Are crowler pics OK to upload?

I've uploaded pictures of crowlers of beers that are not otherwise distributed in cans or bottles as long as the name of the beer is legibly written on the brewery label.

 

I'd be interested in a neutrally shot photo of the beer poured on-draught at the brewery with the glass' logo towards camera, personally, if there are really no other alternatives.

 

I can see uploading a growler picture if it's labelled, but uploading a a picture of a plain old growler - even one with the brewery name - as the picture for a beer is no better than uploading a picture of the beer in a brewery glass - which is specifically disallowed.

 

The only down side to doing this is that if the beer becomes available in a can or bottle, it's more of a pain to upload an updated photo (though not impossible, with the Suggest Edit function). Recently has happened with Crank from Cycle Brewing - they just released it in cans, and there's an existing crowler picture.

Not to argue the underlying point. Just a thought.

Not to get completely off topic (and @Todd , feel free to move this to a separate thread if it's better) - but there's weirdness when you search for that beer. If you search "Crank", it's the first option listed. When I search "Cycle Crank" or "Crank Cycle Brewing", it doesn't even come up in the results at all.

 

A glass picture is disallowed because it doesn't help folks recognize the beer.

 

I do understand this sentiment but it still shows attributes of the beer the community may find useful in the absence of a production product package. I'd personally find it more useful than a labeled generic growler.

 

Yeah, that's what I do. Especially for some of the local breweries who rarely (or not at all) bottle/can their beers so I figure a crowler pic is better than nothing at all. Obviously if a beer is bottled or canned at some point then I'll use that picture, but otherwise I'll just keep taking pictures of crowlers until then.