In case you didn’t know, Barcade opened their third location this month in Philadelphia, adding to their locations in Brooklyn and Jersey City. In a spark of creative genius (or complete insanity), we and Beertography decided to organize a bar crawl to visit all three Barcades in one day: Saturday, December 3rd.

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Two new craft beer books from New York authors are out this fall. Our friend, beer journalist and former NY Press columnist Joshua M. Bernstein, releases Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World’s Craft Brewing Revolution on November 1st (it’s available for pre-order now on Amazon). The book is bursting with notes, guides, and anecdotes to pretty much everything craft beer has to offer. Gothamist interviewed Josh about his favorite New York beer bars this week. Check it out - his pick in Manhattan is a surprising one!

On the same day, Erica Shea and Stephen Valand of Brooklyn Brew Shop release their Beer Making Book - a step-by-step guide to homebrewing, with recipes specifically designed for small batch brewing that’s best suited to tiny New York apartments. They’re also giving away tickets to their launch party on their site, where they’ll serve their homebrewed batches paired with treats from local food vendors.

More beer news, including two upcoming beer bar openings, after the jump…

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Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in New York after work tonight:

• Head to Barcade (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) for the Brooklyn debut of Clown Shoes. Enjoy Brown Angel, Lubrication, Muffin Top, and many more of their quirky beers from Massachusetts.
• Celebrate the release of Pretty Things Babayaga at Brouwerij Lane (78 Greenpoint Ave., at Franklin St., Greenpoint) tonight at 7pm. Jim Barnes will pour their seasonal stout, along with Hedgerow Bitter, American Darling, Baby Tree, an more.
• Over in Jersey City, The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City, NJ) hosts New Jersey Beer Company as part of their Meet the Brewer series starting at 7pm. As an added bonus, $1 from every draft poured will go to help the Iron Monkey hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate.

CIDER WEEK EVENTS

• Fort Defiance (365 Van Brunt St., at Dikeman St., Red Hook) hosts a four-course Cider Week Harvest Dinner with Steve Wood of Farnum Hill Ciders at 7:30pm. Food pairings include an apple and savoy cabbage salad and garlic sausages with roasted onions, greens, and aligot potatoes. The cost of dinner is $75 per person. For reservations, email fortdefiancebrooklyn [at] gmail dot com.
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) dedicates select taps to draft ciders for their weekly Thursday Night event starting at 7pm.

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Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in New York after work tonight:

• As we mentioned, Dogfish Head is at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) starting at 3pm today. For the full details, see our post about the event. The big stuff gets underway at 6:30, when they tap some very special kegs of beer.
• Troegs visits The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) tonight from 6-9pm. They’ll have Scratch Beers #45, #47, and #48 on tap (an IPA, White Ale, and Oktoberfest, specifically), plus many more of their offerings, and free Bacon Cheeseburger Croquettes at 6pm!

Cider Week Events

• Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) hosts a Prix-Fixe Cider Pairing dinner tonight at 7pm. They’ll be pairing French ciders from Dupont with three courses, including a 24-hour braised pork marinated in cider vinegar and molasses. Details for the dinner are here.
• The Learning to Beer series at Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) becomes Learning to Cider tonight from 7-10pm. For just $10, sample ciders from Crispin, including Stagger Lee, a blended cider aged in Rye Whiskey barrels.
  
• Original Sin partners with Pie by the Pound (124 4th Ave., at 12th St., Union Square) for a gluten-free pizza and cider tasting tonight from 6-10pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased here, with a portion of proceeds going to the Columbia University Celiac Disease Center.
• Dive Bar (732 Amsterdam Ave., at 96th St., Upper West Side) hosts a cider tasting tonight at 7pm, with Doc’s, Woodchuck, Wandering Aengus, and many more local, domestic, and imported ciders.

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Today might be a good day to call in sick, or slip out early from work, because Dogfish Head takes over the taps at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) starting at 3pm. And that’s not all: there’s a New York debut of one very special beer, and an appearance by the man, the myth, the legend Sam Calagione.

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Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in New York after work tonight:

• Clown Shoes makes its debut in New York today with an event starting at 4pm at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown). Enjoy the Tramp Stamp Belgian IPA, Clementine Witbier, and the Lubrication Black IPA, along with several others.
• Spring Lounge (48 Spring St., at Mulberry St., Little Italy) continues their I Love NY Beer series tonight with Captain Lawrence and Empire beginning at 6pm. They’ll have Captain Lawrence’s Smoked Porter and a fresh-hopped Freshchester Pale Ale, Empire’s Pumpkin Ale and Black Magic Stout, and much more. Plus, they’ll have free pulled pork from Blind Tiger.
• Cider Week continues tonight, as Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) dedicates their free Tuesday Night Tasting to ciders from Eve’s Cidery of Van Etten, New York. Reps from the cidery will be on-hand to walk you through their offerings. The tasting gets underway at 7pm.
• Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) hosts Original Sin cider from 6:30-9pm. You can try their new line of heirloom ciders with Original Sin’s Gidon Coll.
• Cider Week sponsor Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) dedicates their weekly $10 Tuesday Tasting series to Ciders for Cider Week. Taste six different ciders for just 10 damn dollars. The event gets underway at 7:30pm.

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