Welcome to Fingers

Hey! You! Get the hell outta here!

Just kidding. Please stay.

Welcome to Fingers, a newsletter by me, Dave Infante, about drinking culture, being online, and beyond. I’m a journalist/writer/etc. in Charleston, South Carolina, where I write part-time about the beverage industry for the local newspaper, and freelance stories for outlets across the country about the drinks business, drinking culture, digital culture… you name it.

Here’s a brief selection of my work to give you a sense of what I write about, and how:

• How White Claw Became A Meme For Guns-Rights Shitposters — MEL Magazine

• Hazecans, Pastrybois, And The Hypebeasting Of Craft Beer — Good Beer Hunting

• As Charleston Area Gay Bars Vanish, Historian Seeks Help Documenting Their Heyday — The Post And Courier

• How The World’s Biggest Brewer Killed Craft Beer’s Buzz — Marker/Medium

• Inside The Union-Busting Campaign At America’s Oldest Craft Brewery — HuffPost

• Craft Beer Looks Beyond ‘Young White Dudes With Beards’ — The New York Times

Hopefully you get the idea. I also used to produce and host videos for Thrillist, a digital media publication I worked at for almost eight years (a veritable eternity in digital media.)

I plan to use Fingers as a place for me to publish stuff from the nexus of drinking culture and online culture, while also writing about labor, class, media, etc. as it pertains to drinking (and maybe even when it doesn’t.) There’s probably going to be some humor writing in here too; maybe even bad poetry, like this.

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OK, that’s all for now. Stay tuned for more. I love all y’all baby, I love all y’all (please read in your best Mike Winchell voice, thanks.) —Dave.