Corridor is my go-to beer and liqueur store. In Maryland, it does not get much better when considering the combination of selection and value than Corridor. I wouldn't go out of my way to go to this place on a regular basis, only if it's close to you then dropping in once in awhile wont hurt, just dont waste your time asking questions here you'll get nowhere. But only go to this place if you know what you want, or you just happen to be in the area. If you want to maybe grab some mixed 6 regular brews to try, and also just pass by to take a look it doesn't hurt. You're telling me 2 weeks later you can't even give me a simple piece of cardboard? Not even grab an emptied one of say Bud Light? Seriously you can't even think? An employee couldn't even produce me a simple 6 pack holder, claiming nah we got cleared out after Super Bowl, and then just walked off. In fact I ran into more distributors here who were just dropping stuff off and looked more like people who ran the store, and their answers were ironically more useful then the staff. While you can approach them and ask them for things, the vast majority of them know nothing about the beers or product at all, or what is coming in, or what might be coming. However, the general selection and imports is also not as big as your typical Total Wines. It doesn't strike me as a place that is frequented often by big beer fans, so once in awhile you can find some straggling interesting bottles. However, the selection here is a little bit less with a few exceptions on the shelves than other Total Wines in the DC beltway area. Here though, it's just inside Anne Arundel outside of Montgomery county thus the prices are a heck of a lot more reasonable. This is basically a Total Wine store, and with that comes the usual Total Wine selection. Hated to do, but used the lion's share of it as draino, as I just couldn't choke it down. One of the beers they recommend she purchase for me is a Sam Smith's "Taddy Porter!" About as far left of a sweet/milk stout as you can get IMHO. Tells one of there "aisle" experts that I like "sweet stouts"-Mackeson being my all-time favorite. The "Mrs" goes to a "Total Wine" for a birthday-build-a-6 for me. Said she would get back to me, but never did (Not good across the board.) Luckily the "old-school" Eby's in Wheaton bailed me out at the last 2nd with a 1/6th of Sam Adams Oktoberfest.Ģ. Ordered/reserved far in advance of the event and when I checked in with them several days before pickup, they casually informed me they didn't/wouldn't have my keg: (Presumably no one thought it necessary to call or notify me on this!) I asked the manager to recommend a possible replacement, as I was in a bind if I couldn't produce a keg. Had an unpleasant dealing with them in Fall 14' on a 1/6 keg of Yuengling Oktoberfest. Note: Some of the singles extremely $$$: Most notably the Belgians.ġ. couldn't find my Mackeson XXX Stout for instance, even though I'd been purchasing this at the Village Pump in College Park for much of the past winter. This isn't to suggest they have absolutely everything however, which they don't. 6 or 4 packs of things, that maybe you'd only find in singles elsewhere. One thing they probably have the upper-hand on-over anyone else-is in quantity packaging: I.e. They trend toward trying to stock shelves logically I.e. Most of the major players and country's are represented. No question about the amount of beer, complete with a selection of singles. Interesting place: Really feels almost a "supermarket" or box store as opposed to that of liquor store-the aisles of booze notwithstanding! Prices seemed fair to me overall.Īfter reading other reviews here, I'll have to find myself a total wine outside of MD to see if the selection is even better. The most expensive was a $3 bottle of Full Tilt Berger Cookie Stout, but I didn't buy any international beer, where prices looked to be around the $5 or more for a single pint. I had to try really hard to not buy expensive beers. My 2 custom 6-packs out the door was luckily only $28.10 including tax. My friend and I refuse to buy "expired" or old beer, in which I had to put at least 20 bottles back on the shelf. I'd suggest they get beers about to expire into a discount section and get them out of the store. The main thing I had a problem with as I was building my two 6-packs is that I was checking our expiration dates and there were a lot of beers that were best by almost a year ago. I didn't bother talking to staff, so I can't really rate the service, and was forced to give them something, so a 5 it is. They have some glassware, but not much, and only for big names like shock top or sam adams.Ĭompared to Perfect Pour and other places in the area, this selection is among the best. I only checked out the beer section, but its basically 2 long rows of beers that are divided into regional, international, seasonal, and then singles and 6-packs by type.
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