Good Beer Bottle Shop in LA
Hi all... Besides the chain places (BevMo, Wholefoods) anyone know of some good place to buy interesting bottles of beer? Thanks!
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peppermonkey
Dec 6, 2011 03:34 PM
Buzz wine shop in DTLA has a decent selection. But if you're not afraid to go to East LA, then it's all about Ramirez Liquor on Soto. Best selection by far and more reasonably priced. Hard to find, seasonal stuff here too. Greatest keg selection as well.
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Servorg
Dec 7, 2011 02:18 PM
I find it on the NE corner of S. Spring and W 5th...unless there is another one in DTLA by the same name?
Sorry - You meant Ramerize Liquor: http://ramirezliquor.com/store/
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re: JAB
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Agree with the others on Total Wine and More, but when I'm not around there I'm at K&L Wines. I like it a little better than Cap n Cork, they have a more seasonal selection. Just picked up Russian River's Damnation #23 from K&L, which is the same as Damnation but double fermented and the flavors are amped up and delicious!
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Galco's on York Blvd on Highland Park. Know for all their sodas, they have a large selection of beers and can buy by the bottle.
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You might have guessed from my handle, but this is my area of expertise.
Beverage Warehouse in MDR, rec'd by Westsidegal is great in terms of QUANTITY of beer. They have all the major, widely distributed (obviously that term is used in a relative sense) craft brews. If you were like Dogbite Williams, I'd recommend it because someone like that just wants good beer, not the rarest most deluxe bourbon barrel aged imperial stout or the special, one off sour ale bottled once a millennium with 100 bottles in existence. The thing about BevWa is they don't have a single beer that you couldn't find anywhere else EXCEPT for the few cases of Leffe Brune they have left which I discovered for them.
If you are looking for things a bit more esoteric, I can recommend Wally's Wine, which has a nice albeit small selection of beers.
If you're looking for something VERY esoteric or something in particular, an option you might consider is joining a site like beeradvocate.com or ratebeer.com and doing a beer exchange with the members there.
At the end of the day, Total Wine is pretty hard to beat although there aren't many near me.
I've heard from a good and very beer-trustworthy friend that Cap n' Cork is GREAT but I'm a westsider myself, and I haven't made it out there yet. Another commonly rec'd beer store is vendome.
But at the end of the day, Whole Foods is EXCELLENT for beer, you really can't ask for much better. They often have rare or unique beers, and it's even worth checking out different WFs because they don't all have the same stuff. WF gets a lot of flack on here, but not from us beer people. We love it.
BevMo is awful.
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Beverage Warehouse
4935 McConnell Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066Total Wine
394 N Moorpark Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360›5 Replies-
re: BrewNChow
Cap n cork is just slightly below Beverage Warehouse.
Nice list of beers but nothing crazy...I would rank Vendome Toluca higher in terms of hard to find beers over Cap.
I would also recommend Wallys. Play nice, ask what is being held in the back room.
Beer trading is the best way to obtain hard to find non local beers but you will be paying a premium for your beer in terms of time and money.
Still if you want to impress your BG friends it's the way to go. It's also a nice way to payback your BG friends for sharing something special with you.
Bevmo is not awful I don't know how you can even say that.
They are not going to have anything to impress your BG friends but it is far from awful.I agree on Wholefoods (Glendale) they have can have just as good of selection as the best bottle shops in town.
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Beverage Warehouse
4935 McConnell Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066-
re: burntwater
I say it because they don't have a good beer selection at all and they are notorious for storing their beer poorly, eg bottles sit on shelves in direct sunlight for ages. Of course, they do vary from location to location but BevMo is where you go when you have general alcohol needs. If you're looking for a rec for beer specifically, as TS is, BevMo is not a good rec at all.
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PaulF
Dec 1, 2011 09:24 AM
I wouldn't say that Pavilions is better than some of the spots being named in this thread, but I did want to point out that my local Pavilions (Marina Del Rey) now has a "beer shelf" with a nice selection of harder to find brews. Probably not much there that can't be found at BW or a Vendome, but for a supermarket they have a really nice selection.
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The Wine House on the westside had some really good stuff.
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Wine House
2311 Cotner Ave, Los Angeles, CA›2 Replies-
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BombayUpWithaTwist
Nov 26, 2011 08:22 AM
I agree with Wine House, we bought a ton of single bottles to give as a gift. They also have a great selection of hard liquor too :o)
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Wine House
2311 Cotner Ave, Los Angeles, CA
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Downtown, there's the 8th Street Bottle Shop in the Golden Gopher Bar. They have a lot of seasonal and interesting beers, and you can talk to the staff about what they recommend for your taste.
In Echo Park, there's the new Sunset Beer Co. which also has a great selection and knowledgeable staff.
Cap'n Cork liquor store in Los Feliz at 1674 Hillhurst Ave. Los Angeles 90027 has a great selection of beer, wine and liquor.
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Golden Gopher
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westsidegal
Nov 23, 2011 03:38 PM
my beer friends seem to like the Beverage Warehouse on McConnell south of culver.
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Beverage Warehouse
4935 McConnell Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066›7 Replies-
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re: westsidegal
Westsidegal, does Beverage Warehouse let you purchase single bottles from a 6-pack like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods do?
After over 30 years without having a single beer (yeah, I am not exactly a hophead), I have recently read about some health benefits of beer and I am willing to drink one a week. I am currently sampling beers that are highly rated at Beer Advocate and are described in a way that lets me believe I might tolerate the taste (Allagash and Hoegaarden are my recent favorites), but Trader Joe's and Whole Foods don't carry a wide selection.
I'd appreciate recs for singleton selections in the San Fernando Valley.
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Beverage Warehouse
4935 McConnell Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066-
re: Dogbite Williams
westsidegal
Nov 24, 2011 10:07 PM
sorry, i don't know.
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I'm not sure which Whole Foods Market you have checked but the location that I linked to here (and several others) have an amazing selection of domestic craft beers and also some excellent imported choices mixed in with a lot of the macro brews. Also the selection varies from store to store as they have different buyers and local distribution delivery drivers. My strategy is to talk to the 'beer guy' and they are usually very helpful.
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Whole Foods Market
760 S Sepulveda Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245-
re: sel
+1 - this WF has so much floor space. Beer is dedicated to multiple areas (cooler around a food kiosk, a cooler/island adjacent to it, as well as a wall cooler, and the dedicated beer cooler a few aisles away) but walk around and actively look for small beer displays scattered around the back and toward the cheese area as well. As much as I like the selection at Beverage Warehouse, the beer at WF is kept relatively cool to cold - no skunky beer.
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