Jimmys No. 43

As some of our community heads north to Portland, ME, for The Festival, we thought this would be a great time to mention some of our favorite brews that you may be able to find on your beer adventures.

• Stephan Michel and Mahr’s Bräu – We had a great time with Stephan last year and we featured his beers earlier this week for our weekly Tuesday Tasting. Among our very favorites: Bock and Ungespundet.
• Brasserie de la Senne – Yvan De Baets and Bernard Leboucq have created some amazing brews, including Zinnebir and Taras Boulba
• Cantillon’s Gueuze Lambic is a favorite during our annual April Sours events.
• Jolly Pumpkin – speaking of sours, we love the Michigan brewer’s Feugo del Otoño, Oro de Calabaza, and Luciérnaga, among others.
• Evil Twin’s Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø is a frequent guest to Jimmy’s No. 43. We love his Femme Fatale.
• Finally there’s one of Jeppe’s collaborators, Westbrook Brewing Co. from South Carolina. Seek out their Goze or White Thai.

And be sure to check in at Jimmy’s No. 43 next week when you’re back for more great beers courtesy of Shelton Brothers and 12 Percent.

While we wait for the official announcement of everybody’s favorite pork feast, Pig Island, Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to host a piggy-licious dinner tonight (6/17 at 7 p.m. tickets here until 5 p.m.), with Guest Chef Derrick Prince and a menu featuring unusual cuts from Flying Pigs Farm pork. Tonight’s menu includes:

Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to welcome both locals and out of town visitors here for Savor (this Friday, Saturday… tickets remain available here). We’re welcoming special guests through the weekend, not to mention a lot of interesting and unusual beers (both on draught and in the bottle).  Among our featured offerings:

• The Thursday Tap™ – 5 p.m. today we’ll be tapping Ominpollo’s Agamemnon, a 12.5% Imperial Stout
• Pre-Savor Bootcamp – Don’t know your diacetyl from your isoamyl acetate? No worries, as we have Cicerones in the house tonight to get you up to speed on all-things-beer. Plus, we welcome special guest Anne-Catherine Dilewyns, Belgium’s youngest brewer, will kick things off with her Vicaris Tripel, teaching how to hone your palate, listen to the hops, feel the malts, explore the fermentation, and taste the beer’s whole story. (TICKETS HERE)
• The Launch of Barrier Brewing-Carton Brewing Savor Collaboration Beer – Friday (6/14) afternoon, we’ll have Barrier Brewing in attendance as we tap their special collaboration beer (made with NJ’s Carton Brewing), “Sav’r for Later,”  a Cherry-Blossom/Hibiscus Saison. Jimmy’s No. 43 is one of a handful of bars where you’ll be able to get this brew!
• Pre- and Post-Savor Parties – On Friday and Saturday, we’ll be hosting parties before and after Savor. Be sure to wrap things up Saturday night with Port Jeff Brewing at our post-Savor after party.

And, of course, we’ll have a great list of interesting and unusual beers on the menu throughout the weekend. Regular bar/restaurant service remains available, as well.

UPDATED: TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR FOR $12.

Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to be co-hosting the NYC premiere of Beer Hunter (the movie) at Anthology Film Archives tomorrow night! For those who are unaware, Beer Hunter is a documentary on the life of Michael Jackson (not to be confused with the singer), who is largely credited with being the first true craft beer aficionado. His book, The World Guide to Beer, was the first ever to categorize every beer style, and his travels were well documented prior to his untimely death in 2007. His books on beer and whiskey have sold millions of copies, and his 1993 Discovery Channel television series, “The Beer Hunter,” inspired countless brewers and beer enthusiasts and literally helped shape the course of the craft brewing revolution sweeping the world.

Those clips have now been assembled in this documentary, which we’ll be celebrating alongside Beer Sessions Radio™, Seth Wright of Beer Nation, John Holl (editor, All About Beer), Tom Acitelli (author, The Audacity of Hops), Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery, and others, TBA.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with complimentary beer and snacks, including:

• Beer from Brooklyn Brewery, Radiant Pig and Saison Dupont
• Coach Farm Cheese
• Slant Shack Jerky
• Martin’s Prezels
• More TBA…

All About Beer Magazine will help moderate a Q&A panel after the screening, as well. Tickets are available in advance; a limited number of tickets will be $12 at the door.

We hope you can join us for the premiere of this amazing film.

We have a full and exciting month of great events coming up at Jimmy’s No. 43, starting with tonight’s return of Vegetarian Nonsense™ with New Small Breweries (Radiant Pig, Port Jeff, Newburgh, others). You can still get tickets (until 4 p.m. today), or just join us for a la carte tastings of these great local beers.

Then, coming up on Saturday, we’re turning Japanese (oh, yes, we think so) in support of Walk Japan, where a $20 ticket gets you samples of Japanese craft beers and food from PecoPeco (Okonomiyaki, Hokkaido and Nagoya-style chicken wings).

Next week, it’s the NYC Premiere of Beer Hunter! If you’ve ever wondered why craft beer (and whiskey) drinkers are so in to “Michael Jackson,” this movie is bound to clear things up for you. The real Michael Jackson as described by Tom Acitelli in The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution:

Born and raised in a working-class household near Leeds in West Yorkshire in northern England, (Michael Jackson) had his first beer, a lower-alcohol mild, at fifteen at the Castle Hill Hotel in Huddersfield. He dropped out of high school a year later, in 1958, to support his family, working newspaper and magazine jobs into the late 1960s… , covering a carnival near the Dutch-Belgian border (he) began exploring Belgium’s beers and culture.

Tom will be at the screening on June 11th at Anthology Film Archives, along with VIPs such as John Holl (editor, All About Beer), Director/Producer John Richards, Seth Wright (Beer Nation), Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery, and others, TBA. Tickets are on sale now.

On Monday, June 17th, we’ll be on the Road to Pig Island with Flying Pigs Farm and Belgian beer courtesy of Silly Beer (tickets here). Finally, we’ll be celebrating Eat Drink Local Week with a Post-Festival Wrap Dinner with 12 Percent and Shelton Brothers on Monday, June 24th (tickets here).

Be sure to put Jimmy’s No. 43 on your June calendar and check back for even more events to be announced!