DIY food- and beverage-related crafts have soared in popularity in the past several years, and we'll bet you can think of at least one or two friends who have at least flirted with a homebrewing hobby. Though equipment-heavy and time-consuming, there are enough people making their own beer in this city to fuel a number of loose organizations as well as a Brooklyn homebrew tour, a private living room crawl that nets the brew-curious a chance to try some of the borough's best home-crafted ales and lagers.

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Village Voice

Beer won't kill you, but the poisonous chemicals that come from the commonly used brew filtering process just might. NPR reports that German researchers recently found traces of arsenic in "hundreds of samples of beer, some at levels more than twice that allowed in drinking water."

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Village Voice

Maybe Khaleesi will get her own tribute in beer next year.

The folks in Game of Thrones know how to have a raucous time. Whether they're feasting, spanking, fighting or naked, the libations are always flowing. Brewery Ommegang is getting in on the fun and will introduce a Game of Thrones inspired line of beers next spring.

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Sundermann

Holiday shopping is in full swing and gift guides are aplenty, but what does a friend, spouse, family member, or fond admirer get for the devoted beer lover in their life? Gifts from these New York locales will do the trick.

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Sundermann

Blue Point's Hoptical Illusion

Style: IPA

Serving style: Draft poured into a mason jar, which is something I want to make a joke about, but will refrain.

Location: Cyprus Avenue in Park Slope

Cost: $6.50. That's kind of a weird price for a beer, right?

ABV: 6.8 percent

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Sundermann

A surprising choclately delight

Style: American Porter

Serving style: Bottle poured into glass

Location: My apartment during Nor'easter

Cost: $14 for a six-pack from the local bodega

ABV: 4.7 percent

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Sundermann

Look at that beaut.

Victory's Prima Pils

Style: German Pilsner

Serving style: Draft

Location: Beloved

Cost: $6

ABV: 5.3 percent

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Jessica Goodman

There will be beer.

A bright yellow crane stuck out against the Williamsburg waterfront on Tuesday morning as it installed three 25-foot-long fermenters in the Brooklyn Brewery on North 12th Street.

This week marks the third and final phase in the Brooklyn beer company's expansion plan that was announced in February 2011. Eight fermenters will be installed this week, enabling the brewery to produce beer 24 hours a day at its home in Williamsburg. It will be able to make 100,000 barrels of beer a year right in its backyard. Before the expansion, the brewery was churning out a fraction of that, at 12,000 local barrels a year.

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Wolaver's Pumpkin Ale

Style: Pumpkin Ale

Serving style: Draft

Location: The Scratcher

Cost: $5. Happy Hour!

ABV: 5.35 percent

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Sundermann

Saranac India Pale Ale from Matt Brewing Company in Utica, New York

Style: American IPA

Serving style: Bottle

Location: Little Pond Campground in the Catskills, which is somewhere upstate outside of the city. Don't ask me to explain it more than that.

Cost: A fellow camper brought it, and I swiped it. Thanks, Zander!

ABV: 5.8 percent

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