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Okay, okay… we still have a few more days of what is technically labeled “summer” but we saw the Harvest Moon last night and it got us thinking about what we love most when the days grow short and the nights grow chill: Amazing seasonal beers.

First up, tonight, we’ll have Barrier Brewing in the house for Thursday Tap™. Then, this coming Saturday, we start our Real Oktoberfest celebration, where every Saturday afternoon for the next few weeks we’ll be tapping authentic German gravity casks (two per Saturday) from the Bamberg region (casks we’ll be rotating through are listed here). Future beer themes include Fresh Hopped beers (starting with next week’s Thursday Tap™ with Sixpoint Autumnation) and Abbey Ale week (October 10-17).

Coming back to this evening, however, Barrier Brewing will be bringing several kegs  to Jimmy’s No. 43 for an early start to your weekend. These are beers you may not be able to find together without a trip out to the brewery. The line-up includes:

Bumble: Double Wheat IPA – 8.5% alc/vol.

Oblong: Dark Strong Rye – 8.5% alc/vol.

Rembrandt: Robust Porter – 6.4% alc/vol.

Pours a midnight brown with faint red edges and creamy, khaki-colored head. Rich, nutty, malted milk ball aromas compliment the full-bodied roastiness of this beer. Hop bitterness is restrained to allow the heavily roasted malts to create most of the balancing bitterness. Malt flavors are layered and complex with notes of coffee, cocoa powder, and soft almond fruitiness with a smooth, velvety texture.

As always the fun starts at 5 p.m. with regular bar/restaurant service still available. Join us!

While we wait for a break in the weather, we’ll be pouring back some original brews at tonight’s NYC launch of Broken Bow Brewery for Thursday Tap™. The family owned and operated Tuckahoe, NY, brewery will be at Jimmy’s No. 43 with three of their kegs:

• Marbledale American Pale Ale,
• Broken Heart Stout,
• and Broken Auger Lager

Tonight, we’ll be drinking cool beer with new friends, and by the end of the night, chances are you’ll be echoing the company’s catch phrase, “If it ain’t Broken, don’t drink it!”

As always, we tap at 5 p.m. while supplies last and regular bar/restaurant service is available.

The days are getting a bit cooler, the nights are getting a bit longer and Jimmy’s No. 43 is welcoming fall with more events, beer launches, cool brews and the return of Vegetarian Nonsense™!

First up this week is the NYC launch of Broken Bow Brewery from Tuckahoe, NY. They only recently held their grand opening and they’ll be bringing down two, possibly three, of their great beers for this week’s Thursday Tap™ (on 9/12). You’ll get a chance to mix and mingle with the Broken Bow team and ask them about their new (ad)venture.

And because we know that Oktoberfest actually runs in September (starting at noon on 9/21), we’ll be hosting The Real Oktoberfest, starting, well, at noon on 9/21 as we rotate through several German gravity casks. Come and drink beer like it was meant to be!

And if you missed (or got squeezed out of) our sold-out vegetarian sour beer dinner this past spring, we have a reprisal when Vegetarian Nonsense™ Sour Beer Dinner with Shelton Brothers takes place on Monday, September 23rd at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.

And we always have regular restaurant and bar service for all our guests who just want to drop in and hang out with us!

We’re getting geared up for this weekend’s Pig Island in Red Hook (info and tickets here), and what could put us in the mood more than a smoked beer to go with the smoked pork we’ll be eating (among many other dishes)! There will be plenty of Sixpoint Craft Ales over at the event, and we’re getting a head start for today’s Thursday Tap™ with their Mad Scientist Series #14: The Grätzer, a very sessionable (3.8% ABV) smoked wheat beer.

So, we’ll be prepping our hogs, drinking Sixpoint beer, and looking forward to a great weekend. Join us!

As always, we tap at 5 p.m., while supplies last, and regular bar/restaurant service is available.

It’s going to be a great Thursday Tap™ tonight as Yonkers Brewing joins us with four (count ’em, four!) of their great beers. On tap, we’ll have:

• The brewer’s flagship beer, Yonkers Lager, an easy drinking, 5.2% ABV, Vienna Lager with a balance between the rich malt character and hop presence
• Yonkers IPA, a 6.0% ABV west-coast-style IPA
• Yonkers Stout (nitro pour)
• Yonkers Belgian Pale Ale

We’ll be starting Thursday Tap™ at 5 p.m., and we  will be there with Nick Califano, Jackie Rubbo, Sharif Abou-Taleb and John Rubbo from Yonkers from about 6 p.m. on.  Plus regular bar/restaurant service available. Join us for great local beer and meet the Yonkers Brewing team!