In case you ain't know, growlers are those big jug-like bottles of beer that more drunkerly smaller brewers make. I have decided to drink more of those this year, for a multitude of reasons. First off, hopefully me and the wife will jump back into homebrewing pretty heavily, and filling growlers with five gallons of homemade alcohol tends to go faster than filling 22 ounce bottles, although I'm not sure how the twist cap would help the bottle fermentation. But secondly, drinking something called "growler" seems like a good thing to put myself behind. Just saying sounds like a good drunk, walking the railroad tracks by the river and trying to figure out if you really know what stars you think you know you are looking at, but there's no way to check because you're just out there, so you figure fuck it.
There was a growler at one of the fancy beer stores when I went the other day, but it was like $13 for it, and I didn't feel like justifying that to myself. I think one of the local brewery places, which doesn't even sell their shit at stores, sells carry off growlers at their bar spot which is where you can usually only get their swill. I think a lot of our homebrew shit actually indirectly came from there through a friend of my wife's. Perhaps I shall try them for growler action. The worst that can happen is they'll say no, I can steal some empties from behind their building, and fill them with my own beer. I've got a pumpkin beer recipe I want to try, and I also want to try it with butternut squash. I've never heard of butternut beer, and there's probably a good reason for that, but I've never been one much for good reasoning.
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