Month: September 2012

It’s Thursday! Are you ready for the Thursday Tap™. We certainly are and we’ll be bringing on a new interesting and unusual beer from New Zealand’s Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black. This 6% ABV American-style porter is the brewer’s “multi-award winning ‘Hoppy Porter’ (that some call a ‘black IPA’). The different names convey the fact that this beer is a contradiction of styles: fresh and hoppy, yet dark and rich. Most importantly it is mind-bendingly delicious and a complete original.” There are only 24 kegs in all the USA and we’ve got one of them! As always, we tap at 5 p.m.

And as if you needed another excuse to come to Jimmy’s No. 43, tonight is our big oyster night. We’ll be having a special Slow U: Shuck and Talk in the back room ($30 at the door) and our very own Dave Miss will be shucking out front. We’ll have an oyster special: $20 gets you 1/2 dozen oysters and a Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black (or 1/2 dozen oysters and two American pints). Of course, our regular bar service/restaurant menu will be available, as well.

It’s a very special edition of our weekly $10 Tuesday Tastings. We’ll be featuring beers from Maine, including Maine Beer Co. and Allagash, and to a lucky few (approximately 25, first come first served while supplies last) we’ll be handing out samples from Luke’s Lobster. Here’s how it works: You join us at 7:30 p.m. for $10 Tuesday Tasting and you get a lobster roll or similar delicacy from Luke’s! Among our $10 Tuesday Tasting beers will be (subject to change):

• Maine Beer Company’s MO
• MBC’s Mean Old Tom
• Allagash Confluence
• Allagash Black
• Allagash White

We’ll have our regular bar service and dinner menu available, too. And if you miss out on Luke’s Lobster tonight, well, a little birdie who likes her beer said they’ll be back for our Thursday Tap™ on October 4th to introduce Atlantic Brewing.

If you’re from around these parts (or have taken a Circle Line tour), then you probably know all about NYC’s rich oyster history, when oysters lined the banks and were quite literally “poor man’s food.” As the waters again become safe for oysters to inhabit the Hudson and East Rivers, it’s time to celebrate our beloved bivalve with New York Oyster Week (September 22-29)!

We love our oysters, and we offer them every Thursday. This week on Thursday, September 27th, we’ll be having both our usual Chief Shucker Dave Miss in the main dining area plus our favorite aquaculturist, Karen Rivara (from the Noank Cooperative), who will be doing a bit of shucking of her own in the back room at a ticketed event to benefit Slow Food NYC. Karen will shuck, beer will be served, and you can get schooled in all things oyster. Or just buy from our regular menu, where we will have a few specialty oyster dishes available for regular purchase.

Save by purchasing your tickets for Karen’s event online; they’ll be $30 at the door.

Beer for breakfast? We say yes! Especially if that beer is today’s official launch of Founders Breakfast Stout, an 8.3% ABV, that the brewer describes as, “The coffee lover’s consummate beer. Brewed with an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and imported chocolates, and Sumatra and Kona coffee, this stout has an intense fresh-roasted java nose topped with a frothy, cinnamon-colored head that goes forever.”

We’re happy to have Tim Traynor (Brand Manager for Founders) help us launch the Breakfast Stout and celebrate Friday Founders’ Night. We’ll have both the Breakfast Stout and Founders Pale Ale on draught, plus the Backstage Series brew Frangelic Mountain Brown (available in large bottles). Of course the bar is open as usual for those who don’t want a Founders beer, and if you really want pancakes with your Breakfast Stout, we’re open for brunch tomorrow and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

It’s the final Thursday Tap™ of the summer (yes, autumn starts on Saturday)! We’re happy to be tapping Brasserie de la Senne’s Jambe de Bois, an 8% ABV Tripel, described as ” full-bodied and powerful. The nose evokes ripe banana and a subtle blend of old varieties of aromatic hops… the malt dominates, supported by a long and delicate bitterness.”

As always, we tap at 5 p.m. And as always, this interesting and unusual beer is available while supplies last.