If you like brunch and beer, you’ll love an event we’ve helped plan with our friends at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village). On Saturday, November 19th from 1-4pm, they’ll host the Five Brewers Brunch, with fresh beer from five  breweries, visits from local brewers, and a walk around brunch buffet with tasty breakfast foods from Tchoup Shop and Jimmy’s.

On the beer end, we’ll have beers from Barrier Brewing, Pretty Things, Crossroads, Blind Bat, and Wandering Star. On the food end, enjoy items like black-and-tan pancakes, banh mi biscuits with pork belly, country ham, and lots more. It’s an all-you-can-care-to-eat-and-drink event, so come hungry and thirsty.

Tickets are available through BeerMenus.com for just $45 right now. Hope to see you there!

Upcoming beer bar openings, and another place to fill your growlers, after the jump…

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It’s Tuesday, November 8th… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts Bear Republic all night long tonight, with taps that include Pete Brown Tribute Ale, Cuvee de Bubba, a 2009 vintage of the Barleywine, and a barrel-aged version of their Ryevalry.
• Peak Organic 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 enjoy the Fall Summit, IPA, the just-released Winter Session, and more organic brews!
• Pretty Things takes the taps at Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) from 6:30-9:30pm tonight. Enjoy four beers from the gypsy brewers in Massachusetts, including the Babayaga stout, just out for those cold winter days ahead (okay, we know, today’s not one of them).
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) features the beers of famed importers Shelton Brothers. $10 gets you six tastings of beers from Denmark’s Mikkeller, Canada’s Dieu de Ciel, and Jolly Pumpkin, imported all the way from Michigan.

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It’s Monday, November 7th… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:

• There’s a special Founders tapping out in Jersey tonight at Cloverleaf Tavern (395 Bloomfield Ave., at Hanford Pl, Caldwell). Starting at 5pm, they’ll tap a keg of Canadian Breakfast Stout. But that’s not all, of course. They’ll be pouring Backwoods Bastard, Breakfast Stout, and Harvest Ale as well.
• In Brooklyn, head to 4th Avenue Pub (76 4th Ave., at Bergen St., Boerum Hill) for a special vertical tasting of Ommegang Three Philosophers. They’ll be pouring vintages of the Quad from Cooperstown from 2007, 2008, and 2010 tonight starting at 7pm. 

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Finally, your beer geek friends won’t be afraid to venture above 59th Street anymore. After years of playing second fiddle to the southern parts of Manhattan and nearby Brooklyn, it looks like the Upper East and Upper West Sides are starting to show their true colors when it comes to craft beer.

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Happy International Stout Day! It’s Thursday, November 3rd… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in New York after work tonight:

• Celebrate Stout Day at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) all night tonight, as they pour Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout, Founders Breakfast Stout, Avery The Czar, and more!
• Sunswick 35/35 (35-02 35th St., at 35th Ave., Astoria) observes Stout Day with a tapping of four different varieties of the Mikkeller Black Hole Stout, featuring the Tequila Barrel, Cognac Barrel, Whiskey Barrel, and  Bourbon Barrel versions. The kegs will be tapped at 7pm.
• For those not in a Stout mood, there’s always IPAs. Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) dedicates their taps to IPAs tonight starting at 7pm. For starters, they’ll have the Kelso Wet Hop IPA, Greenport Harbor Otherside IPA, Stone Ruination, and a couple of casks, including the Smuttynose IPA dry-hopped with Cascade and Simcoe hops.
• Weyerbacher pours 14 delicious beers at Barcade Jersey City (163 Newark Ave., at Erie St., Jersey City) starting at 5pm today, including the Merry Monks Tripel, the Fourteen (a two-year aged wheat wine), and a cask of Imperial Pumpkin.
• Sixpoint takes the taps at House of Brews (302 W. 51st St., at 8th Ave., Hell’s Kitchen) tonight at 7pm. Enjoy some harder-to-find brews on tap, like Gemini Imperial IPA, Brevity witbier, and the deliciously smoky Signal.
• Lagunitas takes over the taps at Brouwerij Lane (78 Greenpoint Ave., at Franklin St., Greenpoint) tonight at 7pm. Enjoy the new Fusion VII, Lucky 13 Alt, Little Sumpin’ Wild, and more goodies from Petaluma, California.
• The Bronx visits the Upper East Side when the new Jonas Bronck’s Pelham Bay IPA goes on tap at American Trash (1471 1st Ave., at 77th St., Upper East Side) tonight from 7-10pm.
• As part of their grand opening, On Tap at Whole Foods Columbus Circle (10 Columbus Circle, at 59th St., Upper West Side) hosts free sampling of beers, including Kelso of Brooklyn Pilsner, and a book signing from Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver, who’ll be in store from 5-7pm putting pen to paper on copies of The Oxford Companion to Beer.

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It’s official: On Tap at Whole Foods Columbus Circle (10 Columbus Circle, at 59th St., Upper West Side) is now open. The enclosed beer bar is on the north end of the store (from the escalator, it’s off to the right, near the cashier area.

Our first take? Holy crap, we’re in a beer bar in a grocery store! And it’s so well-executed that you kind of lose perspective that you’re in a Whole Foods. The vibe is a bit like a gastropub, with treated wood and shelves full of growlers. The service is a bit like a beer garden, with communal tables and food and beer ordered only at the counter, which doubles as a bar. There’s also portraits of our local brewers on the walls: Shane Welch from Sixpoint, Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn, Kelly Taylor from Kelso of Brooklyn, and Scott Vaccaro from Captain Lawrence

Details on the beer and food, plus a slideshow, after the jump…

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