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

• Stone Brewing takes over the taps at The Pony Bar (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) tonight starting at 6pm. Among the 20 beers they’ll have on tap from out west: the new Citrueille de Citracado collaboration with The Bruery and Elysian, the Escondidian Imperial Black IPA, the vintage 13th Anniversary Ale, and the Smoked Porter with Vanilla Beans.
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) features smoked beers, including selections from Haandbryggeriet, Schlenkerla, and Pretty Things. $10 gets you six tastings of beers starting at 7:30pm.
• Get schooled at the Tuesday Tasting at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight at 7pm. Patrick Fondillier from Smuttynose will guide you through “Beer School,” as he serves up beers like the Winter Ale, Big A IPA, and the S'muttonator Doppelbock on cask.
• Louis 649 (649 E. 9th St., at Avenue C, East Village) puts some High-Octane in their Tuesday Night Tasting (TNT) series. Get tastings of Brooklyn Monster Ale, Avery Mephistopheles, and more high-ABV beers starting at 8pm.

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The headlines splashed across some business publications last week: Brooklyn Brewery building sold! How could they?! Aren’t they in the midst of a massive expansion to double their capacity by 2013? Well, there’s really no need to worry. People saw the headline and didn’t read the fine print.

We’re here to clarify things for you: the brewery isn’t going anywhere. This is the least we can do, since we’ve been known to mislead you about the brewery in the past.

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It’s Monday, November 28th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Join Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) for their weekly Poor Man’s Beer Dinner. For $25, you get four small courses paired with four short pours of beer. This week, it features Danish brewer Kissmeyer, with courses like their Honey Porter paired with Bacon and Brie Toast, and the Stockholm Syndrome DIPA paired with a Chipotle Turkey Slider. Come as you are; the special runs all night long.
• For those who like their beer paired with buffalo wings and football, Standings (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) has free wings froom Atomic Wings starting at 8:30pm for your Monday Night Football viewing pleasure, as the Giants take on the Saints. They’ll also be pouring some great craft beer, as always!
• Resto (111 E. 29th Street, at Park Ave., Kips Bay) hosts a Stone beer dinner tonight at 7pm. It’s a five-course meal with pairings like tortellini, caramelized onions, ancho brodo, shaved radish, fine herbs paired with 11.11.11 Vertical Epic Ale and pignoli cake, lemon zest, smoked porter gelato paired with the new Bruery/Elysian/Stone La Citrueille Celeste de Citracado. The cost is $75. Call Resto for details and reservations at (212) 685-5585.

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

• Sixpoint pays its annual visit to Bar Great Harry (280 Smith St., at Sackett St., Carroll Gardens) tonight starting at 6pm. Hang with the Sixpoint crew and try many of their well-priced brews, like Redd, Occupation Ale, Mad Scientists #6, Gemini, and more!
• Meanwhile, if you don’t want to go to Brooklyn, Chelsea Market’s The Filling Station (75 9th Avenue, at 15th St., Chelsea) hosts a free tasting of Sixpoint beers, too, with Brevity Wit, Brownstone, Topline Belgian Pale, and more on tap and available for growler fills from 4-7pm.
  
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) features the beers of Massachusetts breweries, including selections from Clown Shoes, Wandering Star, and Pretty Things. $10 gets you six tastings of beers starting at 7:30pm. These beers aren’t Massholes!
• Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts Duvel and Ommegang all night long tonight, with beers like the Zuur, Adoration, and Gnomegang on tap.
• Orange County, California’s own The Bruery is the subject of this week’s free Tuesday Tasting at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight at 7pm. You’ll get to sample several of the brewery’s - err, The Bruery’s - well-crafted Belgian-style brews.

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Thanksgiving is coming up, and a lot of families with gather for dinner with a fine bottle of wine, or perhaps a bit of eggnog. Maybe you’re going to go home and wonder, “where’s the beer?” You’ve discovered craft beer, but Uncle Joe’s knowledge of beer goes no further than the confines of the Anheuser-Busch factory, and Aunt Maude turns her nose at the mere mention of beer as she sips her glass of merlot. Family gatherings like this are a great opportunity to make believers in beer, break down the stereotypes of craft beer, and introduce people to new aromas and flavors that they never associate with beer.

And let’s get to the real point here: beer is far more friendly to food pairings than wine. With all the different styles - some that lend themselves well to pairings with an endless number of types of cuisine, beer shouldn’t even be optional on the Thanksgiving Dinner table, especially when you consider the wide variety of foods that end up on your plate.

Here are some tips and suggestions for beers to put on your Thanksgiving Dinner table:

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We’ve seen a lot of new entrants to the New York beer market from Long Island in the past couple years. Since 2010, Greenport Harbor, Barrier, Blind Bat, Long Ireland, and Great South Bay have all been spotted on tap lines in the City.

Add another one to that list: Spider Bite Brewing Company, out of Holbrook, Long Island, made their New York City debut at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) and Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) over the weekend, with their First Bite Pale Ale. It’s a straightforward malty American Pale Ale with a balance of Chinook, Cascade, Columbus, and Magnum hops, clocking in at 5.5%.

The brewery debuted at the beginning of this month, so you’ll start seeing more of their beer around the city soon, including a Russian Imperial Stout, Boris the Spider, that should be available in December.

New beer releases from Captain Lawrence, and a wallet-friend dinner menu after the jump…

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