Just call me naive. I've been traveling here to Florida since late February and I just realized this week that one can buy beer at liquor & wine shops - single bottles and six-packs. I mean, back in Pennsylvania, one can only buy wine & liquor in state-run wine & liquor stores. Beer can only be sold in these ways: by the case at distributors, by the six-pack (and sometimes single bottles) in a deli or restaurant that has a license (and then only by a maximum of 12 bottles per visit).

So when I started visiting Florida and saw wine & liquor stores, I just assumed that they only sold liquor & wine. Grocery stores & gas stations/quick-marts do sell six-packs and some single bottles. The selection hasn't been all that great for the couple of grocery stores I've visited. So I was surprised when I went to one gas station Monday night and I found single bottles of Guinness Extra Stout. Woo hoo! Then last night I was surfing the net to see if there were any local microbreweries around that I may have missed earlier. One brewery had a list of local merchants for their beers, and one of them was the wine & liquor store just around the corner that I had been ignoring. So, tonight I went there on my way home from work. Nirvana!! The have an excellent selection of single bottles!! Tonight I'll be drinking a Shipyard Blue Fin Stout and a Youngs Double Chocolate Stout. There were more, so now I have my work cut out for me for future visits.