Growlers in the UK?

I'm just curious if you blokes have that option?

BrewDog bars do it, haven't seen it anywhere else on my journeys.

I think you'll see them gain more promenance in the coming years.

Windsor & Eton brewery have just started selling them at their shop.

http://webrew.co.uk/main/webrew-growlers-arrive-in-the-shop/

Some good beer bars have always given the option of carry outs - usually in the cardboard cartons but such venues would more than likely be happy to entertain growlers.

Don't presume that all bars would be happy to fill a growler as some bar staff may be unfamiliar with them and be unsure of the size.

Cool! Swing tops...I wish we'd have them locally.

Yeah, a shop near me does them now. Think they'll gain popularity in the coming years.

If you get a funnel I don't think they'd have a problem with you buying a pint and pouring it into a bottle.

There may be licensing issues with some places though.

Plenty of 4 pint karrikegs ti be found. Flimsy plastic things. Haven't seen any glass ones for a while though.

Fox and Hounds in Houston did the cardboard ones, problem is the size - they are limited by law the mount they can pour in one serving I think.

Whole Foods had the same problem for theirs, although that might have changed now

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=growler

Ow wow!
They are rather stylish

I had an ugly looking beige plastic four pint thing sometime in the early Nineties
with a funny pressure cap type thing.

That's a karrikeg as I mentioned. You can buy one with 4 pints of beer in it at my nearest micro brewery.

Thanks for clearing that up, the keg part made me think of some kind of added artificial gas lol

Change it to "no problem with taking your pint somewhere they can't see it, bottling it and then pretending you've drunk it" lol

I've long thought of this definition when I hear Americans throw the term around.....


One of the beer bars where I live lets you take out beer in those cardboard jobbies. The York Beer & Wine shop also sells cask-dispensed beer for consumption off-site (in an ugly plastic jug).

A toilet cubicle

So do growlers *giggle* keep the beer fresh and lively? I must say the karrikegs left the ale flat and tepid by the time I got it home.

yes - the first time I went to the US it was a giggle but you get used to it

See also the USS Growler docked at the Intrepid museum on the Hudson

tbh - I used to precede this word with 'hairy' so it doesn't carry all that!

Fanny packs is another and I once asked a taxi driver if my mate could have a fag in the back, which meant something rather different to him than me !!!

Why the giggling, has nobody had Nethergate's Old Growler before?

I did that many times in the 1970's. Partly to harvest yeast for homebrewing, partly to get decent bottled beer. Stick in a half tablespoon of sugar and leave it a couple of days and it condioned a treat. The beer had to be fresh, mind you.

Many brewery taps do it now. Lovibonds and London Fields are two examples I've visited recently. Nicely-designed branded growlers, too. And I've taken home beers from pubs in cardboard carryouts, too (2 pint maximum).

Anyone else reminded of the old BoSelecta Lorrain Kelly sketch?

"Have ye seen my growler?"

I used to bring home a pint of Home Ales Bitter every Sunday lunchtime to have with my roast. The landlord at the Red Lion in Stathern put it into an empty Scotch bottle.If I didn't drink it straight away I added half a spoonful of sugar and screwed the top down tight.
I've quite often had beer put into old fashioned quart flagons (the ones with a screw in stopper which weigh a ton) and occasionally had a polypin filled from the pump.

Bacchanalia in Cambridge does growlers.

Thanks for all of the feedback! I still don't get the use of cardboard boxes. Is that anything like wine in a box?

I've never bought one, but they look like the milk cartons you get in the US.

Hehe...if that was my only choice for take out beer, I'd still go for it. Thanks!

They leak and the beer goes flat in an hour. Really only suitable for taking beer home from the pub, and then only if you live two streets away.

Fair enough. I've never been tempted to be honest....