🧾 Settling Up for April 2022

Each Friday in 🧾 The Settle-Up, I round up a bunch of stories from the booze business and beyond that caught my eye, but that I didn’t feel merited full-blown coverage in that particular edition of the newsletter. Then, I editorialize the shit out of them for our collective amusement.

Directly below in order of most to least recent, are all of those headlines from April 2022:

• Like Fit Check, But For People Who Spend All Their Money On Negronis Instead of Brioni

• Price Hikes, Premiumization Power ABI Profits; Man, “Inflation” Really Working Out for Macros, Eh?

• Lol Diplo Invests In JuneShine? Did We Know This?

• MA’s Tree House Brewing Co. Bought A Country Club, Evidence of Craft Brewing’s Cheuginess Continues to Pile Up

• The Bots Are Coming for Your Untappd Badges

• BrewDog Touts New Profit-Sharing Program as Cofounder Watt Sues Woman Over Alleged Crypto-Funded Dirt-Digging Double-Cross

• Starbucks Corporate Not Mad, Just Disappointed in Biden Administration for Meeting with Baristas’ Union

• Fixing B…