Big J’s Wines & Liquors

Nice selection, great prices, location makes it anti ghetto (a good thing) sucks that Path mart closed thanks for that Manischewitz Corp

As far as I know the largest selection in North Brooklyn. Excellent prices and helpful staff. If its your passion they also carry a lot of the artisanal hipster fare from local Red Hook distilleries.

Huge store. Huge selection, reasonably priced. Friendly and helpful staff. Easy parking. Located next to path mark and Loews home improvement

Definitely a fan. Wide selection, pretty good prices, and in pretty close proximity to the western drifting borders of Park Slope and the people it attracts, like me.

Solid liquor store with excellent prices and a good selection. Not much more you can ask out of a liquor store. They have a much larger liquor selection and comparable pricing to my normal go-​to discount liquor store. Saw a few bottles at certain sizes that I have not seen elsewhere. Salute!

Who doesn’t like an easy access liquor store where you can get your wine and spirits right after you purchase your 20 roll pack of scott’s toilet paper?!
It does the job by being right there, but it seems to be a little more expensive than your regular neighborhood store price. Nonetheless, you will find what your looking for when it comes to your scotch and whiskey. However, for wine I will say they are not as extensive as my fave neighborhood spot.
So if you you want to go to one spoke for your groceries and spirits, you won’t be disappointed.

Cheap
Liquor;
Gowanus
Canal. Long jaunt
To subway. Lots of car (not bike) parking.

Great prices & great selection! I usually always find what I’m looking for. A little out of the way for most people but well worth the trek. I forget I’m in the city when I’m here.

By far one of the best liquor store I ever been to ! The staff is super nice and they have a variety of liqueurs ! It’s very convientent because it’s inside pathmark ! However it do get clustered with the lotto heads ! Great prices as well

Great prices, and the staff is really helpful. HUGE selection of liquor. The only drawback is that they don’t have any wines over $ 11/​$ 12. I was hoping to find nicer wines for a better deal. That said, we got a liquor cabinet stocked for a good price, which was the real goal of the trip.

Found and purchased the brand new Glenlivet Guardians chapter, love this store! Excellent selection of whisky. Scotch and American. The store has alot of everything. They also have a whole bunch of stuff on sale daily. Very nice liquor store!

I won’t be back soon
Price to walking ratio
Not really worth it*
* if you are walking more than 5 avenues to get there, don’t. Compared to 5^th ave prices, J’s is cheaper by a dollar or two

Pros
1-​Prices
2-​Prices
3-​Prices
Cons
1-​High End Wine selection
Updated Aug 2014:
Changing from 4 to 5 stars. Best prices in Brooklyn that I have seen by far. Only minor down side is they carry a limited list of high end wines but a large selection of mid-​range to low cost wines. You can find some good high end wine at a great price, but if you are looking for a particular vineyard or year you may not find it.
Their hard liquor selection has gotten much better since I first started going here, the store expanded the total floor space as well as the liquor selection. They even have a High End liquor cabinet section with some excellent Cognac and Whiskey. I’ve not seen anyone in NYC that is even close to their prices. Only place I shop unless I’m looking for something very specific that I know they don’t carry.

This is a good find near Park Slope. Selection is large, and BJ’s stocks several sizes of many spirits (I was able to buy a 1.5L bottle of Tanqueray Ten, a size I’ve never seen before for this liquor.) Prices are generally quite good, meaningfully better than at your neighborhood shop on 5^th or 7^th Aves. This is a great place to stock up for a party or holiday weekend.
Deducted 1 star because they don’t carry many of the smaller volume/​more artisanal brands, but otherwise, highly recommended.

Yeah, it’s not in the most fashionable area, but this store has every brand, every flavor, and every size of hard liquor that I’ve ever gone looking for.

It’s tough to objectively review a place that is in complete contradiction with the positive goals of my liver.
That said, the liver is one of many organs and is seemingly easy to replace if one has the funds, which matches perfectly with my Powerball-​based financial plan.
Until then, I’m a somewhat cheap bastard when it comes to booze because I tend to mix it with other things, thus ruining any intrinsic craftsmanship that merited the original price. Don’t get me wrong… I do like a fine wine, aged spirit or even a premium tequila one can sip from a snifter. But on most nights when I want an adult bev, I’m fine with whatever goes with tonic/​coke/​soda/​juice.
Hence the challenge. Those brave and good purveyors of spirits in Brownstone Brooklyn have to maximize their profits in order to meet their lofty rents. As such, their variety is sometimes limited.
Big J’s benefits from being off the beaten path. Or more like, being under the beaten path. If there’s a Bermuda Triangle in Brooklyn, you can’t find a more pummeled place than being under the BQE, while also under the failing F/​G train overpass, and next to the toxic Gowanus canal output.
This isn’t a bad thing. Rather, it fosters and promotes a wonderland of industrial meets retail. A real, big Home Depot. A real, big Lowes. And in this case, a real, big liquor store. It’s not huge by West Coast standards, but it’s pretty big and they’ve got a decent variety across all price points.

We said we found them on Unilocal and got 5% off. SERIOUSLY. AMAZEBALLS

Went again today. We did not realize when we went in that they were about to close. We were browsing, walking around, taking our time, and not once did the employees rush us out. They have different sales all the time — I even saw one vodka 50% off!
They have a huge wine selection, great selection of everything else, and even really good gift packs.
We forgot to ask for it the first time, but say that you saw them on Unilocal and you get 5% off!

The second cheapest place to buy hard liquor in Brooklyn. This difference between this place and Brooklyn Liquors is that this place has a huge wine selection. If you find a wine you really like and buy a case of 12, you’ll get 10 percent off. They also have any well-​known name brand of hard liquors you could ask for. Plus they are conveniently located in the Pathmark Shopping Center so don’t forget the limes and cranberry juice.

This is my favorite place to buy wine because they have a huge selection! Some of my favorite bottles are much cheaper here than in my ‘hood too. And I don’t drink Mondavi. Also best place to buy liquor because they have everything! Coming from a city that has huge, amazing liquor and wine stores (Minneapolis) this is like being in a candy shop.
It did lose a star for being in a crappy location but I live close enough to walk and it’s not «scary» but it is kinda ghetto. It’s New York people.