![]() This article appears in our January 2023 issue. We all probably do, but the best reply at Green’s is always: “Naw, just lookin’.” Someone will invariably ask if you need help. Maybe you survived a global pandemic and want to pack as many friends into your home as possible because the day ends in “y.” There’s no better means of getting that party started, the way I see it, than fighting for a parking spot, nodding to a friendly Green’s Beer Specialist, and grooving to vintage Rod Stewart as you stare at rows of craft beer like you’re studying for the LSAT. Maybe it’s the Friday of a productive workweek. It was probably a bad sign when, in the early depths of Covid-19, a Green’s associate loaded my purchases into boxes and repeatedly warned, with genuine concern: “Careful now-she’s heavy!”Īt the risk of sounding sappy, I’d say the key to a truly joyous Green’s visit is achieving the feeling beforehand that you’ve earned it. They usually result in a shopping cart bulging with a rainbowed menagerie of craft beer, a feeling that I’m a child who’s won some toy-store sweepstakes, and at least one concerned glance from the clerk. Call us at (770) 458-3272 for the best beer, wine & spirits. After I put a 50-can beer fridge in the garage, Green’s trips have become less frequent but more bountiful. Wine Store at 5877 Buford Highway Doraville, GA 30340. Good local six-packs in the $8 range are prevalent, boxed wine runs a few bucks cheaper than at grocery stores, and for splurges, that highfalutin beer cooler with an automatic door is stocked to the gills with things like $12.99 bottles of barrel-aged doppelbock. It’s still the cheapest liquor store I’ve found, even post-inflation. Whoever excluded it from the National Register of Historic Places must have been drunk.Īs bad as it may sound, stops at Green’s have preceded basically all of my life’s milestones in this city: kegs for weddings and Christmas shindigs, a trunk full of booze for a book launch party, bottles of champagne following childbirth. ![]() ![]() What I love most about the Ponce Green’s is how it’s a microcosm of Atlanta: A melting pot of patronage that can get a little wild, it’s usually difficult to access by car and celebrates stuff the outside world probably finds weird (hello, PBR Salted Caramel Hard Coffee). Yet somehow it’s the perfect location for a landmark Atlanta bottle shop where I’ve seen a cappella performances in the checkout line and-in quintessential Ponce fashion, one Friday night-businesspeople casually stepping over a writhing, inebriated lady at the entrance. GA - Atlanta - Alpharetta, GA - Atlanta - Buford, GA - Atlanta - Midtown, GA - Augusta, ID - Boise, IL - Chicago - Naperville, IL - Chicago - Schaumburg. It’s a hatchet-shaped, low-rise building facing the BeltLine-nothing special to look at. But the original, and my favorite, dates back to 1937 on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Patrick’s Day font, those simple but wonderful green awnings, and that chatty, sweet staff, Green’s (no relation, unfortunately, because a family discount would be fantastic) operates stores across South Carolina and has two in Atlanta. ![]()
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