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 May 2022:

• Everyone Hates Wine Capsules, Including the Environment

• Maui Wowie As First Modern Times Bid Comes In: From HI, But Seems Very Low

• Coke to Kill Mission-Built Honest Tea; Exited Cofounder Reminisces of “When I Was Proud of What Our Brand Represented”

• At Embattled Scottish Craft Brewer/Workplace Scandal Machine BrewDog, 3rd-Party HR 1st-Rate Fucked Up

• Congratulations to West Sonoma, Which Is Now *Officially Different* Than Sonoma, Alright MOM?!

• Note to Self: Look into Whether College Athletes Committing FTC Fouls on Booze-Brand NILs Endorsements

• Should Booze-Related NFT Sales Be Regulated Like Booze? Legal Observers: “Yea…