West Sixth (Lexington, KY) Introduces CROWLERS

I received a couple of crowlers in a trade from Due South...love the concept....beer was good too.

 

Just what we need. Take something reusable and replace it with something disposable. ugh

 

Don't like it.

 

I can't help that after I read this the first thing I thought of was cronuts. Ah yet another foodie trend..

anyway...

Cleaning, wear, sealing, disposability? Not sure I am a fan, but then I sort have given up on growlers to begin with.

 

It will be good if they don't limit which taps you can fill a crowler with. Also a CO2 purge would be nice.

 

I love this idea. It has got to be easily recyclable, you would think. It is far less total weight with 64 ounces of total beer(two full cans). You drink it quickly so no stupid argument over metallic taste. The only draw back might be that you couldn't reseal it I assume. Whats not to love. It's nice to have a smaller option other then a full size growler as well, even though I know some do offer 32oz. growlers.

 

Never made it to Oskar Blues to try one, but only ever heard good things about their crowlers. Especially their BA Ten Fidy varieties.

 

Can't wait. I've tried some from Cycle Brewing out of Fla., they were great.

 

I still don't see the overt benefit of a crowler over a howler. Besides that fact that it's just one more made up word, like @jefffalcone said we're taking something reusable and invariably better for the environment and replacing it with something wasteful. Even if it's recyclable, it's still waste. What's more perplexing is West Sixth's notorious stance on improving the environment in everything they do. They offer 64 oz. growlers already and could just as easily offer 32 oz. howlers. Hell, Country Boy across the street uses plastic ones which are even less likely to break than glass. Yet they're favoring waste material over reusable products with infinite shelf life. That's like taking reusable shopping bags, which replace disposable plastic bags, and replacing them with disposable plastic bags. Seems like step backwards for a business that is openly environmentally conscious. An aluminum can can be 100% recyclable, but we'll never have 100% of people recycle.

 

100% recyclable isn't as good as reusing. the three R's go in order of energy conservation - reduce is best, reuse is next best and recycle is the worst option.

even if 100% of people recycle, recycling has an energy cost.

 

While this could be true, I'd ask why? Glass is glass. I always recycle broken bottles, just as much as good ones. I don't understand the point of throwing away something that is still recyclable because it's now in a different format.