Month: May 2012

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is perfect for the warmer weather coming our way! It’s De la Senne – Zinnebir from Belgium, a  5.5% blonde ale that is available only from two Brussels breweries (the other brewery that has this style of blonde ale under a different label is Cantillon). It’s a hoppy, bright beer with good malt character and complex yeast notes.  The name comes from the Belgian slang word “zinneke” or “little bastards” which refers to wild mutts that used to be found in the poorer sections of Brussels but now refers to boys living in the poorer parts of town who have one Flemish-speaking and one French-speaking parent. Jimmy taps promptly at 5 p.m., and this rare brew is while supplies last. But we’ll serve you no matter what language your folks speak so long as they speak the language of craft beer!

It’s Burger Week in NYC, and we’re gearing up for our own meaty event: The Locavore Burger Spread-Off will take place on Friday, from 5-9 p.m., where you will get a chance to try our famous grass-fed beef burger—in mini-form—with local spreads:

• Schoolhouse Kitchen Spreadables
• Kensington Ketchup
• My Friend’s Mustard
• Mama Oh’s Kimchi
• High River Sauces Tears of the Sun Hot Sauce

And what’s a burger without pickles? Our friends at Donovan’s Cellar have us covered in that regard, and we’ll have plenty of bread & butter pickles to complement the other toppings. And since it’s American Craft Beer Week, we’ll have selected tastings of beers to wash down the beef!

Get your all-inclusive ticket here, and see you Friday!

 

If you’re a foodie or a craft beer lover, the many event weeks in NYC can keep you on the go. This week, you can enjoy two such events when NY Burger Week and American Craft Beer Week coincide to bring you the very best of the city’s craft beer and beef (… and boar… and bison… and lamb…).

Jimmy’s No. 43 is the home for interesting and unusual beers, and as such we are proud to be participating in American Craft Beer Week (as we do every week!) with a broad range of outstanding American small craft breweries available both on tap and in the bottle. This week we have some of the top small American craft breweries featuring their most limited items:


Bottles

• Leelanau Whaleback White Ale (Michigan), brewed by Jolly Pumpkin brewer Ron Jeffries at a neighboring brewery
• AleSmith “Horny Devil” (San Diego “cult” brewery),  a collectible large .750 bottle of this strong ale (11% ABV)
• Stillwater Cellar Door (Maryland), from hip traveling DJ brewer Brian Strumke (he makes this label in Maryland when not brewing in Europe)

On draft

• Allagash Blonde (Maine), a very limited, Belgian style pale ale that won gold at the Great American Beer Festival
• Atwater Kolsch (Michigan), a German-style specialist
• Founders (Michigan), Centennial IPA
• Two Brothers (Illinois), Red Eye Coffee Porter
• Bronx Brewery, Pale Ale

In addition, our regular $10 Tuesday Tastings this week features “New England Beers.” We’ll have bottles from Clown Shoes (Massachusetts), Maine Beer Co., Wandering Star Zingari Wit (also Massachusetts),  and Alchemist Heady Topper (Vermont), among others.

As for beef, well, we always have our incredible locally-sourced, grass fed burgers on the menu, but this week we are having a special Locavore Burger Spread-Off. We’re offering a limited number of all-inclusive (and all you can eat) tickets for Friday’s gathering (5-9 p.m. with details/ticketing info available here).

We hope to see you as we celebrate American Craft Beer and Burger Weeks at Jimmy’s No. 43.

Yesterday’s Brooklyn Food Conference was a rousing success, and Jimmy’s No. 43 was happy to be in attendance for a panel that discussed Sustainable Restaurants: Triple Bottom Line of Profitability, Sustainability and Social Justice. Jimmy Carbone joined Bill Telepan (Telepan Restaurant), iCi’s Catherine Saillard, Francine Stephens (Franny’s, Brooklyn Larder), and moderator Leaonard Lopate (WNYC Radio) to talk about how restauranteurs play a crucial role in community building, the food movement, and creating a truly sustainable business.

The Brooklyn Food Conference was sponsored by Brooklyn Food Coalition at Brooklyn Technical High School, with co-sponsors City Harvest, Edible (Brooklyn and Manhattan), Food & Water Watch, Food Bank for New York City, Park Slope Food Co-op, and Small Planet Institute.

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is an extremely rare pin (small cask) of mead. In fact, it’s Makana Meadery iQhilika Birds Eye Chili Mead matured in South African Petit Verdot barrels.  According to the mead maker, “This mead is somewhat of a shock to the senses. African Birds Eye Chilli or Habanero Chilli lends an interesting wooded nose to the mead, which is entirely overwhelmed by the first sip, which clears the sinuses in a way similar to that of eating half a cup of Wassabi with a sushi roll. This mead is best served as an ice breaker at dinner parties, especially if the food will be hot. It is also quite amusing later on in a dinner party to circulate a bottle of Chilli mead when some of the guests become competitive.”

So come on down for something sweet and spicy! Jimmy just tapped this pin and it’s bound to go quickly!