I guess it was inevitable, when thousands (okay, hundreds?) of places start selling liquor, that some of them turn out to not be winners. Even by the most generous standards, Walgreens Greenwood, liquor-failure is thy hyphenated name. A three-shelf selection with a couple of tequilas, vodkas and whiskeys makes you wonder why they even bothered with the license. Especially with the more than decent Safeway less than 50 feet away and open until 1a.m. you'd have to be very lazy indeed, have very low standards, be on a complete impulse jag, or just not know any better to do your liquor shopping here. Our readers now know better. The impulse control, we can't help you with.
AGBooze
Monday, June 25, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Hot Tips - Posts Coming
Thanks to two hot tips from... tippers, we'll have new posts on the Lake Forest Park Albertsons and Wine World & Spirits in Wallingford very shortly. As a preview, LFP Albertson's looks like a big two-aisle selection and Wine World & Spirits looks like it's going to live up to pre-June 1 expectations with a huge and diverse selection including lots of small-label and local bottles.
More soon boozers, keep boozing! And keep sending us those tips so we can track who's got what.
More soon boozers, keep boozing! And keep sending us those tips so we can track who's got what.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Worth the trip... and the wait?
Mr Boozly took a jaunt up to Shoreline today for blog research related purposes, or as it is sometimes known, blog-connaissance. There he visited the Central Market up at Aurora and 155th, in hopes of finding a spirit section in line with their ample, interesting, and unique beer and wine selection.
Partial Success! Depending on how you measure success. If you measure it by finding Actual liquor, success was at a bare minimum. Even zero. But if you count the promise of future liquor, and we do here at Seattle Booze Hound, the visit was a ray of hope. They didn't get the head start of a Greenwood Safeway for example, but a promising sign was posted at the front of the store reading, verbatim*: "Spirits are coming soon, check back for our unique selection."
Given their beer and wine selection's focus on great quality and small producers, we have high hopes for liquor worth the trip. Until then, we'll wait.
*sign may not be reported verbatim
Partial Success! Depending on how you measure success. If you measure it by finding Actual liquor, success was at a bare minimum. Even zero. But if you count the promise of future liquor, and we do here at Seattle Booze Hound, the visit was a ray of hope. They didn't get the head start of a Greenwood Safeway for example, but a promising sign was posted at the front of the store reading, verbatim*: "Spirits are coming soon, check back for our unique selection."
Given their beer and wine selection's focus on great quality and small producers, we have high hopes for liquor worth the trip. Until then, we'll wait.
*sign may not be reported verbatim
Close to Home or, if you lived here, you'd be drinking by now
The Greenwood Safeway has had booze on the shelves since about two weeks before the June 1 start date, concealed only by the flimsiest curtain. It was watching the booze supplies there expand while those at the Greenwood State Liquor Store dwindled that gave us the idea to write this blog in the first place. How would we find what we wanted? Isn't there an internet resource? Perhaps in blog form? Shouldn't someone do something about everything? Indeed.
The Safeway at 87th and Greenwood has stocked a decent supply of booze, with more on the way. Shelves are about 80-90% stocked at the time of writing, and there are already shelf tags for the empty spaces. In most cases those are for "coming soon" liquors, but in a few they seem to be items that sold out quickly in the first few days.
The Woodford Reserve and Bulleit bourbons are among those that have already sold out. With luck they'll be restocked quickly and amply, because the remaining section is only okay. There's Maker's Mark, but the price doesn't seem good, at $32. Knob Creek is coming soon, and Gentleman Jack rounds out the top shelf, while Jim Beam, Jim Beam Devil's Cut, Jack Daniels, Evan Williams and the gang round out the lower echelons.
Proximity counts though, and Greenwood liquor just got closer. To us. But, like we said, if you lived here....
What whiskeys are YOU looking for? What spirits have YOU found? Let us know!
Cheers!
The Safeway at 87th and Greenwood has stocked a decent supply of booze, with more on the way. Shelves are about 80-90% stocked at the time of writing, and there are already shelf tags for the empty spaces. In most cases those are for "coming soon" liquors, but in a few they seem to be items that sold out quickly in the first few days.
The Woodford Reserve and Bulleit bourbons are among those that have already sold out. With luck they'll be restocked quickly and amply, because the remaining section is only okay. There's Maker's Mark, but the price doesn't seem good, at $32. Knob Creek is coming soon, and Gentleman Jack rounds out the top shelf, while Jim Beam, Jim Beam Devil's Cut, Jack Daniels, Evan Williams and the gang round out the lower echelons.
Proximity counts though, and Greenwood liquor just got closer. To us. But, like we said, if you lived here....
What whiskeys are YOU looking for? What spirits have YOU found? Let us know!
Cheers!
Monday, June 4, 2012
Top Food and Drugs...and booze.
Leaving aside the argument of whether booze is a drug, for the moment, Top Food and Drug is going to want to change their name. Also, "Top" should be put in bold.
Early recon of the Top Food and... Booze... in Woodinville turned up a surprisingly good bourbon selection, one of our top priorities (yes, "top" in bold) here at Seattle Booze Hound. We remember seeing Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, and Woodinville Distillery's White Dog Whiskey (okay, it will be bourbon sometime soon). A very decent starter selection, with the only disadvantage being that it's in Woodinville. However, we're keeping an eye out for top selections closer to the city limits, and will keep you posted.
Cheers!
Early recon of the Top Food and... Booze... in Woodinville turned up a surprisingly good bourbon selection, one of our top priorities (yes, "top" in bold) here at Seattle Booze Hound. We remember seeing Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, and Woodinville Distillery's White Dog Whiskey (okay, it will be bourbon sometime soon). A very decent starter selection, with the only disadvantage being that it's in Woodinville. However, we're keeping an eye out for top selections closer to the city limits, and will keep you posted.
Cheers!
Up and Running - Boozing for you!
We here at Seattle Booze Hound are dedicated, in the wake of our democratically selected I-1183 (Take that, the Government!) to tracking down the wheres, whats, and possibly how muches of the booze you want in the city you love. Your resource for which Walgreens has the best bourbon, which Safeway the vodka-iest vodka. If we can remember where we got everything. Cheers!
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