Dan Murphy

The biggest craft beer holiday of the year is right around the corner. Black Friday is a busy day for beer lovers in the Milwaukee area, and some of the fun starts on the Wednesday before.

It’s a busy beer week thanks to Movember events, a beer dinner, plenty of tastings, and a big anniversary for Lion’s Tail Brewing.

Beerfriends WI has a bunch of Movember beer-related events – plus, Black Husky gets soulful with the Bluegrass Gospel Brunch.

Boo! Halloween-related events dominate the beer scene this week, but other stuff is happening too, including the launch of a full month of Movember events.

Spooky season, a fall beer fest at Pilot Project and a 3 Sheeps visit to Station No. 06 are all on tap this week. Cheers!

It’s a big beer release week with Gathering Place’s Limb Shaker Day and Central Waters’ first Milwaukee release of Black Gold.

Explorium rolls out its Deer District location, Third Space turns 9, New Barons toasts five years and Oktoberfest season reaches a crescendo.

Lots of anniversaries this week. Gathering Place Brewing celebrates eight years of business and Station No. 06 has been around for six. On Sunday, Sprecher Brewing raises a glass to 40 years of beer…

Sincere best wishes go out to the handful of local breweries who were affected by the flooding last weekend. Let’s hope the cleanup and return to normal happenings quickly.

This week’s beer events are short on quantity but don’t lack for quality. One of the highlights is Wisconsin IPA Fest, celebrating its ninth year at Third Space Brewing on Saturday.