" Right Buyer Never Came" Intuition Ale Works

[Florida Power And Light]

Sometimes Intuition is not efficacious, predictive.

Intuition Ale Winding Down- and a Perfect Opportunity to Label Another Local Beer.

******   Downtown Potential Inuition PAIL AIL  ******

*** Opportunity Ale ***

*** Rendition Ale ***

All righs reserved. Mostly.
Pails upon Pails of Opportunity and Renditions.
I'll Have Another Pitcher!!!
Serve properly chilled. Frosted. Maybe a Side Shot to Properly Balance Gazing at The New Hotel? ( And Imagining new alcohol establishments...)
Kinda' Sad,even though I never did patronize.
Probaly more to The Events Story.

[Florida Power And Light]

This was a Test/Study.

No Response. Speaks volumes.

Good for Jaxson.

[urban_]

I think the apartment burning down right before opening was a big reason for Intuition not getting a regular customer base. Big shame to see it go. Hopefully someone will be able to fill the space and make it great.

[Ken_FSU]

I think the apartment burning down right before opening was a big reason for Intuition not getting a regular customer base. Big shame to see it go. Hopefully someone will be able to fill the space and make it great.

Not to bring it back to the need for a managed sports & entertainment district, but what's great about a place like the Battery, or the Cordish developments in St. Louis & Kansas City, is that most of the amenities are diverse enough to not be alcohol dependent. You can have fun without drinking. The type of residents likely move into Rise Doro (young professionally ok with 1-2 bedroom rentals in a loud sports district) are increasingly less likely to be regular drinkers (<50%, versus 72% in 2005) than generations past. I think Intuition would have fared a lot better if Lot J had come out of the ground, as you'd have the visiting hotel guests (more likely to drink than locals in 2025), a wider residential base, and more events to draw from. But, you'd also have more competition, so tough to say for sure.

https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2025/september/katz-gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol.html

[thelakelander]

I always assumed IAW made more revenue brewing beer as opposed to operating a downtown bar/tap room. Not sure there's much that could have been done to save them if the brewing side of the business wasn't profitable enough since the pandemic.

[Jones518]

I saw someone comment on Facebook:

"Someone needs to do a study on how downtown Jax ended up where it is today. A massive waterfront in the heart of Florida where everywhere else in the state is booming and somehow the city planning in Jax has been so bad that the closest bar to 1 of 32 NFL stadiums in the world can't survive. Its absolutely insane."



Can't lie it's crazy when you think about it.

[thelakelander]

^We've done various articles here before on this over the years. We'll have to dig them up, update them and re-run.

[Jones518]

Yes please re-run them.

[jcjohnpaint]

So many great articles from MJ too. Would love to revisit.

[thelakelander]

^Yes, we have them. I will look into updating and re-running many of them.

The blue menu bar at the top of this page will get you into most of them. For example, here are the MJ articles published between 2006 and 2016 under the neighborhoods category:

https://www.metrojacksonville.com/neighborhoods

[Bativac]

This is a shame! I liked hanging out there on my visits back to Jax. There's a taproom downtown, Pour I think, that was mostly empty when I was visiting a couple months ago on a Saturday night. Hope they're doing ok.