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So many beers- So little time... More early fall seasonals hitting the shelves this week and we've a number of interesting new offerings that you'll want to chase down...Plus we've some new releases from Ninkasi and New Belgium that sound pretty serious as well.

We blame the industry for this... It used to be that when we wrapped up our Weekend Picks on Friday, we could coast through the weekend. There was little need to check in for updates -things were pretty much done. But clearly all that's changed.

So here's some of what's happened in the world of craft beer while you were off enjoying yourselves.

So many beers, So little time...There's a small brewery up in Portland, Maine, with a beer that's generating Heady Topper-like buzz. We've that story for you plus other cool new releases from Goose Island and New Belgium Brewing that you'll want to get your sweaty little hands on.

We all drink for different reasons. And one of the reasons why we drink at the American Craft Beer compound is to take the "edge" off of a sometimes troubling and unruly world.

Here are 10 things that worry us - and have been "driving us to drink" lately.

During the recent GWAR B-Q, I was lucky enough to spend a few minutes with one of metal and craft beer collaboration's greats, Scott Hull of Virginia's grindcore band Pig Destroyer. Their collaboration beer with Three Floyds, Permanent Funeral, is hands-down one of the best DIPAs that this newly converted IPA girl has ever had.