Happy Hour: Thirsty Thursday

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

• The Gate (321 5th Ave., at 3rd St., Park Slope) is hosting a Stone event tonight starting at 7pm, with the Highway 78 collaboration with Green Flash and Pizza Port, the San Diego Session Ale collaboration with Kelsey McNair and Ballast Point, a 2007 vintage of the Russian Imperial Stout, and many more goodies from San Diego.
• It only makes sense that on baseball season’s opening day, the craft beer and sports mecca Standings (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) would celebrate, with Brooklyn Pennant Ale on tap, as well as selections from Speakeasy, and a bevy of free hot dogs. What could be more American?
• There’s a Speakeasy tasting tonight at Dive 75 (101 W. 75th St., at Columbus Ave., Upper West Side) starting at 7pm. And while you’re at it, how about a complimentary cheese plate to help wash down that beer?
• We’re headed across the pond at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight as Thornbridge pays a visit at 7pm with a guided tasting session with CEO Jim Harrison, who’ll serve up their Petersburg Stout, Kipling IPA, and a cask of their Jaipur IPA.
• Finally, Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) holds “Homebrewers for Japan” tonight to raise money for Japan disaster relief by featuring samples of homebrew from New York’s bevy of generous homebrewers.