Think the bar is the only place you can get a cold beer? Think again. Craft beer is becoming so ubiquitous, it’s popping up in the most unlikely of places, like the yoga studio. Sure, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting a drink in a bar. Some purists would argue that drinking in a bar is the way God intended it to be. Maybe. Bars, beer gardens, ball parks, restaurants, hotel lobbies, the bed of a pickup truck going down Highway 41…these are all great places to knock back a cold one. But there’s something sweeter about finding a beer in a place you didn’t expect to find a beer. Like when you go to church and your pastor gives you a beer. Yeah, that’s a real thing. Check out these seven unexpected places you can find beer.
Yoga Class 
Photo via Bendy Brewski/Facebook
There’s a yoga class in Charleston where you work your way through your Vinyasa flow of mountain, downward dog, cobra, then work your way through a pint or two of local beer from Holy City, or one of the other participating breweries. It’s called “Bendy Brewski,” and it’s pretty much the best yoga class ever. There’s another yoga/beer class in Greenville called “Hatha and Hops,” and a number of Western breweries offer yoga classes (Poses and Pints at Crooked Stave, anyone?). Finally, a health trend we can truly get behind.
Church
This shouldn’t be too much of a stretch, considering Belgian monks have a long history in brewing beer, and the Catholic church has a patron saint of beer (Saint Arnold). And yet, it strikes me as a little odd to find a church pushing beer here in the U.S., but that’s exactly what some progressive churches begun doing—organizing beer tastings/Bible study in an attempt to attract younger members. You’ve got “Church in a Pub,” which gathers in a Fort Worth bar to discuss Jesus, and church meetings in Michigan called “What Would Jesus Brew?”
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