It’s Tuesday, January 29th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) hosts Nantucket’s Cisco Brewery tonight starting at 6:30pm. They’ll be pouring Lady of the Woods, Pedaler Blueblerry Beer, Whale’s Tale Pale Ale, and more! Plus, they’ll have samples of their limited Island Reserve Series.
  
  
• Barrier Brewing’s triumphant return gets a second celebration tonight from 7-10pm at Mission Dolores (249 4th Ave., at Carroll St., Park Slope). They’ll pour the Ruckus IPA, Imposter Pilsner, Lights Out Stout, Bittersweet Pale Ale, and many more beers from the brewery that weathered Sandy and lived to tell the tale!
  
  
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) hosts a free Tuesday Tasting of beers from Snake River Brewing tonight at 7pm. Get one of your first tastes of this great brewery from Jackson, Wyoming!
  
  
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) celebrates Iberian Beers! $10 gets you six tastings of brews from the Iberian Peninsula like Sagra Pilsner, L'anjub Lug, and Gisberga Trigo. Things get underway at 7:30pm.
  
  
• In Jersey and in the mood for Jersey beer? New Jersey Beer Co. visits The Brass Rail (135 Washington St., at 2nd St., Hoboken) tonight starting at 5:30pm, pouring beers like the Weehawken Wee Heavy and Hudson Pale Ale.

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One month from right now, we will be in the midst of one very, very busy week of drinking. The official preview of New York City Beer Week was this week, and there are going to be literally hundreds of events across the city to celebrate. Beer dinners will be hosted and tap takeovers will abound. Of course, these aren’t ordinary beer events. “You have to do something extra,” Shmaltz’s Jeremy Cowan explained. Brewers will be coming in from across the country and around the world for the week. Events like the Opening Night Bash and Brewers’ Choice will treat the city’s beer drinkers to one-of-a-kind experiences. And there will be special beers brewed especially for New York City Beer Week.

Stay tuned, as more event announcements are coming soon. But this weekend is the perfect time to train. Here’s some events to check out through Sunday.

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New York City is full of unique neighborhoods, each with their own local spots that serve great craft beer. Occasionally, we’ll profile a few spots in each neighborhood - all within walking distance of each other - that you can explore in one trip.

Today, we explore Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. To start the crawl, take the G Train to the Greenpoint Avenue stop. And please, drink responsibly. The last thing we want you to do is end up getting kicked out of one of the last stops on this self-guided tour. Or one or the first stops.

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

• Barcade Jersey City (163 Newark Ave., at Erie St., Jersey City) hosts Carton Brewing out of Atlantic Highlands, NJ tonight starting at 6pm. On tap, they’ll have the 077XX IPA, Boat Beer, Box Porter, Decoy, and many more!
  
  
• Breukelen Bier Merchants (182 Grand St., at Driggs Ave., Williamsburg) hosts their Dark Ale Night tonight at 7pm. They’ll be pouring the Maine Beer Company Mean Old Tom, Thornbridge Hall Raven, Mikkeller Beer Hop Breakfast, Bruery Rugbrod, and the JW Lees Calvados.
  
  
• The Thursday Tap at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) is  Mikkeller’s Santa’s Little Helper, an 11% ABV mildly spiced Belgian Strong Dark Ale brewed with malt, flaked wheat, dark candi sugar, Northern Brewer, Hallertau, and Styrian Goldings hops, and orange peel and coriander.. Get there at 5pm to try it!
  
  
• Dark Horse takes over the taps at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight starting at 7pm. They’ll pour beers from the recent new-to-New York import from Michigan, including the Crooked Tree IPA, Black Bier, and more!
  
  
• Ommegang hosts a beer pairing dinner tonight at Alobar (46-42 Vernon Blvd., at 47th Rd., Long Island City) from 5:30-10pm. $55 gets you five courses and five beers, like Grilled Razor Clams with their Gnomegang and Seared Pork Medallions with Rare Vos.
  
  
• Join Full Sail for a free tasting tonight at Malt & Mold (221 East Broadway, at Clinton St., Lower East Side) from 5-8pm. Same some beers from Oregon, some soda from Fentiman’s, and enjoy some free cheese samples, too!

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We mentioned last week that events are being finalized for this year’s New York City Beer Week, which runs February 22nd to March 3rd and is being organized this year by the New York City Brewers Guild.

NYC Brewer’s Choice, a walk-around beer and food pairing event at City Winery (155 Varick St., Vandam St., Soho), has already been announced for February 27th. And now one of the other big events of the week has been announced: The Opening Night Bash will be held on Friday night, February 22nd, at Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St., at Water St., DUMBO).

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

• Celebrate Barrier Brewing’s triumphant return tonight at The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West, at 16th St., Windsor Terrace). Their Welcome Back Party is tonight at 6pm, when they’ll have two beers from Barrier’s “Submersion Series” (beer recovered from fermenters following Sandy), the Submersion Series Dubbel and the Submersion Series Belgian 1. They’ll also have the Ommegang Barrier Relief Belgian IPA, plus a fresh keg of the Ruckus IPA and a keg of the Saazsquash! filled just before the storm.
  
  
• It’s Singlecut Beersmiths Night at Sunswick 35/35 (35-02 35th St., at 35th Ave., Astoria). Tonight at 7pm, enjoy a full lineup of beers from the brand-new Astoria-based brewery, including the Billy 18 Watt IPA, Billy Full Stack IIPA, Dean Pacific Northwest Mahogany Ale, and John Michael Dark Lyric Lagrrr.
  
  
• Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., Greenwich Village) celebrates Portuguese and Spanish craft beer with an event called i-beer-ia! Enjoy beer from breweries L’Anjub, Gisberga, and Sagra today at 3pm and running all night long!
  
  
• Dark Horse and Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) team up for the bar’s weekly $10 Bourbon and Beer Tasting Series. Tonight from 7-10pm, $10 gets you 2 full beers, a 3-beer tasting flight, a taste of Templeton Rye, and an order of tater tots!
  
  
• It’s Pennsylvania Beer Night at George Keeley (485 Amsterdam Ave., at 83rd St., Upper West Side) tonight starting at 6pm. Enjoy beers from some of the Keystone State’s finest brewers tonight, including Victory, Troegs, and Weyerbacher!
  
  
• City Swiggers (320 E. 86th St., at 2nd Ave., Upper East Side) hosts a free tasting of Belgian Beers tonight at 7pm. Sample Kortrijk-Dutsel, Ter Dolen Armand, Ter Folen Driek, and Wolf 7 with Alex Forbes of Artisanal Imports!

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