We’re having a midsummer night’s dream week, with some great offerings from Manhattan to Long Island coming up. First up, tomorrow night (7/15) we’re welcoming Joel Shelton of Shelton Brothers Imports for a 10-beer $20 Tuesday Tasting. Come taste some of the world’s best small-batch beers in this intimate setting. Beers to include:
- *Thiriez Extra – A collaboration beer between French and English brewers, this sessionable (4.5%) Blonde Ale is perfect for the summer heat.
- *De La Senne Taras Boulba – This hoppy Belgian is the perfect session beer — loaded with complex yeast flavors, hopped to perfection — drinkable at 4.5%.
- *Het Nest Schuppenhaas (Ace of Spades) – An amber colored beer with brettanomyces added during secondary fermentation that gives the beer a unique taste.
- *Montseny Malta Cuvée – A beautifully balanced and drinkable pale ale, featuring the full flavor of malted grains offset by spicy hop aromas.
- *Monarchy Grodziskie – This recipe, created in collaboration with a Dutch brewer and a pair of historians, is based on that of a former brewery in the Polish town of Grodzisk Wielkopolski and is the brewer’s only authentic version of a “Grodziskie” made with 100% oak-smoked wheat, local Polish hops, and the beer’s original yeast.
- *Freigeist Geisterzug Gose – Freigeist’s quirky version of the nearly-extinct traditional sour beer of Leipzig: a spruced gose that is unusually complex, funky, and full-bodied.
- *Naparbier Sai Saison – The Spanish brewery recently did its NYC launch at Jimmy’s No. 43 and this was among our favorite offering.
- *Trois Dames Grand Dame Oud Bruin – A sour brown ale, brewed in the Flemish tradition, that rivals even the best Oud Bruins coming out of Belgium. Elegant and rustic, and full of complex flavors, berries, spice, and a hint of nuttiness, this is a great beer to share with friends on a special occasion.
- *Brouwerij West Tripel – A touch on the dark gold side, this tripel is rich yet dry with a firm bitterness.
- *Amager Pride – Is it too prideful to call this beer the “perfect Imperial Stout”? Come and find out yourself!
Any two of these brews would set you back more than the cost of this tasting, so be sure to arrive early and get your sampling seat.
Then on Wednesday, July 16th, Jimmy Carbone will be back at WNYC’s Craft Beer Jam, where for a mere $25 you can hang with cool industry people like Kelly Taylor of KelSo and Mark Buford of Blue Point, get unlimited beer samples plus food, and chill out (literally, in air conditioned comfort) before heading back to Jimmy’s No. 43 for the after party.
And on Saturday, we’re hitching our rig to a Long Island bound trip to Great South Bay, where we’ll be serving up some of the best BBQ you’ve ever tasted outside the brewery from 12-5 p.m.
Whether you’re in town or hitting the beach, we hope you’ll take time out this week for great craft beer and yummy ‘cue with us!