New beers from Brooklyn Brewery and Sixpoint celebrate their debut this week in the city – and both have one thing in common: COFFEE. Both beers put a unique spin on the ingredient, and both partnered with well-known coffee roasters in the area to choose just the right bean for the batch. Here’s the scoop on these two new brews, and where to find them:

The next in Brooklyn Brewery’s BQE (Brooklyn Quarterly Experiment) Series will be the Intensified Coffee Porter, a Robust Porter with Salvadorian coffee and aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels. The brewery chose a variety of coffee bean from Finca El Manzano Single Origin Coffee in El Salvador, then worked with Blue Bottle Coffee to roast it, providing a caffeinated kick to the already strong brew – it clocks in at 11.8% ABV. The tasting notes say the finished product will have “complex notes of dark chocolate, vanilla, oak, berries, and dried fruit.” The beer will debut at a release party at the brewery tonight (RSVP required), and will be available at retail in 750mL corked bottles beginning next month.

Because 3Beans wasn’t enough last year, Sixpoint has upped the ante with a new coffee and chocolate infused Imperial Porter: 4Beans. The “four beans” are romano beans (an ancient brewing ingredient), cocoa beans (in the form of cocoa husks from Mast Brothers Chocolate), coffee beans (Stumptown cold-brewed coffee), and vanilla beans (Madagascar Vanilla they call an “elegant link” between the ingredients). The beer, which will be available at retail in four-packs of 12-ounce cans, makes its NYC debut tomorrow at Bark Hot Dogs (155 Bleecker St., at Thompson St., Greenwich Village) from 5-7pm, with free samples and free pints of any Sixpoint beer for the first 25 people who buy a meal.

Beer Noggin in Bronxville celebrated its grand opening on Saturday

Craft beer doesn’t stop at the city limits. Westchester County, home of Captain Lawrence Brewing, Peekskill Brewery, and a handful of great beer venues, is seeing its beer scene grow, too. Here are three new beer venue openings to suit your suburban beer thirst – one near each Metro-North line!

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I grew up in Rhode Island. But for a long time, I was ashamed of Rhode Island’s sparse beer scene. Until four years ago, the tiny state had just one production brewery, and a handful of brewpubs that were entrenched after opening during the 1990s beer boom. Between 1999 and 2011, not a single new independent brewery opened in the state, and the only new beer with Rhode Island roots to appear was Narragansett, which was and still is brewed outside the state.

But today, Rhode Island is experiencing a small beer boom. The state’s residents are very proud of their local products, and craft beer was poised to take off in the state when Grey Sail Brewing of Rhode Island opened in late 2011 in an old Macaroni Factory in Westerly. Since then, eight more breweries have opened – an impressive number for a state you can drive across in about forty minutes.

Whether you’re in Rhode Island to visit the beaches of South County, the hip venues of Providence, or the historic mansions of Newport, there’s a beer venue out there for you. Here’s our rundown of some of our favorites.

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The craft beer situation at Citi Field continues to improve. After overhauling the selection last year and expanding on it at the beginning of this season, fans can now enjoy beers from both LIC Beer Project and Third Rail Beer at Mets games.

LIC Beer Project is in the park with a Belgian Pale Ale collaboration with Randolph Beer, on tap as part of the Manhattan beer bar’s new kiosk at the stadium. Randolph Beer landed a spot there as part of the Citi Call-Ups competition, an online vote between several small businesses whose winner was given a chance to serve their food for the remainder of the season. In addition to the beer, the stand will serve a jerk chicken po’boy to pair with it. The kiosk is in center field near Two Boots and Shake Shack.

There’s a new can in the park, too. 16-ounce cans of Third Rail’s Field 2 Farmhouse Ale are now available at the Empire State Craft stands near sections 133 and 414. The saison practically screams baseball, with its easy-drinking appeal and a baseball diamond right on the can.

In promising news from the city’s other major league ballpark, bottles of Southern Tier beers, including the Hop Sun and Right-of-Way IPA, are now sold in select areas at Yankee Stadium, in addition to cans of Bronx Brewery Summer Pale Ale. This could be a sign that the Yankees management, after years of complaining from fans, finally realized that they were painfully lacking in the craft beer department. Here’s hoping.

Two national chains that focus on craft beer are putting their stakes in Manhattan’s beer scene with upcoming openings. Florida-based World of Beer and The Brass Tap will open franchises in the coming months, bringing with them wide selections of beer to compete with local beer bars. Here’s a look at what both have to offer.

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Time for another edition of New Brews, where we tell you about the new beers arriving on draft lines and beer store shelves around the city. In this edition, we’ll tell you about some new bottles, cans, and draft beers from four of the city’s brewers.

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