Best of Boston

2016 Best Beer Shop

Albert’s

Looking for one-off interlopers from Prairie Artisan Ales or Transmitter Brewing? This East Cambridge shop has it all—with none of the annoying beer-geek brouhaha that saddles the most-tweeted releases. Over the past three years, Fabian Vasquez has transformed his family’s unassuming convenience store into the insider honey hole.

638 Cambridge St., East Cambridge, 617-491-0288,