Your weekend planner

Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

Rick Bonino

A look at the weekend in local craft beer:

SATURDAY

– Daft Badger's End of Summer Celebration from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. will feature live music, German-style food and two special beer releases: a traditional Oktoberfest lager and a bourbon barrel-aged imperial cherry stout.

– The Lantern Tap House's fourth annual Sour Fest continues from 2 to 10, with 15 sours on tap plus live music at 9.

– Community Pint's Jones Radiator Weekend honors the popular bar that formerly occupied its space, with special beers and discounts for customers who wear their old Jones gear or bring their mugs.

– River City's Randall for the weekend is Afternoon IPA infused with Lord Bergamot tea.– No-Li's pub specialties include RGV2, an oatier, creamier version of Rise & Grind coffee milk stout, and the pistachio-infused Nutty Professor brown.

– Whistle Punk's Reverse Coast to Coast IPA is a mirror image of their regular soft, juicy New England-style IPA, with hops added at the beginning of the brewing process instead of the end for maximum bitterness.

– Selkirk Abbey has tapped a smooth Belgian-style strong dark ale called Mercy.

– The seasonal I-Peach-A is back at 238 on Green Bluff.

– Beers from Iron Goat (including a Helles and Back collaboration with brewery-in-progress Knucklehead), Badass Backyard, Whistle Punk and Mad Bomber will pour for the 12th annual POW MIA Fundraiser and Ride presented by the Combat Vet Riders motorcyle club; proceeds support area veterans.

SUNDAY

– Iron Goat has its annual Spohop party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to collect homegrown hops for a community fresh-hop beer; those who bring hops or help pick them off the bines will get half-price pints of the finished product.