You’ve probably heard by now about the Great Googa Mooga Festival, coming May 19th and 20th to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It’s a two-day celebration of food, drink, and music. And naturally, the “drink” will include beer. For two days, you’ll finally be able to enjoy craft beer in Prospect Park that you won’t have to hide in your cooler.

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Fun fact: Friday, March 9th is the beginning of Meteorological Spring. On average, the 91 coldest days of the year ended on Thursday. So, welcome to Spring!

The good news: Sunday is supposed to be the more spring-like day of the weekend, so that means spending sometime outdoors might be in order!

The bad news: there’s one less hour of weekend this weekend, as we spring ahead one hour on Saturday night (that also means one less hour of operation at most New York bars, since the switch to Daylight Saving Time takes place at 2am).

The better news: sunset on Sunday is at 6:58pm!

After the jump, a dozen different ways to spend your weekend sipping on some great craft beer…

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It’s a balmy 70 degrees outside right now, and spring fever has definitely hit New York City. So, if you’re stuck at a desk, where can you go after work to soak up the last rays of the setting sun and warm weather? Here’s a few of our favorite places best-suited for drinking craft beer in the great outdoors…

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It’s Thursday, March 8th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Smuttynose visits Breukelen Bier Merchants (182 Grand St., at Driggs Ave., Williamsburg) tonight starting at 7pm. They’ll pour the Baltic Porter, Vunderbahr Pilsner, Big A IPA, and more!
• Celebrate Purim with Shmaltz Brewing and The Growler Station (26 W. 8th St., at MacDougal St., Greenwich Village) tonight starting at 6pm. They’ll be pouring samples of the new barrel-aged Funky Jewbelation, Genesis 15:15, and the Genesis dry-hopped session ale.
• Tonight, Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) dedicates their taps to Escondido, California’s Stone Brewing. They’ll be rolling out a ton of great Stone beers, including the 15th Anniversary Ale, 2011 Belgo Old Guardian, and casks of Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers and Sublimely Self-Righteous dry-hopped with Amarillo hops. The fun gets underway at 7pm.
• The Pony Bar (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) hosts Long Trail tonight starting at 6pm. They’ll have 20 beers on tap, including beers from their sister brewers, Otter Creek and Wolaver’s!
• Weyerbacher pays a visit to On Tap at Whole Foods Columbus Circle (10 Columbus Circle, at 59th St., Upper West Side) today from 4-8pm. Experience this bar-within-a-grocery-store and sample some of the Pennsylvania brewery’s beers for free!
• Over in Jersey, it’s West Coast Beer Night at Barcade Jersey City (163 Newark Ave., at Erie St., Jersey City). Starting at 5pm, their taps will be dedicated to West Coast beer, including Elysian Idiot Sauvin, Ballast Point Tongue Buckler, Lost Abbey 10 Commandments, and a bunch more!
  

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It’s Wednesday, March 7th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• It’s “Night of the Imperials” at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) today starting at 3pm, and running all night long. They’ll have some kegs of some big and rare beers, like Uinta Dubhe Imperial Black IPA, Kuhnhenn Bourbon Barrel-Aged Fourth Dementia Old Ale, Great Divide Espresso Oak-Aged Yeti Imperial Stout, and Mikkeller/Three Floyds Boogoop.
• Celebrate the arrival of Deviant Dale’s Double IPA from Oskar Blues tonight at Rye House (11 W. 17th St., at 5th Ave., Union Square). Starting at 6pm, enjoy the beer of the hour, plus Dale’s Pale Ale and Old Chub on nitro, Oaked Old Chub, and a variety of meats from their own Hops & Heifers Farm!
• The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West, at 16th St., Windsor Terrace) throws their Barrel-Aged Beer Night tonight at 7pm, with a lineup of 11 great barrel-aged brews, like the 2010 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, the 2011 Captain Lawrence Nor’Easter, the Brandy Barrel-Aged Left Hand Widdershins Barleywine, the Maple Barrel-Aged Kelso Industrial IPA, and a bunch more barrel-aged goodness!
• Heavy Seas rolls out the barrels tonight at The Ginger Man (11 E. 36th St., at 5th Ave., Midtown). Brewer Hugh Sisson visits from Maryland to do a ceremonial tapping of two wooden casks: one of Loose Cannon and one of Black Cannon today at 5pm.
• Pretty Things throws a good old-fashioned disco tonight at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope). They’ll pour beers like the new Lovely Saint Winefride while our friend Jim Barnes spins Russian disco and polka records. Yes, seriously. The fun gets underway at 7pm.
• Sixpoint visits One Mile House (10 Delancey St., at Bowery, Lower East Side) tonight at 7pm. Ditch the cans - ahem, nano-kegs - and go with the Signal, Sweet Action, and more - all on tap!
• Founders serves up some beers at Downtown Bar & Grill (160 Court St., at Dean St., Cobble Hill) tonight starting at 5pm. Get your hands on a few sips of the Kentucky Breakfast Stout and Canadian Breakfast Stout, the Double Trouble, Nemesis barleywine, and more!

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Brooklyn beer joint Beer Table (427B 7th Ave., at 15th St., Park Slope) has always been a supporter of Brian Strumke’s gypsy brewery, Stillwater Artisanal. So a natural next step in their relationship is what’s happened next: Beer Table owner Justin Phillips partnered with the brewery for the first of a series of beers to be brewed in collaboration with the restaurant called Table Beer.

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