Mark another local brewery down as one who puts their beer in cans: Patchogue, Long Island’s Blue Point will start canning their beer this year, and will have three varieties out on shelves late this spring - just in time for summertime beer-drinking.

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For years (13, to be exact), Mugs Alehouse (125 Bedford Ave., at N. 11th St., Williamsburg) has celebrated big, rare beers in an annual event called Split Thy Skull. Each year, the organizers of this two-day event bring together a draft list that is quite possibly the best to be found at any New York beer bar on any day of the year.

This year is no different. On Saturday, March 10th and Sunday, March 11th, over three dozen big and rare beers will be on tap at Mugs. Each day has a different lineup, and the doors open at 11am. The full list is after the jump.

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Are you ready for the A-PORK-alypse? The celebration of beer and pork happening this Saturday is just one of several beer events that’ll have you whetting your whistle with great craft beer this weekend. Here’s a rundown of beer events and tastings around New York through Sunday. Enjoy!

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

• Enjoy the latest beer from Greenport Harbor at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight starting at 7pm. Called Super Freekeh, it’s a collaborative beer between the brewery, Bierkraft, and East Village restaurant Back Forty. That beer will be on draft and pulled from a cask, along with a dozen other brews from Greenport Harbor.
• Brooklyn Brewery heads a few blocks over to take over the taps at Barcade Brooklyn (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) tonight starting at 5pm. They’ll pour the 2009 Backbreaker, 2007 Monster Ale, a cask of the new Dry Irish Stout, and whole lot more!
• Breukelen Bier Merchants (182 Grand St., at Driggs Ave., Williamsburg) hosts Wandering Star tonight starting at 7pm. Try the new Thunderbolt IPA, plus enjoy favorites like Bash Bish Bock and Bert’s Disqualified Imperial Stout.
• Celebrate beer from cold, far away places tonight at the Bronx Ale House (216 W. 238th St., at Broadway, Kingsbridge), as they pour brews like Midnight Sun Panty Peeler, Evil Twin Ron and the Beast Ryan, and the Mikkeller/Three Floyds Boogoop starting at 6pm.
• Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) celebrates the release of Sierra Nevada cans tonight starting at 8pm! They’ll have 12-ounce cans of the Pale Ale and 16-ounce tallboys of the Torpedo, plus - quite appropriately - it’s Metal Night!
• On Tap at Whole Foods Columbus Circle (10 Columbus Circle, at 59th St., Upper West Side) hosts Flying Dog today from 4-8pm. Try samples and try the Kujo Imperial Coffee Stout or the In-Heat Wheat on tap!
• Rare beer alert! Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) taps a cask of the old-school English Porter, RCH Old Slug, brewed in Somerset, UK, today at 5pm.
• Over in Jersey, there’s an impressive list of Southern Tier beers lined up at the Copper Mine Pub (323 Ridge Rd., at Crystal St., North Arlington, NJ). Starting today at 3pm, enjoy the Gemini, Creme Brulee, Iniquity Black Ale, and a bunch more.

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Sorry, folks. You can search up and down the island of Manhattan to find beers from these brewers, but you won’t find them.

It happens on an almost daily basis to beer store and bar owners all over New York. The questions that, to the industry insider, have an obvious answer. But to those unaccustomed to how the beer industry functions, the questions are fast and furious and almost always net a disappointing response.

Some of those questions look like this:
- Do you guys have Pliny the Elder?
- Do you have Fat Tire on tap?
- Do you carry Bell’s Two-Hearted?
- When is your store getting a shipment of Three Floyds?
- Where in the city can I get Surly Darkness?

The answers to those questions are: no, no, no, never, and nowhere.

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It’s Wednesday, February 22nd. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Stone is front and center at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) today starting at 3pm. Enjoy a double dry-hopped version of Stone IPA, a 2008 vintage of the Old Guardian barleywine, a cask of Smoked Porter with chipotle peppers, the Bruery/Elysian/Stone collaboration La Citrueille Celeste de Citracado, and many more surprises.
• Krombacher pays a visit to Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) for their weekly $10 Bourbon and Beer Tasting Series. Celebrate one of Germany’s best-selling breweries! From 7-10pm, $10 gets you 2 full beers, a 3-beer tasting flight, a taste of whisky, and an order of tater tots!
• Downtown Bar & Grill (160 Court St., at Dean St., Cobble Hill) hosts Ommegang starting tonight at 7pm. Head over to enjoy the Abbey, Hennepin, and the delicious BPA.

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