So many beers, So little time...You'd expect all the new releases to be slowing down a little at this time of year - but clearly they're not - and we've a number of "newbies" for you to peruse. We've also some exciting new beers from Widmer Brothers and Alaskan Brewing that you'll need to chase down.

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.

It's amazing how fast some things can develop intro "something" in this country - the speed with which certain things can become "the thing" overnight. And something that is now "a thing" will be happening today and that thing is... Black Friday Beer.

Hey it's Friday and you're Thanksgiving Day feast is over, but you've still got the weekend in front of you and are ready to get out of the house and have some fun. Well good, because we're all kinds of things for you to do.  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 Thanksgiving Weekend Picks...

It's amazing how fast some things can develop into "something" in this country - the speed with which certain things can become "the thing" overnight. And something that is now "a thing" will be happening this Friday, and that thing is... Black Friday Beer.

For most brewers, the goal is to get into your local bottle shops, maybe even make it into the larger regional grocers and establish a growing customer base for their handcrafted, liquid gold. Others have even loftier goals: becoming a household name and having an even greater impact on the national scene by influencing their brewing peers. Then there are the little guys: those who choose not to distribute, those who don't ferment their beer on steel, those who set the production bar lower so the quality can be even higher. One of those brewers is de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon.

In most lines of work, the odds of ending up in Federal Court singing "Turn Down for What" in front of a 79-year-old judge as he presides over your $1.3 million lawsuit are about as slim as the odds of being extorted by a T-shirt company over the use of a made-up word. But that's the exact situation brewery owner Danny Robinson found himself in this July.

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.

Hey we get it. You're busy and you can't hang with us 24/7. But still, we don't want you to be missing all the good stuff. So as part of our ongoing commitment to bringing you the best craft beer and lifestyle coverage on the face of the planet - and to keep you plugged into our ongoing recklessness - we do a weekly compilation of our good, bad and ugly.

So welcome to another edition of our Friday Wrap-Up...

Hey it's Friday...Work's wrapping up and you're ready for some fun. Well good, because we're all about it and 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...