With more than 1,300 licensed beer distributors and at least 12,000 restaurants and pubs able to sell beer for carry out, Pennsylvania offers many convenient ways and locations for adults of legal age to buy malt beverages. There is about one beer license for every 650 people in the Commonwealth. By comparison, Pennsylvania has about 2,900 gas stations/convenience stores and about the same number of super markets.
As specialty retailers, Pennsylvania beer distributorships typically a huge variety of beers and ales in a wide range of sizes – in bottles, cans and kegs. In addition, the locally-owned, locally-managed distributorships represent the best source of consumer information on a wide variety of micro-brews and craft brewed beers.
As specialty beer sellers about the only thing that distributors cannot provide consumers at the present time is beer by the six-pack. A change in the state law to permit six pack sales at distributorships is being requested.
