I may just have found my new favourite site.

Doesn’t it just annoy you sometimes when you discovered a wonderful new beer on tap in a bar somewhere, manage to remember the name and trace it to a brewery and maybe an online retailer or so… but then you realize you live in a state where BevMo doesn’t exist and now you’re going to have to call/visit all the local beer caves. Now imagine you live in NYC and there’s a million random grocery stores/delis/etc that randomly stock on craft beers.

Luckily, the Great Brewers’ Alliance, hooks us up with a searchable online database of the 10 nearest retailers, relative to your zip code, that bought a local alliance distributor in the past 90 days. For example, my local distribution turns out to be Union Beer Distributors in Brooklyn (which I have heard much tell of, but still haven’t made the trek out to Brooklyn to visit yet… heck, I haven’t even made it down to LES to see New Beer Distributors).

Check it out here: http://www.greatbrewers.com/union/index.php?option=com_retail&brewery=2

I now know that a grocery store just a couple blocks away from me carries Allagash White. Admittedly, it’ll probably be 200% markup or something, but at least I know I can get Allagash White whenever I feel compelled!