Your IDEAL beer store...

One with a great selection, allows you to build your own six pack and is conveniently located with competitive prices

 

/end thread.

 

-Good Mix a six selection
-hoppy things kept refrigerated

 

open early, open late
all my favorite beers
able to special order any beer
female cashiers with pretty faces. nice smiles and huge boobs

 

How about a big badass beer store that buys so much beer they get EVERY special release,they have the best beers from EVERY state,and because of their huge buying power they offer great prices on EVERYTHING from singles to kegs.
...and open 24 hours.

 

Next door

 

Walking distance from home
Extensive hours
Extensive bottle selection
Great taplist
No corkage fee
Good people on both sides of the bar and never too crowded
Good prices
Excellent events
Open on holidays

If Beermongers were next door, that would be it. I just need to move.

 

A place that takes freshness seriously.

At this point, everything after that is secondary, including price (which rarely seems to vary more than a buck on sixers around here).

 

One that always has Cantillon, De Garde, Sante Adairius, Hill Farmstead, Crooked Stave, 3 Fonteinen, BFM, Russian River, Anchorage, Prairie, Firestone Walker, The Bruery, Side Project, The Rare Barrel, Lagunitas and Stone, available, where all IPAs are fresh, with great service, a tasting room with a $2 corkage fee, at great base prices prices, within a block of where I live.

 

Really only one thing needed... it should be run by someone who truly cares about purveying good beer. Freshness, selection, etc, sort of just fall into place after that.

 

Easy Bottleworks in Seattle.

 

On a serious note

Excellent selection of imports.
Fresh hop bombs
Doesn't overcharge on local beer (or any, but especially local)
make your own sixers
gets as many limited releases as it can
Close by

 

One that is a block from my house, treats freshness the same way a good supermarket produce manager does, is friendly, and has a good selection of beer.

 

I frequent one in the next state up that has all of your criteria except for prices not always being reasonable. I go because I can get beers that are not distro'd to my state so prices don't really matter so much to me.

 

For me, I agree, but would like to add:

-beers sorted by brewery (I prefer this to sorted by style)
-does growler fills (I live in LA, and don't see this, but would love it)

 

haha I was reading down your list and thinking, "Man this sounds like beer mongers"... and then I got to the end.

 

Whole foods has all of the above but can be spendy.

 

- Dimly lit
- Absence of staff
- Poorly laid out aisles with unnecessary dead ends
- Random arrangement of bottles not by style or brewery
- Frequently rearranged
- Easily overlooked nooks and crannies
- Eclectic selection

Basically a place I can get lost and find something new every time I go. Having to search around makes for a better experience when beer shopping, and not knowing what you'll find keeps things exciting.

 

I'm with everyone on a good/fresh beer selection with new releases/seasonals and a make your own sixer option...I'd add a non-condescending staff