Westlake Wine & Beer

This place has a great selection of craft beer and it is getting better all the time. AJ is super responsive to customer requests and will try to get you anything you want. What the above reviewers don’t understand is:
1) Packaged beer is marked up 25% in Montgomery County by the County government. Beer will always be more expensive in Montgomery County until that is changed (this is directed at the fellow who just moved to Bethesda).
2) The County’s own stores undercut independent stores, so their prices are always lower. I think this is pretty unfair, and explains the second review above. It’s one thing for the County to mark up prices, it’s another for it to be competing directly with small businesses.
Hopefully this will be changing in the next year or so, but until then, support your local independent craft beer stores!

Friendly service, horrible prices. I just moved to Bethesda and stopped by this store for a six pack, and found everything to be 2 – 3 dollars more than normal. A 6 pack of Lagunitas ran me almost $ 15!
The owner was really nice, took my six pack up to the counter for me while I continued to look around and asked me if I needed help finding anything. I would definitely go back if the prices were a little more reasonable.

Hmmmm… The only reason this store gets 2 stars instead of 1 is the very nice owner. While I agree with the only other Unilocaler who has reviewed this store, that the owner is a great guy, — that’s really not why you go shopping for wine…
The wine selection is not only limited but consists of mostly «off-​brands» (ie. no Parker, WS, WE ratings). When the store DOES have a good wine, it puts a stratospheric price on it which automatically discourages further shopping! For example, yesterday I saw a wonderful Cabernet for sale there for $ 88. That exact SAME wine (and vintage) sold for $ 53 (on sale from $ 60) at the local Montgomery County Wine & Liquor store! (ck it out: Louis M. Martini Monte Rosso 2005)