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RateBeer Brew Tour Guide's Comments
This is the best bottle shop in the area, they claim to have 800 beers. Great variety from Westy 8 & 12 to Ruination to the infamous Cave Creek Chili. Very good selection from Victory and other PA micros. 61B bus from downtown.
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| Foam |
See my review under the Monroeville location ... I mistakenly though it was for this location .........
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 jasonp |
Real cool place, a hot dog joint with taps, trappist monk sculptures on the wall and beer stuff all over. I didn’t eat or drink on premises (I was on the way outta Pitt). The bottle selection was quite good, not necessarily mind-blowing but a very good selection. Very well organized bottle section (organized by country). There’s also a walk-in cooler. Didn’t have much interaction with the staff except for a nice chick who rung up our order. Expect to drop some money here, they are EXPENSIVE. I was charged about $80 for $55-60 worth of beer but I didn’t complain or anything. Check this place out for sure.
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| gronlampa |
An extremely surprising Hot Dog Shop to say the least.
The greasy food is quite good and needless to say the dogs are up there... for dogs.
I mainly take advantage of the draft selection which changes quite often. I am a bit disappointed in the beer cave due to the fact that many of the bottles are out of code. This is not a problem for D’s alone, it seems that any place that touts 1000 beers does so by offering singles since six packs would take up far to much space. The down side to such a great selection is that it is quite difficult to move through so many single before they go out of date. That being said, in a place like D’s I would prefer the risk rather than have them slim the selection. A great place in a hole in the wall.
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| taffurs888 |
Very cool place to get some beer and hotdogs. Their bottle selection, both cooler and cellar, seems to be a bit dated at times, and does not have a full compliment of seasonal brews. Definetly a great place though to go with a great environment.
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| pet3rman |
Really nice to have a place with this type of selection. Prices are a little high, but understandable with that type of inventory. Haven’t tried the food yet.
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| hiddenvariable |
THE place to go in pittsburgh for bottle selection. the bar area is usually filled with ambient fryer grease and smoke, and it occasionally takes a minute to get someone to open my st. bernardus (say) and give me a pint glass in which to pour it, but the selection in the beer cave absolutely makes up for it. two 30-40 foot shelf faces of american micros, one face of german/belgian, and another of english/random, plus a smaller face for seasonals. if it’s available in pittsburgh, it’s usually available at d’s.
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| RblWthACoz |
From notes 2006. Unfortunately for me I moved out of Pittsburgh before this place opened. It was actually my mother who told me about it’s existence. They have a very extensive selection to put it mildly. If you’re in Pittsburgh and want to do some beer shopping, this is probably the best place for you to check out, and almost the most conveniently located. The only negative aspect (and it is a big one), is the value. The prices are high. I mean hello...$4.50 for a can of Young’s Chocolate Stout? How much higher could it be? Oh. $5 if it comes from the cooler. Thankfully you get a $1 discount per bottle on anything 6 or over.
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| mabel |
Visited last November on a Saturday and luckily had a GPS in the car or I might not have ventured so far from my fellow lindy hopping travellers -- but boy am I glad I did, what a selection!! Dozens of interesting little bottles and bombers were in the huge walk-in fridge (Weyerbacher, Victory, Stoudt, Sly Fox, local stuff, imports, etc) and when I thought I was done, I belatedly noticed there was a huge room in the back with dozens and dozens more! I had to laugh. Prices were good, service was sub-par (they left me standing there for a rather long time while getting on with other things), hot dogs in the room next door smelled delicious and every guy in the place had their eyes glued to the game on TV (though they gave me funny looks as I ran back and forth with a few six packs in my arms). Would definitely check out again.
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| cheapdark |
When I saw the ratings on this place I thought it would be great. The traffic’s terrible. Fruit cellar in the back where they keep the beer. Expensive and nobody to help you. The pricing seemed easy but once you get to the checkout, they pull the wool over your eyes. There’s this sign, $6 off a mixed six pack. Well, put my six pack together, come to a total of $14.50 less $6 and the total cost should have been $9.50 Right? At the checkout with the $6 discount it came to $12. Went over the prices with the girls and discussed in simple math how it rang up incorrectly. Well, the girls at the checkout were too busy watching TV and could care less about what I read on the price tags. She just kept insisting these were not the wrong prices. Little did they know I just spent 30 minutes cruizing thru the selection trying for low price beers. Ended up paying $2.50 more than I should have. I know $2.50 is no big deal but I couldn’t help feeling I had been ripped. There are other more friendly bottle shops in the Pittsburgh area. The Beer Store in Moon, 3 Sons in Wexford and Vintage Estates in Boardman Ohio. Go there, you’ll have a much more enjoyable time. The ratebeer tour guide’s comment on the top of this page must be ancient, it should be updated. Note (6/15/07): had a draft there since above rating, service is a little better.
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| maast48 |
wide variety of bottles, especially 750s... newly expanded with more taps, larger menu and more seating which has greatly improved the joint... bit pricey on bottles, but not on food... regularly hosts meetings of the pittsburgh beer society.
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