Hey it’s Friday and as it’s the first weekend of 2014, we know you want to keep things fun. Well good, because we’re all about it! From the nation’s coolest beer festivals to movies, music, and cutting-edge TV – we’ve got your back big-time. Plus we’ve got a serious Weekend Beer Pick that you’ll want to get your hands on.

So welcome to our awesome Weekend Picks…

Celebrate The New Year Again Today with Dogfish Head (Philadelphia, PA) – One of our favorite places in the whole world is The Grey Lodge Public House in Philly, and they’re celebrating the New Year all day today with Dogfish Head. The Dogfish Head Shiny New Year event started at 10 am this morning, and will run well into the evening – know that things could get wild.

So fasten your seat belt and check out the tap list (you can thank us later):

Dogfish Head American Beauty IPA
Dogfish Head Birra Etrusca Bronze Ale
Dogfish Head Black & Blue
Dogfish Head Hell Hound on My Ale
Dogfish Head Kvasir
Dogfish Head Olde School Barley Wine
Dogfish Head Piercing Pils
Dogfish Head Rasion d’Etre
Dogfish Head Red & White
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA

On the Big Screen – David O Russell’s follow-up to last year’s enormously popular Silver Linings Playbook was released over the holidays and features four of our favorite actors. American Hustle stars an almost unrecognizable Christian Bale who put on 60 lbs to portray Irving Rosenfeld, a 70s con man with a hideous comb over. Amy Adams plays his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser. Jennifer Lawrence plays Irving’s wild card wife and Bradley Cooper stars as the FBI agent working on a sting involving New Jersey politicians and the mafia in a story that was partially based on 1978’s famous Abscam scandal.

Bacon and Beer – What’s Not To Like? (Harrisburg, PA) – The Federal Taphouse, central PA’s respected craft beer emporium, is celebrating the first weekend of 2014 by throwing a Craft Beer & Bacon Bash (what’s not to like!) this Saturday, January 4^th from 3:30 – 7 pm.

Check out these pairings and try to tell us you don’t want to be there tomorrow:

 -Tröegs Troegenator with deviled eggs & applewood-smoked bacon
– Victory Hop Ranch & Liberty Bell Ringer with Asian pork belly sliders
– Liquid Hero (Imperial Stout) with maple-glazed bacon
– Yards George Washington Porter with devil on horseback (?)
– Stoudt’s Belgian Triple with guanciale flat bread
– Otto’s Apricot Wheat with pancetta and white bean bruschetta
– Roy Pitz Ludwig’s Revenge with chicharones
– Old Forge Resolution Rye Stout with BLT on a stick (Yes!)

Just Sail Away (Miami, FL) – With a major snowstorm barreling across the Midwest and Boston looking at what could be more than a foot of snow, maybe an exit plan is in order -and we’ve got an idea. Jam Cruise 2014 is a musical voyage featuring artists as diverse as Galactic, The Wailers, and Thievery Corporation that will be heading out of Miami on Saturday for four days of sun, music, and hanging with you favorite artists. For more info, check out: Jam Cruise 13

Our Awesome Weekend Beer Pick

Elysian Brewing’s just re-released something not so idiotic that you’ll want to get your hands on. As part of the brewery’s Manic IPA Series, Savant IPA is a 6.3% ABV pleasure bittered with Northwest Chinook and finished with fruit-juicy New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops. It’s available now on draft and in 22 oz. bombers.