Even beer is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown. With nearly even facet of Federal regulation facing furloughs for the time being, one of them is tasked with regulating alcohol - and that has impacts on both new brewers awaiting their licenses and existing brewers making new beers.

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It’s Monday, September 30th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Beer Authority (300 W. 40th St., at 8th Ave., Hell’s Kitchen)hosts Sixpoint tonight starting at 5pm, pouring beers like the Autumnation, Crisp, and Resin on tap, and a beer from their Mad Scientists series, too!

• It’s VSK (Very Special Keg) Monday at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., Greenwich Village). At 5pm, they’ll tap a rare or unique keg of the bar’s choosing. This week, it’s the Perennial Peach Berliner Weiss, a fine beverage from St. Louis brewed with 750 pounds of peaches!
  
  
• Radiant Pig hosts sampling at Beer Table To-Go (Grand Central Terminal, Graybar Passage, Midtown) today from 5-7pm. Stop in on your way home for a taste of the Junior IPA from this young upstart, then fill your growler with it, too!
  
  
• Brooklyn Brewery (79 N. 11th St., at Wythe Ave., Williamsburg) continues their War Correspondents Series tonight at 7:30 with a conversation with Bob Woodruff. A $25 ticket includes admission and a free beer. All proceeds from the events in this series benefit RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues).

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The hop harvest has wrapped up this year, and in New York, it’s been one of the biggest harvests in generations. New York’s hop industry is bouncing back from years of near-dormancy, thanks to a booming craft beer scene and Governor Cuomo’s Farm Brewery Bill, which grants specific benefits to brewers who use New York-grown products in their beer. This documentary, Hopped Upstate, documents a year in the life of one hop grower and the people behind the increase in demand of local hops in New York. WAKE Multimedia’s Leslie Von Pless created this 15-minute film, which ends in Saranac’s annual hop harvest for their Wet Hop IPA. In the end, you reap the benefits in the form of fresher, more flavorful beer!

As we head into the second weekend of Oktoberfest, there’s much to enjoy… here’s our rundown of this weekend’s beer events:

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Brooklyn Brewery COO Eric Ottaway and Brewmaster Garrett Oliver pose as new tanks are delivered to the New Carnegie Brewery in Stockholm

As the Swedes continue their love affair with all things Brooklyn, the forthcoming Brooklyn Brewery project announced for Stockholm, Sweden earlier this year is inching closer to completion. Workmen began installing the brew house and fermentation tanks yesterday at the new space, which is being called New Carnegie Brewery (Nya Carnegiebryggeriet in Swedish) and is slated to open early next year.

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It’s Thursday, September 26th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Barcade Brooklyn (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) hosts Maine’s Allagash today starting at 4pm. They’ll have the Fluxus 2013, the 2012 Interlude, Yakuza, the Very Special Belge collaboration with De La Senne, and many more on tap all night long.
  
  
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) hosts Empire tonight for a tap takeover starting at 7pm. They’ll be pouring beers like Hop Harvest, Downtown Brown, Local Grind, and many more!
  
  
• Barcade Jersey City (163 Newark Ave., at Erie St., Jersey City) celebrates Kane’s 2nd anniversary today at 4pm, pouring the 2011 Silent Night Imperial Stout, Mosaic Overhead, Apiary Brett, Sour Blonde, and many more hard-to-find brews from this New Jersey brewery.
  
  
• It’s Brooklyn Defender Pint Night at The Pony Bar UES (1444 First Ave. at 75th St., Upper East Side)tonight starting at 7pm. Try the new black ale in honor of New York Comic-Con, and get a special limited-edition Defender pint glass while supplies last.
  
  
• The weekly Thursday Tap at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) is the Sixpoint Autumnation. At last, the wet-hopped fall seasonal is on tap, and you can enjoy it starting at 5pm.
  
  
• It’s Bronx Brewery Night at Harlem Public (3612 Broadway, at 149th St., Harlem) tonight starting at 7pm, with the Belgian Pale Ale, Rye Pale Ale, and Bronx Pale Ale on tap, plus tasters and free swag to give away.
  
  
• ABC Beer Co. (96 Avenue C, at 6th St., East Village) celebrates Saranac’s 125th Anniversary with the Pumpkin, Black Forest, Legacy IPA and the Traymonay Vineyard Saison on tap starting at 6pm.
  
  
• It’s finally that time of year! Bronx Ale House (216 W. 238th St., at Broadway, Kingsbridge) celebrates the beginning of Pumpkin Beer season tonight at 7pm as they tap their first keg of Southern Tier Pumking.
  
  
• Whole Foods Bowery Beer Room (95 E. Houston St., at Chrystie St., Lower East Side) also hosts a tasting of Bronx Brewery beers tonight from 5-8pm. Try the Pale Ale from a can and their seasonal Rye Pale Ale before you buy them!
  
  
• Bed-Stuy Beer Works (409 Willoughby Ave., at Sandford St., Bed-Stuy) hosts a tasting of KelSo’s Industrial Pumpkin tonight from 6-8pm. Check out this new beer shop and take a growler home!

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Other Half Brewing’s Sam Richardson cleans kegs in his soon-to-open space in Gowanus (photo via Instagram)

If the number of breweries that have already opened in New York in the past couple of years wasn’t argument enough that the city’s beer scene is booming, there’s a pretty long list of breweries in the hopper. Some are agonizingly close to opening, some are many, many months off, but we figured we’d run down some of the breweries in the planning or construction stages right now.

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