"Growler"

[Victor Steinbok]

I've posted on this subject several months ago as debates rage in 
craft-beer communities over the names of different containers, e.g., the 
name of the quart growler.

Generally, any screwtop or poptop reusable glass container for beer that 
is larger than 750ml is referred to as growler. In Florida, legal 
growlers are 32 oz and 1 gal. The half-gallon size is illegal.

Several companies tried to use thick-walled 2L soda bottles and refer to 
them as plastic growlers.

     VS-)


On 7/31/2014 9:21 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> They've become big (again?) in the craft beer community in enclaves like =
> Hipster Brooklyn, where you bring your growler with you and they fill it =
> up.  Very ecological.
>
> LH
>
> On Jul 31, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>> As defined by Consumer Reports [edited]:
>> =20
>> A container, often a glass jug, that holds 32 to 64 fluid ounces
>> =20
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>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint =
> to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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