Month: April 2013

We welcome back guest chef Patti Jackson tonight as we round out April Sours with another of our amazing prix fixe dinners… this one with all sour beer pairings. Check out what’s in store for this evening:

• Chicken Liver Pate, Rhubarb Relish paired with Hanssens Gueuze
• Smoked Mackerel Salad with Cress and Rye Crumbs paired with Alvinne Wild Undressed
• Burnt-flour Pasta with Duck Sausage and White Beans paired with Vapeur, Vintage
• Braised Bacon, Braised Spring Greens and Ramps paired with Vapeur  Cochonne 1996
• Savory Cheese Tart, Fig and Cardamon Toast paired with Alvinne Cuvee Freddy

If you missed our last sour beer dinner (with Clay Gordon, read about it here), then you definitely don’t want to miss out on tonight’s gathering.

We’ll have one seating at 7 p.m. ($45 tickets on sale until 4 p.m. today here). Or just come on by for regular bar/restaurant service and pay as you go!

The tart just keeps on coming! Tonight’s Thursday Tap™ is a fabulous beer from Westbrook in South Carolina that fits in with our April Sours theme. It’s Weisse Weisse Baby, a 4% ABV Berliner Weisse. Brewed with the traditional no boil method, Weisse Weisse Baby is
light, tart, bubbly, and extremely delicious. This is the same brewery that collaborated with Evil Twin to make the Mini Growler Imperial Stout. As always, we tap at 5 p.m., while supplies last and regular bar/restaurant/oyster service is available.

And if you can’t make it in tonight, check out the work in progress that is our beer list for Saturday’s Bacon & Sour Belgians (tickets going fast). Among the sour and wild ales will be (all from Belgium unless noted):

• Rodenbach Classic
• Monks Cafe Flemish Sour
• Green Flash Rayon Vert (San Diego, CA)
• Cantillon Cuvée St-Gilloise (a Lambic aged two years in oak barrels)
• Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela (MI)
• BFM La Cuvée  Alex le Rouge (sour Russian imperial stout from Switzerland)
• Brasserie Vapeur Cochon (1996 vintage sour ale with spices)
• Hof Ten Dormaal Barrel Aged Project (dark ale aged in Madeira barrels)
• Tilquin Oude Gueuze
• Evil Twin Femme Fatale Blanc  (100% Brett Fermented IPA with Nelson Sauvin Hops) – Denmark by way of Brooklyn
• Evil Twin Femme Fatale Noir (100% Brett Fermented Black IPA) – ditto!

And tickets are still available for our April Sours dinner with Guest Chef Patty Jackson next Monday, April 29.

So come out and get your sour on! (And click here to read a very cool piece on sour beers from The New York Times mentioning Jimmy’s No. 43.)

There’s one week remaining to get your sour on during April Sours at Jimmy’s No. 43, and we have several cool events to satisfy the tartest loving of taste buds!

Tonight (4/23) and next Tuesday (4/30) at 7:30 p.m., we’ll be hosting our weekly Tuesday Tasting ($20 at the door), where you’ll sample from wild beers (tonight) and B. United sours (next week). Tonight’s line-up with guest beer guide Mike Lovullo includes:

• Bruery De Lente
• Green Flash Rayon Vert
• Element ES Oak
• Hanssens Geuze
• Haandbryggeriet Norwegian Wood
• BFM Abbaye St. Bon Chien

Speaking of B. United, we’ll be pairing their beers with Guest Chef Patti Jackson’s menu for our famous April Sours Prix Fixe Dinner next Monday, April 29th at 7 p.m. Part of our Monday Night Dinner Series, a $45 ticket (plus tax, gratuity and service charge at ticket site) will get you (subject to change/beer availability):

• Chicken Liver Pate, Rhubarb Relish paired with Hanssens Gueuze
• Smoked Mackerel Salad with Cress and Rye Crumbs paired with Alvinne Wild Undressed
• Burnt-flour Pasta with Duck Sausage and White Beans paired with Vapeur, Vintage
• Braised Bacon, Braised Spring Greens and Ramps paired with Vapeur  Cochonne 1996
• Savory Cheese Tart, Fig and Cardamon Toast paired with Alvinne Cuvee Freddy

And if a full dinner is too much for you, a handful of tickets remain for this Saturday’s (4/27) Bacon and Sour Belgians, a monthly devotional for the bacon congregation. We typically pair three different types of bacon from the East Village Meat Market with 10+ samples of Belgian beers. In keeping with our wild theme, this month’s offering will be all sour beers (TBA). The bar opens at noon with seating/sampling from 1-3 p.m.

So, whatever your schedule and your budget, we’ve got plenty of interesting and unusual sour beers to get your through until the real spring shows up in May! Join us (and regular bar/restaurant service is always available for those who prefer their options a la carte).

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is a treat for beer lovers, and one of the fastest kicking beers in the region (so get yours before we run out!). It’s a firkin from Peekskill Brewery. Their Eastern Standard IPA is a 6.6% ABV American IPA served up in a cask. You’re gonna love it, but don’t take our word for it. Here’s what Peekskill’s Jeff O’Neill has to say about it:

“This one is our flagship IPA, with a little extra dryhop of some great Chinook hops from Segal Ranch. It’s a nice representation of what we’re doing in our new location. It’s clean and dry with the emphasis toward expression of the stylistically appropriate ingredients, in this case the very best hops grown in the U.S.  If the feedback we got from this same beer at the Blue Point Cask Fest says anything, you are in for a treat!”

As always, Jimmy taps at 5 p.m. and regular bar/restaurant/oyster service is still available.

As the home of interesting and unusual beers, Jimmy’s No. 43 is proud to have an entire month devoted to sours! This week we have some really great beers in house that we’ll be rotating through (come often and taste them all!), beginning with tonight’s Tuesday Tasting featuring Green Flash Brewing Co. of San Diego. Brews available include:

• Serrano Stout, an Imperial Stout (8.8% ABV) made with Serrano Chiles
• Barley Wine (10.9% ABV)
• Palate Wrecker, a super hoppy DIPA (9.5% ABV)
• East Village Pils (named after the west coast East Village in San Diego; 5.3% ABV)
• Hop Head Red IPA, a dry-hopped IPA (7% ABV)
• And more!

We’ll also be tapping our very first keg from Element Brewing Company (MA): the Extra Special Oak, an oak-aged Imperial ESB (7.8% ABV). Another Jimmy’s No. 43 premiere is our first keg of Blue Mountain (VA), which will be a limited barrel series called “Dirty Belgian.”

Other cool beers we’ll be rotating through next week include:

• Peekskill’s Eastern Standard IPA (the cask version will go on for this week’s Thursday Tap™)
• Port Jeff H Tripel
• Alaska’s Midnight Sun Panty Peeler
• Hof Ten Dormaal White Gold Belgian (Farmhouse Ale)
• Stillwater Artisanal’s Debutante
• The Bruery’s Mischief (a highly rated Belgian Strong Ale with 8.5% ABV)

We’re also posting the first of our April Sours bottle list, including brews by:

• Brasserie Cantillon—Rose de Gambrinus, Cuvée St-Gilloise (a Lambic aged two years in oak barrels), Lou Pepe 2009 (Gueze-Lambic blend)
• Jolly Pumpkin—La Parcela, Guego del Otono, Weizen Bam
• Green Flash—Rayon Vert
• BFM—Cuvée Alex Rouge
• Brasserie Alvinne—Cuvée d’Erpigny (a Belgian Quad aged in wine barrels weighing in at a whopping 15% ABV)

Our regular menu/restaurant service is available, and our staff would be happy to recommend food pairings with any of these amazing—and amazingly delicious—beers.