Kappy’s Fine Wine & Spirits

For a chain clearly one of the cheaper liquor stores I have been too, especially when it comes to beer! Service is hit or miss, am a fan of the wanna-​be goth spanish girl who works there!

The smell is really bothersome and the people that hang out outside the place aren’t the best so sometimes I feel uncomfortable to walk pass them so I just rather go to another one which is further away. But what pushed me to write this review is my recent experience. Came in and since it’s a large store I honestly had no idea to where even begin. This one guy saw me struggling and immediately jumped in to help me. I told him what I was looking for and he guided me and took his time to explain the different kinds of wine, quality, popularity and value. He was very helpful and really nice. Just because someone took a second of his day to step forward and help me I will keep Kappy’s in the back of my mind for whenever I need liquor. The selection is insanely large and the price tag is quiet low.

This is one of the BEST Kappy’s around. I have been to almost all of them, and luckily enough, this is very close to my house! The one near Malden Center T Staion is awful. This one at least has a decent selection and decent prices. The Redemption Center is located at the front of the store and is separated from the store by another motion-​activated door. The Redemption Center is fine. The workers keep it spotless. The store itself is quite good. When it comes to Liquer, I’m kind of a snob. I have everything (in liquor) that I’ll ever need, but there are times when I’m in the neighborhood and just want to «look around» Kappy’s for sometthing New and Interesting. That’s even worse, because i will leave the store with two or three bottles. The only thing I would encourage this Kappy’s to do is carry MORE HIGH-​END LIQUORS. They do have two showcases with very high end liquors (that I’m not interested in), but I would like to see a larger selection of liquors between $ 75 and $ 200. Since I don’t drive, I have no place to buy expensive liquors at. They probably will never do this, since their core market is working-(if they’re lucky)-class East Boston residents. The employees in there are really nice! The managers that walk around asking if you need help are full of information and suggestions. The cashiers are also quite sweet. they have all been there for QUITE SOME TIME! in parting, i would like to say that when I was young, my father would take me into the same store, buying his gallon jugs of Gallo table wine. I never understood why all the employees back then were old, grumpy, and not interested in their job. It’s not that way anymore. The workers here are young and «trendy». the oldest person in there (a cashier) is my age.

If you can get over the smell, this place is okay. I like to go recycle there and then cash in the vouchers and get wine for like $ 2 or $ 3 with the combo of their constant sales on wine and the vouchers. It’s really not a bad deal. it’s also good to buy in bulk there so that you don’t have to deal with the smell as often.

Kappy’s does have a distinctive stink, it’s true. But I’ve always found it to be clean, well-​stocked, and the staff to be unusually helpful. (The manager, I believe, is one of the cheeriest liquor store employees I’ve encountered. Hell, compared to the surly bunch of beasts working at my old haunt in bonny Brookline, this man should be given a Presidential Medal of Freedom.) The beer selection is actually quite good, if not amazing (few small labels but a wide selection of the majors including cheap 30 racks.) The prices are competitive, and Kappy’s has a halfway decent selection of wine and even top-​shelf liquor.
I think I’ve figured out the smell, though. (Stale beer + recently excavated tomb) x 2(moldy hockey socks) /​that time we found a dead skunk in the trash bin.

As any die-​hard Shipyard Pumpkin fan knows the supply is diminishing quickly here in the local area! A friend was in desperate need of some Shipyard Pumpkin for an upcoming Thanksgiving party so I took to the phone this morning and started dialing for beers… After calling every big and small packy within a 30 mile radius of Southie and getting ready to cross the border into NH, I came across Kappy’s in Eastie just a short tunnel crossing and $ 4.50 toll away. The manager Josh who I spoke with on the phone couldn’t have been nicer and told me they still had it in stock but it was going quick. I asked him to put a case aside for me and would be there as soon as I could rustle up my partner in crime.
Sure enough an hour later we made the trek to Eastie and wasn’t disappointed. As promised the case was waiting for us by the register when we arrived and after a quick scan of the store it seems as we got what we thought might be the last case of Shipyard Pumpkin on the east coast. That was until we got back to Southie and saw someone walking down the street carrying a 12 pack of Shipyard Pumpkin — might there have a hidden supply right under our noses in our own neighborhood? Well anyway we got our case, fulfilled our need and can’t wait to drink it next weekend.
All in all if your in the Eastie area and looking for a store with good service and a good selection make sure you check out Kappy’s
And if your lucky enough to still have a supply or know where you can find some make sure to try your next pint of Shipyard Pumpkin with a shot of Stoli Vanilla. Your won’t be disappointed!

No frills with a lot of wine! The ghetto jug wine I bought was way more expensive than most other places, so I guess I will skip that next time. I have been frequenting the area and finally decided to stop in!
It was good, you can get everything and the prices seem good for most of the stuff. Oh and apparently I look 40 because they didn’t ask for ID and the large sign says «ID in hand if under 40» Well ok.
I will be back I am sure.

Are you a cheap bastihd with eclectic taste and no money? Then Kappy’s East Boston is the place for you!
There is one place in all of Boston that I can always rely on for my strange bottom-​shelf liquor needs, and that place is Kappy’s East Boston. I figured that out after going to store after store looking for Applejack, only to have people ask me, «Apple what?» Then I went into my local Kappy’s and found not one, but three dusty bottles of Applejack waiting for me.
If you’re like me, sometimes you just want something low-​rent that tastes good and will get you drunk. Sometimes I just want a 4-​pack of premade bottled Kahlua drinks, because that’s just the kind of tough guy I am. Go anywhere else, you’ll find two flavors. Come to Kappy’s, you’ll find fifty. You’ll find test flavors that have already been discontinued and just haven’t made their way off the shelves yet. You’ll find a chicken-​and-​waffles flavor and you’ll be sad it isn’t chilled so you can drink it immediately.
Want to get stupid with the cheapest bottle of schnapps you can find? Not only does Kappy’s have every flavor of under-​the-​bleachers swill you could want, but they have their own brand for about 37 cents a bottle!
I will agree with most of the other reviews on here, that the Kappy’s entryway smells terrible. It smells like a skunk died in there, then another skunk came along and ate the first one and died of food poisoning. I will disagree, however, with the source. I don’t think the smell comes from the bottle redemption. It comes from the people redeeming them. Every week people walk around this neighborhood, digging through other people’s trash looking for bottles and cans, and Kappy’s is where they come, shirts stained with unidentifiable detritus of countless discarded takeout containers and jugs of rotten milk, to turn their hours of early-​morning effort into enough money to buy a scratch-​off ticket. When you walk through the doors to Kappys, what you’re smelling isn’t old bottles, it’s desperation.
Of course, desperation is probably what brought you to Kappy’s in the first place, so let’s go together! We’ll plug our noses, plunge in, and stock up on enough cheap booze to drink that smell right out of our heads.

This is my packy of choice since it’s very close to the humble abode. The area, Liberty Plaza, is a little rugged – sometimes there’s a drunk bum or two outside panhandling during the warmer months and I once saw a guy do a swan-​dive face-​plant into the sidewalk at about 1 in the afternoon – but inside the store it’s fine. You’ll be surprised to find a suitable selection for most shoppers’ tastes. I usually just buy Vodka and beer here though.
Other things I like about Kappy’s: they’re very fast in the check-​out, they have a large can redemption area, and you can walk into the cold storage and grab your beer if you don’t see it in the case (if this isn’t allowed they haven’t said anything to me yet)

Holy stank, Batman. Kappy’s definitely knows that there is very little that will separate a man (or in my case, little lady) from stocking up on beer, wine, and spirits, but they sure test the limits with the stench emaciating from the bottle return machines and following you into the store like your creepy stalker neighbor.
Now, this store like all Kappy’s has very reasonable prices and a pretty wide selection for the size of the store, so I had to reconcile my olfactory receptors with an overwhelming desire to throw back a few. I just make a game of it — once the smell begins to permeate the air I hold my breath as long as I can to get far enough into the store to achieve clean breathing once again. I am rarely successful due to slow moving automatic doors, but that’s my own battle to win.

I WILL NEVER GO HERE AGAIN.
On several occasions my fiancé and I have experienced blatant racism and I will no longer patronize an establishment that feels it is OK to employ a manager who clearly dislikes anyone who isn’t white. He asked my brother in law who is a legal US resident for a copy of his visa. That is invasive, condescending and completely unnecessary. He told my fiancé the other day «that will be dollars, you know US dollars». This is just a few examples. I used to shop here a lot and they have lost a customer.

I’ve been trying to stay away from this while because I think they are starting to recognize me as a regular… and I’m not entirely sure that is a good thing. Friendly folk that work here, and a pretty good selection. I’d love to see a larger beer selection, but all and all I’d say its not too shabby for the East Boston scene.

The first time I ever visited Kappy’s in East Boston, I was approached by a liquor sales rep and asked if I wanted a free mojito. Um, yes please! Slightly tipsy, I sampled three other flavors and proceeded to scan the goods. Lots of wines to choose from, your standard offerings of various liquors, and a pretty decent selection of beers. The prices are pretty good and the employees are always really friendly. Yes, it is a bit on the smelly side when you first walk in (it’s b/​c there are several recycling machines up front, but not in the store, thank goodness) but nothing completely unbearable. There’s good parking too.

i just have e to say this is what they talk about in those aa meetings this is a liquor store and like the nice and clean ones this is dirty and smells like the end of the bottle of cheap whiskey lets just say every time i go there i fear getting pulled over because a cop might just trow me in a drunk tank because of the impregnating smell of liquor

Whether in need of a bottle of white with dinner, a bottle of red for just relaxing on the weekend, or 400 mini plastic shot glasses, Kappy’s always comes through.
Their prices are right, the location (for East Boston) is convenient with tons of parking, and the people who work there are always striking up a conversation with you, interjecting phrases like (for serious) wicked pissah and «that’s a lawtta booze. having pahhhty, ahhe ya?»
I’ve yet to have a problem with the smell or the cleaniness here. Frankly, it’s a liquor store, where I go primarily to purchase sealed containers of alcohol with which to pickle my liver. If they served food or did my pedicures, then maybe I’d be concerned!
But they have a decent selection of the three major imbibing groups (beer, wine, liquor) not to mention a ton of glass/​plastic ware, liquor-​related knickknacks (bottle openers, stirrers, mixers) and every nip you could ever possible want! You know, in case your in a sampling mood! And rest assured that if you are, no one here will judge you!

Oh my god, you stink. You stink out to the sidewalk. I hold my breath when I walk through your outer door and into the airlock of doom where those hideous bottle machines sit, manned like some nightmare version of slot machines by troglodytes who are somehow immune to the stench. Through the inner door, at least 10 steps in, the miasma still pervades. Seriously, East Boston Kappy’s — you need a shower… no, a pressure wash… no, a hazmat team… yikes.
Still, your prices are good and the people behind the counter are wicked nice. But dude, you GOTTA start showering more.