Liquor Barn-the Ultimate Party Source

If you’re having any kind of party, this is the place!
HUGE selection of EVERYTHING!

When my husband and I first visited Lexington for his job interview, Liquor Barn was our final stop before we headed back up north. We stopped in to pick up lots of boozy souvenirs for our friends and family and I immediately fell in love.
«Ok,» I told my husband, «we can move to Kentucky.»
In Connecticut you can’t sell any food in liquor stores, so imagine my surprise when I realized there was a one stop shop for all of my liquor and my favorite foods. If anyone can live off of cheese and crackers it’s this girl!
The prices are great, the beer cheese selection is amazing, and I could spend hours just wandering the aisles finding cool new things.
They literally have everything you could ever want in a party store and I find any excuse I can to go there.

Where can you go and find an extensive collection of bourbon and other liquors in Lexington? Liquor Barn, of course! Not quite a ‘barn’ (that would make it more exciting), but a giant store filled with aisles upon aisles of booze. Bourbon, whiskey, moonshine, tequila, beer, wine, whatever your drink of choice is, you’ll find it. I love the collection of local wines and beers here, too. Beyond the aisles of booze are a few aisles of party supplies, gourmet snacks, etc. I thought it was kind of odd to have that here, but then one day, I actually needed some supplies in addition to the bottles I brought — which was really convenient. Plenty of helpful employees here… and I’ve never been carded either, haha. I guess I look old. Thanks for supplying some fun, Liquor Barn!

I like to try out different beers and Liquor Barn always has a pretty wide selection for me to choose from. Sometimes I sit and spend a lot of time trying to figure out which I want to take home that day. There’s also a wide variety of bourbon and other liquor. If you have a growler, they also have a place to fill up with local brews. The location could use an update as it seems a little old compared to the flashy newer one over in Hamburg, but that’s really not too important to complain about. If I’m looking to try something new, this is usually where I go first.

This is an alcoholic’s mecca. They have every type of beer, wine, or booze that you may be looking for. With that being said, I am huge fan. This specific store is my 2^nd favorite of the chain (my fav is Hamburg one).
Aside from all the juice, they have a large variety of deli meats and cheeses, an olive bar, frozen snacks, and other goodies. I use to stop in here years ago PY (Pre Unilocal) and grab a Boar’s Head Meat Sandiwch/​Chips for lunch. I have also had them do a few gift baskets of KY Proud Items and Party Trays.
I recommend this to anyone. Stop in and see what you are missing.

This place is awesome. Found all the liquor I was looking for and the staff is friendly. The place was packed and the checkout was still quick.

Think of it as. Costco for liquor minus the gigantic sizes and membership costs. Pretty neat place yet can be overwhelming.

The Barn has it all! This store does not have as much as the Hamburg store but hey it will do for us on the west side! I come here for gourmet food items! I love that there is somewhere that offers quality items, the Hamburg store has more of a selection. Of course they have a beer cooler, deli which now offers sandwiches, and draft beers. It’s a one stop shop!

Dorky but true, this is a wonderful tourist attraction! In addition to tons of reasonably priced liquor and plenty of Kentucky bourbon and beer, they have a decent grocery section with lots of Kentucky products. They have several products featuring Ale 8, a local soda, lots of beer cheese (yeah, it’s a thing there), and lots and lots and LOTS of sweet butters like apple butter and carrot cake butter (yeah, I guess this is also a thing).

I’m not much of a drinker, so I can’t really comment on the booze selection here. They did seem to have a ton, along with most any brand I could possibly think of.
I spent the majority of my time in the deli/​grocery area and I have to say, they had some cool specialty stuff you won’t find anywhere else. Lots of Indian cooking implements (curries, sauces) which Kroger has all but eliminated, and some I’ve never seen. Lots of locally made sauces and seasonings I haven’t seen anywhere else. Intriguing sodas I’ve never tried (including several enticing ginger beers!). The deli/​grocery prices seem a little high, but it’s understandable since I’m sure it’s kind of expensive to stock these hard-​to-​fnd items.
The store itself looks a little dated (80’s-ish?), but it’s clean and the staff is very friendly.

I love Liquor Barn, and not even for the best-​ever variety of wines, beer, and everything else you could possibly drink. They also have a great selection of chocolate, tea, coffee, cheese, meats and appetizer ideas, you name it. They have a great variety. I always like stopping in even if I’m not shopping for something in particular because they have random clearance items. I always find something I can’t live without.

The best liquor store I’ve ever been to. They have a huge selection of everything, including breads, cigar room, beer cave, chocolates, cheeses, and more.

Great beer and bourbon selection. Friendly, knowledgeable staff. 10% of single beers when you buy twelve or more!

If it has to do with liquor or an adult party and you want it, they will have it here.
Great wine /​beer /​bourbon selection. Let’s not forget gourmet food.
It doesn’t get any better. It really doesn’t

Having a party?
Liquor Barn has what you need.
Or, in our case, having a girls weekend?
They’ve got more than what you think you need.
Aisles upon aisles of liquor, beer, and wine plus basic groceries to go with your alcohol: namely limes and lemons, chocolate, and the like. Mixers were pretty spendy: you’d be better off picking them up at your local grocery unless you’re crunched for drinking time and need to make it a one stop affair.
Service was friendly, they had some samples out (woo!) and the selection can’t be beat. I’d love to have one in my neck of the woods, that’s for sure.

What a great place to shop when you’re looking for refreshments. We were passing thought he area and looking for a place to stop. So Unilocal came to the rescue with good reviews. The choice was easy.

Well the good part about this place is that for someone like me who is ADD and likes shiny things, there’s always something neato to look at.
They seriously sell fucking EVERYTHING here. Deli meats, cheese, soda, a bajillion types of booze (more on this later), all sorts of drinking accessories from mardi gras beads to shot glasses to like 10 different types of wine openers. Streamers, post cards, giant random inflatable things, and of course, an entire section of UK stuff. Let’s be honest though, what establishment in Lexington does not carry the full line of UK stuff?
Seriously this is kind of a fun place to go if you’re a little buzzed (shhh you’re not supposed to do that) and play with all the fun shiny things they have everywhere.
Basically imagine if you combined a liquor warehouse, half of a grocery store, and a Party City, you’d have Liquor Barn.
And now onto the important stuff: the booze.
This is the part where I pretend to know what I’m talking about, but really I’m kinda just repeating the stuff my roommate (who does this for a living) is saying ;)
So white wines go bad if they are more than two years old. This makes it kind of a problem that a good chunk of the white wines were from 2008.
The selection of high end California reds was pretty lacking, and so was the selection of white Burgundys.
They do however have a decent selection of Chardonnay.
The beer selection is pretty decent, but that doesn’t matter so much to me because I’m not a beer drinker.
Oh and you better know your wine regions if you want to get wine here. Cause it’s laid out by country. So if all you know is the name of the wine you want but not where it’s from… uhh yeah good luck with that. And the staff isn’t always going to be able to help you…
In fact speaking of the staff… one time I went in there and asked for a recommendation and I can’t even remember what they told me, but it was such crappy bullshit. I think that’s why I forgot. The terrible tainted wine made my brain bleed and forget the badness of it all.
Oh but one thing is kind of cool is it’s open til 10. Idk maybe it’s normal around here (you can freakin buy beer in the gas station til 2:30am! omg you cannot do that in DC or MD.)
So if I want to get my scotch on (mmm scotchy scotch scotch) I don’t have to plan to stock up by 6pm.
(PS if you want a great wine… Mer Soliel Silver. $ 24 bucks and delicious. DELICIOUS. Drink it!!)
(PPS I swear I was not drunk while I wrote this.)

Can someone please find a real wine specialist for this place? I mean… I asked for a damn Vouvray from 4 different people and nobody knew what the hell it was. Sorry that I wanted to buy a nice lady a gift and threw ya’ll off there… Anyways. The selection of wine is pretty good but a lot of vintages are not good. The wine cave is pretty legit with a few nice options from France especially. the Bourbon selection is not bad either. The beer cave is great and I like that you can walk in there on a hot day. The place just needs to be livened up with more knowledgeable staff and some funky music. I’ve been in way better stores of this size that make me want to spend more because I was entertained. This place is just depressing

Oh, how I wish I lived in Lexington, just for Liquor Barn. I have never been to another liquor store that even compares. If you like a large selection of fresh deli items, artisanal cheeses, an olive bar, and a huge selection of cheaply priced (not generic or cheap) wine/​liquor/​beer, then you need to stop in at Liquor Barn. They have everything you need for a nice picnic lunch or for hosting a party. I love the free samples everywhere. I always stop here when I am traveling through.

I love Liquor Barn because they have an awesome selection of everything from chocolate, to tea and coffee, pasta, EVO, balsamic, etc, etc, in addition to the obvious supply of, well, liquor.
My ONLY complaint (and the reason I can’t give 5 stars) is that the Beaumont LB has a lazy cheese dept. I routinely find cheeses that were packed 9 – 12 months prior and really sketchy and awful. They have tons of awesome, great cheese packed last week too, so just please please please check the «packed on» date on the cheese, because old trash-​worthy cheeses slip through the cracks and lurk in the cheese bin for months and months waiting to sneak into a hapless customer’s basket.
They have Bluegrass Baking Co bread delivered fresh every morning (except Sunday, because BBC is closed) which is a lifesaver.