Mountview Plaza Wines and Liquors

11/8/2007 5:21:02 PM, thursday, november 08, 2007
a nice little place with a pretty decent selection. good recommendations and suggestions from the beer guy

8/26/2007 4:24:44 PM, sunday, august 26, 2007
Terry will order anything thats available to him for you. He usually is the first to have the new stuff that comes to CT.

6/16/2007 6:44:31 AM, saturday, june 16, 2007
I travel along Route 8 about once a month on my way to Albany, NY and have been looking for bottle shops to stop at along the way. I finally got around to stopping into this place and am glad I did. As others have said, it is a liquor and wine store in addition to a beer shop, so the beer section is limited in space. They have a nice selction of meads, and I picked up four different Redstone meads in addition to some others. They also had Newport Storm ’06 and a solid selction of other New England beers. I dropped a couple of hundred bucks and could have easily spent more. I’ll be stopping by again.

3/4/2007 10:01:46 AM, sunday, march 04, 2007
As everyone has said, it’s a small place in a strip mall. However, there is a wonderful selection of eclectic beers, especially if you hit them at the right time. When Terry is there and has the time to chat, you can easily spend an hour talking and looking at beer. It is easy to walk out spending more than a couple hundred dollars. Living in Western Connecticut, it is sometimes hard to find a good selection of New England beers, Mountainview seems to have plenty. It would be nice to have a mix a six available, but, with a small store, it’s understandable. Lines can form rather quickly when we are at the register, especially if we have a diverse European selection which may be missing bar codes.

8/10/2006 4:34:45 PM, thursday, august 10, 2006
This is quite a nice place, in terms of selection. It’s got a wine store ambiance, bright, smallish beer section, but quantity over quality. a number of unusual, hard to find, and vintage selections. If that ’back room’ exists I certainly didn’t get invited to it despite dropping a big wad of cash here. Also, I was a bit dissapointed by the service. They were friendly enough, but when they had trouble ringing up a beer, a long line formed behind me. Instead of just key in the price of the beer, they insisted on looking it up in the inventory, where it apparently didn’t exist, after a long time searching many ways for it. In the end, I couldn’t buy that beer! Other beer stores would have just gave me the damn beer for free given how much I was buying. I thought it was really pathetic that they were so legalistic about it and in the end just put the stupid beer back on the shelf when it wasn’t in the computer, when the whole pointof it being there is to sell the beer. It was still worth it to go there, as I picked up many othe runusual things, but this stupid service issue really stands out as a black mark in my memory, as a place that was not customer oriented.

12/19/2005 3:50:14 PM, monday, december 19, 2005
Fabulous selection of random Eastern European beers, plenty of lambics (1996 Boon Marriage parfait Framboise) and tons of NE micros. Old Belgians as well. My favorite part is that they let stuff sit on the shelf until it sells, so there are some very old locals, some having gone out of business or since been retired. Very friendly, helpful staff, though the beer manager was not there when I was there.

12/10/2005 9:05:16 AM, saturday, december 10, 2005
Nothing fancy about its beer display; it’s in the back behind all the up-front wine. The area back there is narrow and hard to navigate, but worth it. I was happy to see so many Rogues and Balhavens. So many more to try...

9/7/2005 2:24:44 PM, wednesday, september 07, 2005 [ Updated sunday, april 27, 2008 ]
I’ve been heading to this place for about 5 years, Terry is a great advocate in the community and runs many benefits throughout the year that highlight a wide variety of micros and seasonals.

7/6/2005 4:54:50 PM, wednesday, july 06, 2005 [ Updated thursday, november 03, 2005 ]
This is the #1 place to go in Connecticut for beer, and definitely one of the best places in all of New England. The reason is the resident beer guru, Terry Boyd. His knowledge of beer is phenomenol, and he pushes to get products of great rarity and quality. Although Wines & Liquor is predominantly a wine/liquor store (go figure), Terry keeps a modest in size but extremely impressive in quality selection of beer on hand. You’ll find Olde Burnside, Thomas Hooker, Rogue, DFH, Victory, Cantillon, De Dolle, numerous other brewers from England, Belgium, Germany and Poland. Terry even manages to get to acquire truly rare gems, so it’s always worth stopping by for a peek...

4/11/2005 12:55:03 PM, monday, april 11, 2005
Great Place. Great selection of rare beers. Met Terry and he helped us out a lot. He is very knowledgeable about the beer that he has in the store. Great place to buy beer.