No Pintful column today -- due to my furlough last week -- but two beer events this week I can't let pass without a mention.

The first is Casks for a Cure 4 at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Big Boss Beer in Raleigh. The event -- which costs $10 -- raises money for the state's Leukemia and Lymphoma Society chapter. Top area homebrewers and Haw River Farmhouse Ales will offer a number of interesting brews. Here's the beer lineup:

--From Haw River Farmhouse Ales: Cask of Vuilaard, a sour-tart Flanders Oude Bruin.

--From the homebrewers: Paul Hobson and Lara Murphy: Blood Orange Saison; Dan Caswell: Chocolate Brown Ale; Matt Shellington: Farmhouse IPA; Allan Mason: Robust Porter; Andrew Turner: Top Withens, a strong pale ale.

And this weekend is the big Brewgaloo 2013 event in Raleigh's City Plaza from 3 to 9 p.m. The event features North Carolina craft breweries, local food trucks and bands.

Among the breweries: Big Boss, Lonerider, Aviator, Natty Greene's, White Street, Duck-Rabbit, Railhouse, Starpoint, Deep River, Four Friends and Bombshell. Buy tickets online and get more information here.

Lovers of North Carolina craft beer should head to downtown Raleigh from 3-9 p.m. Saturday for Brewgaloo, a craft beer event with live music and food trucks.

Fifteen breweries from Roth Brewing Co. to Big Boss Brewing, Sub Rosa to Fortnight (the latter two haven't even opened yet) will be pouring beer in City Plaza, or the 400 block of Fayetteville St. There is no cover charge. You must buy brew bucks to purchase beer: $1 buys one brew buck, 5 brew bucks gets you a pint of beer, or 1 brew buck gets you a 3-ounce tasting. If you buy brew bucks online before the event, you can get 25 brew bucks for $20. On Saturday, it's full price. Go HERE to buy brew bucks.

The event is open to the public. You can come to the event and then go have dinner and go back to taste more beer. The event will happen rain or shine.

There will be four bands (The Small Ponds, Hank Sinatra, Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos and I was Totally Destroying It) and five food trucks (Klausie's Pizza, Cafe Prost, Big Al's BBQ, Chirba Chirba Dumpling and Baguettaboutit.)

The event is sponsored by Shop Local Raleigh, which is funded by the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association. About Brewgaloo, organizer Jennifer Martin says, "We just want to get consumers focused on shopping local, eating local and drinking local."