Whether you like to enjoy a weeknight out or a weekend day at the ballpark, there are two big NYC beer events going on this week that still have tickets available.

First up on Wednesday is the 8th Annual Brewers’ Choice, an event that celebrates New York City beer and all it has to offer. This year, the event will be held at The Well in Williamsburg, and it features nearly 20 local and regional breweries, including Grimm, Barrier, Magnify, Svendale, and Two Roads, just to name a few. And if you’re hungry, the ticket includes chefs’ tables full of tastes from 15 different food purveyors, offering brisket, cheese, and a raw bar, just to name a few. The event runs Wednesday from 6-9:30pm. Tickets for the all-inclusive event are $65 through Eventbrite.

Then, on Saturday, the Mets are hosting their inaugural New York Beer Fest at Citi Field. The fest, held in two sessions from 1-4pm and 7-10pm, will feature unlimited tasting of over 80 local, national, and international breweries, from LIC Beer Project and Equilibrium to Collective Arts and Stone in the concourses of the ballpark. There will be food vendors with food for purchase. A $50 general admission ticket gets you in; an $80 VIP ticket gets you an extra hour inside plus access to walk the warning track and sit in the dugouts.

Brooklyn’s Other Half Brewing holds their first-ever festival this Saturday at Industry City in Sunset Park. It’s called Green City, and it’s a celebration of the beer style Other Half is best known for: IPAs. There are still tickets available, if you’ve been procrastinating. Once you’ve locked in your spot, take a gander at the brewery list, which features some of the world’s best brewers of the IPA. We’ve navigated the beer list to give you an idea of some of the beers we’ll be looking forward to drinking.

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Other Half’s Green City festival is taking place this Saturday, but before the massive celebration of the IPA, Interboro Spirits & Ales is holding an event of their own. Friday, head to their taproom in Williamsburg for Pils City – a celebration of craft lagers that features some of the very same breweries pouring at Green City.

Among the breweries pouring Pilsners will be Bissell Brothers (co-host of the event), Barrier, Bunker, Burial, Fifth Hammer, Half Acre, Industrial Arts, J. Wakefield, KCBC, Modern Times, Other Half, Oxbow, Suarez Family, Threes, Tired Hands, and Transmitter. They’ll also have special beer cocktails like their Bushburg With a View, with Interboro’s flagship pilsner, Campari, Dry Vermouth, lime, and an orange garnish.

No tickets – it’s just a pay-as-you-go event, and it runs from 3pm until midnight.

(Photo courtesy Brooklyn Brewery)

Brooklyn Brewery’s taproom in Williamsburg has changed very little over the years. It was a simple, bare-bones spot with a few tables where you lined up to exchange wooden tokens for beer. But that’s all changing: an overhaul of the taproom brings it in line with other breweries around the city. 

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Fermentation tanks at Shmaltz Brewing Company in Clifton Park, about 20 miles north of Albany, in 2013

Astoria, Queens-based Singlecut Beersmiths has purchased Shmaltz’s brewery in Clifton Park north of Albany, greatly expanding the capacity of the five and a half year old brand. The brewery will roll out several beers year-round out of the Clifton Park facility, allowing their Queens facility to brew a wider selection of beers, including the traditional lagers that were to be the primary focus of Singlecut when it first opened. 

Singlecut had been in the market for a second facility outside of New York for a while. Their Astoria brewery has been at maximum capacity for two and a half years. In 2017, it was purchased outright by Singlecut, so it was clear they would keep their roots planted in New York City. But that operation comes at a cost: a capacity that prevented the brewery from scaling up, which often kept beer hard to find in the markets where they’ve expanded and at a high cost for consumers. Expanding capacity will help reduce case limits Singlecut had on accounts in markets like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and upstate New York. Plus, the new facility will allow for economies of scale, Singlecut GM Dan Bronson told us, and would result in significant cost reductions for beer brewed in Clifton Park. The MSRP for a 4-pack of 18-Watt IPA will be $12.99. 

In addition to 18-Watt, which will be brewed in the facility for the first time tomorrow, Singlecut expects to bring Weird & Gilly IPA and Jan Olympic White Lager to market from the new brewery. In addition, they’ll roll out a new Pilsner called Plain Top, produce Kim Sour Lager and Eric Milk Stout (the latter in nitro cans), and rotate through three Imperial IPAs: Softly Spoken Magic Spells, DDH Jenny Said, and All That Is Now (formerly DDH Softly Spoken Magic Spells).

As for Shmaltz, Jeremy Cowan’s 22-year old brand will continue to produce beer alongside his others, He’brew and Alphabet City Brewing Company, which he acquired earlier this year. Shmaltz will operate the taproom in Clifton Park through the end of the year. The brewery’s new owner will remodel the taproom early next year, reopening it as Singlecut North.

Lord Hobo Brewing Co., a Woburn, Massachusetts-based brewery, will launch its beer in the New York market this week. The brewery has had a meteoric rise since its founding in 2015 just outside of Boston, quickly becoming one of the largest brewers in a state with a couple of very large brewers. Their focus is simple: primarily brewing hoppy ales and canning them for retail sales.

Lord Hobo’s lineup includes Boom Sauce, their flagship IPA, Hobo Life, a session IPA, Steal This Can, a West Coast-style IPA, Consolation Prize, a double IPA, and Glorious, a New England-style Pale Ale hopped with Galaxy.

The celebration kicks off on Monday with events at Urbanspace Vanderbilt and Bierwax. Wednesday, they’ll celebrate at d.b.a. and ABC Beer Co. in the East Village and Northern Territory and Torst in Greenpoint, then Thursday at Swift and Fools Gold.

Look for their iconic black-and-gold cans around town as well, with retail distribution well underway at Whole Foods locations around the city.