It’s not every week that we can tell you that New York City is getting access to two out-of-state breweries within days of each other. But that’s just what’s happening next week, as both Dark Horse Brewing Co. of Marshall, Michigan and Blue Mountain Brewery of Afton, Virginia ship their beer to the city for the first time. In celebration, the breweries will hold launch events. And even if you can’t make the events, these breweries are both worthy of keeping on your beer radar as they start to appear on tap at your favorite beer bar.

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It’s Wednesday, September 5th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Cisco 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. From 7-10pm, $10 gets you 2 full beers (Pumple Drumkin and the Island Reserve Saison Farmhouse Ale), a 3-beer tasting flight, a taste of whisky, and an order of tater tots!
  
  
• Breukelen Bier Merchants (182 Grand St., at Driggs Ave., Williamsburg) hosts St. Louis, Missouri’s Perennial Artisan Ales tonight starting at 7pm. Enjoy beers like the Saison de Lis, Fantastic Voyage, and Hommel Bier on tap, and meet folks from the brewery!
  
  
• New Zealand comes to Staten Island as Yeastie Boys roll out three beers tonight at Adobe Blues (63 Lafayette Ave., at Fillmore St., New Brighton). Starting at 5pm, they’ll have the Digital IPA, Pot Kettle Black, and Bye Bye Badman brown ale on tap!
  
  
• Bronx Ale House (216 W. 238th St., at Broadway, Kingsbridge) celebrates the kickoff of football season with the Bronx Brewery tonight. Watch the Giants take on the Cowboys as you enjoy the Bronx Pale Ale and the brand-new Bronx Rye Pale Ale (on tap and dry-hopped on cask) starting at 6pm.
  
  
• It’s a battle of New York’s Rookie and Veteran Breweries tonight at George Keeley (485 Amsterdam Ave., at 83rd St., Upper West Side). During the Giants game, enjoy beers from old standbys Blue Point and Sixpoint as they pit them against beers from Bronx Brewery and Alphabet City Brewing.
  
  
• Say “aloha” to summer at Taproom 307 (307 3rd Ave., at 24th St., Murray Hill) tonight as they host Hawai'i-based Kona Brewing starting at 6pm. 

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While New York Craft Beer week may have moved to February, this September is still stacked with great beer events. Here’s a rundown of some of the ones worth putting on your calendar.

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It’s Tuesday, September 4th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) taps the Lagunitas Fusion 9 tonight at 6pm. The one-off white IPA with experiment hop strains was brewed with the help of Stag’s Head owner Carolyn Pincus!
  
  
• Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) battens down the hatches with Ballast Point tonight starting at 6:30pm, pouring eight beers including the Abandon Ship Smoked Lager, Tongue Buckler, and Sculpin IPA with discounts on pints and growlers all night long!
  
  
• ReBar (147 Front St., at Jay St., DUMBO), holds a two-day “Kick the Keg” event starting today, getting rid of August’s beer lineup so they can get September’s beers on! $3 will get you pours of beers like Clown Shoes Lubrication, Pretty Things Baby Tree, Barrier Evil Giant, and more until the kegs kick!
  
  
• This week’s free Tuesday Night Tasting at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) features beers from Smuttynose. Starting at 7pm, Pat Fondiller will be on hand pouring Vunderbar Pilsner, Strawberry Short Weiss and the 2010 vintage Homunculus!
  
  
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) celebrates special beers from Jimmy’s cellar. $10 gets you six tastings of beers, including La Rulles Grande 10, Green Flash Summer Saison, and De Ranke XX Bitter. The tasting gets underway at 7:30pm.
  
  
• Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts Perennial Artisan Ales and Kuhnhenn today starting at 4pm and running all night long, with a lineup of over a dozen brews like the Kuhnhenn Tina’s Habanero Honey Wheat, Perennial Saison De Lis, and a cask of Kuhnhenn Fluffer.

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Labor Day Weekend has come and gone and you’ve waited long enough. We’ve been telling you for weeks to avoid pumpkin beers to make a statement about the newfound habit of “seasonal creep” by brewers and distributors. But even though it’s still technically summer until September 22nd, meteorological fall has already begun. And with cooler weather coming, you might actually want to drink some of these beers. And while many of these beers may still not use fresh pumpkin in their brews (typically, the pumpkin harvest is September through October), we think this is as good a time as any to put those lighter summer beers out to pasture.

So, here’s a profile of some of the locally-brewed pumpkin beers that it’s safe to start drinking now.

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

• The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) hosts Barrier tonight starting at 6pm, pouring 14 lines, including the Bittersweet Pale Ale, Bulkhead Red, Bumble, and even some beers that don’t start with the letter “B!” They’ll also pass around free corn and clam fritters with a roasted jalapeño relish at 6pm.
  
  
• Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., Greenwich Village) hosts Great Divide today starting at 3pm, with a great lineup of Colorado brews including Rumble IPA, Smoked Baltic Porter, 2011 Belgian Yeti, a cask of Oak-Aged Yeti, and more!
  
  
• Harpoon 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. From 7-10pm, $10 gets you 2 full beers (UFO Pumpkin and Rich and Dan’s Rye IPA), a 3-beer tasting flight, a taste of whisky, and an order of tater tots!
  
  
• Brooklyn Brewery heads over Newtown Creek and over to Queens with an event at Sunswick 35/35 (35-02 35th St., at 35th Ave., Astoria) tonight starting at 7pm. Enjoy the new Fiat Lux, Sorachi Ace, AMA Bionda, and more, plus enjoy some free giveaways!
  
  
• It’s “Dog Days of Summer Night” at The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West, at 16th St., Windsor Terrace)! Starting at 7pm, they’ll tap beers from both Flying Dog (like Sour Cherry and Dogtoberfest) and Lagunitas (like Lil Sumpin’ Wild and New Dogtown Pale Ale)… all priced at $5!
  
  
• Head to Staten Island for Blue Point Night at Full Cup (388 Van Duzer St., at Beach St., Stapleton). The Richmond County Brew Club hosts the Long Island-based brewery as they pour their beers all night long starting at 8pm.
  
  
• It’s Victory night at Mudville 9 (126 Chambers St., at W. Broadway, Tribeca) starting at 7pm. They’ll be pouring seven different brews on tap from the Pennsylvania-based brewery all night long!

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