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Eat Cetera: Beer Picnic On Governors Island This Weekend, An Exclusive Roof Opens

The view from Governors Island. Make sure you wait an hour after eating before swimming home! (Kira305's Flickr)Brewers' PicNyc: On this holiday weekend, Governors Island is hosting a two-day beer bash with part of the proceeds benefiting Added Value Farm, a sustainable farm on the island. This is the island's official opening weekend, and on Sunday and Monday you'll be able to salute the unofficial start of summer with the finest of beer goggles. Craft beer selections will be provided by Goose Island, Kelso, Brooklyn Brewery, Two Brothers, Sixpoint, Palm, Blue Point; food is coming at you from Cinnamon Snail, Patacon Pisao, Red Jacket Orchards, Rick's Picks, Jimmy's No. 43, Luke's Lobsters, Fette Sau, Brooklyn Farmacy, and others. Live music and unspecified performance art will tie the whole thing together. Basic admission is $15, but for $25 you get two beers and one food taste. Additional drink tickets will be sold on-site. And for $85, high rollers get early admission at 11 a.m. and unlimited food tastes and beer. The whole shebang lasts until 5 p.m., at which point you're in for a very interesting ferry ride back to Manhattan. — Gothamist

Published May 25, 2011

Modified May 25, 2011

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Click through on the photos for the scoop on this weekend's Brewers' PicNyc on Governors Island, the rooftop opening to the rabble at A60, and Vai Spuntino Bar's brunch launch.