Beach Liquors

I love this store and always stop by when I am in town because it blows NY stores out of the water! Amazing selection of beer (build your own six pack is our favorite), wine, and liquor. It’s super clean and always well stocked — always a plus! I also love their little gift section… the merchandising is so fun and creative, and there are so many cute little add-​ons if you’re stopping in to buy a wine/​liquor as a gift for someone. :)

Best Beer, Wine and Liquor selection in North Florida. They also have a great gift department!

Never have I changed my rating so much on a venue. But this cannot go unsaid. After I wrote the initial glowing review, the management and apparently the whole fucking store knew me and sort of singled me out at the next tasting for horrible treatment. I guess they felt that my review gave the wrong impression of the place and was attracting the sort of people who want to get shitfaced off their wine. Hmm… fear not, because the only people who show up to their tastings are senior citizens. And here’s a thought, if someone gives you a good review, maybe you should take that as a compliment and not punish her for it.
But no… So it was the Lunar New Year eve and a few friends wanted to meet at Beach Liquor for their Friday tasting. Because it was an important holiday for me, I got all dressed up and excited to start my weekend and the Year of the Horse. Once again, we were the only people under the tender age of oh, 75, in the whole fucking store. Everyone else was just inches from collapsing into a wheelchair and drooling into a cup.
Then each and every person who worked at the station treated me with contempt. They gave me pours of wine that were smaller than if a goddamn mosquito pissed into my glass. After waiting in line for 20 minutes behind 40 senior citizens who each wants to chat up the pourer, I get wine that I can finish in less than one sip. WTF. Then I noticed that they were only doing that to me and my friends who were with me. All the old people and my friends who were not with me got normal, generous pours. So when I asked about it, the servers pointedly talked about my Unilocal review and how it gave a bad impression and management wanted to control the size of the pours. Apparently, just for ONE FUCKING PERSON in a Chinese fucking dress trying to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
After waiting in line forever, the server Kimmie left the station right before it was our turn to get wine. My friend then poured himself a sample and left. I went to do the same and Kimmie, the overweight manager/​server, storms over and reams me out in front of the whole store. Threatening to kick me out and basically scolded me like I were five years old. I understand her point of not allowing customers to serve themselves but then maybe she should not leave the fucking station when there are 40 people in line. And even if she had a point, her reaction was totally inappropriate and beyond unprofessional. I apologized profusely and she was still huffy the rest of the night. She would give me and my nearby friends pours that barely wet the glass and all the old folks and my other friends not standing near me would get almost a full glass per tasting. Okay. Favoritism much? A place that singles out a customer for bad treatment is unprofessional and just plain petty. And for what? For giving them a five star review on Unilocal?
The other server at the other station was an old guy who knew nothing about the wines. My friend asked a question about the wine and he knew nothing. Again, just unprofessional, borderline nonsensical. My Lunar New Year was off to a rough start but luckily, it has been an awesome year so far so they didn’t jinx me. But needless to say, I will NEVER go back. So FUCK YOU Beach Liquors.
I heard that they were giving away tickets now for the tasting so you can only get 5 pours maximum. That will keep those who wants to get shitfaced at bay I guess. Way to go Beach Liquors Management. You guys really know what you’re doing.

Great selection of craft beers, including about a dozen on tap. You can get a pint of those on tap, and walk around the store with it whilst looking at other tasty drinks. They also do growlers and offer 20% off on Tues. and $ 1 off on Saturdays. The beer tastings on Fridays are great too. Five bucks and you get to taste 5 beers and munch on delicious snacks, in addition to getting a $ 5 voucher to use towards a beer purchase that night, thus making the tasting free. There’s a great selection of canned beers as well, which are great since glass isn’t allowed on the beach. To verbalize how good the beer selection here is, I got Dogfish 120 minute in a four pack of 12 oz bottles last week. They have just about anything you can think of, including my favorite Southern Tier.

Best selection of Craft Beer in Fort Walton Beach now that Chan’s has drastically cut down on how much beer inventory they are carrying. plus Beach is getting a lot of rare stuff from Stone and Bells well before the rest of the state is… they have had Hopslam for 2 weeks already, and it still has not come to the rest of Florida yet. also on Fridays they are doing Beer and Wine Tastings with light snacks for 5 dollars total… but the great thing is, that 5 dollars also gets you a 5 dollar off voucher if you buy anything in the store that night… so basically free beer.wine.and food… to quote the great Charlie Sheen.“Winning”!

Beach Liquors is such an awesome establishment! They always carry an insanely great variety of hard liquor, wine and beer, and they update their stock pretty consistently. If I’m ever in the mood for trying something new, I come here, and they’re always ready to help me out with my selection. It’s an adventure every time. I love their wine related merchandise, I did some of my Christmas shopping here. Their beer and wine tasting on Fridays is also an activity I look forward to at the end of the week. I love being able to taste out new selections I’d probably never try and Kimmie and Thomas are very friendly, gracious and knowledgable about the wines they bring in. Great place run by great people, all around!

Great craft beer selection and Bob was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. This is my go to store when I visit Okaloosa!

Nice Liquor store Nice microbrewery selection some of the prices are higher because of the tourist that come in the summer. Over all a very nice liquor. I will go back.

Surprisingly strong wine selection. Nice store! Please support locally owned small business.

I really like the large selection of liquors at this store. The beer selection is ok, too. They also have a large variety of mini-​bottles at the front of the store. They also do wine/​liquor tastings on Saturdays, which can be a good or bad thing (I see it as good). Very friendly and knowledgeable staff.

Looking for gluten free beer? They have one! A hard cider. It’s been to have one than none in my book. My hubs was happy to find the Arrogant Bastard beer here. A San Antonio fave because its all about the alcohol in Texas he was happy that they had it.

Great selection. Knowledgeable staff that goes out of their way to help or offer additional info. Love the giant walk-​in beer cooler. Really nice selection of craft beers. My regular spot for adult beverages.

Great selection. Also, you can put in requests and they actually respond. About a month ago I enquired about Paddy’s Irish Whisky and now not only do I have some, but it is a regularly stocked item in the store! Not only that, but when it came in, I got a phone call to let me know.
Customer service like that is hard to come by these days!
PS– Marking price as moderate, mainly because the prices here seem comparable to other stores. Not a whole lot cheaper, not a whole lot more expensive.