Former Watch City Brewing Owner Found Dead on Plum Island Beach

Jocelyn Hughes, whose body was found on a Plum Island beach last weekend, had spent the past year transitioning from one business venture to another.

For close to two decades, Hughes, 59, owned Watch City Brewing, a large brew pub in Waltham whose beers were on tap at more than a dozen local bars. The company closed last summer amid financial difficulty. In the year since, she became a franchisee of Belmont-based craft beer merchant Craft Beer Cellar, opening a store in Amesbury.