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

• Celebrate Shmaltz Night at Barcade (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) starting at 5pm with well over a dozen tap lines dedicated to the Coney Island and He'brew brands. Among them: a barrel-aged Human Blockhead, three vintages of the Rejewvenator, and the Vertical Jewbelation - a blend of all seven Jewbelation recipes aged in Sazerac rye whiskey barrels.
• Moonshine (317 Columbia St., at Woodhull St., Carroll Gardens) breaks out some Blue Point tonight at 7pm, with a rare cask-conditioned pin of Hoptical Illusion, plus Toasted Lager, Summer Ale, and more on tap.
• Philly’s Yards Brewing visits The Iron Monkey (97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City, NJ) tonight at 6pm, with six brews on tap including Thomas Jefferson’s Tavern Ale, Brawler session beer, and a firkin of Extra Special Ale (ESA).
• Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) celebrates IPAs tonight at 7pm. They’ll dedicate their taps to some killer IPAs from Ballast Point, Firestone Walker, Mikkeller, Sixpoint, and many more.

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

• Draft Magazine visits Brooklyn, recommends Dean Street, Eastern District, Beer Table
• Cornell hires first hops specialist to get New York State back on the hops-growing wagon [Post-Standard]
• NY Mag asks beer sellers across the city to name their favorite summer brews
• They’re out to take away your pub crawls! [DNAinfo]
• GUYS, people enjoy drinking Kölsch during the summer, and the Times is on it [NY Times]
• Another great defense of canned beer from the mainstream media [Washington Times]
• Would you drink a beer with a picture of sperm on it? Guess Smuttynose will find out soon enough [BeerNews]

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

• Smuttynose takes over the taps at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) today starting at 3pm, with 2008 vintages of the G-Bock and Wheatwine, plus Finest Kind IPA and a special beer brewed exclusively for Blind Tiger called Tiger Juice, an American Mild brewed with Bravo hops.
• While we’re on a New England kick, Harpoon is at The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West, at 16th St., Windsor Terrace) tonight starting at 7pm, with the new 100 Barrel Series Rich & Dan’s Rye IPA on tap, along with two from their Leviathan Series and the venerable Harpoon IPA.
• Taproom 307 (307 3rd Ave., at 24th St., Murray Hill) hosts Coney Island Lagers with their Pre-4th of July Party tonight at 6pm. Enjoy freakshow acts (if you enjoy that sort of thing), plus a hula-hooping and stein holding contest. As for the beer, give Mermaid Pilsner, Albino Python, or He'brew Rejewvenator a try.
• And to show we never sell uptown short, it’s worth noting that Dive Bar (732 Amsterdam Ave., at 96th St., Upper West Side) plays host to a Goose Island tasting tonight at 7pm, with ten beers on tap fresh from Chicago.

If you think you’ve got what it takes to make a beer that ends up on tap at a New York bar, Heartland Brewery is holding a homebrew contest this summer. You’ll need to sign up by this Friday, July 1st, and submit your beers for judging on August 10th.

A homebrew contest in the middle of the summer? Something tells me there will be a lot of Belgian beers entered.

If you brew in large enough quantities to have 1/6-barrel to share, you can also enter the People’s Choice contest, which will be judged at a ticketed tasting open to the public on August 16th.

A ½-barrel batch of the winner’s beer will be brewed at Heartland’s Brooklyn brewery and served on tap at several Heartland locations across Manhattan. Plus, the winner will get a $100 Heartland gift certificate.

Full details for the contest and how to enter are on their Facebook page. Hurry up! The deadline to enter is on Friday!

Ray Deter, owner of d.b.a., at last year’s Good Beer Seal Awards (via Metromix)

Some disturbing news in the beer community comes via d.b.a., a beer bar with locations in both the East Village and Williamsburg:

We are reaching out to every one of our patrons and friends to please send your prayers and loving energy to Ray Deter at this time.

As some of you may have heard, Ray was in a very serious bicycle accident yesterday and is in critical condition. For those of you who are hearing this for the first time, we are so sorry to share this news in this manner, though we are grateful for the tool to reach many of you.

We’d like to request that you pray for and send your loving healing, thoughts, and energy to Ray for his recovery. And we do ask at this time that you please do NOT visit the hospital, it’s too overwhelming for the family, and they request you keep sending love. Likewise please don’t call the bars right now, it’s too huge to comprehend, everyone is going through a lot.

Your thoughts and love are most appreciated.

According to DNAInfo, the incident happened around 5:30 last night at the intersection of Canal Street and West Broadway.

We’ll relay anymore info when we hear more, and you can follow the d.b.a. Facebook Page for updates. In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers are with our friend Ray and the entire d.b.a. family.

We hope George Lucas won’t sue us for this. Here are the beer-related goings-on after work in and around New York tonight:

• Empire Brewing hosts a casual dinner tonight at Spring Lounge (48 Spring St., at Mulberry St., Little Italy) starting at 6pm. Try the Empire IPA and several other of the Syracuse-based brewer’s creations, plus complimentary and complementary (see what we did there?) food from Jeff Maslanka of Black Shack Burger.
• Over at Good Beer NYC (422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A), Sly Fox takes over some taps for the evening starting at 6:30pm. They’ll have cheese pairings for the brews, plus discounts on pints, flights, and growlers.
• This week’s $10 Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) salutes wheat beers from around the world. Starting at 7:30, for just $10, you can taste six wheat beers, from Troegs Dreamweaver to Schneider Aventinus.