Jimmys No. 43

Jimmy’s No. 43 guest chef Jessica Wilson is working on an all-vegetarian menu as part of our semi-annual August 16 Sour Beer Dinner. This is one of our most popular dinners every year, and August is shaping up to be the perfect (read: hot!) month to feature sour beers. We’ll be working to pair some exquisite sour, wild yeast, and other naturally fermented beers. For the dinner we’ll have specially-curated beers (Prof. Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse, Vapeur Cochonne, Hanssen’s Gueuze, De Dolle Special Extra Export Stout, BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon Chien) with the following non-meat offerings:

• Zucchini Carpaccio with Walnuts
• Almond Yellow Pepper Soup
• Roasted Corn Omelette
• Ricotta Gnocchi Favas
• Tomato Panna Cotta with Basil Oil

We expect this event to be a sell-out, so be sure to get your tickets before they’re gone! You normally can’t touch these interesting and unusual beers at this price for a tasting, and you’ll be getting a five-course gourmet meal to go along with them.

 

You want the O.C.? We’ve got the O.C. An Orange County Brewery (or we should say, Bruery) for this week’s Thursday Tap™. Our Summer seasonal, Trade Winds Tripel (8.1% ABV) is a summer seasonal beer put out by the California craft brewer Bruery. This beer offers up a Belgian-style golden ale with a Southeast Asian twist. Instead of using candy sugar (typical for such a beer), the beer has rice in the mash to lighten the body and increase the gravity, and it’s spiced with Thai Basil. The result is an aromatic, digestible and complex beer made for a lazy summer evening. Sounds like August if you ask us. See you at 5 p.m. today (and, as always, while supplies last).

Among the trends in American craft beer, the rise of wild beers is a new trend that we’re happy to embrace at Jimmy’s No. 43. In fact, we’ll be using the month of August to feature sour, wild yeast, and other naturally fermented beers from breweries both local and far-flung. The tradition runs deep—from lambics and Flemish sours in Belgium, Gose and Berliner weisse in Germany, to new experimental brews in the USA. Our Tuesday Tastings will all feature sour beers curated by some of our favorite (Shelton Brothers, B. United, Union) beer distributors, with Thursday Tap leaning on rare kegs of sour beers, all culminating in our August 16th B. United Sour Beer & Vegetarian Nonsense Beer Dinner. This event (featuring former Jimmy’s No. 43 Chef Jessica Wilson) will pair up five extremely high end sour beers with a great vegetarian menu.

If you’ve been paying attention to the local beer scene, you may have tried some of Jeff O’Neill’s Peekskill brews that emulate Belgian-style wild beers. Dogfish Head Pastina Peche is another recent entry into these refreshing summertime beers.

Look for specials throughout the month, including beers from Belgium, Germany, Italy and the USA, among others.

If you’ve never had the chance to make a $10 Tuesday Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43, you don’t know what you’re missing (it’s what Time Out New York considers one of the best deals in the city!). And this week we have a special guest, Where The Wild Beer Are‘s Tim Stendahl. WTWB are is a semi-annual fermented beer festival (it runs springs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and heads to Minnesota in the fall). We’re happy to bring Tim in for the next two weeks, as August is Sour Beer Month at Jimmy’s No. 43. Tim will be raiding our beer cellar, picking out some favorites to share with you. You can join in for a mere—yep! you guessed it!—$10. Tastings this week will include (subject to availability):

• Apostelbrau Pale
• Maine Beer Company Peeper
• Blue Point Rastafa Rye
• Maine Beer Company Mean Old Tom
• Chouffe Houblon Chouffe
• Mikkeller Beer Hop Breakfast

As always, the tasting starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. And, as always, the regular menu is still available to patrons who aren’t doing the tasting. Come one, come all. And welcome, Tim and August Sour Beer month!

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is a doozy: Alvinne’s Melchior, a Calvados Barrel Oak Aged a Belgian Strong Ale with a 10% ABV and brewed with mustard seeds. Melchior is one of Picobrouwerij Alvinne’s three “magi” beers (along with Balthazaar and Gaspar). Despite the high ABV, this is a great summer beer and absolutely delicious! Jimmy taps at 5 p.m., so be sure to get yours before we run out.