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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Scrapheap on December 22, 2011, 12:54:29 PM
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It's common practice around here for micro-breweries and brewery pubs to sell beer by the 64oz growler.
Do you have something similar in Europe where you have a 2 liter (or similar sized) bottle that you can buy, take home with you and bring back for refills??
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Yes, I think so, but the breweries around here aren't all that interesting so I haven't tried them.
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Thankfully you edited the title.
It was too salacious for the eurapeans on board.
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Don't drink any beer any more myself, stopped drinking the stuff completely about 4 years ago, but I don't think folks are able to do that here. Well, there might be some small breweries that might allow it but mostly they just bottle their beer in Holland, I think.
Maybe in Belgium (they have a lot of breweries.. smaller/bigger), here and there, one can do it 'yourself'. I know in France, Spain and other wine producing countries it's totally common practice to fill up your own brought 'package' with p/m cheap table wines though. Wine, it being without the pop, is an easier product to do that with/duh.
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Don't know Scrap.
The only local brewery I am aware of started marketing his beer via shops and supermarkets not too far away from where the brewery is, and, has a shop of his own. Very active marketeer.
His products are easily available.
Haven't tasted them yet.
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Yes, I think so, but the breweries around here aren't all that interesting so I haven't tried them.
I find that hard to believe. Even we Americans can make OK beer. :dunno:
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Thankfully you edited the title.
It was too salacious for the eurapeans on board.
I usually spell that "You're-a-pee-in's"
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Don't drink any beer any more myself, stopped drinking the stuff completely about 4 years ago, but I don't think folks are able to do that here. Well, there might be some small breweries that might allow it but mostly they just bottle their beer in Holland, I think.
Maybe in Belgium (they have a lot of breweries.. smaller/bigger), here and there, one can do it 'yourself'. I know in France, Spain and other wine producing countries it's totally common practice to fill up your own brought 'package' with p/m cheap table wines though. Wine, it being without the pop, is an easier product to do that with/duh.
I used to take my bottles and bota bags to Chiponia, where they had a lot of producing bodegas, to refill. :thumbup:
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Yes there are lots of small breweries who sell all sorts of size bottles. Not aware of any who take the bottle back for a refill.
Market seems flooded with beer at the moment. People are really spoiled for choice.
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Yes there are lots of small breweries who sell all sorts of size bottles. Not aware of any who take the bottle back for a refill.
So you've never heard anyone talk about a "growler"??
Market seems flooded with beer at the moment. People are really spoiled for choice.
Same here. I've got 4 breweries where I can get my growler filled in a 20 mile radius.
If I feel like driving further, there's another 6 breweries where I can get it filled. 8)
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So you've never heard anyone talk about a "growler"??
I use the word all the time, but not in the context you are. For instance:
I took a giant growler about twenty minutes ago.
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So you've never heard anyone talk about a "growler"??
I use the word all the time, but not in the context you are. For instance:
I took a giant growler about twenty minutes ago.
:lol: You are a good source of funny terminology ebf. I have been using the term drydocker for humor since I first saw you mention it. :thumbup:
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Around here a 'growler' usually means the wife, lol
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Yes, I think so, but the breweries around here aren't all that interesting so I haven't tried them.
I find that hard to believe. Even we Americans can make OK beer. :dunno:
I meant locally. Of course there are some good breweries around but I can't be arsed to go look for them atm.
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I don't really like beer. I prefer brandy.
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Beer goes well with seafood boils and hamburgers.
Sherry and port the rest of the time for me.
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Beer goes well with seafood boils and hamburgers.
Sherry and port the rest of the time for me.
Different types of beer can go with different foods.
It is a trend among better restaurants, to match certian beers with certian dishes.
Dark beers go with heavy foods and light with light.
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Don't drink any beer any more myself, stopped drinking the stuff completely about 4 years ago, but I don't think folks are able to do that here. Well, there might be some small breweries that might allow it but mostly they just bottle their beer in Holland, I think.
Maybe in Belgium (they have a lot of breweries.. smaller/bigger), here and there, one can do it 'yourself'. I know in France, Spain and other wine producing countries it's totally common practice to fill up your own brought 'package' with p/m cheap table wines though. Wine, it being without the pop, is an easier product to do that with/duh.
I used to take my bottles and bota bags to Chiponia, where they had a lot of producing bodegas, to refill. :thumbup:
Chiponia? In Spain? You've once visited the place, PPK?
Um, together with a friend (and his lady), we started up a bodega in Amersfoort p/m 15 years ago. We were trying to sell Spanish wines and cavas we imported, um, p/m ½ of the stock, ourselves. This to restaurants, other stores and everyone who wished to buy a bottle. Blahiah, but after the first year, and after break even point was reached luckily, we.. well decided it was time to move on and closed the store.
Looking back, we should have gone for it 200% instead of the 75% we gave it. Yeah, there were reasons to go our separate ways but to close, 'retro-spec-ing' and stop all was a bit stupid, really.
Still have a bit of a soft spot for wines from the Valdepeñas region. A 'young' red from there.. nice.
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Yeah Lutra, I was stationed in Rota Spain from November 1978 to September 1981. Spain is cool, I may go back for a visit sometime.
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Okay, cool.. and yeah, Spain's culture is.. rich, I'd say. Their food culture, for instance, is top notch in my opinion.
Tip maybe, if you wish to visit Spain again, suit self ofc.. but the region around Leon (in the north-west is beautiful too. More green than the dominant ochre colour a lot of Spain tends to exhibit.
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Okay, cool.. and yeah, Spain's culture is.. rich, I'd say. Their food culture, for instance, is top notch in my opinion.
Tip maybe, if you wish to visit Spain again, suit self ofc.. but the region around Leon (in the north-west is beautiful too. More green than the dominant ochre colour a lot of Spain tends to exhibit.
I'll keep that in mind. I might as well go to a part I haven't been if I go back. :thumbup:
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I remember this topic, I'm glad I found it again.
Currently I'm living in Beervana (AKA central Oregon) and we have literally hundreds of places to fill a growler.
There's even a fly fishing store here in town that has 30 beers on tap!!!
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A microbrewery is supposed to move in to a property nearby.
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You should see if they will fill 2 liter bottles for you, it's a great way to get beer! :glug:
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2 litre bottles? I'd rather not.
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COWARDLY!!! :tantrum: Drinking 2 liters of beer is BRAVE!!! :viking:
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
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A work friend makes beer at home, just like Hank!
(http://funkyimg.com/i/Dy7R.jpg)
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
You're supposed to pour it into a glass, not drink straight from the growler. :P
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
You're supposed to pour it into a glass, not drink straight from the growler. :P
I don't want to. Drinking from the bottle is manly. :P
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
You're supposed to pour it into a glass, not drink straight from the growler. :P
I don't want to. Drinking from the bottle is manly. :P
Yeah, the smiley radiates testosterone! ---> :beer: :laugh:
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
You're supposed to pour it into a glass, not drink straight from the growler. :P
I don't want to. Drinking from the bottle is manly. :P
Would you please make up your mind?
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Yeah, but not in a single bottle.
You're supposed to pour it into a glass, not drink straight from the growler. :P
I don't want to. Drinking from the bottle is manly. :P
Would you please make up your mind?
My mind is made up. I only want bottles in the right size.
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Some of my favorite beers from local breweries around here aren't available in bottles.
You have to go to the brewery and buy a glass or get your 2 liter growler filled.
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Some of my favorite beers from local breweries around here aren't available in bottles.
You have to go to the brewery and buy a glass or get your 2 liter growler filled.
They're not open yet.
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And when they do open, you'll only have one local brewery, we have 33. :hahaha:
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Mine is local, as in 250 metres away. Where are yours?
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Mine is local, as in 250 metres away. Where are yours?
You could crawl home, if their beer is really strong. :worship:
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Mine is local, as in 250 metres away. Where are yours?
Just down the street there's 2. Then the rest are in Sisters, Sunriver and Bend. That's why I have a growler. I go to the brewery, fill it up and bring it back so I can get drunk at home.
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Mine is local, as in 250 metres away. Where are yours?
Just down the street there's 2. Then the rest are in Sisters, Sunriver and Bend. That's why I have a growler. I go to the brewery, fill it up and bring it back so I can get drunk at home.
OK, you win. :'(
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OK, I have another beer question for Europeans.
Have any of you seen beer from Deschutes Brewery anywhere in Europe??
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Not to my recollection.