I like beer. I like stouts and IPAs, I like ales and lagers. I like Belgian beer, British beer, German beer, and American microbrewed beer.
One of the great things I've discovered at brewpubs is that you can get a half gallon of beer to go in a glass jar called a growler. The beer stays fresh about 7-10 days in a refrigerated, sealed growler, and once the growler is open it's good for another few days.
Helen and I are going up to Lake Tahoe next weekend for a friend's wedding, and I want to bring back some beer from Fifty Fifty Brewing. It's a four hour drive back - certainly, in the summer, enough time for the beer to warm up.
So what's a beer guy to do? Buy a specialized beer growler cooler of course! So I went over to the nice folks at Cape Cod Beer, and ordered a growler cooler. It can fit up to two growlers, and looks like it should keep the beer cold for a little while. If I'm on a longer trip, I can even use ice packs to chill beer.
I hope to keep buying craft beer on trips and check the beer cooler on the way home. Great way to extend the trip a bit.
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When I've needed to I've packed it in dry ice; Bethlehem is about that far from Pittsburgh and I've certainly brought enough half gallons back from there.
At the moment my fridge has beer from Ann Arbor in it, which came back in a growler in the trunk on a day which thankfully wasn't too warm.
You have got to check out the United Nations of Beer
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