Los Angeles Bottleshop recommendation?

There's three fairly close to the bruery that I'd recommend. Hacienda Beverage, which can be hit or miss. Walnut Liquorette, the furthest of the bunch but sometimes has some older cellared stuff for sale . Then Mr K's, which might as well be in the same parking lot as the bruery.

 

Probably Hi-Time (in Costa Mesa) because pretty much everything's in a huge walk-in. You can also visit Portola Coffee which is on the way.

 

I buy most of my nice one-offs at Ramirez Liquor. They have two stores now, Boyle Heights (near Downtown LA) and in Pico Rivera. They get everything that's distributed in the LA area, but, most of their "desirable" beers are gone hours after they post on social media. It's all timing! That being said, they carry a very nice selection of craft beers everyday.

If you're in OC - Hi-Time mentioned above is a great place.

This place is a little out of the way but if you're driving to/from LA and SD through the 15, then there's a world-class bottleshop called El Cerrito in Corona, a few miles from the 91/15 junction.

 

liquor Mart in whittier is as good of not better than hi times and much better than the others listed. I go to all of them when im near by tho

 

I go to Liquor Mart as well. Liquor Mart is not better than Ramirez Liquor and El Cerrito, let alone "much better." Liquor Mart is one of the better bottleshops in SoCal, I buy my share of special releases and other harder to get shelf beers from them. Liquor Mart is comparable to Ramirez, El Cerrito, and Hi Time. Each have their pros/cons.

 

Not to hate on Walnut, but the dude is coming in from out of town and I don't think Walnut is one of the places we should be sending a visitor. Not to mention he'd have to go out of his way to go there.

 

All I'm saying is I've had some good luck at Walnut picking up older vintages of bottles. I will say they don't seem to be getting newer vintages in as often as other stores though.