 NY Craft Beer Week 2009! Hosted simultaneously at Jimmy's No. 43 Swift Hibernian Lounge Rattle n' Hum SIXTY unique cask ales will be available simultaneously with twenty firkins at each of the three bars. With a collection ranging from rare, limited release specialty brews to some of the best and most sessionable beers available, there will be delights for any and all fans of real ale. Please join us as a cask of NY3, the official beer of NY Craft Beer Week 2009, is tapped at 6pm at all three bars to officially open the Week. Servings of this beer will be limited to Passport holders only, who will each be presented with a complimentary 8 oz pour. Servings are first come, first serve and available as long as the firkin lasts. Prices will be reasonable at all locations with NO ENTRY FEE. Both 10oz and 16oz pours will be served, but once each firkin is kicked, that's it. When they're gone, they're gone, so come early and stay late. A full list of casks available will be posted here soon specifying where each cask will be served and updated frequently as delivery is confirmed at each bar. The Gotham Imbiber Definition of Cask Ale Cask-Conditioned Beer (a.k.a. 'Real Ale'); Unfiltered, unpasteurized beer brewed from only traditional ingredients, matured and naturally carbonated by a secondary fermentation in the container from which it is manually dispensed - i.e. served without the use of nitrogen or extraneous carbon dioxide. It is ideally served at cellar temperature, which is about 55F - so cool but not chilled. Some of the great cask ales you can try ... 1000 Gyle Imperial Mild 13th Anniversary Pale Ale Anniversary Ale (Cask) Baltic Porter Bam Noire Barnstormer Pale Ale Big A IPA (Cask) Bitter End Pale Ale Black Black Ops Cane and Ebel (Cask) Captain's Reserve (Cask) Dark Matter Dog Days Dorado Double IPA Double Blonde Double Simcoe IPA Dragonstooth Stout Extra Dry Cider Extra Special Bitter Ale Freshchester Pale Ale (Cask) Gonzo Imperial Porter Heavy Seas Hang Ten Hop Hazard Hop Wallop Hop-a-lot-amus Imperial Stout Trooper Inferno Pod Ale Javahead Coffee Stout La Roja Loose Cannon (Cask) Nugget Nectar NY3 Odd Notion (Cask) Pennant Ale '55 (Cask) Perseus Porter Racer 5 (Super Hopped) Rastafa Rye (Cask) Red Rocket (Cask) Righteous Rye (Cask) Rusty Chain Sculpin IPA Sierra Nevada Brown Ale Smuttynose IPA Somer Orange Honey Ale Storm King Stout (Cask) Ten Fidy (Cask) Torpedo Extra IPA Trade Winds Tripel Xtra Gold Tripel |