Nothing to do today? Then you are not thinking with your beer soaked brain. There are enough great beer events happening in and around Philly that you will wish you could clone yourself and get to them all.
Philadelphia
Drafting Room Spring House
noon start, all day, PAYG
Offerings scheduled to include:
Green Flash West Coast IPA, Brooklyn Blast, Drafting Room 15th Anniversary Ale, Green Flash Imperial IPA, Moylan’s Hopsickle, Southern Tier Hoppe, Rogue Latona, Southern Tier Gemini, Yards Cape of Good Hope, Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel, Otter Creek Imperial IPA, Iron Hill (North Wales) Something Hoppy, Duvel Green, Bear Republic Racer X, Arcadia Hop Rocket, Rogue xs I2PA, Thirty Dog Hoppus Maximus, Great Lakes Burning River, Bavarian Barbarian Weldsplatter, Stoudts Double IPA, Tröegs Nugget Nectar “Firkin”
Sorry, No Growlers
Johnny Brenda's
Pils PicnicNoon, all day, PAYG
Why celebrate Oktoberfest when SUMMER IS STILL HERE?! Saturday, September 12 from noon on we'll be serving 10 local pils on tap from Victory, Stoudts, Dock Street, Troegs, Sly Fox, Iron Hill, and McKenzie. We will be serving delicious picnic food like deviled eggs, potato salad, cold fried chicken, and more! Come enjoy the crisp, refreshing pilsners!TJ's Restaurant & Drinkery 3-5pm
Bring your best brews to share and meet other Suburban Pilly BAs. TJ's will be supplying the space and various appetizers to go around. This is a no cost event - so please tip your server generously as they will have to serve the apps and clean up after us. If the event is successful we will host one every quarter throughout the year.
Northern Liberties
1pm
With your $20 admission price you also get a beer from Stoudt's and a cocktail mixed with ROOT liqueur. A bottomless cup can be purchased for an additional $10. Doors open to the event at 1pm. The first 35 people through the door also get a FREE Rib Cook-Off t-shirt from Philly Fresh Prints!A Full Plate's 3rd Annual Rib Cook-Off2nd and N. Hancock Streets (directly behind The Piazza @ Schmidt's)FREE PARKING
Pittsburgh
Session One: 12pm - 3pm (SOLD OUT), Session Two: 5pm - 8pm (SOLD OUT)
A Craft Brewing Experience Featuring: Beer Samples From 32 Craft Breweries, Food From Over 20 Local Restaurants, Live Art & Music, Deluxe Kegerator Art & Raffle, The Return of the Belgian Cafe, Big Pour's Own Brew, More Pours... Think Glass & Concrete, Many Organic Offerings, And Much Much More! Three hours of beer, live art & music. In two short years, the Big Pour has established itself as the preeminent craft beer festival in the region. Come and experience Craft Brewing like nowhere else in Pittsburgh. No one attending will ever be the same!
Stating that it's a big beer weekend in Philly is akin to reporting that the Schuylkill River is wet and flowing. It's a given. Just how big a beer weekend is the better question. Today is full of enough choices to have any beer centric individual frothing at the mouth. 
