(some stores)

There are a few wine shops here and there in Madrid, but specialty alcohol stores were few and far between.  Over the past decade the beer stores have made a place for themselves, but even then they have found themselves a little bit of flexibility.  The first ones were bottle shops, with some tastings and homebrew workshops.  It took a few years before the first taps showed up.  A few stores gave up the bottle part and became fully bars rather than try to blend the two, maybe because they started to see the importance of food along with the drink.

Más Que Cervezas is still lined with oodles of bottles, but there is a reasonably wide selection of alcohol, including cider, wine, and hard alcohol, so they may find that enough.

Birra y Paz, Espuma, Cerevisia and La Buena Cerveza are still primarily bottle shops, but have a couple of taps.  They seem to focus on local or national beers for the taps, and Espuma has a second pint half off offer on Thursdays.

La Birratorium, Be Hoppy (of late), Cervecissimus, and (formerly) La Tienda de la Cerveza maintain a good selection of bottles on the shelf and in the fridge, but also have a number of taps to rival many normal bars in the city at 6-12.  Although there always seems to be a local/national beer on at least one tap, there is also a strong international presence in the beers.  La Birratiorium and Be Hoppy moved to new premises and opened up the number of taps, while Cervecissimus expanded sideways to make a bar area.

La Buena Pinta was always a combination of bar and bottle shop, and while the taps have multiplied and the bar feeling has been cultivated, there are still plenty of shelves full of a wide variety of craft beers of all types and origins.  Prost Chamberí started along the same lines, more bottle shop than bar at first, but the bar and the tapas took more and more precedence, until it became a beer focused eatery.  The Beer Garden followed the same path as Prost Chamberí it seems, with beginnings as a bottle shop that started offering beer on tap and finally converting to full bar with a location change (Cerevisia took over their previous location for a while).  La Tienda de la Cerveza also became a bar with a change of address.

The vanished Cervezorama and Palma Brew also started with bottles before trying to expand into more bar-like capacities.  Cervezorama also changed location for a larger space with more room for the bar (and not a lot of expansion in the bottle space, as I recall).  Palma Brew had only a couple of taps, a modest number of shelves, and perhaps tried to focus more on events than on product sales.  In the end, both disappeared.