Tonight Jimmy will be tapping a very special keg: Ommegang’s Barrier Relief Beer. This 5.9% ABV IPA is one of several beers that were created specifically to help get Barrier Brewing Company back up and running after they were destroyed during Hurricane Sandy.
Happily, the boys at Barrier are brewing again, but this beer still tastes great and went to hurricane relief efforts. So, stop by at 5:05 tonight and be one of the lucky few to drink our one keg of this special collaboration between Ommegang and Barrier Brewing. Join us, while supplies last.
You can learn more about this beer from the video below:
The chill in the air has us hankering for big beers, and we have a great one lined up for today’s Thursday Tap™: Mikkeller’s Santa’s Little Helper. This interesting and unusual beer is Mikkeller’s 11% ABV classic Christmas ale. It’s a mildly spiced Belgian Strong Dark Ale brewed with malt; flaked wheat; dark candi sugar; Northern Brewer, Hallertau, and Styrian Goldings hops; and orange peel and coriander.
According to the brewery: “It is inspired by the Belgian Christmas beers, known for their thick warming body, light spices and balanced hop profile. Orange peel and coriander seed gives, along with the extreme fermentation temperatures, a massive mix of fruity nuances, which makes Santa’s Little Helper an orgy of aromas and flavours.”
So come in at 5 p.m. and let Santa’s Little Helper warm you up! (As always, while supplies last and regular bar/restaurant/oyster service available.)
While we’re pretty sure they aren’t talking about the weather, we’re thrilled to be among The 50 Coolest Places in NYC Right Now as enumerated by Complex.com. We’re booking parties, holding food cookoffs and generally making merry with our backroom, which will go through major improvements in 2013. So, thanks to the folks at Complex for recognizing our back room! (Read the article here.)
This week’s Thursday Tap™ is a rare cask from Great Britain’s Thornbridge Brewery. Thornbridge focuses on cask beers that use traditional recipes with a modern twist provided through the use of a wide range of hops, malts and the innovation and passion of their brewing team. Thornbridge Halcyon is a 7.4% ABV Imperial IPA with a well balanced bitterness, fruit flavors and intense hoppiness.
Jimmy will be tapping at 5 p.m. with regular bar/restaurant/oyster service available.
Laura Luciano was the rare winner of both people’s and judges’ choice awards at the Fifth Annual Cassoulet Cookoff. See all the photos of the weekend’s events here.
If you skipped Jimmy’s No. 43 this weekend, you missed a lot. A lot of yummy cassoulet, that is! We had another amazing turnout for Sunday’s Fifth Annual Cassoulet Cookoff, where—for the first time in memory (and we admit our memory is not what it once was)—both the people’s choice and judges’ awards went to an amateur chef: Laura Luciano (Out East Foodie) from Long Island who wowed with her traditional cassoulet that included Crescent Duck Farm fowl plus Flying Pigs Farm pork, Koppert Cress Microgreens and cognac!
Ten chefs participated in the cookoff, with dishes that ran the gamut from BBQ baked beans to vegetarian to a fabada asturniana made with Spanish cider! All were delicious, but a few stood out from the rest. Awards went as follows:
People’s Choice
2nd place – Rich Pinto, f/o of Jimmy’s No. 43, who surprised with a vegetarian option that included carrots and parsnips.
1st place – Laura Luciano’s Douglas Corwin’s Crescent Duck Farm-inspired Long Island Cassoulet.
Judges’ Awards
Honorable mentions – to Rich Pinto, and to Jessica Agullo’s Iberian Fabada Asturniana with Morcilla (blood sausage), chorizo, pork shoulder and bacon (steeped in cider).
3rd place – to Matt Knoff, who served up Julia Child’s famous cassoulet.
2nd place – to Jimmy’s No. 43 chef Michael, whose Ecuadoran take on cassoulet brought a bit of spice to the scene.
1st place – Laura Luciano’s Douglas Corwin’s Crescent Duck Farm-inspired Long Island Cassoulet.
While we come for the cassoulet, we’re there for the charity. The event raised over $2,000 for Grow NYC’s youth program, Learn It, Grow It, Eat It. Jimmy’s No. 43 was happy to learn that our fundraising effort will underwrite 15 Bronx teens in this summer’s program.
Finally, we thank our amazing judges: Matt Timms, Jackie Gordon, Kathy Blake, Margaret Chan, Nancy Motsumoto and Amy Zavato. More press coverage can be found here and here. As an added bonus, the Cassoulet Cookoff was taped by French videographer Malo Delarue of Keep In News. Look for a link, soon.
