Buy Rite Wine & Liquor

[regulator]

czechvar is great.. they have that on tap at the beer garden and it's probably my favorite beer there. good call

[TheFang]

what beer do you guys recommend as a german/european-type replacement? i absolutely hate stuff like blue moon, and the few microbrews ive tasted in the past have always reminded me of blue moon... for this reason i'm hesitant to try any new ones. i'm more of a heineken/becks person if that helps

I'd advise you to stay away from Weit/Wheat beers then and look more towards things like Pilsner Urquell and Czechvar.

[super_furry]

Pay attention to the scanned prices when you're checking out because their inventory pricing system is messed up. Happened to us twice and a friend was overcharged $30 on a $150+ purchase.

[regulator]

what beer do you guys recommend as a german/european-type replacement? i absolutely hate stuff like blue moon, and the few microbrews ive tasted in the past have always reminded me of blue moon... for this reason i'm hesitant to try any new ones. i'm more of a heineken/becks person if that helps

[Bobblehead]

I was a bit overwhelmed at the beer selection. I love beer, and IPA's in particular, but don't bring much home, mainly consuming wine & brandy. Any recommendations, particularly for local brews? It seems silly to shlep beer coast to coast, if there's one thing it should be easy to locavore, it's beer. I tried a Flying Fish Extra Pale Ale from Cherry Hill, but realized late it wasn't what I'm after.

Brewster, with a name like yours, you think you'd be on top of this.  Here are my current favorite local-ish IPAs (and these brewers make a lot of nice beers other than IPAs).

Blue Point Hoptical Illusion IPA is from Long Island
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA is from Rehoboth, MD
Victory Hop Devil is from Downington, PA
Smuttynose IPA is from New Hampshire
Stoudt's Double IPA is from Adamstown, PA

I already have bought a few cases worth of mixed beers from Buy Rite, taking a different approach: trying things from far away I haven't had a chance to get elsewhere.  I figure I better jump on the opportunity to get, say, Dale's IPA in a can, or Jever Pilsener, before they decide not to carry it.

Welcome to the dark side, by the way. 

[TheFang]

I was a bit overwhelmed at the beer selection. I love beer, and IPA's in particular, but don't bring much home, mainly consuming wine & brandy. Any recommendations, particularly for local brews? It seems silly to shlep beer coast to coast, if there's one thing it should be easy to locavore, it's beer. I tried a Flying Fish Extra Pale Ale from Cherry Hill, but realized late it wasn't what I'm after.

Flying Dog Ales were originally brewed in CO are now done in Maryland and are quite delicious. And while it might not be NJ, Maryland is pretty damn close, definitely within the 100 miles.

[brewster]

I was a bit overwhelmed at the beer selection. I love beer, and IPA's in particular, but don't bring much home, mainly consuming wine & brandy. Any recommendations, particularly for local brews? It seems silly to shlep beer coast to coast, if there's one thing it should be easy to locavore, it's beer. I tried a Flying Fish Extra Pale Ale from Cherry Hill, but realized late it wasn't what I'm after.

[regulator]

i've been here a few times.. their prices on hard liquor are pretty good.  a lot cheaper than the smaller liquor stores, and actually cheaper (barely) than the BJ's on rt 17.  they have kegs too... didn't compare their prices to HBSO. i would guess they would be similarly priced. also, the owner would post semi-regularly AtS, and seemed like a decent enough guy.

FYI, the last time i went, i saw signs that said they would have free dom perignon tasting on NYE around 6ish pm(i think? i forget the exact time but it was sometime in the afternoon/evening)

[skwirrlking]

checked it out yesterday. might be the biggest liq store in terms of sq ft, but they still need to stock up on wine inventory if they want the most bottles crown i'd guess.

beer selection is one of the best i've seen. had both dale's pale ale and hitachino. prices good, but not rock bottom.

wine looks like a work in progress. california seems well represented. import wines - especially frog juice - were not all that great. the "good stuff" wine cooler was pretty empty, but had a few decent bottles. prices were on the higher side ('07 beaucastel CdP @ 20% higher then other discounters). should improve over time.

overall - a great addition to neighborhood.

[dragonaut]

This store is so close to me I have walked over a few times now and gotten beers or whatever.

Gonna be a very drunk winter.

[MCA™]

New liquor store in Jersey City to be state's largest
Saturday, November 21, 2009
By MELISSA HAYES
THE JERSEY JOURNAL

Adithya Bathena wants his liquor store to be more like a department store, where people spend hours browsing the inventory.

With 27,000 square feet of retail space - which can be doubled in the 60,000-square-foot former warehouse on Manila Avenue in Jersey City - shoppers may do just that.

The new Super Buy-Rite store carries 1,500 types of beer, more than 8,000 wines - with about 1,000 available for under $10 - and an array of hard liquor. There's also an aisle of micro-brew beers, where customers can pick up a cardboard holder and create their own six-packs.

Bathena will celebrate the grand opening at 10 a.m. Monday.

Special events, such as wine tastings, are planned for every weekend through December.

"I want to make this an attraction," he said. "I want people to spend their time here."

On Friday, Fitzer, an organic wine maker, will hold a tasting from 5 to 8 p.m.

Next Saturday, Ravenswood will offer sample zinfandels from 2 to 5 p.m. and Sonoma Cutrer will offer chardonnay from 5 to 8 p.m.

Bathena, 28, of Manhattan, is not new to the liquor store industry. When he was 10, his family moved to New Jersey from India and his father, Reddy, got a job with Buy-Rite.

By 1997, Reddy Bathena had purchased the franchise, which now has 50 stores in New Jersey, mostly in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties.

The Jersey City store, near the Holland Tunnel, is not only the largest Buy-Rite, but the largest liquor store in the state. It will employ 30 people once it's fully running.

"This entire store is his vision," Adithya Bathena said. "I couldn't have done this without him."

The company plans to open two more stores in the county, one in Bayonne and one in Secaucus.

[RB]

Went in this place tonight. It's a huge space and clearly they have a lot of work to do. A lot of shelf space isn't even filled in yet. Nice selection of wine and fair prices, and they have an amazingly expansive selection of beer. I don't know that I've ever seen quite a selection.

Too bad the location is so shitty, but still beats driving far out of town for the monthly stocking up.

[bdlaw]

Well this was totally under my radar, go figure.

See a lot of familar labels on the website- which needs significant work.  Was planning a quarterly Wine Library run this weekend but may go here instead to check it out.  "Shop local" and all that rubbish.

Prices from what I can see look ok, maybe slightly better than most places downtown.

Definitely would advise them to work on the website if they want to (a) work the delivery angle and (b) work the fine wines angle. I clicked on "90+ point wines" and got a list that was about 90% liquor, not wine.

[MCA™]

I see it's now open. Who's got the skinny?

[MCA™]

Buy Rite Wine & Liquor
575 Manila Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07310
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Boozehounds rejoice. This place looks like it's opening soon. Location is across Manila/Grove St. from Home Depot.

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