Originally Posted by
LittleBoyBrew
Several years ago, before the craft beer movement was as widespread as it is today, I asked the waitress which beers were available. She told me I should just name the one I wanted, because they had everything!
As it turned out, she was mistaken.
It would be hard to carry everything, even 20 years ago.
Today, we routinely see bars that carry hundreds of bottled beers and have >100 active tap handles. But back in the dark ages I do recall visiting bar, circa 1983-5 in Portland with over 50 different bottled beers in the cooler. Of course to accomplish that back then, many of them were brewed outside the US.
One of my local bars has a Narragansett keg currently tapped. I'm sure it's a novelty for many locals but I wouldn't have touched a 'gansett 45 years ago as a relative "youth" in New England and I'm not about to start now.