# So how much is a growler where you live? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506 "2004-10-16T02:07:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/1 "2004-10-16T02:07:27Z")
A growler is a 64oz glass bottle. I got mine refilled at the Blackfoot Brewing Company tonight for $6, plus you get a free 8oz beer while you are waiting. I haven’t checked to see how much the growler is at the Sleeping Giant Brewing Company, but only because it’s another 10 minute walk from my house. So how much is a growler from your micro brewery? Whistlepig, who’s drinking the Steamboat Lager. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/2 "2004-10-16T03:01:30Z")
Well, I can get one from the local BJ’s for about $7.25. Or I can dig up the head brewer, who is a buddy, and have him pull one for me for $4.00. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/3 "2004-10-16T03:34:15Z")
You sonsabitches! Here (upstate NY): $10 to FILL a growler $14 to buy a growler and fill it. No wonder I homebrew… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/4 "2004-10-16T03:39:39Z")
We used to be able to get $7.00 growlers from The Holy Cow in Las Vegas, but then they went out of business. Bummer. On a related note, has anyone ever started a homebrewers recipe swap thread? If so, how did it go? ---
**Author:** ![Ludicrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Ludicrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludicrous)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/5 "2004-10-16T04:20:29Z")
A Growler, eh? After a quick google search, I think my joy of beer-drinking has increased 10-fold. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/6 "2004-10-16T04:57:14Z")
You know, I used to have a friend who’d buy those. It cost him less than a dollar to get it refilled. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/7 "2004-10-16T13:46:44Z")
The local 30+ on taphaus in Hanover has varying prices for a Growler, depending on the brew chosen. ---
**Author:** ![homebrewhound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@homebrewhound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homebrewhound)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/8 "2011-06-15T12:23:04Z")
Hey everyone, I live in the southeast, and my local brewery (Red Oak) carries screw-top growlers, but a brewing buddy of mine in Ohio said that there are growlers with ceramic seals and flip-tops that are a little more hard-wearing. He went on to tell me how you could put still fermenting beer in there and it would hold pressure and purity, which would save me a lot of trouble. He could not, however, tell me where to acquire some myself. :smack: I’ve been looking over the web for a wholesaler of some kind, as all the singles seem pretty pricey or have to be shipped overseas. I brew enough beer for friends and family to buy maybe two dozen to start, does anyone know of a domestic company like that? Thanks, Sean ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/9 "2011-06-15T18:13:03Z")
You are all wrong, a growler is a Pork Pie, [http://www.forestfreshfoods.com/lazygourmet/index.php?cPath=39](http://www.forestfreshfoods.com/lazygourmet/index.php?cPath=39) > **[Pork Pies and other Growlers - God's Own County](https://www.godsowncounty.co.uk/food-and-drink/pork-pies-and-other-growlers/)** > > Just a 2017 reminder not to forget your ‘Christmas pie’. Stand pie, Gala pie or large pork the variety will not matter but I shall pass on a Melton Mowbray. Yorkshire folk are not fetishists but we do love or … Continue reading → [http://www.pbase.com/image/19947962](http://www.pbase.com/image/19947962) > **[A few good things to eat (volume 4)](http://m62food.blogspot.com/2011/05/few-good-things-to-eat-volume-4.html)** > > Food and drink - transpennine. Leeds / Manchester / Sheffield / Derbyshire / Yorkshire. Naturally the best growlers come from Yorkshire, but you already knew that. They are perfectly suited as a companion to the liquid variety of growlers mentioned in the OP ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/10 "2011-06-15T18:17:12Z")
At my home away from home, [House of 1000 Beers](http://www.houseof1000beers.com/), you can get a growler filled with any of the 32 beers on tap for the price of three pints of that beer. (Four pints for the price of three) I love the place.😃 ETA: There are also always crazy specials, like half off on Steeler game days, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/11 "2011-06-15T22:21:41Z")
> [@homebrewhound](#): > > Hey everyone, > > I live in the southeast, and my local brewery (Red Oak) carries screw-top growlers, but a brewing buddy of mine in Ohio said that there are growlers with ceramic seals and flip-tops that are a little more hard-wearing. He went on to tell me how you could put still fermenting beer in there and it would hold pressure and purity, which would save me a lot of trouble. > > He could not, however, tell me where to acquire some myself. :smack: I’ve been looking over the web for a wholesaler of some kind, as all the singles seem pretty pricey or have to be shipped overseas. I brew enough beer for friends and family to buy maybe two dozen to start, does anyone know of a domestic company like that? > > Thanks, > > Sean A GIS gives me [this place](http://www.williamsbrewing.com/2-LITER-SWING-TOP-JUGS-6-Actual-Cost-Shipping-Item-P1941.aspx), $60 for 6. Is that too expensive? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/12 "2011-06-15T23:30:28Z")
On Fridays, house beers at Sun King are $5, normally $6.50. Premium beers are more, ranging anywhere from $8 to $20 depending on the variety. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/13 "2011-06-15T23:53:07Z")
Oh you mean a flagon (or a rigger for the Southerners). Here growler is a synonym for something else entirely. Here a fill your own flagon at Roosters brewhouse ranged between NZ$8 to $10 depending on which beer you bought last time I got one (maybe two years ago for the old man). Probably about US$4-5 at the time, more like $6-7 now. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/14 "2011-06-16T02:36:17Z")
yep, where I come from in Norcal or it’s just my age but a growler is where you go to drop a Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![inkling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkling)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/15 "2011-06-16T04:17:25Z")
I tend to fill my own growlers off the beer fridge and take them to friends’ houses. My ingredient and fuel cost for ten gallons is about $35 these days, so a growler fill would be 1/20th of that, or $1.75. Call it $2.50 if I get fancy and use more expensive malt, a boatload of hops, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/16 "2011-06-16T04:45:03Z")
I didn’t know anyone still used the term growler. Isn’t that based on the buckets they used to sell beer in, 75 or 100 years ago? From seeing them in old movies they look like they hold about a couple of liters. ---
**Author:** ![inkling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkling)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/17 "2011-06-16T04:51:28Z")
No one really knows where the word ‘growler’ comes from, in reference to a multi-serving container for beer. The most popular theory is, yes, related to buckets of beer that allegedly made a growling noise as CO2 came out of solution. > **[Beer bottle | Growler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_bottle#Growler)** > > A growler (/ˈɡraʊlər/) is a glass, ceramic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draught beer in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and other countries. They are commonly sold at breweries and brewpubs as a means to sell take-out craft beer. > In the United States, a growler is one-half US gallon (1.9 litres; 0.42 imperial gallons). Less commonly can be found "growlerettes" or "howlers", which are half-growlers, or 32 U.S. fl oz. ---
**Author:** ![homebrewhound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@homebrewhound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homebrewhound)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/18 "2011-06-19T12:28:31Z")
Thanks for the replies. I got a reply on another board I visit, and found a company in PA called [Tote Glass](http://www.toteglass.com) that sells them in packs of 10 (their smallest order). I discussed it with some of my friends who got me into this whole homebrewing bit in the first place, and we’re debating on getting a few cases. The guy I spoke to said there was a price reduction at 100 units, but that’s still a bit rich for my blood. They apparently order theirs from Germany, which I’m guessing is good? Western Europe being the birthplace of ‘real’ brew, I’m told… Best wishes and Happy Father’s Day to dads everywhere. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/19 "2011-06-19T12:42:49Z")
Where are all these zombies coming from? I thought Dances With Cats had come back to life. The closest we have is a [darwin Stubby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin_stubby.jpg) which holds over 2 litres. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506/20 "2011-06-19T19:59:14Z")
We live within driving distance of [this place](http://www.thefunkybuddha.com/), which does beer in growlers and brews their own stuff in addition to having other craft beers from around the country. I have no idea how much a growler is, but the average pint of their in-house brews come in around $5, but vary depending upon the ingredients and overall cost of brewing. Well worth the price, as I’ve never had a pint/snifter that I hated, even the mango-chili wheat; most of the brews I’ve sampled there have been of the “please sir, can I have another?” variety. 😃 They’re pretty highly rated on [RateBeer](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16410), and like to experiment with flavors. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-is-a-growler-where-you-live/269506.md?page=2)