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Jessica Infante

@jessicainfante.bsky.social
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covering the beer(-ish) industry as @brewbound.bsky.social managing editor & podcast co-host | cora's mom | beach enthusiast | syracuse alum 📍 the jersey shore ➡️ MA's north shore

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 21/09/2026
🚨 5TH PAID-IVERSARY SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 🚨 Five years ago this week, I turned on paid subscriptions for Fingers. To celebrate, I’m offering 50% off (!!!) on annual subscriptions to the first 50 people to upgrade. Score one before they're gone: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...
stonks meme. it reads "🎂 5TH PAID-IVERSARY 🎂 💸 SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 💸"

instead of "stonks" it says "subscronktions"
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Fingers is now on its second hand! If you dig smart, funny and original reporting about the oddball that is beverage-alcohol in the USA, you need to subscribe to @dinfontay.com’s pretty perfect newsletter. And we’re not even related, I am saying this because I actually mean it!
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
another crushing blow in the affordability crisis: Dunkin is now only giving 50 points instead of 100 on mobile order Mondays.
Screenshot of Dunkin’ Donuts mobile app touting a 50 point bonus for ordering ahead of time via app on Mondays when it used to be 100
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Saw this, turned it on, dismantling of her chalkboard/whiteboard easel commenced immediately. Did not disappoint.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
to be fair, i did text my branch of the infante family’s group chat to say cousin dave was on the podcast this week. unclear if any of them listened.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
it's like old times with my buds 🥹
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
welcome, doug, to the vast array of beer-adjacent new jerseyans. we are legion.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I wrote the intro script for this conversation, which included references to community members being shot in the streets, standing in my kitchen while my home-for-snow-day toddler had a dance party. Dystopian. Despite all that, I enjoyed my chat with Joey a lot - check it out here:
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Kate Bernot @kbernot.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Dream team! Such a pleasure to recap last year's biggest bev-alc stories and share what we're watching in 2026 with David Steinman + @brewbound.com's @jessicainfante.bsky.social, and Zoe Licata.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This column from my dear friend @dinfontay.com (& fellow, though non-related, Infante and fellow Sad Kid) about how his late dad's love for the beer industry shaped Dave's own views on it is SO worth your time this morning: vinepair.com/articles/hop...
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The Beer Industry Is Special. My Dad Taught Me That
I love beer, and I love covering the beer industry, and those are two different things. I am constantly explaining to people — angry readers, new sources, confused strangers — that while I personally ...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Unsure what the best part here is: that the young fellow who bagged my stuff at Market Basket chased after me to give me the Bunny Grahams that fell out OR that he called me miss (not ma’am) while doing it 🥹
A box of Annie’s Bunny Grahams cookies
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Martin is leaving BrewDog, ostensibly to focus on his cannabis company. Weird thing I realized while working on this story: BrewDog is now on its 3rd James at CEO. James I left in May 24. James II replaced him but left in January. James III was promoted in March.
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BrewDog Co-Founder Martin Dickie Resigns Abruptly
BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickie has departed the Scottish brewery, several news outlets have reported.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Breaking craft news: Hendler Family Brewing (Jack's Abby, Wormtown, Night Shift, Jack's Bev Co) forges strategic partnership with NY's Sloop Brewing. HFB will produce, market and sell Sloop's portfolio, freeing Sloop's team to focus on innovation & hospitality. No equity exchanged or jobs cut.
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Sloop Taps Hendler Family for Production, Sales Growth via Strategic Partnership
Hendler Family Brewing (HFB) and Sloop Brewing have forged a strategic partnership in which the Framingham, Massachusetts-based brewery platform will take over production, sales and marketing for the ...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
dream phone in 1993 cost $77.17 in today’s dollars 😳
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My bud @dinfontay.com with a big scoop on RNDC leaving California completely after a string of supplier losses.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The @bevnet.com crew has been hard at work on @nombase.bsky.social, a hub for everything you need to know about the CPG world today.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Earlier this month, the former US surgeon general recommended that alcohol containers bear cancer warning labels. Collective wisdom is that this will never happen, but some states are considering expanding health warnings for consumers. www.brewbound.com/news/connect...
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Connecticut, Alaska Mull Bills to Expand Alcohol Health Warnings
Days after the former U.S. surgeon general called for cancer risk warning labels to be placed on alcoholic beverages, two state Legislatures are considering bills that would expand cancer warnings for...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17/01/2025
smart, well-reported piece from @jessicainfante.bsky.social for @brewbound.com on breweries that understand the losing battle and dismal optics of whining about dry january and are using the month for more productive endeavors
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17/01/2025
“'It’s really bad form for breweries to shame their customers because they want to take January off,' [Notch's founder] said. 'We should understand it, and live with them, and meet them someplace in the middle. It’s bad form. It’s not a good look for us. Are we pushers now?'"
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Unexpected Pros of Slow Business: Dry January Spurs Taproom and Brewery Renovation Projects
As many drinkers take a break from craft beer and other alcoholic beverages in January, craft breweries such as Notch are using the month and its lighter traffic to close taprooms temporarily as they ...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Instead of swimming against the tide this Dry January, some craft breweries have deployed temporary shutdowns to do renovation projects that would be difficult while open for service. I chatted with Notch (MA), Tilted Barn (RI), Big Ditch (NY) & Steam Donkey (WA). www.brewbound.com/news/169913
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Unexpected Pros of Slow Business: Dry January Spurs Taproom and Brewery Renovation Projects
As many drinkers take a break from craft beer and other alcoholic beverages in January, craft breweries such as Notch are using the month and its lighter traffic to close taprooms temporarily as they ...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
this morning over my 1.5-year-old's breakfast of yogurt, berries, banana, eggs and cinnamon toast... me, emphatically: i love you!!!! her, saying a whole sentence for may the second time ever: i love cinnamon!
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Most fitting way to cap off the year that MA put the M and A in M&A: parent cos. of New England legacy craft brewers Harpoon and Smuttynose merge to form Barrel One Collective. www.brewbound.com/news/harpoon...
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Harpoon and Smuttynose Parent Companies Merge to Form Barrel One Collective
Two New England legacy craft houses are merging in a deal that unites 14 brands. The parent companies of Harpoon and Smuttynose – Mass. Bay Brewing Company and FinestKind Brewing, respectively – have ...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“You’ve got to do absolutely everything with excellence, because there is no slack now.” -Allagash founder Rob Tod on surviving craft beer’s tough times during @brewbound.com Live.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Super interesting stuff from the NIQ & 3 Tier pros at @brewbound.com live. IPA is the dominant style nationwide. Regionally, the #2 spot goes to seasonal in most markets but hazy IPA in the mountain regions and bock in WSC, which basically means Texans drink a lot of Shiner Bock 🐐
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Don’t mess it up. This is my local.” Advice given from a longtime patron of Russian River’s Santa Rosa pub to his son, who is now a bartender there after visiting with his parents from 3 years old. Co-owner/founder Natalie Cilurzo just nailed her keynote address at @brewbound.com live 🍻
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Happening now! The @bevnet.com Cocktail Showdown in Marina Del Rey! Catch the competition streaming here and check back in all week for free BevNET and Brewbound Live conference content www.bevnet.com/livestream/b...
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Watch Live: -- BevNET.com
For more than a decade, the CPG industry has turned to BevNET Live to discover the latest trends and network with the beverage community. Our signature two-day event for the beverage industry brings t...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Feeling deeply inadequate as I sit in a coffee shop typing a silly little story about booze sales data while a group next to me hammers out complex logistics of delivering Thanksgiving meals to people all over eastern Massachusetts over the next two days. Also: should have brought my headphones.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Requirement for the first truly nasty day of the late New England fall: černé pivo.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Kept my coughing toddler home from daycare today and I am never not astounded that people just did this for months on end in 2020.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🧵 A couple interesting top 30 craft tidbits from the most recent Circana report (which covers off-premise retailers with some exceptions): 1. The only brand to accelerate growth in both dollars and volume year-to-date and in the last 4 weeks thru 11/3 is AB-owned Goose Island Tropical Beer Hug.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's the 200th episode of the Brewbound Podcast! No featured interview this week, but there was PLENTY of news to go around including the Lord Hobo/Lone Pine merger, Tree House's Boston plans, the Beer Institute meeting, Monster's Q3 and Molson Coors craft layoffs: open.spotify.com/episode/1HxW...
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Our 200th Episode Extravaganza
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Taking a page out of my buddy @kbernot.bsky.social's playbook and re-intro-ing myself: Hi! I'm Jess and I'm the managing editor at Brewbound, a multimedia trade news outlet focusing on the beer industry. We cover breaking news, data and insights, legislative, M&A, etc etc. www.brewbound.com
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Brewbound
Covering the business of the US craft beer industry. Provides daily content, industry events, and job listings.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I would love to read the brief that went into this.
Holiday red Tostitos scoops
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
After months (years?) of barely posting at the other place, I feel like I'm so out of practice that I forget how to say anything remotely interesting, but it's nice to see people conversing again.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 07/11/2024
Do you report on the liquor business? Work in cannabis policy? Prune vines in some tech asshole's vanity vineyard? If you or somebody you know belongs in this starter pack, shoot me a DM!
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Big craft beer news in New England: MA-based Lord Hobo and ME-based Lone Pine are merging, in what the companies hope will become a broader platform of craft brands that can "thrive" vs. just survive, Lord Hobo CEO Simon Thorpe told me. www.brewbound.com/news/lord-ho...
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Lord Hobo Merges with Lone Pine Brewing; Eyes Craft Platform Where Brands Can ‘Thrive’
Lord Hobo Brewing and Lone Pine Brewing announced plans to merge today, bringing together a pair of New England craft breweries under a single ownership structure. The companies declined to share fina...
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
this was honestly the most fun i have had in a long while and i promise you will also have a good time listening to it 😎
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Craft-focused chain World of Beer filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection for its parent company and 8 locations, 4 of which have already closed. It plans to reorganize, but more closings will come, marking the loss of on-premise opportunities for craft brewers.
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Craft-Centric Chain World of Beer Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Citing “considerable distress” in the restaurant industry, the parent company of craft-centric on-premise chain World of Beer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Kate Bernot @kbernot.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
The North American Guild of Beer Writers has selected five journalists to receive a Diversity in Beer Writing Grant for 2024. Congratulations to these writers and audio storytellers! reportersnotebook.org/nagbw-news/n...
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NAGBW Announces 2024 Diversity in Beer Writing Grant Recipients
The North American Guild of Beer Writers has selected seven journalists to receive a Diversity in Beer Writing Grant for 2024. Now in its seventh year, the grant supports stories that showcase dive…
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
important beach booze ad report: in 90 seconds, i saw a hoop tea plane banner, a leinenkugel’s summer shandy plane banner, and digital ads on the billboard boat thing for sun cruiser and high noon tea. no pics because i was swimming at the time but we’ll try again later.
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
my tl is full of my buddies @kbernot.bsky.social & @dinfontay.bsky.social. we are so back 🥹
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Twisted Tea is the majority of Boston Beer's shipments and NIQ-tracked dollar sales, according to financial services firm Bernstein. Now that sales of Truly are down 20+%, analyst Nadine Sarwat asks how long can Twisted Tea sustain the company. She projects Tea can deliver a +9% CAGR in 5 yrs.
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Bernstein: Twisted Tea is ‘Only Meaningful Source of Growth’ for Boston Beer; Predicts +9% Growth in Next 5 Years
Twisted Tea accounts for the majority of Boston Beer’s volume and has become the company’s “only meaningful source of growth,” Bernstein analyst Nadine Sarwat wrote in a report focusing on the brand’s...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 23/07/2024
#brewsky grows more powerful by the day
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Jessica Infante @jessicainfante.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
what a welcome from my fellow (non-related) booze-covering infante! 😎
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