Each day through the rest of September, we’ll feature an event during NY Craft Beer Week, which runs through this Sunday. With a complete list of events that’s a mile long, we’ll fish through all of them and tell you about the shining stars.

As part of NY Craft Beer Week, Mas (Farmhouse) will host a beer dinner that defies description

What good is eating food and drinking beer when you could be eating food with beer? That’s what you’ll get at The Ultimate Brewer’s Degustation, a six-course dinner being served on Wednesday night at 7pm at Mas (Farmhouse) in Greenwich Village.

The menu is prepared by reknown “Homebrew Chef” Sean Z. Paxton, who teamed up with Mas owner Galen Zamarra to present the ultimate beer geek’s dinner, where each farm-fresh course contains a beer element and is paired perfectly with a beer as well.

The full menu - which will blow your mind - is after the jump. The cost for the dinner is $180, and worth every penny. For reservations, call Mas at (212) 255-1790.

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Congratulations! You’ve made it to day 3. Here are some of today’s top events that are part of NY Craft Beer Week. For a complete list of all events, head to the NY Craft Beer Week events page.

• Of course, Get Real NY continues today, with a massive celebration of cask ale at The Altman Building in Chelsea. There are two sessions today at noon and 5pm. The initial reviews are raving, and the beer list is epic. There may still be tickets available at the door for $65.
• If you’re in the mood for a little history lesson, grab a bike and try Levy’s Unique NY Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz. The tour will bike through spots that highlight Brooklyn’s brewing history. If you can’t make it today, they’ll be having two more tours next Saturday and Sunday. For information and tickets, call Levy’s at (718) 930-4768.
• In the mood for pig? Head to Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd., at Westminster Rd., Ditmas Park) for an epic 14-hour pig roast from The Farm on Adderley with $5 pints of beer served from Lagunitas. The event is sold out online, but if you can get there early, there will be limited $25 tickets at the door today at noon.
• An impressive roster of small breweries will be in attendance at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) for their “Sunday Supper with Nanos and Nomads.” They’ll feature nanobreweries like Blind Bat and Greenport Harbor Brewing, and nomadic breweries (ones that move from brewery to brewery to make their beer) like Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. The beers will be paired with local food from Brooklyn Grange. Ticket sales are over online, but may be available at the door for $75. Call Jimmy’s at (212) 982-3006 to see if tickets are available.

Welcome to Day 2! Here are some of today’s top events that are part of NY Craft Beer Week. For a complete list of all events, head to the NY Craft Beer Week events page.

• Get Real NY, the massive celebration of cask ale at The Altman Building in Chelsea, runs today and tomorrow. The Saturday evening session is sold out, but there are still tickets available for all other sessions. Tickets for Sunday sessions are available for a discount price of $45 with the discount code “sunday1.”
• Today is the Staten Island Brewfest, too, a huge celebration of great beer from across the nation at The Wild Goose (530 Forest Ave., at Davis Ave., Staten Island). The afternoon session runs from noon-3pm and the evening session from 4-7pm. Tickets are just $25, and free shuttles run from the Staten Island Ferry terminal to the festival.
• Then there’s the Long Island City Craft Beer Festival at Water Taxi Beach (2 Borden Ave., at 2nd St., Long Island City), which will offer up beer samples from over two dozen breweries overlooking the Manhattan skyline for $45. Your best bet is the evening session, which runs from 5:30-9pm, when you can watch the sun set behind Manhattan as you sip on delicious beer.
• Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project will be previewing its new release in the “Once Upon a Time” series, November 15, 1901. It’s a historical recreation of a beer, much like their first release in the series that will also be available at the preview, February 27, 1832 Mild Ale, which was based on an actual historical recipe from London. They’ll throw the preview event at Swift Hibernian Lounge (34 E. 4th St., at Bowery, Noho) today from 3-7pm.
• Kelso of Brooklyn will kickoff NY Craft Beer Week tonight at 9pm at Brooklyn’s Moonshine (317 Columbia St., at Hamilton Ave., Red Hook) with a bevy of beers from Kelso, including Satisfaction (an English-style Bitter), Oktoberfest, and Recessionator. If you have the NY Craft Beer Week Passport, your first Kelso beer there is just $3. Kelso brewer Kelly Taylor will also be on hand at the event.

Here are some of today’s top events that are part of NY Craft Beer Week. For a complete list of all events, head to the NY Craft Beer Week events page.

• At Brooklyn's The Double Windsor (210 Prospect Park West, at 16th St., Windsor Terrace), they’re kicking off NY Craft Beer Week by pitting two states against each other. It’s New York vs. Pennsylvania, and more specifically, Sixpoint vs. Troegs. The battle begins at 7pm.
• Downtown, Mudville 9 (126 Chambers St., at W. Broadway, Tribeca) has nice cans tonight. They’re offering up a free tasing of cans from Oskar Blues from 6-8pm. The lineup: Dale’s Pale Ale, Gordon, and Mama’s Little Yella.
• All day long in Queens, Sunswick 35/35 (35-02 35th St., at 35th Ave., Astoria) is celebrating Two Brothers Brewing Company, dedicating five of their tap lines to the Illinois brewery, including Cane & Ebel, Atom Smasher, and the new Resistance IPA.
• It’s an epic evening at The Pony Bar (637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen), where Ithaca Beer Company will be serving up some of their best to kick off NY Craft Beer Week. Among them, they’ll pour several selections from the Superfriends collaboration series with other New York State breweries.
• Back to Brooklyn, where Stone Brewing is in the spotlight at 4th Avenue Pub (76 4th Ave., at Bergen St., Boerum Hill) all day long. They’ll have the 09/09/09 Vertical Epic, the Cali-Belgique IPA, and the Stone/Dogfish Head/Victory collaboration beer, Saison du Buff. Unrelated to Stone, they’ll also have the GABF gold medal-winning Bear Republic Ryevalry American-Belgo Rye Double IPA on draft. It’s a great spot to pre-party for tonight’s main event.
• The grandaddy of events tonight, of course, is Freaktoberfest at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn. They’ll offer up beers from over 30 breweries as the official kickoff party for NY Craft Beer Week. Music and sideshow performances will entertain the crowd, too. Tickets are $55, and may still be available at the door - call The Rock Shop at (718) 230-5740 to confirm.

On this first day of NY Craft Beer Week, it’s a good time to get to know our local brewers better. David Flaherty at Grapes & Grains brings us this little peek inside the brewers of Kelso and Heartland Brewery in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and a talk with their head brewer, Kelly Taylor. Check it out:

He’s also got a more detailed description - without the moving pictures - at New York Cork Report.

Here are the beer-related goings-on after work tonight:

• It’s Fisherman’s Night at Barcade (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg), and the bar is bringing in the whole boatload, including Pumpkin Stout and the Imperial Pumpkin Stout. It’s the first full day of fall! What better time to celebrate?
• Speaking of celebrating fall, The Stag’s Head (252 E. 51st St., at 2nd Ave., Turtle Bay) is celebrating the first day of fall by breaking out the fall seasonal beers from Left Hand, Smuttynose, Victory, and more, and they’ll be serving free baked apples and German sausages starting at 6pm.
• It’s Allagash Night at Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) starting at 6pm. Rob Tod of Allagash will be on hand, and you’ll get to try Confluence (a Wild Ale), Hugh Malone (a Belgian IPA), and their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Black.
• At Hop Devil Grill (129 St. Marks Pl., at Ave. A, East Village), it’s a Pennsylvanian Invasion tonight starting at 6pm. The bar will be stormed by Keystone State beers, including brews from Troegs, Stoudts, Weyerbacher, and Victory. Victory takes the cake here, with hard-to-spot brews like Moonglow Weizenbock and Village Coffee Brown among the offerings.