Here are the beer-related goings-on after work tonight in and around New York:

• RSVP now for the second Mikkeller tasting tonight at Taproom 307 (307 3rd Ave., at 24th St., Murray Hill). They’ll be pairing Mikkeller beers with the “Sense of Sight” tonight at 7 and 9pm. For $20, experience beers from their Single Hop Series paired with different sights. One other pairing session - touch - will run next Wednesday. To score a spot, call the bar at (212) 725-4766.
• We’re getting pretty close to Oktoberfest season, so why not have some German beer out in Queens? Franziskaner celebrates the coming season at Manor Oktoberfest Forest Hills (73-11 Yellowstone Blvd., at Ingram St., Forest Hills) with a glassware giveaway, and discounts on the Hefeweizen from 6-10pm.
• It’s Tommyknocker Night at Hoboken’sTexas Arizona (76 River St., at Hudson Pl., Hoboken) from 7-10pm. Enjoy glassware giveaways and delicious brews from the Idaho Springs, Colorado-based brewery.
• “The Battle of The West Coast” tonight at The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City, NJ), as the bar pits Rogue against Stone, with an interesting twist: you vote for your favorite brewery, and if you voted for the winner, you get free wings at 11:30pm tonight. In the Rogue corner, they’ll serve Love and Hoppiness, American Amber, and other rogueish offerings, as they face Stone’s selections of Cali-Belgique IPA, Sublimely Self-Righteous, and several other arrogant brews. The battle continues each night through Friday.

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Here are the beer-related goings-on after work tonight in and around New York:

• If you’re in Jersey, get to Cloverleaf Tavern (395 Bloomfield Ave., at Hanford Pl, Caldwell) now for some amazing Dogfish Head beers. They’re tapping 120 Minute IPA as we speak, Life and Limb at 5pm, and will have plenty of other kegs going strong all night, including the 2010 Worldwide Stout, Chateau Jiahu, and a keg of Punkin served through a randall filled with pumpkin seeds and cinnamon sticks.
• This week’s Ten Buck Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) celebrates sour beers! $10 gets you six tastings of beers like Allagash Confluence, Hanssens Oude Gueuze, and The Bruery Saison Rue. The tasting gets underway at 7:30pm.
• Farmhouse Ales are 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 different brews from Belgium and France for free, with your host, Bierkraft’s own Dr. Carl Burger.

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We’re still a little more than a week away from the start of New York Craft Beer Week, which runs September 16th-25th. We’ll have a full guide to the events later this week, but here are a few of the latest updates on happenings during the week.

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Here are the beer-related goings-on after work tonight in and around New York:

• The Gutter (200 N. 14th St., at Berry St., Williamsburg) hosts Mikkeller and brewer/founder Mikkel Bjergsø starting at 5pm. Enjoy some of his beers, like Beer Geek Breakfast and Drink'in In The Sun, and American beers like Hill Farmstead Double Galaxy and Cigar City Marshal Zhukov.
• Lagunitas takes over the taps at Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) tonight at 7pm, with six kegs and two casks, including Lil Sumpin Wild, Undercover Shutdown Ale, Hop Stoopid, and a mystery cask!
• The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City) hosts Rogue tonight at 6pm. They’ll have glassware giveaways and some great beer from Oregon on tap, including some rare ones like Love and Hoppiness, XS Old Crustacean, and Chatoe Rogue OREgasmic Ale.
• At 8pm tonight, meet Michael Kane of New Jersey’s own Kane Brewing at the Copper Mine Pub (323 Ridge Rd., at Crystal St., North Arlington, NJ). They’ll have the Single Fin Belgian Blonde, Head High IPA, and the Afterglow Rye Pale Ale all on tap, plus some of the finest cured meats in all the land to snack on.

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

• Long Island Beer Tasting at Bruekelen Bier Merchants rescheduled for this Saturday [LI Pulse]
• Huge 700-seat beer garden with 40 drafts in the works for South Slope [Brooklyn Paper]
• Hayley Jensen of Taproom 307 talks beer and food pairings [Wall Street Journal]
• An update from the Wide World of Beer Sports [Daily Intel]
• The Bergen Record visits Hoboken’s new Pilsener Haus & Biergarten
• A rundown of some recently-opened craft beer spots in the Hudson Valley [LoHud]
• It’s too early for Oktoberfest! [MyCentralJersey]
• Ithaca Beer Company breaks ground on their new brewery [BeerNews]

Back at the beginning of August, we got fed up with how early Fall seasonal beers were coming out this year. We started spotting Smuttynose Pumpkin on store shelves when the high temperature was topping out near 100 degrees, and said “enough is enough.”

We also said this:

If your fall seasonal is on a three-month cycle and is released this week, that means that three-month cycle is two-thirds in the summer. We just can’t have it that way. We like to drink our fall seasonals when it’s fall. And we don’t want to hoard them now just so we can drink them in November.

Lo and behold, that’s precisely the problem that Maine’s Shipyard is having: they’re going to run out of their Pumpkinhead Ale so early, so they’re extending their brewing season for it by a month.

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