Breton Brewing announced

[Jimmy]

Hi Gents!
Our growler fill policy was put in place in order to ensure that our beer was put into properly cleaned/sanitized growlers. By purchasing and refilling Breton Brewing growlers we are positive that the customer is getting a properly cleaned and sanitized growler every time the consumer re-fills. We recommend for the average consumer to purchase our growler so that we can ensure the highest quality of product. We also recognize that there are consumers out there (Brewnosers, etc.) that do take pride in the cleanliness of their bottles. For these reasons we will be following in the brewing community's footsteps and will be offering fills on any growler.
As a side note to this, we were charging a deposit on our growlers which makes them fully refundable at any point. This would have allowed the consumer the option to relieve their growler stock burden at any time (of Breton Brewing Growlers).
Also, to help ensure that the average customer is getting a properly cleaned and sanitized growler we will be offering a Breton Brewing growler fill punch card of some sort in the near future.
Sorry for the confusion! We are trying to ensure the consumer gets the best quality product available.

Glad to hear

[mr x]

Yeah, I understand the point of wanting your own advertising out there, but I think we may have reached peak growler for many in the beer community. In other words, I just don't want anymore of them hanging around the house until I can return them.

[GAM]

Yeah, I understand the point of wanting your own advertising out there, but I think we may have reached peak growler for many in the beer community. In other words, I just don't want anymore of them hanging around the house until I can return them.

This. I am in the midst of divesting growlers.

S

[KMcK]

I did the south shore brewery tour and investigated their growler filling practices. Boxing Rock refused to fill my growlers and the best the front store person could say was that they weren't set up to fill other people's growlers. She couldn't explain why. As a result of their 'refuse to take my money' business plan none of my growler money went to Boxing Rock.

Hell Bay was a much better experience. The young (by beer drinking standards) guy working there that day was happy to fill my growler and showed a lot of enthusiasm and knowledge. Interestingly, he wouldn't fill from the tasting room taps but only from the filling machine in the brewery. He also washed my growler in their growler washer and visually inspected it for gunk. The upside of this was that I got a better fill, which was well carbonated for the duration of consumption. The downside is you can only get a fill of whatever they are bottling that day.

Of course Hell Bay had a fridge of growlers full of its other beers, with its own growlers for purchase or exchange. Surprisingly, they will trade their growler for your growler if yours is one they don't have in their growler collection on display. Of course, they have most of the Halifax growlers so I didn't have anything trade-worthy. They don't have a Brewnosers growler yet.