Though it isn’t even unofficially summer until Memorial Day, Jose Garces is kicking off the season early this year with a clambake at JG Domestic on Wednesday, May 23rd at 6:30 p.m. For $55 patrons get a family-style seafood dinner and unlimited pours of six featured Allagash Brewing Company beers.

The menu for the night starts with house-made dried pork sausage and “cave-aged” Landaff cheese. For the main course guests will be served a garden salad made from ingredients grown in Garces’ Bucks County farm, as well as cod chowder and a clambake of little neck clams, Maine mussels, shrimp, and sausage. And for dessert? Whoopie pies.

As important, the Allagash brews paired with the meal include: White, Dubbel and Triple, Curieux, Black, and Four, “brewed with four malts, four sugars and four hop varieties and fermented four times with four different yeast strains.” Sounds intense.

For clambake-and-unlimited-Allagash reservations call 215-222-2363 of go online.

JG Domestic [Official Site]