bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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I've a 32 oz swing-top long-neck growler from Sierra Nevada and have filled it several times. Under California law, any place licensed to fill growlers can do so as long as any label/logo of another brewery is covered up. I heard painters tape works the best, and I got a roll at Dollar Tree. There is no obligation though to fill a container from another brewery. Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa, California will apparently fill a growler that's blank (some people scrape off the labels), but won't even fill one covered with tape. Mine is like this, but an older, plainer design:
I tried bringing my 32 oz growler to a local place (Fieldwork Brewing in Berkeley) and they looked at it for a while. After taking it to a tap I was handed it back saying that it didn't fit. They use a plastic tube attached to the tap and I guess they tried. I'm surprised they didn't say no right away since I can't be the first customer to bring one in. However, I was just given one of their glass growlers that look like a large medicine bottle (the one on the right in this photo). They also have a "crowler" which is a 32 oz can that's sealed on site using a special rig. I'm kind of surprised they didn't just give me one of those instead of the glass.
I asked for something that tastes "piney" since my wife likes Pliny the Elder from Russian River Brewing. They had something called "Tactical Hatchet" which is a kind of a heavy IPA (7.7% but not quite a double IPA) that is somewhat similar.
https://fieldworkbrewing.com/our-beer/tactical-hatchet-2/
I tried bringing my 32 oz growler to a local place (Fieldwork Brewing in Berkeley) and they looked at it for a while. After taking it to a tap I was handed it back saying that it didn't fit. They use a plastic tube attached to the tap and I guess they tried. I'm surprised they didn't say no right away since I can't be the first customer to bring one in. However, I was just given one of their glass growlers that look like a large medicine bottle (the one on the right in this photo). They also have a "crowler" which is a 32 oz can that's sealed on site using a special rig. I'm kind of surprised they didn't just give me one of those instead of the glass.
I asked for something that tastes "piney" since my wife likes Pliny the Elder from Russian River Brewing. They had something called "Tactical Hatchet" which is a kind of a heavy IPA (7.7% but not quite a double IPA) that is somewhat similar.
https://fieldworkbrewing.com/our-beer/tactical-hatchet-2/