Many visitors to Jimmy’s No. 43 may only know about our back room because they got lost on the way to the loo. However, our back space is frequently used by local artists, musicians, comedians and other artisans, who are able to show off their talents in a prime area of NYC with little to no cost compared to standard venues. For 2013, we are hoping to up our game and make capital improvements to the back room that will benefit even more community arts groups moving forward.
To do this, we really need your help. We have launched a Kickstarter campaign to provide for lighting, sound, and physical improvements to the space (including heating/air conditioning), but we’ve only got a few more days to meet our fundraising goal. We need approximately $500 per day (which sounds like a lot, but works out to pennies per blog reader!) for the next 11 days, so we’re asking you to get in the holiday spirit and give the amazing arts groups we support the back room they need and deserve.
You can donate here or start by checking out this video about our back room improvement goals.
The Barrier Brewing guys delivering their Submersion Series beer this week.
As most of you in Jimmy’s Community know, Barrier Brewing was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. The aftermath of the storm left Barrier Brewing with a big clean-up, and some “Fermented by Sandy” beer that was left untended in the fermenters, meaning extra conditioning courtesy of Mother Nature. Happily, we’ve managed to procure a keg of the Submersion Series Belgian 1 for our Thursday Tap™ this week. This Belgian-style pale ale (7.5%) ABV continues our December Belgian beer theme. We just tapped it, so come in and show your support for our friends at Barrier Brewing with this interesting and unusual beer. Pair it with the pork belly or scallops! Or just drink it solo.
As always, available while supplies last with regular bar/restaurant/oyster service available.
Our Belgian beer fest continues! Last Monday we had another one of our amazing Vegetarian Nonsense dinners paired with Shelton Brothers’ Belgians. For tonight’s $10 Tuesday Tasting, we’ll be featureing several of those beers that were at the dinner. Tonight’s tasting will include:
Drie Fonteinen Beersel Blonde bottles
De la Senne Taras Boulba bottles
De Ranke XX Bitter bottles
Kerkom Bink Bloesem draft
Jolly Pumpkin Luciernaga bottles
Achel bruin bottles
Also on Saturday, we will have another Bacon & Belgians afternoon tasting. $20 gets you six beer tastings and bacon samples. We’ll continue to feature great Belgian brews throughout December and into January. (As always, regular bar/restaurant menu available.)
Join us at 7:30 p.m. tonight for our last $10 Tuesday Tasting of 2012!
Last week’s Meat Hackathon, a featured event of NYC Meat Week, was a great success! As we await our butchered hog, we’re gearing up with some piggy-licious menu offerings in celebration of Eat Pig for a Week. Introducing, “Farmer’s Pork Special,” a new menu feature that every day offers a different cut of farm-raised pork sourced directly. We’ll have a nightly rotation that includes:
BFM brewer Jérôme Rebetez holds a bottle of his Battle of the Belgians overall winner, BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien 2011.
You won’t be late for brunch at our very special Bacon and Belgians tasting today from 2-5 p.m. A mere $20 gets you bacon snacks paired with six tastes of Belgian beer (regular bar/restaurant service also available, or order bacon dishes a la carte and beers from our specialty Belgian bottle list), all of which were featured during last Saturday’s Battle of the Belgians.
Last week we had close to 40 different Belgian and Belgian-style beers in three categories: American, Belgian and Swiss. The overwhelming winner (both judge’s and People’s Choice) in the American category was Ommegang’s Gnomegang. Honorable Mention went to The Bruery Fruet, Ommegang 3 Philosophers, and Midnight Sun’s Panty Peeler Triple (a personal favorite of all-star bartender—Jimmy’s No. 43 and Blind Tiger—Luke Manson).
In the Swiss category, BFM’s very own Jérôme Rebetez was pouring five of his beers, with the BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien 2011 taking both the judges and People’s Choice wins.
Our Belgian category was very deep (25 different offerings), so there emerged no clear winner. Standouts included last year’s overall winner from Vanberg & Dewulf, Brasserie Dupont La Bière de Beloeil; Alvinne Cuvee d’Erpigny, which got its unique flavor from mustard seeds and being aged in wine barrels; Hanssens Scarenbecca Kriek; and People’s Choice winner in the Belgian category, Brouwerij Van Steenberge’s Monk’s Cafe.
And 1st place (may I have a drum roll, please?)—went to Jérôme Rebetez of BFM for his Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien.
Even if you missed out on the amazing event last week, today you can live (or relive) these amazing Belgians with selections from some of the following (TBD): Ommegang 3 Philosophers, Stillwater Folklore, Monk’s Cafe Flemish Sour, Brouwerij de Dolle Brouwers “Dulle Teve” Triple, Duvel Single, Chimay Triple, Jolly Pumpkin’s, Alvinne Melchior and others.
So skip brunch and instead join us for bacon snacks and tastes of our favorite Belgian beers!
