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

• Celebrate all things Colorado tonight at The Pony Bar (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) starting at 6pm. Enjoy beers from Avery, Boulder, Breckenridge, Fort Collins, Left Hand, and Oskar Blues which enjoying the soothing sounds of John Denver. They’ll also throw in some Flying Dog beer for good measure, even though it’s all brewed in Maryland now.
• Nebraska Brewing Company, fresh off its two medals at Great American Beer Festival, visits Good Beer (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) tonight at 6:30pm, with beers like Cardinal Pale Ale, Hop God, and Brunette Nut Brown Ale on tap for your enjoyment.
• 4th Avenue Pub (76 4th Ave., at Bergen St., Boerum Hill) celebrates its Fifth Anniversary tonight with an all-night Happy Hour. That means all beers are $2 off, like Founders Backwoods Bastard, Coney Island Geektoberfest, and Lagunitas Undercover Shutdown Ale.
• The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City) hosts a handful of breweries tonight at 6pm. They’ll be hosting reps and pouring beers from Epic, Left Hand, New Holland, and Yards. Take a tour of America’s craft breweries without leaving the bar!
  

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

• Kelso takes over some of taps tonight at 7pm at Bierkraft (191 5th Ave., at Berkeley Pl., Park Slope) for a Tuesday Night Tasting with some very special goodies from down the street in Clinton Hill. They’ll be pouring the Flemish Red, Industrial IPA, the delicious Brandy-Barrel IPA, and a Quad Bock aged in Jack Daniels barrels on cask.
• Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts Brattleboro, Vermont’s own McNeill’s tonight. They’ll tap the kegs at 4pm, with Warlord Imperial IPA, Oktoberfest Lager, Blonde Bombshell, and bunches more on tap. 
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) celebrates Autumn seasonal beers. $10 gets you six tastings of beers like Sierra Nevada Tumbler, Southern Tier Pumpking, and The Bruery Autumn Maple. The tasting gets underway at 7:30pm.

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A lot of bars in New York City have seen the light and are getting into the craft beer game. They’ve started to dedicate taps to craft beer, or even developed a full beer program with food pairings. But far too many have overlooked one very important aspect of a good craft beer program: the menu.

We’re not talking about which beers they serve, but rather how the bars communicate which beers they serve to their customers. When done right, a beer menu can be a huge time saver for both the customer and the beer server. From past experience, here’s some rules we wish all bars would follow…

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Here’s a bunch of little notes about beer in New York City that we didn’t get to this week:

Celebrate sausage and beer at… obviously… the Sausage and Beer Festival. The Tour De France Restaurant Group kicks off their weeklong festival of tubed meat and fermented brew with their launch event at the 404 Event Space on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:30pm. The event will give you access to two and a half hours of sausage of beer from d'Achouffe, Brewery Ommegang, and Duvel. Kick in for VIP tickets, and you’ll get an hour more time to drink and stuff your face. They’ll also tap a keg of Ommegang’s Aphrodite for the VIP session. Tickets - just $38 - are available through Thrillist, and VIP tickets are an extra $15.

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Sixpoint’s Ian McConnell fills kegs with clean water (via Sixpoint’s Facebook Page)

Some brewers sit out the politics out of fear of what it might do to their brand’s reputation. Some are only politically active on issues relating to beer. Sixpoint made a rare stance this week, showing their support of the Occupy Wall Street protests by providing clean drinking water to the protestors by filling their empty kegs.

The move was explained through a letter released on its Facebook page by the brewery’s president, Shane Welch:

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Since we’re in the midst of baseball’s postseason, let’s take in a piece of beertography from Milwaukee’s Miller Park in September. (Photo by Chris O'Leary)

Here’s what’s brewing on the beer scene this week in New York and beyond:

• Wall Street Journal reviews Märzens, including Brooklyn Oktoberfest
• Shmaltz sales up 25% this year [BeerNews]
• Long Island brewers were at Brewers’ Choice in full force [LI Pulse]
• More photos from GABF from a fellow New York beer geek [idrunkthat]
• New Craft Beer bar opens across from Newark’s Prudential Center [NJ Craft Beer]
• Founders addresses allocations and price gouging of Canadian Breakfast Stout
• A visit to Munich’s Oktoberfest in vivid color [The Big Picture]
• A flood of support for flooded-out Vermont brewpub The Alchemist [CraftBeer.com]
• Red Stripe beer: brewed in Latrobe, Pennsylvania [BusinessWeek]