The reddit post racked up more and more comments, and the Savor Growl FB post was inundated with enough questions and invective that it evidently became clear to their social media person that it would no longer be fruitful to delete the comments-the alleged cat was out of the alleged bag. Still with me? People connected the alleged dots pretty quickly after the reddit post appeared by the time I read the thread at around 7am Saturday, the rancor had already begun to mount and people began commenting on the Savor Growl post asking after the legitimacy of the accusation-comments which were all swiftly deleted.Īt about 11a, tweeted a link to the reddit post to about 6000 followers, and shit continued to blow up from there. The reddit link above contains a photo that purports to show an employee of Growl waiting to check out and pay for an entire U-boat of Bell's Hopslam at a Clintonville Giant Eagle located about a mile from the SG shop, the implication being that SG intended to resell what their employee had purchased at retail. That's illegal, if it's true.Ībout six hours prior to this photo being posted, Savor Growl posted the following to their Facebook page:
Savor Growl is about a mile and a half south of the original shop in addition to a great bottle selection, they have 60 draught lines pouring growlers and samples (they have no on-premise license and thus all of their business is to go). Savor Growl is the extension/spinoff of a successful Clintonville business called Savor Market, which is essentially a high end bottleshop carryout specializing in esoteric and hard to find craft beer. Was a local retailer circumventing beer distribution laws?
At about 11.30 Saturday night, a friend of mine who lives in my neighborhood in Old North Columbus sent me this link via Facebook.