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What’s better than spending an afternoon drinking craft beer at Jimmy’s No. 43? Spending an afternoon drinking craft beer at Jimmy’s No. 43 while watching some great beer movies! Next weekend from 4-8 p.m. on May 12th, Seth Wright (Beer Nation) will be joining us to host the very first ever NYC Beer Film Festival, featuring clips from the finest beer related films and video podcasts being made today. In addition to webisodes from the Happy Hour Guys, Beer Nation, and The BrewHaHa, you can expect to sample film segments from American Beer, Beerituality, Beer Wars and a special preview of the much-anticipated Beer Hunter: The Movie (trailer below).

You can drop in at any time and take advantage of the opportunity to meet the hosts and producers and participate in lively discussion between each visual offering. Come support the filmmakers and vloggers at this FREE event, which will be a kick-off to July Good Beer Month’s bigger Beer Book, Blog and Video Festival on July 25th at South Street Seaport A schedule of showtimes will be posted here as details become available.

While Jimmy’s No. 43 is certainly home to “interesting and unusual beers,” lately it feels like we’ve been turning Norwegian. In addition to running several Nøgne Ø beers on tap the past week or so, tonight’s  Thursday Tap™ is another Norse offering: Haand Bryggegriet’s Dobbel Dose. From their website: “Dobbel Dose or Dobbel Dram is a double IPA made with European style hops rather than US hops. This beer is also heavily dry hopped in the aging tank for the extra hop taste and aroma. This IPA also have a high focus on malt flavor combined with more esters from the yeast than is common with the US style IPA. The result is an IPA very different in flavor.”

Jimmy will be tapping this 9% ABV keg at 5 p.m. sharp. Available while supplies last!

 

Tonight Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to host (in the back room) a talk/fundraiser for Culinary Historians of NY. CHNY is a non-profit organization of chefs, cooking teachers, historians, anthropologists, food writers, food editors, food stylists, researchers, librarians, caterers, collectors, and nutritionists. CHNY members explore the historic, esoteric, and entertaining byways of food.

At tonight’s gathering, CHNY will be holding a reception for nationally known food writer, Eugenia Bone, who will be discussing mycophilia, also known as mushrooms to the rest of us. Her book, Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms, is a collection of recipes and anecdotes involving the greatest edible fungi. More details on tonight’s event can be found here. Mushroom dishes will be served with proceeds going directly to CHNY (hint! beer goes superbly with mushrooms, so stop by the bar on your way in; porters and stouts tend to pair nicely).

As we round out our April Sours weekend, we will be featuring an all-duck dinner (a limited number of tickets will be sold at the door with a reservation: call 212-982-3006) with duck sourced from Hudson Valley Duck Farm. Even if you can’t make the dinner tonight, you can enjoy this amazing duck this week as it will be our menu’s featured Dish of the Week! Hudson Valley Duck Farm (Ferndale, NY) offers two varieties of duck raised in a cage-free/antibiotic-free/hormone-free environment at the farm: the classic Moulard and a heritage breed called “Lola,” a gamier duck that is a leaner cross of Pekin and heirloom mallard.

Among the duck offerings you can find regularly at Jimmy’s No. 43 are:

• Duck Prosciutto Breast
• Smoked Duck Breast
• Duck Salami
• Duck Leg Confit
• Duck Rillets
• And various other roast duck dishes

For some of the best tasting quackers in the city, we hope you’ll join us this week for our featured Dish of the Week: Hudson Valley Duck Farm Duck!

 

 

If you haven’t made it over to Jimmy’s No. 43 for April Sours, it’s not too late. Yesterday, Chris Cuzme (Wandering Star, NY Homebrewers Guild) led a guided tasting to a diverse and enthusiastic audience who discovered the best beer deal in town (only $10!). Today, there will be another guided tasting with Joel Shelton of Shelton Brothers. Drop by at 4 p.m. for six tastes of some amazing (and, sometimes, amazingly unusual) sour beers.

And don’t forget about tomorrow night’s prix fixe ($45) family-style, all-duck, sour beer dinner! You’ll get six pairings to go with your smoked duck, tuck terrine, duck sausage and other duck delights whipped up by Guest Chef Brendan Corr. Only a few seats remaining, so get your tickets here.