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Like Damp January? Sure, if that helps

Jan 7, 2026

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12 min read

Like Damp January? Sure, if that helps

Plus: After years idle, there’s action at Anchor Brewing!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante
The 2025 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies (TM)

Dec 24, 2025

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15 min read

The 2025 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies (TM)

Fingers' 6th-annual collection of dumb booze-related presents for highly specific people you kinda hate!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Weekender

Jim Beam is already on glut watch for 2026

Dec 21, 2025

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10 min read

Jim Beam is already on glut watch for 2026

Plus: Treasury Wine Estates continues to be down bad!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante
The mystery of the vanishing "Charlie Kirk" Cab Sauv

Dec 17, 2025

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10 min read

The mystery of the vanishing "Charlie Kirk" Cab Sauv

Plus: Rogue’s "bass-ackwards" bankruptcy valuations!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Weekender

+1

Honoring a life in beer

Dec 14, 2025

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7 min read

Honoring a life in beer

Plus: The Fingers Shop is almost sold out!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante
 Zoomers say they *are* drinking now (which is sort of the whole problem)

Dec 10, 2025

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12 min read

Zoomers say they *are* drinking now (which is sort of the whole problem)

Plus: Pabst’s new CEO mum on scope of layoffs!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Weekender

Hustling Tetra Pak’d poop juice for half a billion dollars

Dec 7, 2025

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11 min read

Hustling Tetra Pak’d poop juice for half a billion dollars

Plus: Sazerac is indeed sending Svedka’s sexbot to the Super Bowl!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Special Reports

As declines mount, Pabst cuts senior employees in sweeping layoff

Dec 6, 2025

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7 min read

As declines mount, Pabst cuts senior employees in sweeping layoff

The country's fifth-largest brewery is in trouble—and trying to sublet its headquarters

Dave Infante
Dave Infante
ISO: The dumbest drinking-related shit for sale this holiday season

Dec 3, 2025

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12 min read

ISO: The dumbest drinking-related shit for sale this holiday season

Plus: Evaluating academic independence at Brew U!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Interview

"Moderate" drinking has always been a moving target

Nov 26, 2025

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12 min read

"Moderate" drinking has always been a moving target

The Fingers Podcast with historian Lisa Jacobson on the booze industry's post-Repeal redemption

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Weekender

Trump take America’s brewing future

Nov 23, 2025

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11 min read

Trump take America’s brewing future

Plus: Sour grapes about the WSJ's ABI-BeatBox scoop!

Dave Infante
Dave Infante

Free

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An inside look at Congress' hemp-derived THC death sentence

Nov 20, 2025

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16 min read

An inside look at Congress' hemp-derived THC death sentence

The Fingers Interview with Senator Tina Smith on how opponents "snuck" the ban into law, shady brands' "bullshit" products, and the industry's paths to redemption

Dave Infante
Dave Infante
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