It’s Wednesday, September 25th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Smuttynose takes over the taps at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., Greenwich Village). Starting at 3pm and running all night long, they’ll pour the Luna Moth, Rhye IPA, Cluster’s Last Stand, 2011 vintage Barleywine, and lots more.
  
  
• It’s Oktoberfest season: an opportunity to show off your strength in a stein-hoisting contest. House of Brews (302 W. 51st St., at 8th Ave., Hell’s Kitchen) hosts one on tonight at 6pm. $5 admission gets you a free pint from Sam Adams.
  
  
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) hosts a very special Wednesday night tasting tonight at 7pm. They’ll be pouring seven different New York-grown wet-hop beers from seven different New York breweries! Get there early for a seat.
  
  
• It’s a night of French Craft Beer at Taproom 307 (307 3rd Ave., at 24th St., Murray Hill) tonight starting at 7pm. Enjoy a French Kiss with Brasserie Du Bourganel Bier Au Nougat, Brasserie Castelain Maltesse, Page 24 Blonde, and other brews that will make you forget all about Oktoberfest.
  
  
• Allagash stops by Beer Authority (300 W. 40th St., at 8th Ave., Hell’s Kitchen) tonight at 5pm, pouring the Black, Curieux, Interlude, Odyssey, and more impeccable Belgian-style brews from Maine.
  
  
• Founders stops by City Swiggers (320 E. 86th St., at 2nd Ave., Upper East Side) tonight from 6-9pm. They’ll serve up the Breakfast Stout, Double Trouble, and All-Day IPA on tap, plus pour free samples from bottles of Devil Dancer, Dirty Bastard, Old Curmudgeon, and more.
  
  
• Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) curates a New York State Craft Beer tasting paired with songs by The Ramones. From 7-9pm, $15 gets you a 4-beer tasting flight, plus a shot of whisky and an order of tater tots! Make your reservation online.
  
  
• Whole Foods Bowery Beer Room (95 E. Houston St., at Chrystie St., Lower East Side) hosts Kelso for “Industrial Night” tonight from 5-8pm, pouring samples and selling growlers of their high-test Industrial IPA and seasonal Industrial Pumpkin.

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VIP tickets for the third annual Brooklyn Pour are officially sold out! That leaves only a few General Admission tickets to get your hands on… and the latest round of brewers added should be reason enough to snap them up before they’re gone. The Village Voice’s beer festival will again take place at Skylight One Hanson in Fort Greene on October 12th in one session from 3-6pm. It’ll feature dozens of breweries from around the corner, across the country, and around the world with three hours of unlimited tasting, a food court in the venue’s famed bank vault, and live entertainment. Best of all, it’s for a good cause - this year’s charitable partner for the fest will be BRIC.

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It’s Tuesday, September 24th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Katch (31-19 Newtown Ave., at 31st St., Astoria) hosts a Mystery Tap Night as part of Get Real Beer Week all night long. $12 gets five specialty beer pours from the likes of Sierra Nevada, Smuttynose, and Left Hand, unmarked with a list of the brewery and beer name. Submit your guesses and choose a favorite. You’ll get a full pint of your favorite, and correct ballots will be entered into a drawing to win free tickets to a future Get Real event and a bar tab at Katch.
  
  
• Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A, East Village) offers up the beers of Ballast Point and Greenport Harbor tonight starting at 6:30.  Enjoy beers like the Ballast Point Sculpin and Piper Down, and Greenport Harbor's Leaf Pile and Wet-Hopped Harbor Ale, and more on tap till 9:30.
  
  
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) features Virginia’s very own Blue Mountain tonight at 7pm for their free Tuesday Tasting… get there early for a seat and a lineup of beers like Local Species and Dark Hollow!
  
  
• Barcade Jersey City (163 Newark Ave., at Erie St., Jersey City) hosts KelSo tonight at 7pm. Get a little Brooklyn in Jersey with the Kellerfest, Pilsner, Nut Brown Lager, and more on tap!
  
  
• Oktoberfest arrives at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) starting at 4pm today, with beers like Erdinger Oktoberfest, Flying Dog Dogtoberfest, Element Altoberfest, Victory Fest Bier, and more on tap all night long, plus t-shirt and mug giveaways!
  
  
• Radegast Hall (113 N. 3rd St., at Berry St., Williamsburg) hosts an Oktoberfest beer tasting tonight at 7:30pm. They’ll be pouring seasonal offerings from Hofbrau, Erdinger, Hacker- Pschorr, and more, along with live music from Flea Circus!

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There have been a handful of TV shows about the craft beer industry, but there may be none as entertaining as Brew Dogs, which premieres tonight at 10pm on the new Esquire Network (Channel 118 on Time Warner, Channel 176 on Optimum, Channel 160 on Verizon FiOS, Channel 218 on RCN). The program stars James Watt and Martin Dickie from BrewDog, the Scottish brewery known for doing some pretty outrageous things with their beers. They travel the US in search of good beer cities, and partner up with a local brewer in each episode to brew a unique beer that attempts to capture the city’s climate and culture. We had the pleasure of screening the first episode a couple weeks back, and we can assure you, it’s pretty funny.

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It’s Monday, September 23rd. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Alewife (5-14 51st Ave., at 5th St., Long Island City) hauls in chefs from across the country tonight at 6:30pm to compete head-to-head for top honors using local lamb in four cut categories – breast, leg, shank and shoulder. The event will also feature a lamb-butchering demo, local chefs, and - naturally - unlimited craft beer. A few tickets are still available starting at $50 for this event, part of Get Real Beer Week.
  
  
• Over The Eight (594 Union Ave., at Richardson St., Williamsburg) hosts Left Hand tonight at 7pm. Enjoy $4 specials from the Colorado-based brewery plus 40-cent wings all night long! They’ll pour the Polestar Pilsner, Ambidextrous Step 5 Sticke Alt, the Oktoberfest, and more!

• 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 De Molen Smoke and Beards, a smoky 9.2% ABV Abbey Tripel!
  
  
• Whole Foods Bowery Beer Room (95 E. Houston St., at Chrystie St., Lower East Side) hosts a tasting of Sly Fox beers tonight from 5-8pm. Try their seasonal Oktoberfest and more of their delicious German-influenced brews.
  
  
• KelSo 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 Industrial Pumpkin and Satisfaction, then fill your growler with ‘em, too!

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The view from our barstool at the First Street Ale House in Livermore, California this week.

There’s simply too much going on this weekend for us to waste any time. From Get Real Beer Week’s kickoff with their attempt at the World’s Largest Tap Takeover, to Oktoberfest celebrations and the inaugural NY Beer Festival, this is going to be a very, very beery weekend.

Here’s our rundown of this weekend’s beer events:

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