Happy Hour: Seattle weather, Seattle beer

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

• Like the good Northern California-themed beer bar that they are, it’s fitting that  Pacific Standard (82 4th Ave., at St. Marks Pl., Boreum Hill) would be the site of the New York release of Sierra Nevada’s Ovila Project. The series of Belgian-style ales are brewed by honest-to-goodness monks from the New Clairvaux Abbey in Vina, California. Proceeds from the beers will help rebuild the monastery. Pacific Standard will tap their Dubbel tonight, along with a few traditional Sierra Nevada brews, including Glissade and the new 2011 Bigfoot Ale.
• It’s dreary and rainy outside, so why not help yourself to some beer from Seattle? Elysian takes over the taps at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) today starting at 4pm. They’ll be celebrating the brewery’s 15th anniversary with Avatar Jasmine IPA, Analog Pale Ale, XOXO (a chocolate chili stout), Pandora’s Bock (a dunkel aged in French Oak), and countless others.
• The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) gets the whole kit-and-kaboodle from Kelso of Brooklyn tonight starting at 6pm. They’ll have Recessionator aged in Jack Daniels casks, and the big reveal of their new Industrial IPA. Kelso brewmaster Kelly Taylor will also be on hand to answer your burning beer questions, and they’ll have free cheddar cheese-stuffed meatloaf bites.
• It’s still a bit early, but you can get a sneak peek of the Hofbräu Maibock today at Bierhaus NYC (712 3rd Ave., at 45th St., Midtown East) starting at 4pm until they run out. Just ask for it by name and use the secret word, “MAYDAY.”