Let's call the whole thing off

[venta]

Today's daft question: if I told you I'd had a growler for tea yesterday, what would you think I meant?

(Actually, I didn't have a growler yesterday, I had prawn and chili linguini for tea. But the question stands.)

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[shermarama]

American brewing blogs tell me I can make yeast starters in a growler, and I've always guessed that some sort of large glass container that you'd buy something else in and re-use (a growler of cider, possibly?), but I've never really been sure. This Post Does Not Help.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I believe a growler is a specific shape of beer bottle, which might be the thing you'd start yeast in? So a different kind of growler from the one I'm after.

[shermarama]

Right, yes, I have finally looked up what one of these is, and I'd probably have called it a flagon, offhand. (Googling also gives the second definition as a small iceberg, so perhaps your dinner was a *lot* of sorbet?)