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Jimmy’s No. 43 will be celebrating the return of NYC Beer Week (2/21-3/2) with a full line-up of events, including our featured craft beer program, NYC Brewers Choice, on February 26th from 6:00-9:30 p.m. (at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn – tickets on sale here). It’s our “better beer event” with 25+ brewers creating beers from local grains—we’re collaborating with GrowNYC’s Regional Grains Project—and 10 chefs providing food from restaurants as diverse as Reynard and Luke’s Lobster.

Here at our Craft Beer Bar & Kitchen, we’ll have tastings, dinners and pay-as-you-go options, including:

• Bacon & Belgians Prix Fixe Pairing with Artisanal Imports (Tuesday, 2/18, at 7 p.m.) – Call it our preview event. Join Alex Forbes for a six-beer, three-course whole hog pairing (yep, we’re roasting a pig… because that’s just how we do it at Jimmy’s No. 43). Alex will pick six perfect Belgian brews courtesy of Artisanal Imports. Be sure to get your tickets here, because we are limiting the number of seats for this one!
• Homebrew Sunday (Sunday, 2/23, from 1-4 p.m.) – This is a walk-around beer tasting reminiscent of Battle of the Belgians (see below). Co-curated by Connecticut’s Zoks Homebrew and Yankee Brew News’ Gregg Glaser, this event brings 12 of our sister state’s best homebrewers along with some of our favorite pro brews. You’ll have three hours of unlimited samples of beer and food. Get tickets/more details here.
• Bacon Nation Beer Dinner with Wandering Star Brewing (Monday, 2/24, at 7 p.m.) – A five-course beer pairing menu featuring beers from regional nano-breweries paired with pork dishes from Peter Kaminsky and Marie Rama’s Bacon Nation. Tickets on salehere.
• Classic Food & Beer Prix Fixe Pairings with Last Bottles (Tuesday, 2/25, at 7 p.m.) – Jimmy himself will be pulling from the cellar and pairing some of his favorite classic beer and food options. We won’t have a menu until a day or two ahead, but be sure to get your tickets now, as we are limiting the number of seats for this event.
• NYC Beer Night and Book Signing with Beer Union (Thursday, 2/24, from 4-9 p.m.) – Join Giancarlo and Sarah Annese as they launch their book, Beer Lover’s New York, for an industry night featuring a dozen of our favorite local breweries. It’s pay as you go, with details here.

Come to one event or join us for all. We can’t wait to celebrate NYC Beer Week!

We don’t tend to hang out much in East Rutherford, but we are in the East Village! And when it comes to finding great craft beer this weekend, everyone should be drinking for the local team. For us, that means more Finback on tap tonight (be warned; they kicked last week after a couple of hours, so get your seat at the bar early!). But the recent addition to the Queens’ brewing scene is not the only beer we’re tapping this weekend. We’ll have a full array of NY and NJ beers for our very own “Superbeer” event (oh, yeah, and we’ll have a television on Sunday for those of you looking to watch the game commercials).

The starting line-up:

Representing team New York are…

• Finback
• Other Half
• Peekskill
• Barrier
• Singlecut Beersmiths
• Others TBA

• Carton
• Cricket hill

Yes, everything old is new again… as in, didn’t we just have this weather two weeks ago? Well, Jimmy’s No. 43 has the cure for what ails you, including Ommegang’s Game of Thrones Take the Black Stout, which we’ve been running on tap this week. Come and grab a pint and dream of our upcoming Westeros Feast on April 6th (details soon, but we will have the latest Game of Thrones brew, Fire and Blood Red Ale, which pays homage to Kalesie and house Targarion).

And tonight we’ll have Jolly Pumpkin beers on special, which pair beautifully with French casserole (aka cassoulet), which our Culinary Muse Chef Annette just cooked up. We’ll also be featuring shrimp & grits, our famous grassfed beef burger, and many other warming dishes on the menu.

Plus, tomorrow we’ll have the launch of Finback Brewing, Queen’s latest nanobrewery. We’ll have three of their beers on tap:

• Finback “Pilot X” IPA, a highly hopped IPA loaded with Summit, Chinook and Columbus hops (6.1% ABV);
• Puffin Smoked Porter, just perfect for a cold winter day;
• and Double Sess, a Wit beer.

So come in and get out of the chill! We’ll be waiting for you.

This past weekend, we hosted our Sixth Annual Cassoulet Cookoff, and our kitchen will be featuring a winter menu that includes a rotation of cassoulet from the weekend’s events. Some of the cassoulets will include:

Our winter menu also includes the Pig & Pickle Sandwish (smoked ham, local pickles, cheese and mustard), our award-winning grassfed burger, and shrimp & grits.

Winter beers include Barrier’s Dunegrass DIPA and Riprap Baltic Porter, Stoudt’s Revel Red, Greenpoint Harbor’s Antifreeze, and Great South Bay’s Sleigh Ride Rye.

At Sunday’s cookoff, Washington D.C. took the NYC People’s choice and judges’ awards as Gilbert Clerget won with his Cassoulet de Castelnaudary. Guest chef and Culinary Muse Annette Tomei created a “Cassoulet Log” (a cool video about it can be viewed from The Experimental Gourmond, here).