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28 Aug 12 - 08:50 AM (#3396356) Subject: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: Jim Martin Can anyone remember what these were/are called? I still posses a Charles Wells Eagle Bitter one from about 30 yrs ago, it has a plastic screw top with a reset button to keep it air-tight, the beer will last about 3 days before going off.I have searched the internet but can find no reference to them anywhere! They were quite popular and I think all the bigger breweries which sold real ale sold them. |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:17 AM (#3396378) Subject: RE: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: Jim Martin This is the kind of thing: http://www.galtresfestival.org.uk/shop/productDetails.cfm?ProductID=760&Open=0 |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:41 AM (#3396424) Subject: RE: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: GUEST In the USA they are common in micro brew restaurants. The are called "growlers." It is for taking the local brewed tap beer home and may be refilled multiple times. Sincerely, Gargoyle Third generation home brewer - before the "Real Ale Societies "homebrew was the only way to get real beer over here. With growlers now so common - my stready stream of 50 years - is diminished. |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:42 AM (#3396426) Subject: RE: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: GUEST,.gargoyle Oooppps....forgot reference. www.bottless.net/The_History_of_The_Beer_Growler_s/605.htm Sincerely, Gargoyle |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:52 AM (#3396431) Subject: RE: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: artbrooks Similar purpose, but not quite the same thing. At least, most of the growlers I'm aware of - and we have 5 microbreweries here in Albuquerque that sell them - are 1/2 gallon glass containers with plain screw caps. There is no built-in mechanism to keep them pressurized, so once they are opened the contents need to be drunk fairly quickly...not really a bad thing. |
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28 Aug 12 - 11:13 AM (#3396443) Subject: RE: BS: 1/2 Gal Airtight Plastic Beer Jugs From: Bill D My father used to recite this: (approximately--- many variations) "There was a little man and he had a little can, and he used to rush the growler. He went to the saloon on a Sunday afternoon and you should have heard the bartender holler! No booze today, no booze today, you can't get booze on Sunday No booze today, no booze today, you got to get your can filled Monday" "To rush the growler (sometimes to roll the growler and other forms) was to take a container to the local bar to buy beer. The growler was the container, usually a tin can. Brander Matthews wrote about it in Harper's Magazine in July 1893: "In New York a can brought in filled with beer at a bar-room is called a growler, and the act of sending this can from the private house to the public-house and back is called working the growler". The job of rushing the growler was often given to children." |