Melissa Surach, born and raised in Jersey City, is a senior writer at the Jersey City Independent. Also a bartender and comedian, she is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at The New School.
Jersey City hasn’t always been a craft beer town—more of a “beer and a stab” town, a phrase used by beat cops during the rougher years. These days though, craft beer bars are popping up on every corner, and events organized by the local homebrew club aren’t hard to come by either.
