Dave Infante
@dinfontay.com
reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers), and east end richmond (the church hill lookout) | send tips to [email protected], or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay
Hotel California of booze retail
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hotel California of booze retail
chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries wya
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries wya
Here's the @vinepair.com column in question, by the way. Me from January 2025: vinepair.com/articles/hop...
What’s With All the Michelob Ultra Placements in ‘Landman’?
One peril of covering the brewing industry is that when people see beer commercials that baffle or annoy them, they text me about it. For example, Coors Light’s pretend typographical error to set up i...
vinepair.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Here's the @vinepair.com column in question, by the way. Me from January 2025: vinepair.com/articles/hop...
h/t @trehagen.bsky.social for the eagle-eyed spot!
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
h/t @trehagen.bsky.social for the eagle-eyed spot!
hell yeah, that sounds awesome. i read the poisoner's handbook not long ago, will have to check that one out as well (and maybe get @deborahb.bsky.social on the pod, too!)
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
hell yeah, that sounds awesome. i read the poisoner's handbook not long ago, will have to check that one out as well (and maybe get @deborahb.bsky.social on the pod, too!)
Check out Lisa Jacobson's book here, it's a must-read for anybody intent on understanding the evolving role for booze in US culture—and the hemp-derived THC ban that just got passed in Congress. Via your library or The Fingers Reading Room:
Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition Volume 83
The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition Volume 83
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Check out Lisa Jacobson's book here, it's a must-read for anybody intent on understanding the evolving role for booze in US culture—and the hemp-derived THC ban that just got passed in Congress. Via your library or The Fingers Reading Room:
This marks the soft relaunch (?) of The Fingers Podcast: paying subscribers can tune into our 60min+ convo on how the post-Repeal trade redefined what “intoxication” meant (to Congress, then the public), the success/failures of that project, and its implications in the age of sObeR cUrIoSiTy! More:
"Moderate" drinking has always been a moving target
The Fingers Podcast with historian Lisa Jacobson on the booze industry's post-Repeal redemption
www.fingers.email
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This marks the soft relaunch (?) of The Fingers Podcast: paying subscribers can tune into our 60min+ convo on how the post-Repeal trade redefined what “intoxication” meant (to Congress, then the public), the success/failures of that project, and its implications in the age of sObeR cUrIoSiTy! More:
I interviewed Lisa Jacobson, UC Santa Barbara historian and author of the excellent 2024 book 'Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition,' about the booze industry's hard-fought post-Repeal redemption in American society. It didn't just happen:
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I interviewed Lisa Jacobson, UC Santa Barbara historian and author of the excellent 2024 book 'Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition,' about the booze industry's hard-fought post-Repeal redemption in American society. It didn't just happen:
Reposted by Dave Infante
“Can AI suffer?”
No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas
No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas
August 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Can AI suffer?”
No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas
No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas