Rudy's Beverage (Previously: Brewer's Outlet)

Overall, this place may be old, but prices are low!, maybe not all the beer prices are lower than other places, but there are a lot that are! They even have other drinks like 5 different types of spring water too!

I love it there. Very clean , very cold beer n VERY FRIENDLY . I GO THERE EVERY OTHER DAY !

I love this outlet. The owners are so helpful and the selection is vast.

Nice prices, Belgian beer that s all u need to know

Easy access from my house when I need a pick me up! ;)

Lots of selection. Very friendly employees.

Very nice Asian couple own this place. Walk in refrigerator is available for cold beverages. 12packs and 24packs available. Sales and special are available each week. Some China and bowls/plates are sold here as well.

Let me preface this review by saying, I very rarely write reviews without buying something from a business, but this place was unusual.

As others said this is sort of hidden off a main road, I was picking up food at the Bull & Bear Restaurant and noticed a sign for "Brewer's Outlet" and an arrow, so I figured cool, grab my takeout and grab a six pack! I got my food and drove basically around the back of the restaurant and was greeted with "Brewer's Outlet" and from the outside it looked huge!

Now my first complaints, these are both incredibly minor and did not play into my star rating, but the parking lot is enormous, but there are only like 5 or 6 poorly marked spots. Repainting the lines and adding more spots would go a long way, I basically accidentally parked in a handicap spot. Second, the entrance and exit doors are not marked. I went to the door nearest the majority of the spots on the left side of the building and it was the exit, typically this would be the entrance. The entrance for whatever reason is on the right side of the building nearest the registers.

Now onto the actual store, walking in it smells like an old school beer distributor and by that I mean it smells like cardboard and concrete floors. The place is indeed huge inside. I noticed there was only one customer when I entered, a bit odd for a Saturday night at 6:00 P.M. I quickly saw why. The store itself was a little warm for a beer distributor, typically the concrete floors cool things off, there was no air conditioning at all, which I don't expect in a beer distributor. The main thing that threw me off was the lack of lighting, the store was very sparsely lit. The back of the place (near the soda) was just in disarray, looked like a bull ran rampant back there. Also in the middle of the store they sold a variety of stuff you would see at Flea Markets (cheap bowls, plates, spatulas, etc).

Now they have a pretty good supply of macrobrews, and I'd imagine a lot of them are relatively safe, you know the Coors, Budweiser, Bud Light, Corona, Natty, White Claws, etc, etc. You can tell what sells well and what doesn't by the large piles of beer covered in dust and the best sellers only have a meager 1 to 3 cases left. The craft beer section was pretty awful, once again, an okay supply, but checking the dates I was pretty horrified. I found multiple six packs and cases of relatively popular craft beers that were one to two years old. At this point, I decided I wasn't going to buy anything, with how warm it was in the store and the old beer I had already discovered, I knew I was not going to be enjoying the beer bought here. I did walk most of the aisles to see if anything caught my eye, but nothing did.

As I was leaving the lady working the register stopped me and was like "Are you looking for something specific? Do we not want what you have?" and I appreciate the good customer service, and I could tell she was a bit desperate to make a sale so I said I was looking for cold six packs. Which I did not see because there was a lack of coolers in the warehouse, she then looks at me and points to the back wall where I see the plastic warehouse drapes with a huge banner above it saying "Cold Beer Here." Somehow I missed that, I walked thru the thick layer of plastic and was instantly in a very cold beer cooler. Once again things in here were sparse, but not as dusty. I ended up walking through the whole cooler and was probably in there for at most five minutes when the lady at the register (who I'm assuming is the owner) came into the beer cooler and said "What are you looking for? I can help." So I told her, I was looking for a six pack of Labatt Blue, which oddly enough I did not see (pretty common around here, pretty much everywhere carries it) and she agreed she did not see it. So she offered to crack open a 30 pack and give me 6 cans as a "six pack", but I really preferred cold bottles and I already knew how old the beer was there, plus I don't think they even had cases of Labatt.

Overall, I found the experience to be a "bit pushy".