Your Beery Weekend: February 24-26

Are you ready for the A-PORK-alypse? The celebration of beer and pork happening this Saturday is just one of several beer events that’ll have you whetting your whistle with great craft beer this weekend. Here’s a rundown of beer events and tastings around New York through Sunday. Enjoy!

FRIDAY

• Prepare for the weekend by tasting some free beer! Blue Point pours samples at Barzini’s (2451 Broadway, at 91st St., Upper West Side) today from 5-7pm, including their new arrival, Spring Fling! Crispin Cider samples, including their Artisanal ciders, will be poured at Whole Foods Tribeca (270 Greenwich St., at Warren St., Tribeca) today from 4-8pm.
• Wandering Star’s Alex Hall will be on hand this afternoon at New Beer Distributors (167 Chrystie St., at Rivington St., Lower East Side) starting at 3:30pm. Come by and sample these beers, brewed in Massachusetts, but with roots in former New York homebrewers!

SATURDAY

• Are you ready for the aPORKalypse? It’s Get Real NY’s aPORKalypse Now Festival, Saturday afternoon and evening at The 404 Event Space (404 10th Ave., at 33rd St., Hell’s Kitchen). 10 chefs used ten organic local whole hogs to prepare 20 different pork dishes for the event, paired with brews from two dozen breweries, including Lagunitas, Dogfish Head, Captain Lawrence, and Stillwater Artisanal Ales. The event will run in two sessions: 1-4pm and 5-8pm. The bad news? It’s sold out!
• What to do if you can’t get pork? Join Brooklyn Vegan, Delta Spirit, and Brooklyn Brewery on a bar crawl with $3 Brooklyn beers! The crawl begins at 3pm at Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave., at Nassau Ave., Greenpoint), and then continues to two more stops as they celebrate the completion of The Delta Spirit’s new self-titled release. Full details are on the Facebook event page.
• Stinky Bklyn (261 Smith St., at Baltic St., Cobble Hill) hosts a tasting of beers from around the world on Saturday from 1-4pm, featuring Alesmith Old Numbskull, Nøgne Ø Sunturn, and the Schlenkerla Helles.
• Brooklyn Brewery takes over the taps this afternoon at GRAB Specialty Foods (438 7th Ave., at 15th St., Park Slope) from 4-7pm. They’ll have several beers on taps ready for samples and growler fills, including Blast! and Sorachi Ace. Plus, they’ll have free meats and cheeses!

SUNDAY

• Spuyten Duyvil (350 Metropolitan Ave., at Havermeyer St., Williamsburg) holds their big and wood-aged beer event, The Big Woody, on Sunday starting at noon. The impressive tap list includes the 2008 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Laughing Dog Bourbon-Barrel Dogfather, Harviestoun Old Engine Oil Engineer’s Reserve Blackest Ale, and a whole lot more! They’ll also have tons of bottles available. Get there early before the beer runs out!
• Head to Standings (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) as they tap at keg of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA at 1pm on Sunday. Plus, they’ll serve up free frites from Pommes Frites at 2pm!
• Beers from Firestone Walker are set to go on tap at 3pm Sunday at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village). The tap list hasn’t been announced yet, but come on! It’s Firestone Walker! It can’t be bad!
• For the cider lovers out there, Original Sin hosts a tasting at The Growler Station (26 W. 8th St., at MacDougal St., Greenwich Village) Sunday from 3-6pm. They’ll be featuring their new heirloom ciders, the Newtown Pippin and Cherry Tree, and handing out some free samples!