Intuition Ale Works owner says beloved downtown brewery is closing for good in April

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 “the right buyer never came” and the eatery will be closing in April after more than 15 years in Jacksonville. In a social media post on Wednesday, Davis pointed to unrealized downtown growth as one of the dominoes that led to Intuition’s closure. “I was confident that Intuition could play a role in helping shape what it might become,” Davis wrote, saying he didn’t regret the ambitious move. “But that ambition was rooted in the hope that transformative downtown development would follow. “It never did,” Davis continued. “Renderings and potential do not pay the bills.” Reporter Ariel Schiller has the latest.