Dave McLean at Magnolia makes no secret of the fact that beer week events are, first and foremost, a chance for him to combine his favorite pleasures with beer, and if any customers happen to like those combinations too, then it's a lucky coincidence. Thursday being such a beautiful day, Magnolia's Oyster Fest was where some of the city's brewing elite gathered to revel in the pairing of briny bivalves, dry stout, and afternoon sunshine. An argument could be made that life doesn't get any better than that. After the sun set, Shmaltz Brewery stripped off their yarmulkes, strapped on their corsets and hosted the Coney Island Beerlesque Festival, a feast of bad behavior unparalleled elsewhere in Beer Week, (except maybe in an alley around the corner from Toronado) that has to be seen to be believed.
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