Tom or Mary wrote:

> There was a nice article about growlers, and local microbrewer in the
> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. See Links:
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06005/632504.stm
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06005/632505.stm
>
> Are growlers popular in other parts of the country? With PAs unusual
> drinking laws I am surprised people are able to bring an empty bottle to a
> bar, and have it filled.

They aren't legal in Florida, but there is an effort underway to allow
small brewers (<5000 BBL/year) to sell them, letting them sell on-site
(as brewpubs), for off-site consumption (growlers), and in bulk (kegs or
casks) to distributors (or maybe even directly to vendors (bars and
resturants)). I don't know how likely this is to succeed, but the
bottle size law change finally did (taking only ~15 or 20 years to do so!)

ted