Jimmys No. 43

On Saturday, March 3^rd, Beer Sessions Radio™ and host Jimmy Carbone will be programming two seminars during NYC American Craft Beer Festival on to be held at the Lexington Armory (tickets available here). Jimmy Carbone and esteemed guests from the popular Heritage Radio Network beer show will lead select guests at the fest in two special seminars:

• A chocolate and beer pairing with Discover Chocolate author Clay Gordon with select brews available for tasting;
• Highlights from the NY International Beer Competition’s award winning beers, presented with Adam Levy, President of All Spirits Events. Continue reading Preview Of NYC American Craft Beer Festival: A Conversation With Chocolate Expert Clay Gordon

If you haven’t already bought your $55 ticket (with a portion of the proceeds benefiting New Amsterdam Market) to next week’s “Brisket King of NYC,” be sure to get them this week! The event, taking place on Monday, February 27^th from 6:30-10 p.m. at Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street). will feature such renown meats/chefs such as Chef Robbie Richter, High Point Farms, Joe Doe, Patrick Connolly (The Kitchen NYC), and John Brown Smokehouse, among others. Full details are at meatweeknyc.com.

For the most part, fall is the season when we tap rare and unusual brews, typically offering up German gravity casks (easy drinking Landbiers, Kellers from Bavaria, etc.) in celebration of Oktoberfest. This winter we have the pleasure to offer one of the rarest beers, an old-school English cask: RCH Old Slug Porter. Distributor B United describes the beer as “a delicious Porter with a full bodied taste of chocolate, coffee, blackcurrent and black cherry. It features a dark near black colour with a good white head when served through a tight sparkler.”

This will be our only English cask-conditioned tap until later in the year, so stop by after 6 p.m. on Thursday (we should have enough to last through the weekend!) for a taste of this truly incredible beer.

We had a great turn-out to taste hot sauce and drink soda (GuS was in the house!) In addition to all the amazing hot samples, there were brunch bites from Jimmy’s No. 43.  Thanks to our judges: Matt Levy (Levys’ Unique New York! “NY’s First Family of Tour Guides!”), Regan Hofmann (Our Town Downtown Journalist), and Clay Gordon (The Chocolate Life).

Winners –

• “Tears of the Sun” from High River Sauces won the Inna Gadda Di Hotta Award;
• NYC Hot Sauce’s Xtreme won Jane Fonda Feel the Burn category as hottest hot sauce;
• Mike’s Honey won Gateway Sauce. Continue reading Hot Sauce Relief: A Great Day For Those Who Love It Spicy

Whether you are coming out for brunch, our Hot Sauce tasting, the Gumbo Cook-off, or just to hang with your beer “family” (or all of the above), Jimmy’s No. 43 has some amazing new beers this weekend. Among them are:

• Mission, blond (San Diego)
• Kissmeyer, honey porter (Denmark)
• Anchorage (a slightly sour triple, Alaska)
• Maine, peeper ale
• Mikkeller, “Boogoop” Buckwheat (barley wine style) collaboration with Three Floyds Brewery
• Barrier, Rembrandt porter
• Spider bite – double IPA (Long Island)
• North Coast, Old Rasputin

Just a sample of the really terrific beers we’ll have this weekend, so please come out and enjoy!