New York City Beer Week starts this Friday! We’ve told you a lot about the big featured events of NYC Beer Week, like the Opening Night Bash at Vanderbilt Hall and Brewer’s Choice, but that’s just scratching the surface. And with well north of a hundred different events listed in the guide for Beer Week, your head might spin (and not just from the beer). From tastings to beer dinners to tap takeovers, there’s something for everyone in the event listings. We’ve pulled out the 20 we’re most looking forward to - two from each and every day of beer week!

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The Bronx’s first brewery in nearly 50 years is up and running. Gun Hill Brewing Co., just off its namesake Gun Hill Road, started brewing in late January and will debut its first beer, Gun Hill Gold, this Friday at the New York City Beer Week Opening Night party at Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall.

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The New York City Brewers Guild kicks off the 6th Annual New York City Beer Week a week from today! For ten days, the five boroughs will celebrate craft beer, bars, and breweries in New York City. But despite a whole slate of events across the five boroughs (which we’ll start to run down next week), there’s one event we’re most excited about: their opening night event next Friday will give you a chance to drink in the beer of New York and the history of Grand Central Terminal.

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The future home of the Bronx Brewery on warmer, pre-construction days (Source: Google Maps)

It’s six o'clock on a Wednesday night and I’m trudging down a snow-covered sidewalk on East 136th Street in the South Bronx. Sirens wail in the distance and an Amtrak train rumbles on the trestle overhead. There isn’t a soul in sight, and there’s a streetlight out that makes me ponder walking in the middle of the street, having no idea what lurks on this desolate industrial block after business hours. Just past the trestle, I come across a plain, two-story brick building with a steel door and windows on the second floor. It looks like any typical low-rise industrial building in these types of neighborhoods in New York City. But inside of it, a dream several years in the making is finally becoming reality: The Bronx Brewery is finally under construction.

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It’s finally here! The long-awaited release of beers from Michigan-based Bell’s Brewery is here. Bottles have already started popping up at retail locations this morning, and there’s a week full of launch events ahead of us. And as we’ve updated our calendar page, it’s even easier to find all the events lined up this week.

Bell’s will be sending their full arsenal of year-round and seasonal beers here. Most notably, there will be kegs of the highly-rated Hopslam floating around the city next week, much to the joy of hop heads. In addition to that, we’ll see the Smitten Golden Rye, the Cherry Stout, Expedition Stout,Special Double Cream, and more at spots around the city this week, on top of the beloved year-round Two-Hearted, Amber, and the Oarsman Ale.

Here’s our rundown of all the events going on this week. No matter where you are in the city, there’s probably one near you!

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Because the city can’t seem to go a week without a new beer spot opening, First Look is our roundup of the latest places to open that specialize in craft beer - bars, restaurants, and stores. This week, First Look goes German, with spots in Fort Greene and the Financial District that’ll have you saying “Prost!” Plus, a new Midtown craft beer bar that could become a new favorite for Penn Station and Port Authority commuters.

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