Brewery in Worcester, MA

Julio's in Westborough! Great beer, wine, and liquor selection. They also have tastings in the basement somewhat often.

Total Wine in Shrewsbury or Julios Liquors in Westborough.

Mass Liquors on Chandler street has a good beer selection. Craft Beer Cellars in Framingham is stellar- worth the 20 minute drive,

Greetings! It sounds like you have things well in hand and I don’t know where in Worcester you are but if you’re anywhere near to Ed Hyder’s Mediterranean Market you might check it out too. It’s mostly an eclectic grocery store/deli but they also have an array of wines that I typically never see anywhere else. I am always impressed by that. You know, after a while you’ll see the same wines over and over but never at Ed’s. They’re at 408 Pleasant Street and they have a small parking lot. http://www.edhyders.com/ Take care and welcome to the Woo.

Wachusett Wine and Spirits has the best craft beer selection around, just outside of Worcester. Also have plenty of wine, and the staff is very knowledgeable about all of it

Welcome! My partner and I mover here from Ithaca 2 years ago, (i grew up near here, she didnt). At first I was concerned about selection too, but actually were loaded to the gills with good shit. /u/ungrayed_recostume seems to have covered everything, but i want to suggest (as a former finger lakes guy) Go to 3cross, get their beer and kombucha, bring it home. Do the same at wormtown and flying dreams and wachusett and river styx and treehouse and every other local gem we have. Within the same driving time radius of all the great south finger lakes breweries and wineries we have almost as much here. Not nearly as much wine, but I was a plant pathologist out in Ithaca and drank a LOT of wine (many friends in the wine making field) and most of it kinda sucks up there anyway, especially the reds :P welcome to woo!

Mass Liquors on Chandler street has a good beer selection. Craft Beer Cellars in Framingham is stellar- worth the 20 minute drive,

Wegmans in northborough has a really good selection as well

If you are ever in Sturbridge, Yankee Spirits. If you drive out here for. the booze, have lunch at the Thai place across the street. Ted's in Charlton has some local brews.

Wachusett Wine and Spirits in West Boylston has a pretty good selection, especially for beer. KJ Barrons and O'Haras are both on West Boylston St in Worcester and are pretty good as well. edit: wachusett and kj Barron's both do mix-sixes

Went to Total Wine just now... JFC... Place is fantastic! That said, I was SLIGHTLY underwhelmed by the six pick... Until I walked up that one wall and saw so much more. Very nice selection. Picked up 4 decent look reds and a nice six pack of various porters. Much appreciated!

Austin Liquors.

Total Wine! It's across the street from White City and shared the plaza with Trader Joe's!

Austin Liquors on Gold Star Boulevard has a pretty big selection. Total Wine & More on route 9 in Shrewsbury is huge and has a great selection. It's probably your best option afaik.

Do yourself a favor and make a trip out to Treehouse in Sturbridge asap. Go during the week and get yourself a fat stack of incredible beers. Also Total Wine and Austin Liquors for all your other beer and wine needs. Total Wine does make your own six packs too.

Have to say you can't be looking very hard if you're only finding Yellowtail and Miller... I'll make a fair gaurantee that the package/liquor stores in Worcester have much better selection of beer and wine than anywhere in the Finger lakes. Although you are right that convenience stores (like Sonoco or Honey Farms) don't sell beer/wine/liquor and if they do, it'll be terrible... That's the result of Prohibition era blue laws that were still on the books in many towns. The unintended consequence of the blue laws were that Central Mass has a huge variety of liquor stores, and so small convenience stores even if they can sell alcohol, it's not profitable for them. Anyway, Regional pride aside... In Worcester proper: 1) *Austin's Liquors* on Goldstar Blvd, thousands of wines and beers. An excellent craft beer selection, and like 10 aisles of wine. For cold craft beer, go into the cooler in the back, take a left, they have this section called "The Beer Grotto" ... It's probably got 60 varieties of very great beer, typically regional focused but they also have some other nation-wide beers back there. Austin's really listened to their customers by expanding the cooler back here, I used to complain about their small cold beer selection all the time, and then within a couple years they expanded it and now it's great. 2) *Mass Liquors on Chandler Street*. No, not State Liquors on Park Ave (which is now Austin's as well), but Mass Liquors on Chandler. It's a small store but they have a very good wine selection, and a good beer selection. This is the best beer/wine selection on the West Side (West of Park Ave) *O'Hara's*, on Grafton St and West Boylston st. Small stores, but usually a good craft beer selection and solid quality wine. But they're not large stores. KJ Baron's is good too in the Summit area. *H&B Wine and Liquor* - Large store, not an excellent beer selection but it's a big store so they have a decent selection. Not better than any Austin's location. If you live on Grafton Hill this is your best bet, although.. if you live on Grafton hill it's probably worth driving to Shrewsbury to Austin's or Total Wine. If you're outside of Worcester: West of Worcester, like Charlton / Sturbridge area, *Yankee Spirits* is good for wine, beer, and liquor. North of Worcester, *Wachusett Wine and Spirits* in West Boylston has a great, great craft beer selection. Smallish for wine, but still a good selection. Very knowledgable staff on beer as well. East of Worcester, in Shrewsbury you have Austin's which doesn't have as good a selection as the Goldstar one. *Total Wine* on Rt 9 is great for wine, but I think for such a large store they have a shitty beer selection. They advertise this huge beer selection with hundreds of beers, but I think the selection is worse than other large stores. They have a tiny cold beer selection, like 3 coolers, and the cold beer selection just isn't good in those coolers. I should tempor this... It's not a *bad* beer selection, I just think it's an out of date beer selection. Not in that it's old beer, but they'll have hundreds of beers that were popular 5+ years ago. Feels like the beer guys there hit their beer peak when the West Coast IPA craze was fading down, and they just doubled-down on super malty, strong imperial IPAs. I dunno, maybe it's better now, haven't been in since shortly after they opened and I was disappointed. Westborough you have *Julio's Liquors*. So, Julio's is considered the largest, best beer selection in New England. Huge wine selection, tobacco, whiskey, tasting rooms, wine tasting, etc. It's considered the best liquor store in New England, and one of the broadest selections of beer in the country. Everything from very rare beers that usually sell out almost instantly, to just being really well stocked on everything else. Julio's used to really outclass Austin's liquors, but not anymore, Austin's -- IMO -- has some beer that you can't get at Julios, like 3Cross reliably. As someone else said, if you're in Northborough, *Wegman's Super Market* has a good beer and wine selection as well. There's no reason to ever drive there for beer/wine when you have Austin's in Worcester and Julio's just 5mins further in Westborough, but if you're getting groceries already, you could do a lot worse than Wegman's. Of course, you've also got the rare stuff if you want to work for it. Treehouse Brewing is in Charlton, if you're a beer enthusiast, you probably already know about it, it's considered one of the top 10 breweries in the country and you can only buy their beer there. Oh and as someone else said, *Hyder's Mediterranean Marketplace* has a small but excellent Mediterranean imported wine section. Typically these are specialized, hard to get wines in the United States that the major liquor stores don't carry, because Ed has relationships with the European distributors that the major liquor stores don't have.