Jess Infante
@JessicaInfante
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@brewbound's managing editor. cora's mom. ryan's ladyfriend. big fan of beach days & bruce springsteen. she/her.
Salem, MA (ancestrally NJ)
Joined November 2008
Non-beer news! I'm spending the summer focusing on my new job: being Cora's mom. It is the best and she is the cutest person I have ever seen. Catch y'all in September.
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This was SO MUCH FUN.
🚨@dinfontay got the Beer Byliners back together for a special podcast episode🚨 Dave, @JessicaInfante, and I chat about our favorite well-meaning—but ultimately infamous—moments in beer history. We had a blast. You will too.
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Tough end to the week for roughly 2 dozen now former employees at Artisanal Brewing Ventures. This @Brewbound story is free to read:
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Artisanal Brewing Ventures (ABV) has laid off about two dozen employees, Brewbound has learned. The craft rollup – which includes Victory Brewing, Southern Tier, Sixpoint Brewery and Bold Rock Cider...
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chances swifties boost garage beer into the BA's top 50 craft by volume? not zero. https://t.co/dOUbgebypY
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Pro football stars Jason and Travis Kelce have acquired an ownership stake in light lager maker Garage Beer. The Kelces are referred to as “the largest investors” and “significant investors, partne...
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where was this when i was pregnant
In the era of peak beverage, every product that could conceivably exist already does. Ladies and gentlemen, non-alc pickle beer: https://t.co/ocZrFtDpGy
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Exciting News! We're proud to launch Circle of Crowns Beverage Group, the largest black-owned beverage alliance in the U.S. with Full Circle Brewing, @CrownsAndHops, @SpeakeasyBeer, and @SonomaCider. 🍻👑 Thanks to @Brewbound for the news! Huge thanks to our supporters!
Circle of Crowns Beverage Group, a strategic alliance between @CrownsAndHops & @FullCircleBrews forms in CA. They'll share resources & sales staff to scale to meet volume commitments for chain placements. This @Brewbound story is free to read: https://t.co/q2DE28M9I0
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"It's great to be local and it's great to build a community… but what's the harm in dreaming bigger?" Paraphrasing this but it was a good one: eventually, the pride in doing your own accounting loses its luster.
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Fawn: "With craft distillers, there's always been this pride in staying small... The problem is if you stay small too long, you will die or you will have to be acquired at a loss because you never had a goal or a dream to be bigger."
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Uncle Nearest launched in 2017 and was in all 50 states in two years. Fawn said she turned down a $2 billion deal two years ago to remain independent.
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Greetings from Day 1 of @BrewersAssoc's Craft Brewers Conference where @CrownsAndHops CEO Beny Ashburn is interviewing @UncleNearest founder Fawn Weaver. Fawn is sharing insights from the craft distilling world with this audience of craft brewers.
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Circle of Crowns Beverage Group, a strategic alliance between @CrownsAndHops & @FullCircleBrews forms in CA. They'll share resources & sales staff to scale to meet volume commitments for chain placements. This @Brewbound story is free to read: https://t.co/q2DE28M9I0
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Four Black-owned craft beverage-alcohol brands are uniting in California to create a strategic alliance greater than the sum of its parts. The Circle of Crowns Beverage Group (CCBG) includes Inglew...
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How you know @NotYourHobbyMS is one of the absolute nicest in the game… this is in her email signature 🥹:
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Earth month shoutout to @NoCoastBrewCo for these ECO FRIENDLY DISSOLVABLE PACKING PEANUTS 🤯🤯🤯
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Sad news for sour-loving New England beer fans: VT's Hermit Thrush will shutter next month. @ZoeLicata has the story for @Brewbound insiders:
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Brattleboro, Vermont-based Hermit Thrush Brewery will close next month after nearly a decade. The sour-centric craft brewery announced the news of its impending closure on social media yesterday.
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since boozing up nostalgic childhood flavors is now the cornerstone of bev-alc innovation, i have a request…
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For more production and scan data about Cigar City, as well as its new-ish FMB siblings The Beast Unleashed and Nasty Beast:
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Monster-owned Cigar City will shift the Tampa, Florida-based craft brewery’s production hub to a cross-category innovation center; as a result of the change, 12 positions have been terminated,...
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All @CigarCityBeer taprooms (Spruce Street, TPA, Amalie Arena) will remain open and serving small batches of CC beers. Large scale batches of Cigar City will be brewed at other facilities in the Monster network, including Oskar Blues in Brevard NC.
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Rumors swirled this week about layoffs at @CigarCityBeer. @justindkendall & I confirmed that 12 people have been let go as Monster shifts the company's Tampa production brewery to a cross-category R&D hub. This @Brewbound story is free to read for all: https://t.co/CPZn4OyZhj
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Monster-owned Cigar City will shift the Tampa, Florida-based craft brewery’s production hub to a cross-category innovation center; as a result of the change, 12 positions have been terminated,...
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The whole spring ahead thing with a baby who doesn’t give a fig what the clock says really hits different 🥴 (pls note this is a two hour delayed tweet it’s just taken me this long to be able to think in somewhat complete sentences)
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