Three don't-miss beers for Sacramento Beer Week

You're not getting any younger. And you're not getting any Younger. As in the stupidly hyped Russian River Brewing Company triple IPA of the Pliny genus, which will converge on Sacramento—multihour lines and all—during this incarnation of Sacramento Beer Week. Screw that. So many other beers worth not queuing for. Here are a few:

1. Device Brewing Co. and Track 7 Brewing Co. are collaborating for Beer Week to make the Friendly Fire English Barleywine. This will be an intense, sweet brew with booming alcohol—Ken Anthony at Device says it's gonna land at 12 percent. “It's big, badass,” he claims. Find it at Device or Track 7.

2. Berryessa Brewing Co.'s Chris Miller has his own third-level IPA, Trendy Triple IPA, a sly nod to the Younger and its ubiquitous hype. This brew might actually be better: dry and piney with lovely grapefruit and tropical aromas. Find this around town and at his brewery in Winters.

3. Drink your milk stout at Bike Dog Brewing Company—and why not give its eight variants a spin, too. Brew nerds hoping to try Goose Island's Proprietor's or Cigar City Brewing's Life Is Like will get some satisfaction from Bike Dog's coconut or bourbon versions.