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There are very few good things on this earth, but good beer is one of them. I spent too many years throwing back Natty Light and Bud Light Lime before I realized the amazing world of craft beer. Gastropubs and microbreweries are incredible. I don’t mind paying $9 for a drink when I feel like I’m walking around in the pages of a Southern Living Magazine. Go ahead and order an artisan cheese board and sample a small batch of local beer brewed with saffron grown exclusively in the Aconcagua mountain range. You may have to take out a small loan to pay for the excursion, but you’ll look really sick and bougie in all the photos you take.
No one can argue that the ambiance is bomb, but the most important contribution craft breweries have made to my life is introducing me to the growler.
While I used to be a “you pick 6” gal almost exclusively, the growler is my new number one. 64 fluid ounces of heaven, in my opinion. Gone are the days of collecting up trash bags of bottles and cans. Attempting a perfect head pour into a pint glass (swiped from your favorite brewery) while dining al fresco is the only way to live life now.
Additional benefits, they look cool and they’re a fun collectible item. What better way to show people that I’m more cultured than them than to show them my stock of growlers from the brewery tours I’ve been to around the country? It’s all about the clout. You can come out swinging with an, “Oh, that old thing? I just picked it up on my most recent trip to Tennessee’s Jackalope Brewing Co. NBD.”
Because I am an all-around great person, I love supporting small, locally-owned businesses. Yuengling doesn’t need my money as much as the husband and wife team that owns a tap downtown. The growler provides you the opportunity to #shopsmall and help keep local commerce alive. This is a complete two birds, one stone situation. When you fill up a growler, not only are you getting a delicious beverage, but you now have bragging rights for how socially conscious you are.
The list of positive goes on and on, but perhaps my favorite indirect benny of the growler is the excuse it gives you to drink a little more than normal. you have maybe a solid 12 hours before the beer goes flat. You don’t want to be wasteful, so an additional glass or two is a necessity sometimes.
People try to call me saying that drinking out of growlers is too expensive. I understand where you’re coming from, but stop being obtuse and not visualizing the right social setting. Obviously, it’s not ideal to bring a growler to a rager with hundreds of people. But if you’re casually drinking with five or six friends, $18 for a fill-up or two isn’t that outlandish. I’m probably spending the same amount as the schmuck heading over to the distributor and picking up a 24-pack, and at least what I’m paying for doesn’t taste like warm piss.
If you’re coming over to drink, don’t ask if you can pick up a case, you should already know you’re bringing a half growler of your favorite local IPA.
Oh, and P.S. – Bring a cool growler with you, because I’ll try to find a way to get you to leave it behind, and then I won’t give it back. .
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This is hipster nonsense. Give me a suitcase of light beer or give me death.
Or, y’know, time and place for each
You’re right, I could drink a Growler full of Coors Light.
Couldn’t disagree more.
I’m a Vodka, mineral water drinker because I’m really into the clear alcohol cleanse that’s going viral (don’t look it up). If all goes well, I should be fully transparent/invisible come WW3
Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.
Lagavulin, neat, for me
We get it man you think you’re Ron Swanson like every other dude with a few too many flannels.
Lmao ^. One of the most accurate things ever transcribed into written language
thanks Nived
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Yeah, I’m trying to watch my figure so I can slip in and out of prison bars at all them FEMA camps that are conveniently placed all over the country lol
I’m all about the crowler life. Sure, half the size of the growler, but perfect for a weeknight when you’re just trying to relax. And it’s a sealed can so it stays fresh for when you want it
That said, Yuengling’s great and I will not hear otherwise
I love crowlers because I don’t have to remember to clean and bring my growler to the brewery which I do 80% of the time.
I mean there’s a pretty good local brewery at the entrance of my neighborhood so I do growlers as much as I can but I’ll keep picking up cases of beer at Kroger until I finish setting up the kegerator.
Couldn’t agree me. Now i’m dead set on picking one up on the commute home.
Yuengling is mediocre at best
Yuengling may not need your money, but show me a husband and wife brewing team with a small brewery and I bet I can show you a couple of pretentious turds.
Eh, I’ve met some douchey staff at breweries but most of the time it’s just the hipster pouring beers for tip money and not the actual owners/brewers who know what they’re talking about.
1-2-3 Margs or gtfo, fam #Hhhwockamolay
I’ll stick to Buschhhhh
And we appreciate your business.
-Buschhhh guy.
The only growlers I have are in the bathroom, thank you very much.
Unless you’re at Three Floyds in Munster where they’ll tell you to fuck your self before they fill it up. Nothing worse than a business hipster.
Between that and refusal to ply sports on the TVs that place is STRANGE
Every time I’ve gone in there, which has been quite a few, hey they have amazing food and beer, it’s always been weird B grade kung fo movies playing or stuff from the 3.99 bin from the local truck stop.
This sounds like actual hell
My local brewery has canned growlers (or crowlers), and they’re so much better than regular growlers. Not only are they more convenient transportation-wise, you feel a lot less bad about yourself after you drink the whole can than if you drink a whole growler.
Feel bad about yourself? I always give myself a pat on the back when I’m polishing off a growler on a Tuesday night. Makes me feel like I accomplished something.
What did Yuengling ever do to deserve your hate? Also Yuengling is technically a microbrewery (albeit the largest in the US). But since you mentioned beer distributors, I feel your pain as I too live in Pennsylvania.
PA’s alcohol rules are sloooooooooowwwllly starting to catch up to the rest of the country, but we still have quite a way to go.