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Growler Heaven

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

 

WELCOME TO LIQUOR BARN’S GROWLER HEAVEN

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SPRINGHURST LOCATION, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

What’s a Growler?
Growlers are 64 ounce jugs of fresh keg beers from our in-store tap systems. Each LB carries an ever changing assortment of fresh and seasonal beers on tap. Reusable Growler jugs are $3.00 each. 64 ounces of fresh tap beers at LB’s Growler Heaven!

In days gone by, to rush the growler (sometimes to roll the growler and other forms) was to take a container to the local bar to buy beer. The growler was the container, usually a tin can. To quote a Harper’s Magazine article of July 1893: “In New York a can brought in filled with beer at a bar-room is called a growler, and the act of sending this can from the private house to the public-house and back is called working the growler.”

The term survives to this day, but the growler is usually a ½ gallon jug of beer.

At Liquor Barn, this tradition continues with several varieties of fresh draft beer at each store. The empty growlers (½ gallon glass jugs) are available for sale ranging from $3.00 for a no frills glass jug with a screw cap, to around $30.00 for a metal handled growler with a ceramic flip-top cap. 

When you look in your fridge and find your growler empty, just bring it back in to any Liquor Barn store to purchase a refill. Our constantly changing draft beers varieties cover a wide range of American Craft beer favorites and quality imported beers.

What’s on Tap at Springhurst’s Growler Heaven

Local/Regional

Sheltowee Hop-A-Lot IPA

Sheltowee 502 Amber Ale

Sheltowee Gloomsucker Black Ale

Kentucky Bourbon Ale

BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout

BBC Dunkel Weizen

BBC Knob Creek Scotch Ale

BBC Professor Gesser’s Mind Numbing Ale

Cumberland Brews Scottish Ale

Cumberland Brews Nitro Porter

Upland Amber Ale

 

Micros

Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA

Heavy Seas Loose Cannon

Left Hand Sawtooth Ale

Schlafly Bourbon Ale

Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter

Rogue Double Dead Guy

Anderson Valley Imperial IPA

Sierra Nevada Brown Saison

Stone Arrogant Bastard

Stone Old Guardian Barleywine

North Coast Old Rasputin

Great Lakes Burning River

Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale

Founders Dirty Bastard

Founder’s Red’s Rye Pale Ale

New Holland Existential Ale

New Holland Brother Jacob Belgian Double

Ommegang Rare VOS

Rockie’s Hazed and Infused

Avery New World Porter

 

Imports

Fuller’s London Pride

Young’s Double Chocolate Stout

Kostritzer Schwarbier

Spaten Optimator

Leffe Blonde

Klokke Roeland

Houblon Chouffe

Guinness