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

• Tickets are still available for tonight’s Kelso beer dinner at 5 Napkin Burger Astoria (35-01 36th St., at 35th Ave., Astoria) tonight at 7:30pm. For more details, read our preview of the event.
• Tonight, Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) dedicates their taps to lagers! They’ll have a bunch of lagers on tap starting at 7pm, including the Victory Festbier, Kelso Kellerfest, Mahr’s Helles and Bock, and more.
• There’s a free tasting of Innis & Gunn tonight from 5-8pm at Whole Foods Bowery Beer Room (95 E. Houston St., at Chrystie St., Lower East Side). You can sample both their rum cask and oak barrel-aged brews, plus check out their new gift sets for the Scottish beer lover in your life.
• In Jersey, The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City) hosts Brooklyn Brewery tonight at 6pm. They’ll have glassware giveaways, but more importantly, some great beer, including both The Concoction and The Companion Brewmaster’s Reserve beers, Monster Ale, and Post Road Pumpkin.
• A bit further out in Jersey, the Copper Mine Pub (323 Ridge Rd., at Crystal St., North Arlington, NJ) hosts Weyerbacher all night long with a mind-numbing number of brews, including a bourbon-barrel aged version of the Imperial Pumpkin, the Romeo Belgian Red, and a cask of the Sierra Milk Stout.

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It’s about damn time! Massachusetts brewer Clown Shoes has made its first shipment to New York City and will officially launch during the week of October 17th.

We say it’s about damn time because we were afraid we were going to have to take it personally after Illinois and Texas were getting their beers and we weren’t. It’s all good now, and considering the B.S. they went through this summer, I’m sure what one lowly beer blog thinks about their distribution footprint was the least of Clown Shoes’ worries.

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After a soft opening just before the weekend, Alewife Queens (5-14 51st Ave., at 5th St., Long Island City) opened for business on Sunday afternoon. We checked it out last night and we’re impressed with what we saw.

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

• Get your hands on Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout tonight starting at 6pm at Wyne a Bit (200 Franklin St., at India St., Greenpoint). They’ll have it on tap, along with some other brews from Founders, including Centennial IPA and Porter.
• It’s Fall Fest tonight at The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay). Starting at 6pm, get some great fall seasonal beers, including Peak Organic Fall Summit, Victory Festbier, and a cask of Southern Tier Pumpking. Plus, they’ll pass around free snacks from 6-8pm.
  

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

• It’s I Love NY Beer Month at Spring Lounge (48 Spring St., at Mulberry St., Little Italy), and things kick off tonight with Brooklyn Brewery. They’ll be pouring beers like Blast, The Companion, Local 1 and Local 2, and many more starting at 6pm, plus they’ll serve free spicy Italian heroes from Graham Avenue Meats in Williamsburg.
• Lagunitas is in the house at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) today starting at 4pm. Come for the first tapping of Fusion VII in New York City - a big, hopped-up version of their Kronik - then stay for the 2010 Gnarlywine, Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’, and many more brews from Petaluma.
• The Pony Bar (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) hosts Sierra Nevada tonight starting at 6pm. They’ll be serving a whopping 21 beers, including some from their Beer Camp Series, plus Jack & Ken’s Barleywine and the triumphant return of Hoptimum.
• If you’re in Jersey, get to Cloverleaf Tavern (395 Bloomfield Ave., at Hanford Pl, Caldwell) now for their Founders Night. All day and all night, enjoy brews like Centennial IPA run through a ridiculous Randall, two vintages of Double Trouble, and, yes, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, which will be tapped at 5pm sharp.

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We headed out west to Denver over the weekend for the 30th Annual Great American Beer Festival. It’s a celebration of hundreds of craft breweries in one gigantic room. 466 breweries, including some from our area, poured beer to over 49,000 attendees over four four-hour tasting sessions. The sheer number of options (2,379 beers, to be exact) was, as always, mind-blowing - and also ever-expanding. Since our first visit in 2006, the expansion of the festival has been representative of the craft beer industry as a whole.

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