Looking for a quality 32oz growler.

Unless places refuse to fill the swingtop growlers, I'd stick with those. I've never had any issues with those type of growlers.

 

I just grabbed one at Whole Foods for $4. Does the job. Can't find a pic of the exact one online (and I'm too lazy to take a pic) but it looks like this with Whole Foods logo:

 

I'd say that you are the customer and this is the vessel you are bringing in to buy THEIR beer. They should not be picky about what you are using as long as you are patronizing their brewery.

 

From what you've said only one store (or chain) has the problem. Stick with your swing top. They didn't refuse to fill it,so it appears to be more of a personal hassle for the employees rather than a company policy. Otherwise, check eBay. They always have growlers.

 

Tell that to some breweries. Triumph won't fill your growler unless it has THEIR name on it. Talk about pretentious.

 

I was also turned away from NEBCO this weekend. I went home empty handed since they simply said they wouldnt fill that style growler and didn't seem to care I was there trying to get beer.

Oh well, plenty of other breweries who will!

 

Stone has a really cool 1 liter growler that has a swing top clamp.

 

Wow, that is a dick move. In my city, Richmond, the breweries don't care, they just want to see the local beer scene grow and more people buying craft beer.

 

Yeah. I used to fill a growler to go every time we ate there. Since their growler broke and they've refused to fill my other growlers, they've lost a lot of fills over the last few years.

 

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i can tell you exactly why - but it helps if you go look at their taps. they have wide, short, bar style taps, with not a lot of space underneath - it is relatively difficult for them to wedge em under the tap and manage to fill them. with their setup, they literally cannot get a Hill Farmstead-style tall 750 mL growler more than maybe 3/4 full, and they end up spilling a hell of a lot of beer in the process. if you've been to Hill Farmstead, you'll notice they have special taps to avoid this problem - long, kind of proboscis-esque metal protrusions that get all the way into the growler to avoid all spilling.

now, the somewhat squatter 32 oz swingtops, i'm pretty sure they could actually get them in there and full - but i don't blame them for just simply saying "no 32 oz swingtops" rather than trying to explain in detail which ones they can fill and which ones they can't.

edit: replace "taps" with "faucets". you get the picture

 

They also are rather expensive fills IIRC (over $15?), and some of the worst growler filling techniques I've ever seen at a brewery - straight from the tap, not even the use of a "bottom-fill" piece of tubing.

Are their growlers still clear glass, as well?

 

I have that Stone 1L growler and it's great!!!. And I am not sure what the size of the top of the growler matters as everywhere I have ever had a growler filled runs a skinny tube into the growler that fits into any opening.

 

not NEBCO - hence the issue.

They used to have the hose at NEBCO, someone said before (I think we had a page conversation about this in the NEBCO thread somewhere) - not sure why they don't anymore.

 

Haven't noticed