It’s Tuesday, July 2nd. While you enjoy Roger Clark air-guitaring at One Mile House (10 Delancey St., at Bowery, Lower East Side), here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) features Long Ireland tonight at 7pm for their free Tuesday Tasting. Sample five beers from this Riverhead-based brewer in a guided tasting from the folks behind the brewery themselves.
  
  
• Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) celebrates Canada Day a bit late with Unibroue on tap starting at 4pm. Enjoy the Eau Benite, Trois Pistoles, Ephemere Apple, and more from the Quebecois brewery.
  
  
• Radegast Hall (113 N. 3rd St., at Berry St., Williamsburg) celebrates their weekly Bier Haus Tuesday tonight at 7pm, with featured beers Professor Fritz Briem 13th Century Gruit, La Rulles Estivale, Schneider Sommer-Weiss, and more, plus live music by Gordon’s Grand Street Stompers.
  
  
• Finally, One Mile House (10 Delancey St., at Bowery, Lower East Side) will host the U.S. Air Guitar Championships pre-party and after-party with finely-tuned beers from Singlecut all night long, including the Alex Biere du Soleil, Billy 18-Watt IPA, Jan Olympic White Lagrrr, and more.

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It’s Monday, July 1st. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Check out the Get Real Craft Beer Passport Kickoff Party at Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) tonight from 6-10pm. Party with all the New York State beers you can drink for $25, including the Barrier Icculus Kölsch, Bronx Summer Pale Ale, and the Saranac Wild Hop Pils.
  
  
• Over The Eight (594 Union Ave., at Richardson St., Williamsburg) hosts a Summer Sampler Night tonight at 7pm. Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted, Element Summer Pilsner Fusion, Keuka Tripel, and Nebraska Melange a Trois in a flight for just $15. Plus, they’ll have 40-cent wings!
  
  
• Beer Table Pantry (Grand Central Terminal, Graybar Passage, Midtown) hosts a free sampling of beer from Ithaca tonight from 5-7pm. Stop in on your way to the train and taste the Flower Power then get yourself a growler (or pint-to-go) to take home.
  
  
• 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 Westbrook Mexican Cake, an imperial stout from South Carolina aged on cocoa nibs, vanilla beans, cinnamon sticks, and fresh habanero peppers.

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New York’s Good Beer Month kicks off today! Each year, July is a month to embrace craft beer culture and all the things that make beer great in New York. There’s been a proclamation from the mayor, so this thing is no arbitrary celebration.

There will be beer events throughout July to celebrate Good Beer Month, including three at WNYC’s Greene Space as part of their “Craft Beer Jam.” It all kicks off tonight with parties and deals to celebrate the release of the Craft Beer Passport, and continues straight through until July 31st. Here’s a full rundown of the month’s events, with more to be announced soon:

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A new beer from Brooklyn Brewery hit the scene last week in a most unusual place: the Union Square Greenmarket. The Greenmarket Wheat is the first beer from the brewery to take advantage of New York’s new farm-brewery law, which allows beer produced with a share of New York State ingredients to be sold at farmers’ markets. The beer uses raw wheat from North Country Farm in Watertown, Pilsner Barley Malt from Valley Malt in Hadley, Massachusetts, and Wildflower Honey from Tremblay Apiaries in Chemung County. The beer is bottled-conditioned in a bottle with a label designed by the famed Milton Glazer, who also created the Brooklyn Brewery logo. The beer is sold at the Union Square Greenmarket on Wednesdays and Saturdays for $10 a bottle.

Now that you’ve got a stop in Union Square scheduled for Saturday, here’s your beer event rundown for the rest of the weekend.

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Monday marks the first day of July, and that means it’s also the first day of Good Beer Month! Under proclamation of the mayor, the month will celebrate craft beer and feature a bunch of special beer events in New York City. The month also puts the spotlight on the Good Beer Seal bars, a group of 41 bars chosen by a panel of beer experts that specialize in craft beer (full disclosure: the editor of Brew York is on this panel).

The folks at Get Real, along with the New York State Brewers Assocation, are celebrating Good Beer Month with the Craft Beer Passport. The $30 passport entitles you to a free pint of beer at 39 different bars in all five boroughs between July 1st and Labor Day, September 2nd. That’s, like, 77 cents a glass if you make it to all 39. These bars all proudly pour New York State beer as well, so you can keep it local with brews from spots like Shmaltz, Barrier, Brooklyn, Empire, and more.

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It’s Thursday, June 27th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) hosts the beers of Cologne, Germany’s Freigeist and The Monarchy tonight at 7pm. Co-founder Sebastian Sauer will be on hand to host a tasting, and a lineup of 15 unique beers, including some never seen before in the U.S., will be on tap all night long.
  
  
• Dogfish Head pays a visit to Breukelen Bier Merchants (182 Grand St., at Driggs Ave., Williamsburg) tonight at 7pm, pouring brews like the Chateau Jiahu, Positive Contact, Palo Santo Marron, and more on tap from the famed Delaware brewery.
  
  
• Join Janet Fletcher, who literally wrote the book on Cheese and Beer, for a pairing of three beers and cheeses tonight at 7pm at The Diamond (43 Franklin St., at Calyer St., Greenpoint). $12 will get you three pairings chosen by the bar and the author, including Newburgh English Bitter with Landaff and St. Bernardus Wit with a Vermont Butter and Cheese Coupole.
  
  
• Bronx Ale House (216 W. 238th St., at Broadway, Kingsbridge) hosts Anchor tonight at 7pm. Enjoy some San Francisco brews like the California Lager, Zymatore #4, Old Foghorn barleywine, and more!
  
  
• We hate to admit it, but some people are going to like this event: Standings (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) hosts a “Pumpkin Beers in June” event tonight starting at 6pm. For those who can’t wait until… July, they’ll be pouring 2012 versions of the Southern Tier Pumking and Elysian Great Pumpkin all night long. Plus, they’ll serve free pizza at 8pm.
  
  
• The Rangers were in town to play the Yankees this week, so House of Brews (363 W. 46th St., at 9th Ave., Hell’s Kitchen) is pitting Texas’ Shiner against local brewer Bronx Brewery with beers on tap from each tonight at 7pm.
  
  
• Banter (132 Havemeyer St., at S. 1st St., Williamsburg) hosts Sixpoint tonight at 7pm. They’ll have six brews on tap, raffles, giveaways, and a live DJ spinning starting at 8pm.

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