NJ beer: 3 awesome craft brewery events you can't miss this week

Alex Biese | Asbury Park Press

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It's time to raise a glass, as this week three New Jersey craft breweries will be hosting awesome events. Read on for all of the vital information.

Brew Music at Asbury Park Brewery

Instrument company Korg will be in the house at Asbury Park Brewery, 810 Sewall Ave., Asbury Park, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 12 for Brew Music.

Working with VOX amplifiers and Asbury Park's Russo Music, a selection of choice Korg gear will be available for demos and instruction with product specialists on hand. And perhaps best of all, the first 100 guests for this no cover event receive a free beer.

Korg has held previous similar events in New York City, Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago and Austin.

It's a natural partnership in Asbury Park, as Asbury Park Brewery CEO and founder Jeff Plate also moonlights as a local musician.

One Year Canniversary at Icarus Brewing Co.

Lakewood standard-bearer Icarus Brewing Co., 1790 Swathmore Ave., celebrates one year of releasing acclaimed cans of craft beer with a big party 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, July 13.

To mark the occasion, the company is set to release the Double Dry-Hopped Power Juicer Imperial New England India Pale Ale with Lactose, 7.5 percent ABV, as well as its 14.5 percent ABV Russian imperial stout finished on coffee, Kalashnikoffee.

Plus, Icarus is teasing on its Facebook page that there may be other surprises and tapping of rare kegs.

Look back on Icarus' beginnings with this January 2017 video:

Check out Lakewood's new craft brewery! We sampled a few of their signature offerings prior to the grand opening on January 13th.

102 Years Later - Shark Attack IPA event at Forgotten Boardwalk

Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company, 1940 Olney Ave. in Cherry Hill, has long played with the history surrounding the early 20th Century shark attacks that shocked the Jersey Shore.

(Find out more about Forgotten Boardwalk in the video at the top of this story.)

The 1916 Shore Shiver India Pale Ale comes with a sharp 6.9 percent ABV and a titular invocation of the attacks — "shiver," after all, is the term for a group of sharks.

Those Matawan-area attacks would eventually inspire Princeton author Peter Benchley's 1974 novel "Jaws," adapted the following year by Steven Spielberg — who spent part of his youth in Camden County — into a landmark film.

From noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 14, Forgotten Boardwalk will host 102 Years Later - The Shark Attack IPA Event.

A couple of the brewery's signature IPAs, 1916 Shore Shiver and Pocket Trick, will be on tap along with a number of special IPAs for the occasion.

Special featured beers will include, according to news release: