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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).

Yes, it’s brutally cold out, but the weekend offers a respite… both in temperature and in our kitchen, as cassoulet comes to town! Our favorite winter dish will be on the menu all month, thanks to visiting chef Annette Tomei, who will be creating several new cassoulets for guest of our weekend ticketed events, French Beer & Cassoulet with Shelton Brothers on Saturday, January 11, and our French Wine Prix Fixe Cassoulet Dinner, which will take place Monday, January 13, at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Shelton Brothers’ Jim Barnes will host an intimate French beer tasting, with three cassoulets and brunch items to pair. The beer list includes:

– Au Baron Cuvée des Jonquilles
– Trou du Diable Grivoise de Noël
– Trou du Diable Cholie Fraulein
– Brasserie St. Germain Page 24 Brune
– Bourganel Bière au Nougat
– Mont Blanc La Rousse
– Pays Flamand/Nøgne Ø Prototype
– Cidrerie du Perche L’Hermetière Cidre Brut
– Cidrerie du Perche L’Hermetière Poiré

The tasting starts at 1 p.m.; tickets available here.

Monday’s Prix Fixe Dinner (tickets here) offers wines from the Laguedoc area of France to be paired with a Bistro Menu curated by Chef Annette. The wine (food pairings TBA) includes:

Viognier, Domain de Massaic (white)
Cru Beajolais, St. Amour (red)
Carignan “Noe” Old Vines, Domain Faillene Ste Marie (red)
Corbieres Rouge, Domain Faillene Ste Marie (red)
Deforville Moscato d’Asti (sparkling, sweet from Italy)

So come down to Jimmy’s No. 43 and get warm with cassoulet (and don’t forget, the Sixth Annual Cassoulet Cookoff – $30 at the door, includes one drink – takes place on Sunday, January 12, at 1 p.m.)!

While most of us would agree, a nice glass of the bubbly stuff is how we’ll great midnight Tuesday, there are plenty of great celebration-worthy beers we’re drinking right now. What would Jimmy drink (WWJD???) to celebrate? Well, we have a partial list here, or you can check out some of our celebration-worthy brews over at Complex.

Among Jimmy’s choices are:

• Barrier Brewing’s Barnacle Brown – an easy-drinking, mellow American brown that still packs a bit of a punch at 6.2% ABV.
• Trappist Achel Bruin from St. Benedictusabdij de Achelse – You can drink as big as you want with the various degrees (we love the 8°, but the 5° might be better suited for daytime drinking) of this classic Belgian Trappist ale.
• Trappiste Rochefort – another Belgian Trappist with a wide-range on ABVs (the 8 is 9.2%), this is one of our favorites for celebrating.
• Adnams Broadside – This UK brewer makes an ESB that is everything you’d expect it to be; sessionable (4.7% ABV) to boot!

And if you’re looking for the best beer party for New Year’s Eve, our open bar tickets are still available. Ring in 2014 with Jimmy’s No. 43!

We hope on this Christmas Day (whether you celebrate or not) that you are enjoying great food (+ great beer! we’re open, so come on down!) with your family and loved ones (pets count!). We’re feeling very blessed this holiday season, and we are happy for our many friends in the greater NYC community that we’ve been honored to support in 2013. In no particular order, these include: