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If you’re lucky enough to live close to a brewery, chances are they sell the beer in growlers. These oversized beer jugs are great – they’re refillable, cheaper, and easier to share although they do pose a problem if you’re traveling by bike. Well, that was until the folks at Growler Cage in Minneapolis, MN started building 64oz growler specific cages one by one.

Keep yourself from going thirsty again after the break.

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Each growler cage is built with a steel frame that is shaped perfectly to fit the most common sized growler with a diameter of 4.75-5″. To keep the bottle safe and from rattling around, the frames are covered in individually sewn neoprene covers that are offered in 11 colors, and replaceable if they tear. Holding the cage to the bike is a stainless steel plate with an adjustable slot allowing you to place one growler in a standard frame, or two on a fork as shown above.

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Growler Cages retail for $55, with replacement sleeves selling for $7 each.

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Yoshi
Yoshi
11 years ago

They look heavy! Carbon Please… lol!

Ryan
Ryan
11 years ago

I sure wish I had a need for some of these….stupid OK laws.

Dantrell Eisenstein
Dantrell Eisenstein
11 years ago

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!!

Michael
Michael
11 years ago

I’ve been looking for a set of these forever! My fork will definitely be adorned with a pair next time we do a cycle-brewery-tour.

Steve @ G4G
11 years ago

Rad.

wheelz
wheelz
11 years ago

So cool!

BT
BT
11 years ago

Cool idea but $55…

ShoutBoxxx
ShoutBoxxx
11 years ago

Great but I still don’t have any means to carry my bottle of merlot. 🙁

PROEDGEBIKER.COM
11 years ago

Carbon Version 2.0 Coming Soon for $155

Tom
Tom
11 years ago

Question I’ve always wondered while transporting my growlers: do they count as open containers? Technically they aren’t sealed in any way. I doubt it would ever come up, but you never know.

Trey R
Trey R
11 years ago

^^^ You’re not drinking them fast enough Tom.

Mike
Mike
11 years ago

Tom: A brewery by my house places scotch tape over the cap of growlers to “seal” them. I guess they had a customer get in trouble for driving with one in their car and when they looked into it the tape was all they legally needed.

Champs
Champs
11 years ago

Tom: I believe Minnesota requires a tamper-evident seal, and containers from the brewery of origin. Not so in Oregon.

Jake
Jake
11 years ago

I’m waiting for someone to make a hydration pack that a growler will fit in.

Champs
Champs
11 years ago

Jake: at that rate, why not an IV drip kit for box wine?

JimmyZ
JimmyZ
11 years ago

A good accessory to have for growler rides would be a threaded bottle cap with a valve that connects to the rider’s shock pump or CO2 inflator, so that their beer won’t go flat. I have trouble finishing a 22 oz. bottle quickly enough to have bubbles all the way.

I have a hydration pack that fits a growler, it’s called a camelbak commander. I could even fit a mini keg in there.

Fred Zeppelin
Fred Zeppelin
11 years ago

@ Shoutboxx, not sure if serious, but look for an old B-52 cage or a current Topeak Modula XL.

Anybody here use a Salsa Anything Cage to carry a growler? I know they fit a 1.75 of Vodka perfect, so I assume a growler would also be a near fit.

PS -There is a 64oz Kleen Kanteen that makes a damage-resistant (if uninsulated) growler.

Matt
Matt
11 years ago

I’ve got an even better method, it’s called a rucksack…

Iowa Cyclist
11 years ago

I’ve found the Salsa Anything Cage is far more useful, and cheaper than this thing. Holds a growler very securely.
http://salsacycles.com/components/anything_cage

gringo
gringo
11 years ago

now I hafta put the steel fork back on my fargo so I can run a dualing Growler set-up up front.

All the hippy girls gonna be freakin’ out.

Steve@Tern
11 years ago

Love it – think they’d go down a storm in the UK too…

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