Blackfoot River Brewery: Filling 'em right!

Since I started drinking craft beer, I have loved growlers. A lot of the breweries around Montana do not bottle or can their beer, making growlers the ideal way to sample brews from different places. But there are a lot of other advantages too: sustainability, portability, cheap to fill(sometimes), and they just look cool. The New York Times posted a great article about the growth of growlers in New York, not only at breweries but also at bars, specialty beer shops, and even Whole Foods.

“There’s always the possibility that someone may not fill the growler properly,” said Shane Welch, founder of Sixpoint Craft Ales brewery in Brooklyn, which sells its products in stores in growler form. Most stores and bars run the beer straight from the tap to the bottle. “If you don’t fill it to the top, if you don’t purge the air out of there, when you close the container it will be stale beer,” Mr. Welch said. “You probably have to drink it that night.”

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