Intuition Ale Works

Intuition Ale Works was the downtown Jacksonville brewery, taproom, and Bier Hall at 929 East Bay Street, in the Sports and Entertainment District near VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. Google Places matches that name and address and marks the listing CLOSED_PERMANENTLY, with a historical snapshot of 4.3 from 632 reviews. This Stay Safe Jax page is that East Bay brewery. It is not King Maker Brewing on King Street, not Manifest Distilling next door, and not a later Jacksonville taproom. Research for this review found no sourced move after 929 East Bay Street. The business closed there. Public ratings on this page are stored snapshots, not live scores. Because the brewery is permanently closed, Stay Safe Jax does not use the historical Google file as a headline. The score here is 0 from 0 reviews. Those numbers do not refresh when someone opens the page. Jacksonville Today and the Daily Record recap the company’s path: it started about 15 years earlier on King Street in Riverside, canned beer in Florida early, then moved to East Bay Street and A. Philip Randolph Boulevard in 2016. The Daily Record’s January 28, 2026 story said owner Ben Davis announced the East Bay operation would shut April 24 when the lease expired, after he had tried to sell since April 2025. News4Jax the same day quoted Davis that “the right buyer never came.” Jacksonville Today’s February 16, 2026 follow-up said brewing equipment was being auctioned while the taproom and Bier Hall planned to run through the last day. Davis told the Daily Record that downtown development delays and the cost of carrying the room made the model unsustainable. Mayor Donna Deegan’s office sent News4Jax a statement treating the closing as an example of why the city says it is trying to grow downtown. That is civic comment, not a consumer complaint file. There is no current sourced lawsuit or safety investigation in the facts used here. Stay Safe Jax leaves warning flags at 0. A well-known brewery that could not find a buyer is a business closing, not a hit-list page. The listing stays active so residents can see the sourced April 24, 2026 last day, the King Street-to-East Bay history, and the rejected idea that another brewery’s rating belongs here. Stay Safe Jax does not add the company’s own website.