
For a month twice each year, Mad Sq. Eats sets up in a plaza across from Madison Square Park (at the intersection of 25th & Broadway), serving up food as diverse as Italian Rice Balls and Japanese-style hot dogs along with wine - and yes - plenty of craft beer to enjoy outside in the waning warm-weather days ahead. Here’s which vendors have the good stuff.

The widest selection of draft goes to Brooklyn chocolatier Nunu Chocolate’s booth, which serves six taps of beers like Firestone Walker Double DBA, Troegs Dead Reckoning Porter, and Ballast Point Sculpin. They’ve also got chocolates to pair with each of the beers, if that suits your fancy.

You can saddle up to the bar at The Cannibal, where in addition to their meat-focused menu, they too pour the Sculpin, along with Greenport Harbor Black Duck Porter, Southern Tier Pumking, and Allagash White. Just down the row at Bar Suzette, you can enjoy Southampton Double White, KelSo Pilsner, Brooklyn Oktoberfest, and Brooklyn Lager.

In the northwest corner of the square, you can pair your Jambalaya with Smuttynose Pumpkin, Ommegang Scythe & Sickle, or Sixpoint Bengali Tiger at Mason Jar’s booth. And Mighty Balls pairs Shiner Bock and Oktoberfest with their hefty meatballs.

Famed East Williamsburg pizzeria Roberta’s has their oven roaring at Mad Sq. Eats along with their Sixpoint-brewed house beer, Get Safe, and the malty Blue Point Oktoberfest.
The best part of this head-spinning list of brews? Most of them are just $6 a pour. Yes, good beer on the cheap, served outdoors on what looks to be another beautiful weekend. Mad Sq. Eats runs each day from 11am-9pm through October 25th.