Growlers at Dan Murphy's

Your right, as long as the activity is the same (selling alcohol) then they cannot whinge.

 

Apparently the Phrahan store now has them. Anybody confirm.

Woolies Sail and Anchor brand also released imp stout by the looks $99 for 12 640ml stubs. Hate everything else they have done with that brand but may be worth a look

 

http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_759316/sail-anchor-jack-tar-imperial-stout-640ml

 

>Fremantle brewing maestros, Sail & Anchor, have released a limited edition Imperial Stout <

Because that is a thing.

 

Yep. I was going to Prahran market anyway and popped a growler in the car just in case. Seems I was first. They took a photo.

* Empty growlers $7. Common non-swingtop 1.89l type
* Will fill other people's if clean
* Counter pressure
* Will be 4 beers on, just McLaren Vale Rhubarb Wit @$25 and a cheaper cider went I was there
* Clearly bulk-produced signage being applied at the time
* Overheard: customer "What's all this about?" Sign applier: "No idea, but people in suits have been photographed in front of it all week."

 

heard they rolled it out this week.
lets see how it goes.

 

Trying it now. Not a pretty beer, but pleasant enough. Certainly the best Vale beer I've tried.

Further points perhaps worth mentioning:
* The bloke who noticed me looking at the still-under-construction display knew what it was about and looked pretty stoked about it;
* Their growlers mention "small batch" in big letters on the bottle - so the intent is presumably not growlers of Corona;
* If this was the first one to get them, it's slightly cool that this was at the replacement store for "the" Dan's in Chapel St. I remember the old building across the road - the (then amazing) shop itself and the warren of artists and musos in the floors above.

 

Keen for Jack Tar and growlers of Minimum Chips

 

I've talked to a mate who works at Dan's in Belmont Geelong, confirmed they are installing growlers stations at that specific store. He also said they'd be the only Dan's in the Geelong area planned to have them currently.

 

Aint Big W got some interest in Vale now ??? All but disappeared from Sydney, or maybe just the venues I frequent ...

 

If they do, good riddance

 

Woolies took all the crappy cider they made, so there was certainly a partnership forming a year or so ago.

 

After some inspection, no they don't

 

Sorry, John Boston is thru Vale now, theres some sort of disti agreement in it with all 3 of them it seems ...

 

Had a chat with the guy who manned the Dans Growler stand at GABS. Sounded like world domination is their plan... WA to get four growler stations possibly in the coming months..

 

First guy I spoke to at the Dan's growler stand tried to tell me that WA already had growlers in most of their stores, pretty bad when the guy trying to sell you the product didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

 

Ha! I'm sure they are making it up as they go along. How did you end up Mike, spewing I missed out on a GABS session with you.

 

its on the web site now
http://danmurphys.com.au/guides/growler-content

 

Interesting - reading this, its my understanding that they are leaving the cleaning / sanitisation of the growlers up to the customer. No swapping for sanitised bottles...

 

Would tend to think Dan's has been on the West Coast looking at what Whole Foods is doing. Some stores have growler set up's.
like it or not Dan's has the purchase power to give customers $7 dollar growlers. If they do not clean it there is a $7 dollar buy right there.
Dan's could get exclusive contracts for little creatures easily and other breweries.
Will give them credit for starting slow, instead of rolling out 60 stores at once.
The more important issue is that dan's is doing counter pressure. Will put a lot of pressure on the smaller shops doing off the tap. When it boils down to it I will take the CP fill from the big boy over off the tap from a nameless shop in a business area.