Get your growlers, beer taps in Arizona are now able to fill more of them at more places.
The new Arizona Growler Law went into effect in August as House Bill 2606, allowing any “bar, beer and wine bar, liquor store, beer and wine store, or domestic microbrewery licensee” to dispense beer into a growler or resealable bottle with a screw-on top or Grolsch-style swing top.
Nanobreweries — those extremely small licensed brewing operations with fewer than four barrels on hand — are also able to dispense beer under the new law.
A growler is a large, reusable takeout beer bottle with a screw-on top and generally a handle. Although sizes vary, growlers are usually 64 ounces, holding about the same volume as a six-pack. Growlers are sold by craft brew pubs, microbreweries and nanobreweries to permit beer aficionados to fill up from the tap rather than purchasing one-time use bottles or a keg. Many growlers are sold with a nominal glass deposit to the brewery, refundable when the user returns the bottle.
For the full story, see the Wednesday, Oct. 3, edition of The Camp Verde Journal or the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
