The tasting starts at 7:30pm.
• As summer winds down, Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) is paying homage to the beers that make summer great by tapping ten summer beers today at 4pm, including Geary’s Summer Ale, Pretty Things American Darling, and Nebraska Brewing Co. Summertime Rye. You’ll have to be in a summer mood for this event, although the weather is certainly cooperating.

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