Kipp's Picks: Craft Beer Invitational, Ramo Gone Tiki, Lee Bannon, and Peng Label Springphony
Here’s a little bit of everything from extreme beer tastings, tiki worship, and late night dancing for you to get saucy with this weekend. Be ready to embrace your primal side as spring begins to poke it’s warm little noggin from the horizon.
Feb 26-28: Beijing Invitational Craft Beer Festival
Hop heads unite once again this weekend as the Beijing Invitational Craft Beer Festival lands at TRB Copper this weekend. The Invitational is the first and only beer festival in Beijing that highlights international breweries, presenting breweries like Baird, Yeastie Boys, Victory, plus a couple of new brands including Allagash, Mountain Goat and Epic to get you high on beer all weekend long. RMB 250 (includes entrance to the event, free-flow drinks, canapes provided by TRB and a limited edition 2016 BICBF glass). 5-9pm. TRB Copper
Feb 26: Ramo Gone Tiki
Get prepared as the pizza queens of Fangjia Hutong join forces with tiki royalty for this one night only extravaganza. While spring has yet to hit officially and the chill is still in the air, this Saturday they will demand the tiki gods spring forward, bringing moderate temperatures to our frigid local. They will be offering Jamaican a variety of tiki drinks, jerk rub surf 'n' turf skewers with pineapple salsa and Hawaiian pizza as a tribute to these lords of tropical fun. Free. 7pm. Ramo
Feb 27: Lee Bannon
Swinging in like Tarzan from genre to genre, this musical sage will be bringing sounds like footwork, trap, and ambient to the Dada sound system this weekend. In equal parts a soundtrack for inner-space exploration and primal courting rituals, this is will be a thinking man’s type of booty bash. RMB 60. 10pm. Dada
Feb 27: Peng Label Springphony
The beloved Pancake Lee and his crew of house music deviants will be taking over Migas for a truly spectacular evening of dancing and debauched celebration. It will likely be a departure from Igor Stravinsky’s “Right of Spring,” but it will without a doubt put that spring in your step as leaves return to the trees and those lusty feelings leading to procreation finally thaw. RMB 50, RMB 30 (advance). 10pm. The Bar at Migas
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