“Bishop and biker James Hazelwood is on a mission to personally visit all 184 Lutheran churches in New England.”

I like to buy growlers at breweries (and here in MI there are a lot of breweries to choose from) so I’ve seen a lot of different ways to handle growlers. While there may be some DC law that requires growlers to have some kind of seal to be sold (hence necessitating the plastic seal), I’ve seen breweries and other growler-selling establishments do it to help keep the beer fresh longer, helping to keep out oxygen through the threads. Some breweries use a piece of black tape for this purpose instead.

Another possible reason for the seal: breweries that sell both on-premise and to-go beer sell those growlers at a much lower margin than their on-premise price. I’ve heard tales (although not locally, and not in person) of patrons buying a growler meant for off-premise consumption and sitting down at a table to get a cheap night at the bar. In this context, a broken seal on a growler in the bar is a clear sign of an unruly patron, and much more visible than if bartenders/servers had to keep an eye on all the fill levels of growlers in the bar.

On a more personal note, I’ve not had access to anything from any breweries in DC, although I believe DC Brau collaborated with Epic Brewing out of Salt Lake City on their excellent pumpkin porter last year.

The first two things I missed are the ability to turn off the “English” layer (which was fun for a language-head like me – see all the geographical names in the native language and script, whether they be Chinese or Czech) and the ability to set a default location.

Since Maps can’t pick up my real location from my browser, it started over the US – in Maps Classic, I could tell it to start up with “Germany”.

If you always search, it doesn’t matter so much where the initial view is – but I like to explore, and there it’s usually convenient to start near where I usually am. As you noted, the maps don’t lend themselves for exploring.

And finally, I also missed the ability to set a different zoom level at a click – useful when exploring other places since I could zoom out quickly and then pan to where I wanted to start exploring before zooming in again. Clicking ‘-’ half a dozen times just isn’t the same thing.

I’ve switched back to Classic for now, but I also wonder how long we’ll be able to use that.

Live Long & Prosper!

I’ll keep a watch and make adjustments if it reaches a tipping point… like the name of a certain Washington, DC professional football team that, in my mind, arrived there quite some time ago.