Pliny the Elder has long been the holy grail of craft beer, having been voted the Best Beer in America eight years in a row (2009-2016) by readers of Zymurgy magazine. It’s one of those beers we’d heard talked about, revered and casually name-dropped by other beer geeks, the way people happen to casually drop into conversation the time they met a celebrity. “Oh, I just happened to drop into this dive bar in LA to kill some time and there it was…”