It is but I was hoping with bodhi now being packaged they would lighten up on that stance for all their beers.
This was from an article last year. I think it funny they don't like crowlers. To me it's a better solution than a glass growler if you won't bottle or can your beer, but that's my opinion.
http://drinkupcolumbus.com/2015/06/12/daily-growler-crowler/
Corder says Columbus Brewing Company’s main concern with their beers being Crowler’d concern the permanence of the product.
‘It’s essentially a large can; it is seamed and sealed like any other canned beer, except it is filled from a draft line,” Corder said. “We do not feel any retailer has the right to repackage our beer in whichever vessel they choose, and that’s essentially what’s happening. Glass and stainless growlers have been clearly established as temporary, refillable vessels, intended for immediate consumption. The Brewers Association even has guidelines on how growlers should be handled and filled. The Crowler is not refillable and it is permanently sealed until someone opens it.”
Columbus Brewing Company is certainly not the only brewery to set standards about how their beer can be handled by retailers – many larger breweries have staff dedicated to monitoring how their beer is stored and sold, and several breweries don’t allow their beer to be used for growler fills at all.
“Our issue is not really with ‘Crowlers’ per se,” Corder said. “There are a number of breweries that fill Crowlers out of their own taproom. We may even decide to do it ourselves one day. But the point is that [the brewery is] the one doing it, not a retailer twice removed from the brewery.”
“We understand that consumers just want beer,” Corder added. “It’s not their job to worry about things like this. Most just want to take the beer home and drink it. But that’s why it’s our job as a brewery to have policies on these things and encourage that our beer is handled the way we feel it should.”
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