Jimmys No. 43

This week, we’re focusing on a unique group of brewers who are also making distilled spirits from their beers, and you can join us tomorrow (Wednesday, March 23rd) for “More than a Beer and a Shot” where you’ll sample five different beer-spirit pairings curated by George Flickinger of B. United Imports.  Expected pairings for the evening:

• Aventinus spirit and Aventinus beer – Edelster aged in whiskey barrels
• Schlenkerla spirit and beer (rauchbier)
• Uerige (alt bier) spirit and beer
• Reissdorf Kolsch spirit and beer
• Hitachino spirit and beer – distilled Hitachino White ale aged in white oak barrels

Be sure to get your ticket ($35) here.

And if you prefer beer with a pork chaser, be sure to drop by on Thursday (March 24th) for our “Pig and Belgians Last Supper,” a five-beer pairing dinner featuring a whole roast pig! (Tickets are available here.) Artisanal Imports and co-host Alex Forbes will curate the beers (subject to last minute change):

It’s a great double feature this week as we celebrate a new menu item: The Duck Bahn Mi. Recently profiled in Chopsticks & Marrow, our Bahn Mi takes everything you love from the Asian dish and makes it uniquely “Jimmy’s No. 43.” And this Thursday, we’ll be doing special pairings with some great Ciders of Spain. We’ll be pouring Avalon from Asturias, a region that was actually settled by the Celts. We’ll be having a wee l’il Santo Patricio celebration with pay-as-you-go sidra by the glass. These ciders pair amazingly well with the new duck dish.

And speaking of duck dishes, this Sunday is our annual Duck-Off benefiting Slow Food NYC. Get ready for Duck Confit, Peking Duck, Duck Tacos, Duck Ragu, Duck TagineIs and more! With duck sourced from Hudson Valley Duck Farm, chefs  will deliver a dozen delectable, duck dishes for eaters’ delight and  will serve up delicious duck charcuterie!

So be sure to drop by this week and try a new signature dish just in time for spring.

We were promised an early spring, and this week is looking fine. You’ll be feeling fine with one of our signature cocktails (and drink of the week), the Reverse Martini. We’re keeping it local (and low-cal) with a sizable pour of Uncouth Vermouth served with a splash of Queens Courage gin. It’s one of several cocktails we’re now known for since getting our liquor license last year.

And what should you pair with your Reverse Martini? We’re so glad you asked! How about our amazing Chicken Wings Adobo, braised in a unique recipe with meat that literally falls right off the bone. Saveur Magazine says, “These wings may be even easier to inhale than the Buffalo kind.” While we recommend savoring our wings over breathing them in, we do agree that they are “adobolicious!”

Of course, we always have an amazing line-up of beers on draft, but with the coming of spring is Saison Day on Saturday, March 12th. We’ll be celebrating this lighter beer with its unique and nuanced flavors, along with other farmhouse ales. Among the beers we plan to feature this week:

• LIC Beer Project’s SMASH (State Malt and State Hops) beer NY State Ardent Core Saison
• Pretty Things Kent Goldings Saison (hard to find, a rare gem!)
• Threes Paradigmatic Flexibility Saison
• Stillwater’s Of Love and Regret
• Allagash Saison
• Sloop Brewing’s Galaxy Farm (from the Hudson Valley)
• Others TBA

And, of course, we’re still featuring our “Best Burger” with red wine. Whatever your preferred beverage, we’ve got you covered this spring at Jimmy’s No. 43.

Do you know why your beer tastes bitter? It’s all because of hops, a lovely flower that makes beer taste better! NY State was once the world’s largest provider of hops, and we’re producing another chapter of our successful Saturday Salon series as we welcome hops farmers, brewers and agricultural specialists for this NYC Beer Week event! This Saturday, February 27th, you can come to the Hops Salon (tickets – $10 online; $15 at the door – are available here) and hear all about the challenges, joys and aroma of hops! Includes beer samples (regular menu available; pay as you go). Plus, as an added treat, we’ll be sampling some hops ice cream!

Featuring:

• John Condzella from Condzella Farms on Long Island
• John Segal from Segal Ranch, a 3rd generation farm that originated in NY State before moving to Washington State
• Jamie Adams of Saint James Brewery on Long Island
• Others TBA

We’ll also have a special keg of Saint James Brewery’s beer on tap (available for additional purchase), a beer not readily available in the city.

And speaking of special beers, have you seen our line-up of SMASH (State Malt and State Hops) beers that we have in rotation for NYC Beer Week? Although our cask of English Mild from Rockaway Brewing has kicked (want to try it? tickets are still available for our co-produced event NYC Brewer’s Choice in Brooklyn on Wednesday, February 24th), we have three other SMASH beers currently on draft with several on deck coming:

• Bridge and Tunnel Tank Fund Saison (currently available)
• Gun Hill Brewery’s “Who Spelt it, Dealt it,” an 8% ABV strong spelt ale (currently available)
• Biodome Classic by Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. (currently available)
• LIC Beer Project’s NYC Saison (available soon)
• Transmitter Brewing’s NY4 New Yorker Weisse (available soon)
• Acidifus Locale, a spelt, lactobacillus and Bartlett pear sour from Greenpoint Beer and Ale
  
• Sixpoint’s Dry Hop Sour

And don’t miss our two #LiquidLent beer nights:

• Wednesday, February 24th from 5PM – George Flickinger from B. United will bring us a cask of a Trappist beer from Austria: Stift Engelszell’s Gregorius
• Thursday, February 25th from 6PM – Chimay reps will be in the house with two drafts (the white, a tripel, and the blue, a quad) and all their bottles available

Plus, we’ll be sure to save a few special brews for Sunday’s Lechon Craft Beer Lunch (on February 28th). You’ll want to spend your beer week at the unofficial “clubhouse” of NYC Beer Week. You never know which beer celebrity you’ll bump into next!