Binny’s Beverage Depot (Schaumburg)

5/29/2008 4:31:50 PM, thursday, may 29, 2008
Great selection, but it looks and feels like an over-lit warehouse. The clearance singles are usually right up in te window getting skunked, which is silly. A good stop when in the are, to be sure.

4/22/2008 10:28:34 PM, tuesday, april 22, 2008
Great selection...not the friendliest people, but still worth it...

2/16/2008 4:06:27 PM, saturday, february 16, 2008 [ Updated sunday, september 07, 2008 ]
by far the best liquor store in chicago land area i have been to hugh selection of beer, wine and spirts i just wish you could mix and match your own six packs

1/9/2008 3:58:31 PM, wednesday, january 09, 2008
This was a solid Binny’s that I found when I was working in Elk Grove Village. It’s a larger store, with the open, bright warehouse feel of the others. The beer selection was bigger and better than the original Chicago store, and there were a few gems I found such as Bush Prestige.. I found a bunch of stuff to buy. The service was good when I was able to track someone down. Worth a stop if you’re in the area.

9/29/2007 9:23:56 PM, saturday, september 29, 2007 [ Updated saturday, september 29, 2007 ]
Very good beer selection with lots of foreign brrews. However, they only sell a select gross or so as singles, and I wish they would sell everything they have a singles or mixed sixpacks. Prices are pretty goof though.

11/21/2006 8:54:45 PM, tuesday, november 21, 2006
I stopped in here to pick up some Dreadnaught. The rest of their selection is decent, but similar to what you can get in the Madison area. The only exception might be the Munsterfest (FFF) which I’ve not seen. The prices were reasonable but you aren’t able to break up six packs. That put a damper on my purchases. If you are at Schaumburg Mall and need a Dreadnaught fix, stop in here.

8/1/2006 7:41:45 PM, tuesday, august 01, 2006
Comparable to the store in Orland... which I guess is a silly thing to say, since it only makes sense to those who’ve been to both. Solid selection as with most Binny’s. Nothing "new" for me except a bottle that I picked up to celebrate National Mead Day this month. Still, I’d stop by if in the area again.

3/10/2006 7:26:50 PM, friday, march 10, 2006
tons of stuff, lots of rotating rarities. seasonals. an early spearheadder of the three floyds movement (with $5 bombers of dreadnaught years ago). you’ll find great stuff here (that’s been well delivered and is not old/stinky) but you’ll also pay for that. kinda tired of this place. sell by the bottle please.

11/23/2005 4:27:48 PM, wednesday, november 23, 2005 [ Updated wednesday, may 09, 2007 ]
Giant warehouse type store. An alcoholics utopia. The beer selection is pretty huge, though rarely changes. However, I just went there and they had a bunch of new winter beers. In the summer you can get bored pretty easily. The amount of beers seems to be split between domestic and European. They usually have some good micros always in stock, eg. Three Floyds, Victory, Great Lakes, Bells. They even get a fair amount of the "huge" Three Floyds, ie. I’ve found Dark Lord and Behemoth there. Prices on micros are a little steep but macros and wide distributions like Goose Island and Sierra Nevada are always cheap. They have tons of liquor and wine. Bottom line is that they don’t sell by the bottle which is a big problem with me. Who wants to pay $9 a six pack for something they’ve never had before? I think it hurts the enthusiast and their business. People that work here are fucking douche-cocks.

9/19/2005 11:16:09 AM, monday, september 19, 2005
An okay place but nothing special. I worry about the lights in their as it was quite bright. As Eric says below, prices are a little higher than they should be. There weren’t many special selections but I did find a few that I can’t get at other bottle shops in the Milwaukee and Chicago markets. Maybe I’d drop by again if I was in the area, but it wouldn’t be my regular bottle shop of choice.