My and a new trading partner have decided to start doing a monthly growler for gowler trade. I am going to send him Jackie O's, Barley and Weasel Boy growlers for Terrapin, Port and Atlanta local growlers. The question I have is does anyone have any ideas on a reusable container that I can place a full growler and a empty growler in for my trade to him then he can do the same back to keep this going and reuse the same growlers over and over so we are not collecting growler after growler? Any ideas?
I send him a full growler, then he drinks that growler and sends me the empty growler along with a full terrapin growler. Then I drink the terrapin growler and go get the jackie o's growler filled and send him the full growler and the empty terrapin one to get refilled. Again so we do not start collecting empty growler after empty growler.
Buy a 12bottle styrofoam shipper from a store like bevmo or your local wine shop. Carve out spots for growlers, you might be able to fit 3.
A different idea and it may be kind of spendy, but should work. Maybe you can find something like this. http://www.ptxstore.com/townhallbre...d=808&osCsid=acd337b924b21c8fe101da67ea866fa5
Why not just send one back and forth? EDIT - Are there laws in either of your states regulating growler fills? I know in CA you can only get a growler of such and such a brewery filled at that brewery, but I thought they were the only one.
The box inside the box should work. Use two boxes each just big enough to hold a growler plus padding pretty tight. Then put both boxes into one larger box with more padding to hold them in place to ship. Also put the shipping info on each of the inside boxes so if anything happens they still have the info to keep them moving.
If you know someone that works in a physics / EE / chemistry / etc. department in a nearby university, tap them and ask for a box that will hold chemical bottles. I used to work in a cleanroom, and we would receive large jugs of chemicals (4 to a box). The boxes were very sturdy, and they would just be discarded, so I rescued a few. They are ideal for shipping 1-4 growlers. You probably already know this, but to ship a full growler, I recommend taping or waxing the top shut, wrapping in bubble wrap, then garbage-bagging it in case it leaks. The bubble wrap should be on the inside of the bag; in case the bag shatters, the shards won't tear the bag. I also second the suggestions above: double-boxing, possibly putting the inner box inside a second garbage bag, and of course printing a redundant shipping label to tape to the inside flaps of the outer box.
Check your growler laws. I know in NC, you can only get growler fills with that specific brewery's growlers and often even then most breweries only sell pre-filled growlers rather than filling them there. I'm not for sure what GA's laws are, but we Southern states have some stupid blue laws. As for packing, I'd get a small box that will just barely hold the growler and either another growler or a few bottles if you want to send them. Tape the hell out of the cap of the growler and then wrap it in the thick bubble wrap until sides, top, and bottom are covered. Throw that in a garbage bag and then stuff it in the small box along with enough other bottles/growler/peanuts to keep it from moving any. Put that small box in a larger one with 1-2" of space all around, stuffed with peanuts or the like. Shipping growlers is daunting at first, the same as shipping beer, but once you learn what works it's pretty easy.
I was just about to mention this... I've found that 2 L shippers of Sulfuric Acid works great at holding a 64 oz growler with a little newspaper to snug it up. We also have quart stryo mailers that hold a 32 oz growler perfectly. Definitely check out your chemistry department at the college you work at. Cheers!
Box in a box works great for growlers. If you shop at Costco, you can usually buy tons of bulk sized food items with very rigid heavy duty cardboard boxes that just so happen to be right around the size of a growler. Pack up the growlers nicely in two of these boxes, then toss those into one bigger box with a bit of your typical styro/newspaper/bubble padding and you'll be good.
