{"id":22341,"date":"2016-04-26T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:11:06","slug":"metropolitans-tracy-hurst-growler-fills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/metropolitans-tracy-hurst-growler-fills\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan’s Tracy Hurst on Growler Fills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan’s Tracy Hurst on growler fills: “I believe that bars should be able to sell growlers of beer”<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Photo via Metropolitan Brewing’s News page.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

As part of our efforts to learn more about how Chicago area breweries feel about bars and restaurants pouring their beer into growlers, we reached out to Metropolitan Brewing\u2019s<\/strong> Tracy Hurst\u00a0to add\u00a0her voice to the conversation. <\/em><\/p>\n

Her comments were more than just a quick email response, so we thought they merited breaking out into their own separate post. You can find our larger conversation about growler fills here<\/a>, and Tracy’s comments follow:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“I believe that bars should be able to sell growlers of beer.<\/p>\n

Honestly, once you send your beer off to an account, those risks [of growler pours] exist no matter what. You have accounts that maybe don\u2019t take care of their tap lines. Or clean their glassware. These problems exist no matter what. I\u2019ve gone to accounts [where they have Metropolitan beer on a line] after a raspberry saison and you can taste it. Honestly, when I try to sell a tapline and I see Not Your Father\u2019s Root Beer\u00a0on tap\u2026I tell them don\u2019t put it on that line. Because that line is ruined.<\/p>\n

Whether the patron sits there and drinks it at the bar or takes it home with them \u2014 you always run the risk of your beer being misrepresented. It\u2019s part of the job. Sometimes I say things [to accounts] like, what\u2019s your line cleaning protocol? The bottom line is sometimes your beer gets placed in places that don\u2019t represent it the best. I\u2019ve been to places where I\u2019ve found my beer out of code. All I can do is pull it off the shelf and get the distributor to pick it up.<\/p>\n

With growlers\u2026because it\u2019s going to be a new development, I think part of the new discussion \u2014 and Metro is not part of the guild, my thoughts are not influenced by what they are doing \u2014 they\u2019re already making as part of the conversation that people are taught that you take it home and you drink it.<\/p>\n

Someone buys a six pack at the store, I want them to buy it before it\u2019s out of code. Will they? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s only so much control you can delude yourself into thinking you have. If a bar is going to serve growlers\u2026I think the bars that jump on board with this for the most part are going to have the conversation one way or the other. Be it on the menu or face to face. I don\u2019t see any risk greater than the risks we\u2019re already running by doing our business.<\/p>\n

And, I am a production brewery owner. The fact that people can go home with my beer in 32 or 64oz. servings? Of course I like that.”<\/p>\n

-Tracy Hurst, Metropolitan Brewing<\/p>\n

More info about Metro’s beers can be found on their site here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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