It’s Wednesday, February 20th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Sixpoint celebrates their eighth anniversary tonight at Kettle of Fish (59 Christopher St., at 7th Ave., West Village). Beginning at 7pm, they’ll serve up $5 beers, including their 3Beans and Harbinger Saison, plus free mac and cheese and Diesel cupcakes. The first 100 guests get a special birthday gift, too!
  
  
• City Swiggers (320 E. 86th St., at 2nd Ave., Upper East Side) hosts a lineup of beers from importer Shelton Brothers tonight from 6-9pm. They’ll offer up samples of beers like Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza, Mikkeller Rauch Pils, 8 Wired Super Conductor Double IPA, and more beers from around the world!
  
  
• Pennsylvania 6 (132 W. 31st St., at 7th Ave., Midtown) celebrates the release of the Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout tonight from 7-9pm. Come and try this beer, which is being bottled for the first time this year!
  
  
• Enjoy some Flying Dog beers until 10pm tonight at Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd., at Westminster Rd., Ditmas Park). They’ll be offering an $8 four-beer flight from the Maryland brewery, including the Green Tea Stout and a beer from their Single Hop series.
  
  
• George Keeley (485 Amsterdam Ave., at 83rd St., Upper West Side) serves up six beers from Cisco tonight starting at 6pm, with a performance by Lance Mountain.

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We were a little bummed (albeit unsurprised) when the Discovery Channel show Brew Masters, which featured Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione, was cancelled during its first season. One episode of the show went unaired, and that episode has particular relevance to New York. A portion of the episode chronicled the planning of Birreria, the rooftop brewpub that Calagione collaborated on at Eataly. 

The episode features Calagione along with Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich as they discuss plans for the brewery and the food menu back in 2010, complete with a tasting of ingredients planned for the beers brewed on the rooftop. He then travels to Italy to plot out Birreria’s beers (and their ingredients) with Leo di Vincenzo of Birra del Borgo and Teo Musso of Baladin and brew a test batch of what ultimately became Gina, the brewpub’s thyme-infused pale ale.

Now, that episode has been uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Before we get to this weekend’s beer events, we’ve got some good news for fans of Stone’s “Enjoy By” IPAs: the next beer in the series is coming to New York City! The Stone Enjoy By 04.01.13 IPA is being bottled and shipped next weekend, so you can expect to see it pop up in the five boroughs in the midst of New York City Beer Week. For the uninitiated, this beer is a big, floral, citrusy IPA that’s meant to be consumed in its freshest form. Stone takes it seriously by printing the “best by” date right on the label, and demanding that it be taken off store shelves after that date.

It’s a long weekend, so here’s four nights worth of beer events coming up in NYC…

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It’s Thursday, February 14th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• It’s Beer My Valentine at The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) tonight starting at 6pm. They’ll pour romantic brews like Ommegang Adoration, Wandering Star Mild at Heart, and Chelsea Hop Angel IPA, and they’ll pass around free mini cupcakes!
  
  
• Greenwood Park (555 7th Ave., at 19th St., South Slope) hosts the Smutty Hearts Dance tonight at 9pm. Enjoy vintage vinyl love songs, 2-for-1 burgers (so you can share with a loved one or just gorge yourself), and beer specials from Smuttynose.
  
  
• The Thursday Tap at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) is the Rowan Brothers Sidra Castañón, a Spanish cider that is on draft for the first time in Manhattan! Get there at 5pm to try it!

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It’s Valentine’s Day, and in case you didn’t make plans weeks in advance for a fancy dinner, you could at least take your date out for a fancy craft beer. And while you might associate beer with rowdy bars blasting pop music and playing sports on TV, we’ve got three bars that make beer drinking a much more low-key, romantic activity.

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It’s been busy on the city’s beer scene as we get ready for New York City Beer Week next week. But we’ve got a wrap-up of the latest bits and bites from the New York beer scene in this summary. Among them, updates from some new breweries in Queens, and news about bacon, pork, pizza, and beer. Happy drinking!

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