{"id":135894,"date":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","slug":"intuition-ale-works-owner-says-beloved-downtown-brewery-is-closing-for-good-in-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135894\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuition Ale Works owner says beloved downtown brewery is closing for good in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Nine months after announcing that he was looking to sell his beloved Intuition Ale Works brewery, owner and founder Ben Davis shared an updated post on Facebook, saying \u201cthe right buyer never came\u201d and the eatery will be closing in April after more than 15 years in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post on Wednesday, Davis pointed to unrealized downtown growth as one of the dominoes that led to Intuition\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was confident that Intuition could play a role in helping shape what it might become,\u201d Davis wrote, saying he didn\u2019t regret the ambitious move. \u201cBut that ambition was rooted in the hope that transformative downtown development would follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never did,\u201d Davis continued. \u201cRenderings and potential do not pay the bills.\u201d<br \/>\nReporter Ariel Schiller has the latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Nine months after announcing that he was looking to sell his beloved Intuition Ale Works brewery, owner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[558,9000,104,66515,116,118,117,3091],"class_list":["post-135894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-business","tag-downtown-jacksonville","tag-entertainment","tag-intuition-ale-brewery","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nightlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135894","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=135894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}