Month: July 2012

If you’ve never had the chance to make a $10 Tuesday Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43, you don’t know what you’re missing (it’s what Time Out New York considers one of the best deals in the city!). And this week we have a special guest, Where The Wild Beer Are‘s Tim Stendahl. WTWB are is a semi-annual fermented beer festival (it runs springs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and heads to Minnesota in the fall). We’re happy to bring Tim in for the next two weeks, as August is Sour Beer Month at Jimmy’s No. 43. Tim will be raiding our beer cellar, picking out some favorites to share with you. You can join in for a mere—yep! you guessed it!—$10. Tastings this week will include (subject to availability):

• Apostelbrau Pale
• Maine Beer Company Peeper
• Blue Point Rastafa Rye
• Maine Beer Company Mean Old Tom
• Chouffe Houblon Chouffe
• Mikkeller Beer Hop Breakfast

As always, the tasting starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. And, as always, the regular menu is still available to patrons who aren’t doing the tasting. Come one, come all. And welcome, Tim and August Sour Beer month!

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is a doozy: Alvinne’s Melchior, a Calvados Barrel Oak Aged a Belgian Strong Ale with a 10% ABV and brewed with mustard seeds. Melchior is one of Picobrouwerij Alvinne’s three “magi” beers (along with Balthazaar and Gaspar). Despite the high ABV, this is a great summer beer and absolutely delicious! Jimmy taps at 5 p.m., so be sure to get yours before we run out.

This Wednesday, July 25th, at the South Street Seaport Museum, Jimmy’s No. 43 will be joining an elite group of beer media professionals and food and craft beer purveyors at the Beer Book, Blog & Video Fest. From 6:30-8:30 p.m., attendees can mix, mingle, drink craft beer (from Dogfish Head and Thomas Hooker) and eat great food from Jimmy’s No. 43, Sigmund’s Pretzels, Coach Farm Cheese and more.

Slated to be in attendance:

• Authors—Christian DeBenedetti (The Great American Ale Trail), Joshua Bernstein (Brewed Awakening), Horst Dornbusch (Asst. Editor, The Oxford Companion to Beer), Erica Shea and Stephen Valand (Brooklyn Beer Shop’s Beer Making Book), John Holl (Massachusetts Breweries), Jeremy Cowan (Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah), and others TBA;
• Filmmakers—Seth Wright (Beer Nation Tours The GABF), Jimmy Ludwig (The Happy Hour Guys), Paul Kermizian (American Beer), Laurie Delk (100 Beers in Thirty Days), Roberto Serrini (The Brewhaha), Anat Baron (Beer Wars), Jeff Cioletti (Beerituality), John R. Richards (Beer Hunter, The Movie), and Ian Jenkin (Brewery Show);
• Beer Bloggers— Beer Sessions Radio™, The Good Beer Seal, Bear Hear!, Beer Union, Beertography, New Jersey Craft Beer, SuperNeat Beer Adventure, Private Tap, All About Beer’s Win Bassett, and Where and Back.

Tickets are only $15 and benefit the South Street Seaport Museum.

 

The storms have cleared, the temps are down, and today is a great day for an Imperial. This week’s Thursday Tap™ is  t’smisje Catherine the Great, a rare Belgian Imperial Stout. Aside from being brewed with seven different malts and four varieties of hops with a 10% ABV, this Great Imperial Stout has a NYC connection. Apparently the bottle label (we’re tapping, so no labels to view at the bar; the photo here will have to suffice) was designed by Brooklyn artist and beer hound, Bill Coleman (follow him on Twitter @maltydog). We’re happy to be tapping a great rare keg with local ties at 5 p.m. and while supplies last.

Jimmy’s No. 43 is known as the home of interesting and unusual beers, and sometimes we bring in a few that are pretty far off the beaten path. For example, beer from New Zealand. Tonight’s $10 Tuesday Tasting will offer up several bottles from various enn-zed brewers and is bound to be an event to remember. On the bottle list:

Tuatara Pils bottles
Yeasty Boys Digital bottles
8 Wired Hop Wire bottles
8 Wired Big Smoke bottles
8 Wired I Stout bottles

As always, we’ll have a beer expert to walk you through the tasting. We start promptly at 7:30 p.m., and the regular bar menu is available to those who just want to come out and “be a regular” regardless of hemispheric allegiance.