Coffee now comes in 64-ounce jugs

growler of coffee

File this under things I should never have heard about or been given access to: according to the Times, coffee shops in New York are starting to sell iced coffee in refillable sixty-four-ounce growlers, the huge jugs normally reserved for beer.

With iced coffee season kicking off and thus the need for coffee places to start in on more cold-brewing, several small shops decided it also made sense to go ahead and start selling it in reusable containers that hold the equivalent of a Big Gulp's worth of coffee. "We do cold-brew anyway, and we thought there were people out there would buy this much coffee," said the owner of Nolita Mart and Espresso Bar.

Okay, so this does sound amazing, but why this is legal and Four Loko isn't I'll never understand. Well, I guess there's the high concentration of malt liquor and gross flavoring, but even so... questionable.

Commentarium (5 Comments)

Apr 27 11 - 1:51pm
KingPellinore

Coffee and huge jugs...my two favorite things!

Apr 27 11 - 2:46pm
startmakingsense

Just what we need-more new yorkers with larger caffeine delivery systems.

Apr 27 11 - 3:12pm
ConservativeIcon

An amazing abuse of a beer growler. Coffee Stout? Perhaps.

Apr 28 11 - 12:15pm
cmoore

Well you don't have to drink it all at once... Cold brew is usually really concentrated, so after diluting it appropriately I bet this would last me almost two weeks. Well, maybe a week. Five days, at least.

Jul 23 11 - 11:59am
Buffie

Why do I bhoetr calling up people when I can just read this!