We’ve got your afternoon beer events covered for the weekend, as two Good Beer Seal bars host some of their favorite events of the year.
First up, Jimmy’s No. 43 is hosting Battle of the Belgians from 1-4 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, November 16th. Your ticket (get it here) entitles you to three hours of walk-around beer tasting, featuring the best of Belgium (from 12% Imports, Vanberg & Dewulf, Shelton Brothers, B. United) alongside American-made Belgian-style beers. Among the features:
- 20+ beers to sample and vote on: you choose the winner! Americans and Belgians.
- Beers from Merchant du Vin, Duval/Ommegang, and Vanberg & DeWulf will compete with American-brewed draught and bottle offerings.
- FOOD! We’ll have brunch-style offerings including our favorite Belgian beer pairing: bacon! Plus, our award-winning biscuits, chocolate, small bites/tapas.
- Special guest: Brewer Rich Castagna of Bridge & Tunnel, one of our favorite local breweries, will be premiering some of his beers.
- 1-4 p.m. walk-around tasting features small batch, one-off, and classic Belgian-style beers.
For a list of last year’s beers and updates, check out Jimmy’s No. 43’s events listing.
Then on Sunday, Staten Island’s favorite craft beer bar, Adobe Blues, hosts its 3rd Annual Brewery Appreciation Day (November 17th, from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.)! The line-up includes:
- Scotland’s Harviestoun, who will be pouring their very rare Ola Dubh 21 Year, a strong dark ale that has been aged in barrels that previously held Highland Park scotch for 21 years!
- Smuttynose, from New Hampshire, with their Short Batch #21, a strawberry-rhubarb Berliner Weiss. Only 27 barrels of this were produced, making this one pretty hard to come by…
- Weyerbacher, from Pennsylvania, with Aries, a blend of two incredible beers: their Old Heathen Imperial Stout, and our old favorite Imperial Pumpkin Ale.
- Vermont’s Otter Creek and Lawson’s Finest Liquids teamed up to make a double IPA, called Double Dose. This is the first time any beer from Lawson’s Finest Liquids has been in the New York market.
- Oskar Blues, from Colorado, with Ten Fidy Imperial Stout. Adobe Blues plans to pour this through their Randall…most likely with coffee and chocolate.
- Blue Point, from Long Island, is blending a cask of Old Howling Bastard Barleywine specifically for the event—half fresh, half aged in wine barrels for a year!
- Great Divide sent one special cask of their Yeti to New York, aged with Madagascar cocoa nibs and cherry wood.
- Sierra Nevada started a whole new category of beer when they started using wet hops in their brewing process. They’ll have both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere Harvest Ales to try side by side!
- Southern Tier with a vintage 2012 Pumking keg.
- Ballast Point, from San Diego, is coming with their once-a-year Schooner Wet Hop Pale Ale.
- Abita is coming from Louisiana with a keg of their special Abita Select saison, French Connection.
- Maine Brewing Company is sending Mean Old Tom Stout.
- Finally, a keg of Double DBA from California’s Firestone Walker…saved especially for Brewery Appreciation Day!
The ticket (get it here) also includes all-you-can-eat chicken, steak, and vegetable fajitas, plus mini tacos.