With the craft beer resurgence going strong, several Jersey City bars have beefed up their obscure selections in efforts to lay claim to the title of Jersey City’s best craft beer bar. Perhaps the most unlikely of the bars to take this route is Star Bar, a hole-in-the-wall gay bar tucked away on Wayne Street right off of Grove.
Share/Save For more event listings, be sure to check out our full Cultural Calendar. But here are some of the Best Bets for the weekend. Hosting an event? You can submit your events to our calendar directly on the site. It’s easy — check it out here. TODAY The mini heat wave has dissipated a [...]
Share/SaveWe are in full-on late-spring events season here, folks, so we’re here to help you choose your outings wisely. For full listings, check out our Cultural Calendar; meanwhile, here are some of your Best Bets. TODAY The Iron Monkey‘s second big beer event of the week is also a source of excitement for the entire [...]
Share/Save Put your pants on because the highly anticipated debut of New Jersey Beer Company is here — just in time to celebrate American Craft Beer Week, which runs until Sunday, May 23. The newest craft brewery in the state is right in our backyard in North Bergen, and it’s also the only brewery in [...]
Share/Save- Judge Dismisses Extortion Charges Against Manzos: A federal judge yesterday dropped extortion charges against former Jersey City assemblyman and 2009 mayoral candidate Lou Manzo and his brother and consultant Ron Manzo, who were arrested as part of a federal corruption sting last July. The Manzos still face bribery and mail fraud charges. In his [...]
Share/Save Photos: Verity Smith and Melissa Surach Two Saturdays ago, I went to Atlantic City for the 5th Annual Celebration of the Suds, one of the biggest beer events in the state. I had tickets for the night’s sold-out session, and I arrived in town just in time to be greeted by the exodus from [...]
New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewing Company launched the newest beer in its Exit Series Monday night at Copper Mine pub, a craft beer bar in North Arlington. The beer, called Exit 16, was designed not only to be a delicious double IPA, but also to educate the nation about the Meadowlands, the plight of the Hackensack River and how great New Jersey is in general. Indeed, the Jersey Pride emanating from Flying Fish’s Andy Newell and Hackensack Riverkeeper Captain Bill Sheehan was inspirational and nearly brought tears to my eyes.
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing cookies from Jersey City’s Feed Your Soul. This weekend, I got the chance to get drunk on them in the form of Cookie Jar Porter, the newest beer in the Brooklyn Brewery’s Brewmaster’s Reserve series, inspired by Feed Your Soul’s Honey Oatmeal Raisin cookie.
Share/Save- As the federal corruption trial of Leona Beldini continued yesterday, her defense team got religion on FBI informant Solomon Dwek, who fingered former state Department of Community Affairs commissioner Joe Doria as someone he planned on giving a cash bribe to. Bob Braun has more on Dwek, and the Journal has more on who [...]
Share/SaveIn addition to beer, I’ve always had a fine appreciation for metadata. That is, I love to know anything and everything I can know about a thing, particularly a thing I really like. So, for example, I’m the kind of kid that begged his parents for Star Wars schematic books so I could really understand [...]
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