Our dearly departed friend Ray Deter spent time in Germany a few years ago following the path of German beers similar to the ones we’ll be serving from gravity casks during our upcoming Real Oktoberfest Weekend (October 5-7). This 3-part video series shows how the beer is made, stored and served! Enjoy.
Franconian beer has a rich history and is perfect for a Real Oktoberfest. For our upcoming celebration, we’ll be bringing in Germany gravity kegs (sometimes called Bayerische Anstich kegs) from various breweries scattered around Franconia. For those that have been to Bamberg, or just about any Franconian village, you’ll recognize these kegs, which are typically set on the bar for serving and are the traditional serving vessels of the Franconian keller.
For our Real Oktoberfest Weekend (Friday, October 5th, through Sunday, October 7th) we’ll be offering a rotation of these interesting and unusual beers:
Well also feature some German-style American beers, such as Victory Fest, Mission Amber Altbier, Mission Blond Koslch-style. Plus we’ll have a great selection of Harvest Beers for our upcoming $10 Tuesday Tastings:
For those who want to expand their German experience, we’ll be having a dinner special to go with these beers: $20 for three wurst (sausages) accompanied by traditional Franconian sides (German potato salad, kraut) and My Friend’s Mustard plus two beers! Mark your calendars now, and see you starting Friday!
It’s Thursday! Are you ready for the Thursday Tap™. We certainly are and we’ll be bringing on a new interesting and unusual beer from New Zealand’s Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black. This 6% ABV American-style porter is the brewer’s “multi-award winning ‘Hoppy Porter’ (that some call a ‘black IPA’). The different names convey the fact that this beer is a contradiction of styles: fresh and hoppy, yet dark and rich. Most importantly it is mind-bendingly delicious and a complete original.” There are only 24 kegs in all the USA and we’ve got one of them! As always, we tap at 5 p.m.
And as if you needed another excuse to come to Jimmy’s No. 43, tonight is our big oyster night. We’ll be having a special Slow U: Shuck and Talk in the back room ($30 at the door) and our very own Dave Miss will be shucking out front. We’ll have an oyster special: $20 gets you 1/2 dozen oysters and a Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black (or 1/2 dozen oysters and two American pints). Of course, our regular bar service/restaurant menu will be available, as well.
It’s a very special edition of our weekly $10 Tuesday Tastings. We’ll be featuring beers from Maine, including Maine Beer Co. and Allagash, and to a lucky few (approximately 25, first come first served while supplies last) we’ll be handing out samples from Luke’s Lobster. Here’s how it works: You join us at 7:30 p.m. for $10 Tuesday Tasting and you get a lobster roll or similar delicacy from Luke’s! Among our $10 Tuesday Tasting beers will be (subject to change):
We’ll have our regular bar service and dinner menu available, too. And if you miss out on Luke’s Lobster tonight, well, a little birdie who likes her beer said they’ll be back for our Thursday Tap™ on October 4th to introduce Atlantic Brewing.
If you’re from around these parts (or have taken a Circle Line tour), then you probably know all about NYC’s rich oyster history, when oysters lined the banks and were quite literally “poor man’s food.” As the waters again become safe for oysters to inhabit the Hudson and East Rivers, it’s time to celebrate our beloved bivalve with New York Oyster Week (September 22-29)!
We love our oysters, and we offer them every Thursday. This week on Thursday, September 27th, we’ll be having both our usual Chief Shucker Dave Miss in the main dining area plus our favorite aquaculturist, Karen Rivara (from the Noank Cooperative), who will be doing a bit of shucking of her own in the back room at a ticketed event to benefit Slow Food NYC. Karen will shuck, beer will be served, and you can get schooled in all things oyster. Or just buy from our regular menu, where we will have a few specialty oyster dishes available for regular purchase.
Save by purchasing your tickets for Karen’s event online; they’ll be $30 at the door.