This could just be the event that gets rid of the state stores in PA and allows sales in grocery stores like most of the rest of the US.
When I first moved to Penn State, I walked all over a grocery store looking for beer. Finally asked some one and they looked at me weird and told me there was a special store for alcohol. Then I found a store that sold liquor and wine and walked all over looking for beer. Asked some one and they looked at me weird and said you need a “bottle shop”. Finally find a bottle shop and found out that if I wanted a case of beer I had to go to a distributor. Weird, weird laws there.
Edit: I see you said above they sell in grocery stores now. It’s changed since the dark ages of 2000.![]()
You and I were probably haunting the same bottle shops (Brewskies?). I was at main campus 2000-2004.