Hey it’s Friday… and you’re ready for some fun that doesn’t involve Easter eggs. Well good, because we’ve got all kinds of ideas for you. From the nation’s coolest beer festivals to movies, music and cutting edge TV – we’ve got your back big-time.  Plus we’ve a weekend beer pick for you too, because we know you’ll be drinking!

So welcome to our awesome Weekend Picks…

We Want The Funk! (Portland, OR) – You’ll be hard pressed to find a town as crazy about Saisons, Flemish, Biere de Garde, Brett and fruited beers as you do in Portland today. So it only makes sense that Saturday and Sunday in PDX will feature one of the best collections of farmhouse styles anywhere. The 4th Annual Portland Farmhouse & Wild Ale Festival is going down at Saraveza this weekend and you shouldn’t miss it. There will be over 70 beers available including offerings from The Ale Apothecary, Block 15, Breakside, The Bruery, de Garde, Jester King, Perennial and many more. You will also find 3 ACB contributors – Steve, Matt and Warren who’ll be on hand for the festivities on Saturday. For more details on the event, check out The New School. 

On The Big Screen – Superman faces off against the dark knight this weekend when Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens nationally. Henry Cavill reprises his role as the Man of Steel, while Ben Affleck dons the cape for the first time as an aging and discouraged Batman. Jesse Eisenberg is the new Lex Luther in this superhero showdown and Wonder Woman even makes an appearance.

Spring Seasonal Tasting In The Big Apple (New York, NY) – The 5^th annual NYC Craft Beer Festival returns to the Lexington Armory in Manhattan, this weekend, and it promises to be a blast. This year’s two-day (March 25^th-26^th) three session event, will feature over 150 craft beers, artisan meads and ciders from some of the region’s most exciting new breweries – so you don’t want to miss it.

TV Time – HBO takes on the music industry in Vinyl and returns us to a 1970’s New York awash in sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, this period drama stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, as a coke-addled music executive at American Century Records, desperately trying to navigate a rapidly changing musical landscape, as the disco era gives way to a punk revolution.

Our Awesome Weekend Beer Pick

If you read us regularly (and we can’t imagine why you wouldn’t), you know that we’re totally in the tank for Firestone Walker and are especially enjoy their lower alcohol offerings.  Easy Jack IPA is a 4.7% ABV refresher brewed with a globetrotting selection of hop varieties from Europe, New Zealand and North America. 

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