December 10, 2009
This review applies to other DanMurphy’s in Melbourne too: at least these days, they’re all much the same in terms of range - layout differs a bit. You can indeed walk out of here with a dozen good beers. But there’s just so much swill that you feel that the odd gem is there by accident. Fine wine is reverently separated from chateau cardboard and commercial drops, but decent beer is haphazardly shelved as though it’s noise amongst an in-house competition to get to a hundred countries’ worth of nondescript pale lager. Stock control is an issue too - I’ve seen non-bottle conditioned beer that’s out of date on the shelves here; and I always wonder how long the novelty English bitters in clear bottles have been sitting there. But you _can_ get good beer here and it _is_ cheap.

November 27, 2009
I concur...dan Murphy’s sucks. You may be able to get a few micros but it is their safe range ie all pale ales and wit beers..snooze. Lots of commercial craft beers ie gage road, burleigh etc. Imports are generally shite...ie euro lager. Waste of time.Should not be on ratebeer.

October 29, 2009
Dan Murphy’s is not a beer store, you can find a better range of beer... Anywhere.

January 19, 2009
Dan Murphy’s should NOT be in this guide, but since we can’t delete entries it’s gonna sit here. Though they do have a decent range of beer I guess, and it is cheap...

January 6, 2009
Typical liquor mart, though with an Australian bent to it of course. You can buy wines and hard liquors here in addition to the fairly wide variety of beers on hand, everything ranging from the mass-produced to the micro-brewed. Staff not particularly knowledgeable about beer (seemed to be more oriented toward wine snobs), but I didn’t care about that. I was more interested in getting my hands on a variety of Australian brews I’d never heard of before. Plus, I managed to luck into a hard-to-find (for me, at least) Hoegaarden Grand Cru. And the prices were reasonable, at least so far as I was able to compare it to beers purchased elsewhere. Prices for food and liquor seem relatively high in Australia, but Murphy’s prices were fair.