Tony Knipling of Vecenie Distributing notes that the Millvale distributor has several interesting new brews, including "Pittsburgh's first Slovenian import," Lasko Club; Brasserie Pietra brews from Corsica, one brewed with chestnuts and another with with myrtle, strawberry, rockrose and spices; Scottish craft brews (including one made with guarana, kola nuts and poppy seeds) from Brew Dog; and Sah'tea, described as a "modern update of Finnish beer" brewed with black tea, juniper berries and other spices and hot river rocks, from Delaware's always-edgy Dogfish Head.

(Dock Street Brewery, meanwhile, announces the release at the West Philadelphia brewery and restaurant of Sudan Grass Sorghum Ale, a draft-only beer "inspired by the traditional fermented sorghum beverages found in Africa" -- and it's gluten-free).

Vecenie also is celebrating the local arrival, in kegs and bottles, of San Diego's Stone Brewing's gold medal-winning Levitation Ale, a high-taste but low-test (4.4 percent alcohol by volume) hoppy amber ale previewed here at last year's Steel City Big Pour beer fest.

More than two dozen area watering holes, including Johnny's Wife's Place II in Level Green, will be debuting the draft on Monday and Tuesday. See a full list of locations at www.beersince1933.com.

Learn more about this year's Big Pour (Sept. 12) at constructionjunction.org/pages/bigpour.

This weekend, it's the Sharp Edge Great European Beer Fest (sharpedgebeer.com) in Friendship/East Liberty, where you can try the Lasko Club, Brew Dog stuff and many, many imported brews.

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More brewers are putting their brews in cans, and this week, Straub of St. Marys, Elk County, joined them. First Straub in cans in 137 years.