Inspired by a blogger who decided to live on beer for Lent, Jimmy’s No. 43 has teamed with Beer Sessions Radio™ and six other East Village craft beer establishments to celebrate Lent with a series of tasting events and dinners that focus on Trappist and Monk’s brews. From Ash Wednesday (March 5th) through mid-April, we’ll offer the following events and tastings:
Vegetarian Prix Fixe Beer Dinner featuring Belgians on Monday, March 24th at 7 p.m. Five courses and five beers at this ticketed sit-down dinner (get tickets here);
Belgian Beer 101 $20 Tuesday Tasting with B. United on Tuesday, March 25th at 7 p.m.
Belgian Beer 101 $20 Tuesday Tasting with Shelton Brothers on Tuesday, April 8th at 7 p.m.
The final weekend (April 11-13) will be a culmination event and pub crawl celebrating the “Monk’s Trail.”
Plus we’ll be featuring sour beers, large bottles and Belgian/Belgian-style beers all the way up to Easter. Come drink with us, like a Monk would!
Zok samples homebrew with Certified Cicerone James Tai.
We’re in the homestretch for NYC Beer Week, and—let’s face it—the options have been overwhelming. While Jimmy’s No. 43 has played host to several events and we just wrapped a featured event (NYC Brewer’s Choice at the Wythe Hotel), Jimmy Carbone took a page from Fleetwood Mac’s book this week and kinda went his own way. So, as we tap a new Bridge and Tunnel beer tonight and finish out the weekend, here’s what we did during our NYC Beer Week 2014.
Day 1 – Friday, February 21st
Jimmy sat in on Anne Saxelby’s Heritage Radio Network show, Cutting the Curd, where he was pairing beers alongside cheeses curated by Greg Blais, cheese/salumi monger at Eataly. Greg paired a blue vein cheese with Dogfish Head Palo Santo, and Jimmy selected Smuttynose Durty for its malt profile. For a soft goat cheese, Jimmy selected Konrad 14, and he rounded out the tasting with Jolly Pumpkin’s Bam paired with a washed rind cheese. (For a quick pairing guide, check out the graphic by Red Envelope here.)
Day 2 + 3 – Saturday-Sunday, February 22nd-23rd
It was homebrew happiness this weekend at Jimmy’s No. 43, as we welcomed Josh Bernstein’s Homebrew Jamboree (Saturday) and Zok’s Homebrewing from CT (Sunday) for some amazing homebrews. Honestly, we can’t wait to see the next round of pro-nano-breweries that will emerge from this diverse group of homebrewers.
Day 4 – Monday, February 24th
We celebrated a sold-out dinner party with Bacon Nation authors Peter Kaminsky and Marie Rama. Beers included Finback Double Sess, Rockaway Winter Harvest Ale, Rushing Duck’s Nimptopsical, along with co-hosts’ Wandering Star brews (Catnip IPA, Bert’s Disqualified).
Bacon aromas filled the air with this five-course menu:
1st: Platters of bacon and horseradish deviled eggs, mushroom toast with bacon, mini chips and dip (bacon, chive, sour cream dip).
2nd: Veggie Plate of assorted Myer’s Produce (Hardwick, VT) vegetable salads and pickles: beets, rainbow carrots, turnips, watermelon radishes, red cabbage.. with bacon fat croutons!
3rd: Chicken and Bacon Paella.
4th: Individual Bacon-wrapped “meat loaf” with bacon rosemary roast Myer’s fingerling potatoes (still on our menu!).
Dessert: Jimmy’s favorite dish of the night – Bacon buttermilk biscuits with sautéed apples, salted caramel and candied bacon .
We have more dinners coming up next month, so be sure to join us at one of our amazing offerings.
Day 5 – Tuesday, February 25th
If Monday’s dinner was intense, Tuesday’s Classic Food and Last Bottles pairing event was as intimate as we get. We invited guests back into our cellar to choose their favorite bottles, which Jimmy and guest chef Annette Tomei then did original pairings. Jimmy led a lucky and astute group of beer lovers in this one-of-a-kind food and beer pairing event.
Day 6 – Wednesday, February 26th
This year’s NYC Brewer’s Choice pretty much blew it out of the water! The amazing food (from Luke’s Lobster, Reynard, Nordic Breads and Blue Island Oyster Co. (among others) was paired with several dozen different brews poured by the brewers themselves. Most of this year’s beers were made with local ingredients, and we’re planning to do more collaborations this year with GrowNYC’s Regional Grains Project. Each brewer who used NY State grains received a Certificate of Recognition from Empire State Development. In short, this was an awesome event.
Which brings us to today. We’ll be chilling at the Craft Beer Bar & Kitchen for the rest of the weekend, with a TedX viewing party tomorrow. We hope you’ll come by for a pint and bacon meatloaf! Cheers to another amazing NYC Beer Week.
Join in the fun at Jimmy’s No. 43, where it’s ALWAYS NYC Beer Week!
If you aren’t heading over to Brooklyn for NYC Brewer’s Choice (tickets on sale until 5 p.m., and check out this cool article by one of our favorite beer writers, Niko Krommydas, about “must haves” at the event), we’ve got you covered here at our Craft Beer & Kitchen with some of NY’s best breweries on tap through the weekend.
We’ll have offerings from:
Rushing Duck
Kelso
Southern Tier
Port Jeff
Peekskill
Barrier
Singelcut Beersmiths
Finback
Other Half
Bridge and Tunnel
Rockaway
Newburgh
And special friends like Carton from NJ and Wandering Star and White Birch from NH
Plus try our new dish: Bacon Wrapped Pork Meatloaf served with farro risotto and sauteed kale, inspired by this past Monday’s Bacon Nation Beer Dinner menu. This morning we paired it with hard ciders as Toni Senecal (of CBS’s Toni On!) stopped by to do a story on NYC Beer Week!
Look for us on TV soon! And in the meantime, join us today (and tomorrow for KelSo Happy Hour and Beer Union NY State Beer Night).
Come one, come all! It’s NYC Beer Week and we have some great beers on tap this weekend (plus a couple cool homebrew events).
NYC Beers we’re featuring this weekend:
Bridge and Tunnel Black Rye will be tapped tonight;
Tomorrow we’re bringing back Other Half Brewing, with their latest IPA;
Barrier’s Bulkhead Red and Money IPA will also be available on draught;
Plus brews from NYC Brewers Choice breweries: Finback, Peekskill, Greenport Harbor and Sixpoint.
On Sunday, we’ll have an awesome homebrew event, Homebrew Sunday, when Zok’s Homebrew from CT will bring down 12+ homebrews to sample with special brunch options. It’s pay as you go, with some beer samples.
We’re kicking off beer week with our favorite brews, and we hope you’ll join us and raise a glass to NYC Beer Week!
In case you didn’t hear, Bell’s Brewing came to town this week! We’ve got several of their beers on tap (Hopslam in bottles), and these are super food-friendly brews (try with our duck cassoulet or our award-winning burger).
What else is on tap right now at Jimmy’s No. 43? Barrier!
With all the planning for NYC Beer Week and the rush of new brewery openings in NYC proper, let’s not forget one of the best breweries in NY State: Barrier Brewing. We always have Barrier on tap. Since they opened 3 years ago, we’ve gotten a delivery from them every week (except for when they were suspending deliveries owing to expansion and subsequent post-Sandy rebuilding). So, you’ll always find at least one tap with Barrier at Jimmy’s No. 43.
On tap through the weekend (or until they kick):
Barrier Greenroom Pale Ale
Barrier Barnacle Brown (perfect for this weather)
Peekskill IPA
Other Half Mokueka Pale Ale
Thornbridge Black Raven IPA
Southern Tier 2X (Nitro Stout)
Plus Barrier back-ups (Rip Rap, Bulkhead Red, Frau Blucher) and Crooked Stave in bottles.
Inspired by a blogger who decided to live on beer for Lent, Jimmy’s No. 43 has teamed with Beer Sessions Radio™ and six other East Village craft beer establishments to celebrate Lent with a series of tasting events and dinners that focus on Trappist and Monk’s brews. From Ash Wednesday (March 5th) through mid-April, we’ll offer the following events and tastings:
