It may be hot outside, but it’ll be cool downstairs at Jimmy’s No. 43 with our VSTT (that’s Very Special Thursday Tap™) as we celebrate the birthday of Shelton Brothers rep and all around cool dude, Jim Barnes. Jim has picked a great line-up of beers, including Pretty Things (which he used to rep in NYC) Baby Tree on draught. Baby Tree is a 9% ABV Belgian-inspired quadrupel.

Check out the amazing list of the interesting and unusual beers we’ll have in house this evening:

Gastropub 508 ‘Brollaberation’ Blonde: A collaboration between Chris Cuzme and Jim Barnes, this blonde beauty is called ‘From Here To Eternity,’ an homage to the legendary European disco producer, Giorgio Moroder.  It’s a 5 5% ABV blonde ale brewed with Belgian Pilsner malt, a touch of wheat and oats, and it’s hopped with Streusellsplatlt and Styrian Goldings hops.  It’s your passport to a sunny early summer afternoon looking across an eternal countryside.

Page 24 Reserve Hildegarde Ambree: From Brasserie St. Germain, this not-so-traditional bier drinks with notes of toasty malt and a generously dry-hopped finish, a tribute to St. Hildegarde Bingen who was the 1st person to write about the health benefits of beer.

Brasserie Theillier-La Bavaisienne: a 7% ABV Farmhouse ale from northern France near the Belgian border.

Dieu Du Ciel-Corn Du Diable: a 6.5% ABV American-style IPA from Montreal.

As always, we’ll be tapping at 5 p.m. with the party getting underway around 6:30. As always, supplies available while they last, and regular bar/restaurant/oyster service is still available.

Jimmy’s No. 43, the home to interesting and unusual beers, will be continuing its popular Monday Night Specialty Prix Fixe Dinner series throughout the summer, including four unique dinners featuring guest chefs, great beer and food pairings, local farm-to-chef menus, and celebrity guests. Be sure to get your tickets ($45) for these amazing dinners:

New Small Breweries Vegetarian Nonsense™ Dinner—Monday, June 3^rd

• Radiant Pig Craft Beers will be bringing their IPA (and brewer) to Jimmy’s No. 43 to celebrate spring, alongside Newburgh Brewing, Port Jeff, Bridge & Tunnel, and other NY breweries TBA;
• Guest Chefs Marc Giroux (of Canada) and Matt Sakowicz (of Hawaii)—both f/o Dassara, an experimental ramen house/izakaya in Brooklyn—will curate a menu of seasonal vegetables, various grains, as well as some vegetable proteins such as seitan sausage.

Parla Italian Craft Beer Dinner—Monday, June 10^th

Italian craft beer expert Katie Parla of Parla Food, will help guide an Italian craft beer and food pairing to include:

• Barley’s Friska served with light welcome snacks
• Almond 22′s Farrotta paired with soft cheeses on toast
• LoverBeer’s BeerBera paired with Trofie al Pesto
• Montegioco’s Demon Hunter paired with a game (meat TBA) stew
• And Gradi Plato’s Chocarrubica paired with a chocolate-based dessert

Flying Pigs Road to Pig Island Dinner—Monday, June 17^th

Join Guest Chef Derrick for a Belgian beer dinner featuring off-cuts from Flying Pigs Farm and Belgian beer. Current menu to include:

• Kale and mustard green salad with Asian vin, avocado, and crispy pig ear
• Black ramen (squid ink) with pig shanks
• Cheeks with white wine, apple, fennel and a blue cheese risotto
• Leaf lard cardamom crust tart for a desert

Post-Festival Wrap Dinner with 12 Percent and Shelton Brothers—Monday, June 24^th

Guest Chef Marc Giroux returns with a menu paired to 12 Percent and Shelton Brothers beers featured at The Festival.

All four dinners start at 7 p.m. with regular bar/restaurant service available, as well.

 

Today’s Thursday Tap™ takes us north of the border… the Danish border, that is. We’re headed to Norway for Nøgne Ø’s Tiger Tripel, a 9.0% ABV traditional Belgian-style Abbey ale. Made in their Grimstad, Norway, brewery, this tripel is sure to tame the tiger and offer a perfect start to the holiday weekend.

As always, we tap at 5 p.m., and regular bar/restaurant/oyster service is also available.

Honey, we need to talk. About mead! It’s NYC Mead Week, and Jimmy’s No. 43 has a great event to celebrate this honey-based drink. If you haven’t already tried this delectable libation, you’re in for a serious treat tonight when Michael Fairbrother and Berniece Van Der Berg of Moonlight Meadery come to Jimmy’s No. 43 with some of their award-winning meads.

Starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight, Moonlight Meadery will be sampling 10+ meads, talking about life at one of the fastest growing meaderies, and offering additional meads for purchase. They aren’t available in many NYC outlets, so this is your chance to try this elixir that is one of the earliest fermented drinks humans consumed.

Regular bar/restaurant service available.

Today from 1-3 p.m., Jimmy’s NO. 43 will be hosting a lunch to celebrate NYC Sustainable Seafood Week. Join Pamela Flash and Brett Tolley of Northwest Altlantic Marine Alliance for a Porgy demo and lunch. You’ll learn about Community Supported Fisheries (based on the CSA model) and sample delicious Porgy, a local fish that many New Yorkers have never tried.

Your $20 (cash, if you please) will go to support NAMAnet and CSFs in the city, with beverages available for additional purchase. We’ll also have regular bar/restaurant service available.