Sixpoint Beer Week event February 23.

Once again, we've partnered with our good friends at Sixpoint, this time to do an event for NYC Beer Week. On the 23rd, we'll feature this lineup (tentative, but tentatively awesome):

Old Redhooker (rare; a blend of American and British barleywine flavors)
Spice of Life December (http://sixpoint.com/menus/sol2012-2013.pdf)
Spice of Life January (http://sixpoint.com/menus/sol2012-2013.pdf)
REDD (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10607/54928)
3Beans (http://sixpoint.com/blog/recent/3beans-is-here)
Mystery Tap Beer!

2 casks, to be determined but certainly excellent

Mark your calendars and come by any time on Saturday for an amazing selection of Brooklyn beer. The earlier, the better, since the rarer ones may kick quickly!

Elephant Rock Books fiction reading March 11 at 7 pm.

It's been a while since we've had a fiction reading, so we're thrilled to feature two very talented writers on March 11 at 7 pm.

Patricia Ann McNair will read from her award-winning collection The Temple of Air, which was the winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Award and the Chicago Writer’s Assn. Book of the Year.

Jacob Appel will read from his forthcoming novel The Biology of Luck. He's won the Tobias Wolff Award, The Journal Fiction Prize and the Walker Percy Prize.

Further info:

The Temple of Air was recently declared as The Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year in Traditional Fiction. It previously won The Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose and was a finalist for The Society of Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction. In the manner of Winesburg, Ohio, McNair weaves the tragic, beautiful, secretive, and expectant lives of the townspeople of New Hope together to form a narrative that reveals more than just these characters themselves. The book unveils the story of a place, its inhabitants, and the tragedy and consequence that sometimes comes with simply living, in a way that only truly great fiction can. Find out more about this book at http://patriciaannmcnair.com/ or read the first chapter at http://erpmedia.net/books/TheTempleOfAir.html.

Jacob M. Appel has published short fiction in more than two hundred literary journals. His short story, Shell Game With Organs, won the Boston Review Short Fiction Contest in 1998. Another story, Enoch Arden's One Night Stands, won first prize in the New Millennium Writings competition in 2004. A third story, The Ataturk of the Outer Boroughs, won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom short story competition. Jacob has also won annual contests sponsored by Missouri Review, Arts & Letters, Briar Cliff Review, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Writers' Voice, the Dana Awards, the Salem Center for Women Writers, and Washington Square. His story about two census takers, Counting, was short listed for the O. Henry Award in 2001. Other stories received "special mention" for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2007.

Tip for a worthy cause today 12-8 pm.

All of Sean's tips today will be going to the Greenshade School, a pre-k and after-school program in Colorado, in honor of Kathleen Carlson, the late mother of his dear friend and colleague, Cokie Sears. Come by, have some drinks, and tip generously!

Babeland trivia returns February 10 at 8 pm!

If you haven't been to Babeland trivia at Pacific Standard before, you definitely need to come by. Amazing hosts, amazing sexy questions, and amazing sexy prizes. Here's their blurb below:

For Valentine’s Day, test your romance savvy at this popular Park Slope trivia night designed to satisfy lovebirds and the heartbroken alike. Sex Educators will throw out the questions and reward know-it-alls with Babeland prizes. Study up!

Fernet, finally!

As you might have noticed, we are, ahem, kind of a northern California bar, but for a long time we haven't carried the essential northern California (via Italy and Argentina) spirit, Fernet. That is no more! From now on, you can order Fernet with your bartender, however you like it--a little bit straight up or a larger pour on the rocks. It's just $6 for a small pour or $7 for a larger one. If you haven't tried it, it's lovely and at least worth a little sip. You won't be disappointed.

Final DadWagon Presents December 12 at 7 pm.

Okay, guys, this is it: the final installment of DadWagon Presents, our somewhat monthly series featuring (pro)creative writers expounding upon their fatherhood triumphs and failures (mostly the latter). If you've been wanting to see what all the hubbub is about, this is your last chance to do so.

To mark the occasion, we'll be giving away FREE BEER! Or at least, 32 free beers (and maybe more, depending on how many of those beers we, the editors of DadWagon.com, happen to consume).

So, this Wednesday, leave the kids at home and come see:

• Christopher Bonanos, the author of the recently released Instant: The Story of Polaroid, is a senior editor at New York Magazine and, far more importantly, a founder and emeritus editor of DadWagon. His 3-year-old son, Alex, appears in hundreds and hundreds of photos.

• Joshua David Stein began his career as an editor for Gawker.com and has served as editor-at-large at OUT magazine, senior editor at Departures magazine, editor of Black Ink, and editor-in-chief of BlackBook magazine. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York, The Guardian, Maxim, OUT, Details, blah blah blah. He lives in Morningside Heights and is the father of Achilles Heeren Stein, 11 months, and the husband of Ana Maria Heeren, 372 months.

City Harvest Food Drive, November 16-December 16.

Pacific Standard is pleased to announce that we'll be participating in City Harvest's food drive. Starting today and running through December 16 or whenever we reach 100 pounds of food, bring your non-perishable food items to the bar and we'll donate them to City Harvest. The basics on the drive and what items are most needed:

With the support of generous New Yorkers, City Harvest will rescue and deliver over 42 million pounds of food this year. Food drives keep our trucks stocked, helping to feed the more than 1 million New Yorkers who face hunger each year.

Most needed foods: Canned fruit, canned vegetables, peanut butter (plastic jars), mac and cheese (packaged), hot and cold cereal (packaged, family-sized)

More information about what to donate can be found here:

http://cityharvest.org/donate-food/donation-drives

We feel like an anorexic saying this, but let's get to 100 pounds by December 16th!