Jimmys No. 43

We’re revving up for another great summer as July Good Beer Month arrives. For the past seven years, we’ve led the charge to recognize outstanding craft beer establishments, of which Jimmy’s No. 43 is one! We’re bringing in a bevvy of special guests all month long with theme nights and one special dinner (non-beer, but we care about our new whiskey program, too!)

We’re doing our official July Good Beer Month launch alongside Niko Krommydas, whose Craft Beer App now has a Craft Beer Map (we’re on it!). We’ll have copies of it available for sale ($5, plus you’ll get $1 off your first beer), with special beers coming on tap tonight, including:

• Finback’s new sour beer: The Loneliness of Distant Space
• Threes Brewing’s Just Add Water (a collaboration with Jeff “Chief” O’Neil)
• Barrage Brewing’s Yada, Yada, Yada, which might be the brewery’s first appearance in NYC

We expect other beer luminaries to be in the house, including KelSo Brewing’s Kelly Taylor along with others from the NYC Brewers Guild.

Next week we’re having a Spanish craft beer theme week in honor of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona! We’re joining other great bars around the city with a nice round-up of great Spanish beers. We’ll culminate our festivities on Friday, July 10th, with a Spanish beer and disco night! It’s all leading up to the coolest outdoor cooking event (we’ll be grilling on the East River Manhattan waterfront) of the month, Running with the Beef™! You can find out more about this beef and beer extravaganza – taking place on Saturday, July 11th – here.

On Sunday, July 19th, we’re taking a wee beer break and offering an amazing whiskey dinner with Angel’s Envy: You’ll get three courses, including our amazing whole roast “Lechon” pig dinner with sides, and four whiskeys (with a few surprise samplings likely). Full details about the dinner can be found under our events listings.

We’ve been putting on some great beers for spring and fixing up our backroom for the season (check out the back bar!). We’re accepting reservations for parties, small weddings, group dinners, corporate get-togethers and bachelor/ette parties. We’re loving the new vibe and updates as we celebrate #EastVillageLoves, part of a campaign to boost business in the East Village since the destruction from March.

• The Evil Twin / Beavertown (Robert Plant’s son Logan’s London-based brewery) collaboration XXX Beer, an Imperial British-style “Mild” Ale based on an 1839 British recipe and weighing in at a not-so-mild 9.5% ABV
• Folksbier Morning Dew “Hoppy Kölsch” (owner Jimmy Carbone coined the term after trying the Carton Boat Beer: “The style is similar to a Kölsch – lager-esque yet an ale. It’s easy drinking, but more hoppy, which doesn’t fit the traditional Kölsch style guidelines.”)
• Boogie Board Stuntz – another Kölsch collaboration beer between Brooklyn’s The Other Half and Maine’s Bunker Brewing

We think these are some of the nicest beers of the season, so we hope you’ll join us this week for a pint or two!

And don’t forget to stop by on Fridays from 3-8 when Jonathan White of Bobolink Dairy & Bakehouse drops by with cheese samples (free with beverage purchase), part of his weekly schlep to the city… hanging out with friends at Jimmy’s No. 43!

We’re very excited to be previewing a new kitchen menu that we’ll be launching later in June. We’ve been working with a “secret chef” to develop some very cool new dishes, including:

• Chicken Wings Adobo – slow-braised wings that are deep-fried to order, resulting in “melt off the bone” deliciousness
• Pork Spring Rolls – made with heritage pork and the freshest market veggies
• Pork Belly Taco with Thai Chili Lime Sauce

Can you guess who’s helping curate our new menu items? “Secret Chef” will be identified soon!

We’ll be rolling out more dishes as we get into summer, along with an expanded cocktail program. We’re also featuring a “Cocktail of the Week” for summer. This week we’re serving up El Jimador Palmoas made with El Jimador Tequila, jalapeno juice and grapefruit soda. Perfect effervescence for the hotter days.

And, of course, we’ll have a great lineup of beers on draught this week and into the weekend, including:

• Folksbier Morning Dew, a “hoppy Kölsch“
• Barrier Brewing’s Money IPA – one of our favorite India Pale Ales weighing in at a solid 7.3% ABV
• And we still have some of the Manhattan premiere of Boogie Board Stuntz – a Kölsch collaboration beer between Brooklyn’s The Other Half and Maine’s Bunker Brewing

We’ll also be pouring Farnum Hill by the glass for you cider lovers!

Among our events this week is tonight’s (Wednesday, 5/27) meet-and-greet fundraiser for Brooklyn Rescue Mission. And if you haven’t heard, Early Bird tickets for Pig Island (and first round of chefs) have been announced!

Hope to see you enjoying our new menu items and drinks this week at Jimmy’s No. 43!

It’s the unofficial start of summer as we roll into this (very early) Memorial Day weekend with a new theme: Lagers for Baseball!  As we work on our new summer menu (in previews! come by for a sneak peek), we’re also enjoying cold fermented beers that pair so well with summer. We added the theme of baseball after sitting down with NY Times food and wine critic Eric Asimov, who wrote on the joys of combining America’s favorite pastime with lager beer.

Among the lagers we’ll have this weekend (while supplies last):

• Brewski’s lager made at Ramstein/High Point Brewery in NJ
• Green Flash East Village Pils – named after San Diego’s East Village, but pouring in NYC’s East Village
• Sly Fox’s “Penny” Maibock – Penny is the name of the winning goat at this year’s annual mai goat race at the Pennsylvania brewery
• Boogie Board Stuntz – a Kölsch collaboration beer between Brooklyn’s The Other Half and Maine’s Bunker Brewing that will be having its Manhattan launch at Jimmy’s No. 43 – while technically an ale, we’re counting this hybrid among our lagers this weekend!
  

And it’s a great week for liquor, as well, at Jimmy’s No. 43. Tonight (Wednesday, May 20th) we’ll be featuring our regular installment of Cocktail Classics to benefit Slow Food NYC. Join Tara Lyons from the Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company, the first distillery in historic Lexington, Kentucky in more than half a century. She’ll be sampling Town Branch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.

This tasting comes off our great night with Amy Zavatto featuring indie gin cocktails. We discovered the amazing diversity of really good gin, including Astoria Distilling’s Queens Courage and Vermont’s Barr Hill Gin (Jimmy’s new personal favorite is the barrel-aged gin pictured above).

We hope to see you this week enjoying beer, liquor and our new summer menu sneak preview.