To buy beer in a reusable jug directly from the brewery is clearly not the same as buying it from a store or in a pub. It doesn’t have to be transported to a third party, it doesn’t have to go to an LDB warehouse, then on to a government store. Compared to bottles, cans and kegs, growlers cost the LDB next to nothing to administer.

Growlers also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, packaging waste, and the cost of recycling. So if the LDB’s Green Plan, as outlined in their 2011/12 – 2013/14 Service Plan, is more than an PR exercise, they would be well advised to encourage greater adoption of growlers by charging a lower tax. It will improve their bottom line without taking it out of the pockets of consumers.

As for conforming to the dogma that is the BJCP style guidelines….
I’m afraid that their guidelines were set up to enable judging of homebrew competitions and now seem to have been taken as the definitive judge of what beer is allowed to be called. Unfortunately their appreciation of British, Belgian and German styles do not always tally with what is actually brewed and what Europeans name it. I could go on but this probably
deserves a whole post! please see http://www.worldbeerawards.com/styles/#pale (you have to scroll down a bit) for Golden Ale from the World Beer Awards categories. As I said earlier this is a golden ale (often known as “summer ale”) and Fuller’s Honey Dew is a flavoured variety, and might well qualify in the flavoured categories. As this site doesn’t sub-categorise beyond “flavoured beer” and the parent style I always use the original style and tag it as a flavoured beer (as I might still put a coffee porter under “porters” for example). hope this clears your question up.