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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.fingers.email?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.fingers.email</a><br/><br/><p><em>Editor’s note:</em><em> This is Fingers’ last newsletter of the year. Have a wonderful, safe holiday. I’ll see you on the other side!—Dave.</em></p><p>For 2021 and much of 2022, I cohosted a biweekly-ish Twitter Spaces session called Beer Byliners with Kate Bernot (Good Beer Hunting, Craft Beer & Brewing) and Jessica Infante (Brewbound) about the latest headlines and happenings in the American beer industry. It was an opportunity for us to decompress as reporters and shoot the shit as friends in a pretty low-stakes format with a few dozen familiar faces from across the beverage-alcohol landscape—sources, analysts, fellow journalists, et cetera. Byliners was lots of fun, but we all got busy, and eventually it felt like it’d run its course, plus our audience seemed to be less interested in listening to Twitter Spaces than they had been earlier in the pandemic. (Judging by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/clubhouse-gaming">Clubhouse’s nosedive</a>, and Spaces’ <a target="_blank" href="https://www.engadget.com/twitter-spaces-revamp-194437655.html">own struggles</a>, the feeling was pretty widespread regarding “social audio” generally!) So we let it sorta peter out at the end of the summer. No big deal. </p><p>But! For The Fingers Podcast’s last episode of 2022 (and maybe ever; see below), I rounded up my fellow Beer Byliners for one last job/recording, exclusively for paying Friends of Fingers. The result, recorded in mid-December, is something of a speedrun through <a target="_blank" href="https://vinepair.com/articles/hop-take-beer-business-2022-review/">the past year in beer</a>, covering such tectonic shifts, high-dollar lawsuits, and run-of-the-mill shitshows as: </p><p>* The social-media crucifixion of Beer Jesus!</p><p>* Thank U, Bud Light Next / Hard Mtn. Dew, Look at Those Sales Figures!</p><p>* Blue Clou