{"id":135453,"date":"2026-01-28T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:20:09","slug":"proud-of-every-drop-intuition-ale-works-to-close-down-after-9-years-in-downtown-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135453\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Proud of every drop’: Intuition Ale Works to close down after 9 years in Downtown Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner says slow downtown development and rising costs contributed to the decision. After looking for nine months, he states that “the right buyer never came.”<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 After calling Downtown Jacksonville home for nearly a decade, Intuition Ale Works is permanently closing its doors.<\/p>\n

In a message on social media, founder Ben Davis announced the craft brewery would shut down on April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

The business had humble beginnings, years before operations began at the location on East Bay Street in 2016.<\/p>\n

“Fifteen years have flown by,” Davis said. “It feels like yesterday that we were rolling tanks into the old King Street Brewery, signing up Mug Club members, and talking about canning beer ‘someday.'”<\/p>\n


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Last April, Davis announced he was putting the business up for sale. He said Wednesday that after nine months of searching, the right buyer never came.<\/p>\n

He points to rising costs and the business’s location as contributing factors in the decision.<\/p>\n

“The craft beer industry has changed dramatically since COVID. Costs are higher, margins are thinner, and competition is relentless. For small, independent breweries, the room for error is smaller than it has ever been.”<\/p>\n

Davis said that when deciding to operate in Downtown Jacksonville, he was banking on its long-term potential. While the Northbank has been the subject of multiple development plans in recent years, including the new Rise Doro luxury apartments, marina and Four Seasons Hotel, many of those construction projects are still in progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That ambition was rooted in the hope that transformative downtown development would follow. It never did. Renderings and potential do not pay the bills.”<\/p>\n

The final day will feature one last Bier Hall show with Yonder Mountain String Band, Davis said. The taproom, kitchen and Bier Hall will remain fully open and operational until then, and all scheduled private events will move forward as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner says slow downtown development and rising costs contributed to the decision. After looking for nine months,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-135453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}