Ready, Set, Growler: New Law Makes Beer To Go an Option in CT via Connecticut Mag.

The news seems to just get better and better for Connecticut beer lovers.

As of this month, growler sales are legal in Connecticut at bars and restaurants. Growlers—64-ounce or 32-ounce (half growler) jugs that are filled with draft beer—have long been a popular take home option at Connecticut breweries (when filled properly without excess air, growlers preserve the draft flavor of a beer). However, until now, in Connecticut the only place to get growler fills has been at breweries. 

Though a clear boon to beer enthusiasts, the law change raises some complex questions for elite beer bars about pricing (if they charge $7 or $9 a pint for premium craft beer, how much would a growler fill cost?), quality control (an improperly filled growler does not keep beer fresh long at all) and staffing (can they afford to have an employee filling growlers on a crowded Friday or Saturday night?). As a result of these and other questions, Connecticut beer bars seem split on whether or not to proceed with growler fills.

​Coalhouse Pizza in Stamford just opened a new craft beer and bourbon bar at its current space. Originally the plan was to have 72 beers on tap but when news of growler sales being legalized hit, owner Gerard Robertson upped it to 85 tap lines.

“We are very excited about filling growlers at Coalhouse and we plan to be the biggest growler fill station in all of Connecticut,” he says. “We are going to offer all of our drafts for growlers. At times, specialty and very rare brews may have growler restrictions so that they will be available to more people, but those brews will be the exception.”

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